英语词汇lilacs的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	lilacs
词源	lilacs. There are lilacs white, blue, pink, red, and purple, in many variations, but the word lilac means “blue.” Lilac began as the Persian word nilak, “bluish,” for the flower, passed into Ara- bic as laylak, and became lilac in Spanish, whence it came into English in the same form.
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