"bonsai" meaning in English

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Interjection

Head templates: {{en-interj}} bonsai
  1. Misspelling of banzai. Tags: alt-of, misspelling Alternative form of: banzai
    Sense id: en-bonsai-en-intj-w3gpmE8q
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

IPA: /ˈbɑnsaɪ/ [General-American], /ˈbɑnzaɪ/ [General-American], /ˈbɒnsaɪ/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-bonsai.ogg [US] Forms: bonsai [plural], bonsais [plural]
Etymology: From Japanese 盆栽 (bonsai), from Middle Chinese 盆 (MC bwon, “bowl”) + 栽 (MC tsoj|dzojH, “to plant”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ja|盆栽|tr=bonsai}} Japanese 盆栽 (bonsai), {{der|en|ltc|-}} Middle Chinese, {{ltc-l|盆|bowl}} 盆 (MC bwon, “bowl”), {{ltc-l|栽|to plant}} 栽 (MC tsoj|dzojH, “to plant”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~|bonsai|s}} bonsai (countable and uncountable, plural bonsai or bonsais)
  1. (countable) A tree or plant that has been miniaturized by planting it in a small pot, restricting its roots, and by careful pruning. Tags: countable Categories (lifeform): Trees
    Sense id: en-bonsai-en-noun-RxPaN9hP Disambiguation of Trees: 6 33 37 24
  2. (uncountable) The art of planting and growing trees or plants in such a manner. Tags: uncountable Categories (lifeform): Trees
    Sense id: en-bonsai-en-noun-umums9v3 Disambiguation of Trees: 6 33 37 24
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /ˈbɑnsaɪ/ [General-American], /ˈbɑnzaɪ/ [General-American], /ˈbɒnsaɪ/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-bonsai.ogg [US] Forms: bonsais [present, singular, third-person], bonsaiing [participle, present], bonsaied [participle, past], bonsaied [past]
Etymology: From Japanese 盆栽 (bonsai), from Middle Chinese 盆 (MC bwon, “bowl”) + 栽 (MC tsoj|dzojH, “to plant”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ja|盆栽|tr=bonsai}} Japanese 盆栽 (bonsai), {{der|en|ltc|-}} Middle Chinese, {{ltc-l|盆|bowl}} 盆 (MC bwon, “bowl”), {{ltc-l|栽|to plant}} 栽 (MC tsoj|dzojH, “to plant”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} bonsai (third-person singular simple present bonsais, present participle bonsaiing, simple past and past participle bonsaied)
  1. (transitive) To make into a bonsai by restricting the roots and pruning. Tags: transitive Categories (lifeform): Trees Derived forms: bonsai army, prebonsai Translations (a miniaturized tree or plant): بُونْسَاي (būnsāy) [masculine] (Arabic), بُونْسَاي (bonsay) [masculine] (Arabic), bonsay (Azerbaijani), бонса́й (bonsáj) [masculine] (Bulgarian), bonsai [masculine] (Catalan), 盆景 (pénjǐng) (Chinese Mandarin), 盆栽 (pénzāi) (Chinese Mandarin), bonsai [feminine] (Czech), bonsaj [feminine] (Czech), bonsai [common-gender] (Danish), bonsaitræ [neuter] (Danish), bonsajo (Esperanto), bonsai (Finnish), bonsaï [masculine] (French), Bonsai [masculine] (German), μπονσάι (bonsái) [neuter] (Greek), בּוֹנְסַאי (bónsay) (Hebrew), bonszai (Hungarian), dvergtré [neuter] (Icelandic), bonsai (Indonesian), bonsai [masculine] (Italian), 盆栽 (bonsai) (alt: ぼんさい) (Japanese), 분재 (bunjae) (Korean), bonsai (Malay), bonsai [neuter] (Polish), bonsai [masculine] (Portuguese), бонса́й (bonsáj) [masculine] (Russian), бонсаи [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), bonsai [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), bonsái [masculine] (Spanish), bonsai (Swedish), bonsaiträd [neuter] (Swedish), మరుగుజ్జు చెట్టు (marugujju ceṭṭu) (Telugu), బోన్సాయి (bōnsāyi) (Telugu), บอนไซ (bɔɔn-sai, bɔn-sai) (Thai), bonsai (Turkish), bonsay (Turkish), бонса́й (bonsáj) [masculine] (Ukrainian), bồn tài (alt: 盆栽) (Vietnamese) Translations (the art of growing miniaturized trees or plants): bonsai [common-gender] (Danish), bonsai (Indonesian), 盆栽の技術 (english: bonsai no gijutsu) (Japanese), bonsai (Malay), bonsai [masculine] (Portuguese), บอนไซ (bɔɔn-sai, bɔn-sai) (Thai)
    Sense id: en-bonsai-en-verb-mLT96shT Disambiguation of Trees: 6 33 37 24 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 6 4 85 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 7 11 6 76
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

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      "roman": "būnsāy",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "بُونْسَاي"
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      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "بُونْسَاي"
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      "code": "az",
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      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "word": "bonsay"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bonsáj",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "бонса́й"
    },
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      "code": "ca",
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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bonsai"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "pénjǐng",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "word": "盆景"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "pénzāi",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "word": "盆栽"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "bonsai"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "bonsaj"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
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      "word": "bonsai"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
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    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "word": "bonsajo"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "word": "bonsai"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bonsaï"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Bonsai"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "bonsái",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "μπονσάι"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "bónsay",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "word": "בּוֹנְסַאי"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "word": "bonszai"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "dvergtré"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "word": "bonsai"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bonsai"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ぼんさい",
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      "roman": "bonsai",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "word": "盆栽"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "bunjae",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "word": "분재"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "word": "bonsai"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "bonsai"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bonsai"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bonsáj",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "бонса́й"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "бонсаи"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
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      "word": "bonsai"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bonsái"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "word": "bonsai"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "bonsaiträd"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "marugujju ceṭṭu",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "word": "మరుగుజ్జు చెట్టు"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "bōnsāyi",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "word": "బోన్సాయి"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "bɔɔn-sai, bɔn-sai",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "word": "บอนไซ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "word": "bonsai"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "word": "bonsay"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "bonsáj",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "бонса́й"
    },
    {
      "alt": "盆栽",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a miniaturized tree or plant",
      "word": "bồn tài"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "the art of growing miniaturized trees or plants",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "bonsai"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "the art of growing miniaturized trees or plants",
      "word": "bonsai"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "english": "bonsai no gijutsu",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "sense": "the art of growing miniaturized trees or plants",
      "word": "盆栽の技術"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "the art of growing miniaturized trees or plants",
      "word": "bonsai"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the art of growing miniaturized trees or plants",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bonsai"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "bɔɔn-sai, bɔn-sai",
      "sense": "the art of growing miniaturized trees or plants",
      "word": "บอนไซ"
    }
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}

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