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Etymology
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Noun
Job's tears pl (plural only)
- A tall grain-bearing perennial tropical plant of the species Coix lacryma-jobi (family Poaceae), native to southeast Asia.
- Synonyms: adlay, adlay millet, coix seed, gromwell grass, tear grass
Translations
Coix lacryma-jobi
- Arabic: دَمْع أَيُّوب m (damʕ ʔayyūb)
- Burmese: ကျိတ်ပင် (kyitpang)
- Catalan: llàgrimes de Job f pl
- Cherokee: ᏎᎷ ᎤᏂᏥ (selu unitsi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 薏苡 (zh) (yìyǐ)
- Fijian: sila
- Finnish: jobinkyynelheinä
- German: Hiobsträne f, Hiobstränengras
- Hawaiian: pūʻoheʻohe, ʻoheʻohe
- Japanese: 数珠玉 (juzudama), 薏苡 (yokui)
- Khiamniungan Naga: lǖnyàk
- Khmer: ស្កួយ (km) (skuəy)
- Korean: 염주(念珠) (yeomju), 율무 (yulmu)
- Malay: jelai (ms), enjelai
- Maori: tangatanga
- Maranao: delay
- Persian: اشک روباه (ašk rubâh), شال تسبیح (šâl tasbih)
- Russian: бу́сенник обыкнове́нный m (búsennik obyknovénnyj), ио́влевы слёзы f pl (ióvlevy sljózy)
- Samoan: sanasana, sagasaga
- Tagalog: abukay
- Tahitian: poepoe
- Thai: เดือย (th) (dʉai)
- Tongan: hana
- Ukrainian: бусеннік звичайний m (busennik zvyčajnyj), сльо́зи Іова f pl (slʹózy Iova)
- Vietnamese: bo bo (vi), ý dĩ (vi), cườm thảo
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