clover

See also: Clover and clóver

English

Etymology

From Middle English clovere, claver, from Old English clāfre, earlier clǣfre, from Proto-West Germanic *klaibrā. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Kleeuwer, Low German Klaver, Klever, Dutch klaver, all “clover”. More distantly also related with German Klee.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkləʊ.və(ɹ)/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkloʊ.vɚ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkləʉ.və(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -əʊvə(ɹ)

Noun

clover (plural clovers)

1. A plant of the genus Trifolium with leaves usually divided into three (rarely four) leaflets and with white or red flowers.
   • 1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “[A Paraphrase upon the Second Booke of the Psalmes of David.] Psalme LXV.”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]], →OCLC, page 101:

     He Raine upon her [the Earth's] boſom poures; / His ſvvelling clouds abound vvith ſhoures: / […] / The Deſert with ſvveet claver fills; / And richly ſhades the joyfull Hills.

2. (cartomancy) The second Lenormand card, representing hope, optimism and short-term luck.

Alternative forms

• claver (obsolete)

Hyponyms

• shamrock
• trefoil

Derived terms

• Bokhara clover
• brown clover (Trifolium badium)
• bush clover (Lespedeza spp.)
• Caucasian clover
• clover clamp
• Cloverdale
• clovered
• Clover Flat
• clover grass
• cloverleaf
• cloverlike
• clover louse
• clover weevil (Apion apricans etc.)
• clover worm (Asopia costalis)
• clovery
• Cooper clover
• crimson clover (Trifolium incarnatum)
• Dutch clover (Trifolium repens)
• Egyptian clover (Trifolium alexandrinum)
• four-leaf clover, four-leafed clover, four-leaved clover
• hart's clover (Melilotus)
• heart clover (Medicago arabica)
• in clover
• jackass clover
• Japan clover
• Japanese clover
• kura clover
• lemon clover (Oxalis stricta)
• like a bee in clover
• like a pig in clover
• like pigs in clover
• lucky clover
• lupine clover
• Menindee clover
• mountain carpet clover (Trifolium monanthum)
• owl's clover
• prairie clover (Dalea spp.)
• rare as a four-leaf clover
• red clover (Trifolium pratense)
• rolling in clover
• round-headed bush clover (Lespedeza capitata)
• snail clover (Medicago scutellata etc.)
• Spanish clover
• strawberry clover
• sub clover
• subterranean clover
• suckling clover
• sweet clover, sweet-clover (Melilotus spp.)
• water clover
• white clover (Trifolium repens)

Descendants

• → Catalan: clóver

Translations

plant in genus Trifolium

Afrikaans: klawer Albanian: tërfil (sq) Arabic: نَفَل (ar) m (nafal) Armenian: երեքնուկ (hy) (erekʻnuk), խնձորուկ (hy) (xnjoruk), սիրի-սիրի (hy) (siri-siri) Aromanian: trifoljiu, trifolju, trifiljiu Asturian: trébole m Azerbaijani: yonca (az) Bats: სამყურაჸო̂ (samq̇uraʾô) Belarusian: канюшы́на f (kanjušýna) Breton: melchon (br) Bulgarian: детели́на (bg) f (detelína) Burmese: ကလိုဗါပင် (ka.luibapang) Catalan: trèvol (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 三葉草 / 三叶草 (saam1 jip6 cou2) Mandarin: 三葉草 / 三叶草 (zh) (sānyècǎo), 苜 (zh) (mù) Classical Nahuatl: Caxtīllān ocōxōchitl, trebol Cornish: mellyon Crimean Tatar: yonca Czech: jetel (cs) m Danish: kløver c Dutch: klaver (nl) f Esperanto: trifolio Estonian: ristikhein (et) Faroese: smæra f Finnish: apila (fi) French: trèfle (fr) m Friulian: cerfoi, cerfuei Gagauz: yonca Galician: trevo (gl) m Gallo: treuf' f Georgian: სამყურა (ka) (samq̇ura) German: Klee (de) m Greek: τριφύλλι (el) n (trifýlli) Ancient: τρίφυλλον n (tríphullon) Hebrew: תִּלְתָּן (he) m (tiltán) Hindi: तिपतिया m (tipatiyā) Hungarian: lóhere (hu) Icelandic: smári (is) m Ido: trifolio (io) Indonesian: semanggi (id) Ingrian: häryt, kleeveri Irish: seamair f Italian: trifoglio (it) m Japanese: クローバー (ja) (kurōbā), 白詰草 (ja) (しろつめくさ, shirotsumekusa) (white clover), 車軸草 (ja) (しゃじくそう, shajikusō) Kannada: ಕ್ಲವರ್ (klavar) Karaim: yonca Karakalpak: jońıshqa Kashubian: kòniczëna, kléwer m Kazakh: беде (bede) Korean: 클로버 (ko) (keullobeo) Krymchak: yonca Kumyk: ёнгурчгъа (yoñurçğa) Kyrgyz: жоңгучка (ky) (joŋgucka) Latin: trifolium n, cytisus m Latvian: āboliņš (lv) m Limburgish: kliè, klieë (li), klaver (li) Lithuanian: dobilas m Luxembourgish: Kléi m Macedonian: детелина f (detelina) Malay: semanggi Maltese: silla (mt) f Manx: shamrag f Maori: korouwa, koroua, korowa Mingrelian: სუმჸუჯა (sumʾuǯa) Nogai: йорынша (yorınşa) Norwegian: Bokmål: kløver (no) m Nynorsk: kløver m Occitan: trefuèlh m Old English: clāfre f, clǣfre f Old Prussian: wobilis Ottoman Turkish: یونجه (yonca), طرفیل (tırfıl) Pannonian Rusyn: бетелїна f (beteljina), требиконїна f (trebikonjina) (Kucura) Persian: شبدر (fa) (šabdar) Polish: koniczyna (pl) f, dzięcielina (pl) f Portuguese: trevo (pt) m Quechua: chikmu, layu, ispinku Romanian: trifoi (ro) n Russian: кле́вер (ru) m (kléver) Salar: musi Sardinian: tirifozi, tirvozu, travullu, trevúgliu, trivudhu Saterland Frisian: Kleeuwer m Scottish Gaelic: seamrag f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: детелина f Roman: detelina (sh) f Slovak: ďatelina f Slovene: detelja (sl) f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: źiśelina f Upper Sorbian: dźećel (hsb) m Spanish: trébol (es) m Svan: სამყურ (samq̇ur), პერპილ (ṗerṗil) Swedish: klöver (sv) n Tagalog: klober Tatar: тукранбаш (tt) (tuqranbaş) Thai: โคลเวอร์ Tongan: kihikihipālangi Turkish: yonca (tr), tirfil (tr), üçgül (tr) Turkmen: ýorunja Tuvan: меде (mede) Ukrainian: конюши́на f (konjušýna) Urum: yonca Uzbek: beda (uz), yoʻngʻichqa (uz) Vietnamese: cỏ ba lá Vilamovian: kłej m Welsh: meillion Yiddish: please add this translation if you can Zazaki: once n

References

• clover on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Trifolium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Trifolium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Velcro, Colver, velcro