foliage

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Foliage

Alternative forms

foilage (archaic, dialectal, nonstandard)
feuillage (archaic)

Etymology

From earlier foilage, from Late Middle English ffoylage, from Middle French feuillage. The more recent form is influenced by Latin folium (“leaf”).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊliɪdʒ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈfoʊliɪd͡ʒ/

Noun

foliage (countable and uncountable, plural foliages)

The leaves of plants.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168:
  Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
(short for) Fall foliage.
An architectural ornament representing foliage.

Derived terms

Translations

the leaves of plants

Armenian: սաղարթ (hy) (saġartʻ)
Belarusian: лі́сце n (líscje), лісцё n (liscjó), лісто́та f (listóta)
Bulgarian: шу́ма (bg) f (šúma), листа́к (bg) m (listák)
Catalan: fullatge (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 葉子 / 叶子 (zh) (yèzi)
Czech: listí (cs) n
Danish: løv c
Dutch: gebladerte (nl)
Esperanto: foliaro
Faroese: leyv (fo) n
Finnish: lehdet (fi) pl, lehvistö
French: feuillage (fr) m
Friulian: frind m
Galician: rama (gl) f, ramaxe f, follaxe (gl) f
German: Blätter (de) n pl, Laub (de) n, Laubwerk (de) n, Blätterwerk (de) n, Beblätterung f
Greek: φύλλωμα (el) n (fýlloma), φυλλωσιά (el) f (fyllosiá)
Hebrew: עַלְוָה (he) f (alvá)
Hindi: पर्णसमूह m (parṇasmūh)
Hungarian: lomb (hu)
Ido: foliaro (io)
Irish: duilliúr m, clúmh m
Italian: fogliame (it) m
Japanese: 木の葉 (ja) (このは, ko no ha)
Khiamniungan Naga: chá
Korean: 나뭇잎 (ko) (namunnip)
Latin: frons f
Macedonian: лисја m or n (lisja), лисје m pl (lisje)
Malay: dedaun
Maori: raurau
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bladverk n, løvverk n
Polish: listowie (pl) n, liście nvir pl
Portuguese: folhagem (pt) f
Romanian: frunze (ro) f pl, frunziș (ro) n, frunzărime (ro) f
Russian: листва́ (ru) f (listvá), ли́стья (ru) m pl (lístʹja)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ли̑шће n

Roman: lȋšće (sh) n
Slovak: lístie (sk) n
Slovene: listje n
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: list m
Spanish: follaje (es) m
Swedish: lövverk (sv) n, bladverk (sv) n
Tagalog: kadahunan
Ukrainian: ли́стя n (lýstja)
Venetan: stram (vec) m
Volapük: bledem (vo)
Welsh: deiliant m

fall foliage — see autumn foliage

an architectural ornament

Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
French: feuillage (fr) m
Polish: liście nvir pl
Portuguese: folhame m
Spanish: ataurique (es) m

Anagrams

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