bégonia
French, noun/be.ɡɔ.nja/
bégonia is spelled B-É-G-O-N-I-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written French, the 97,805th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bégonia is a French masculine noun meaning “begonia (large genus of plants of the family Begoniaceae)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Plante herbacée dont le genre Begonia est composé de plus de 900 espèces, originaires essentiellement de…”.
What does bégonia mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebegonia (large genus of plants of the family Begoniaceae)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Plante herbacée dont le genre Begonia est composé de plus de 900 espèces, originaires essentiellement de l’Amérique tropicale, et cultivées dans les jardins comme plantes d’agrément pour la variété et la grâce de leur feuillage et de leurs fleurs.
noun: 1. Genre de plante appartenant à l’ordre des Violales.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bégonia
- bégonias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bégonia?
- /be.ɡɔ.nja/
- \be.ɡɔ.nja\
- [ɛ̃ be.gɔ.nja]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bégonia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bégonia in French?
bégonia appears about once in every 9 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).