dahlia
French, noun/da.lja/
dahlia is spelled D-A-H-L-I-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 42,227th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dahlia is a French masculine noun meaning “dahlia, plant of the genus Dahlia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Astéracée qui porte des fleurs simples ou doubles, dont les tiges naissent en touffe et dont les racines sont…”.
What does dahlia mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedahlia, plant of the genus Dahlia
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Astéracée qui porte des fleurs simples ou doubles, dont les tiges naissent en touffe et dont les racines sont des tubercules. 2. Autre nom d’une gamme de colorant nommé violet de Hofmann ils se distinguent par un code alphabétique : dahlia B, dahlia BB, dahlia R, etc.
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 dahlia
- dahlias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dahlia?
- /da.lja/
- \da.lja\
- [ɛ̃ da.lja]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dahlia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dahlia in French?
dahlia appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).