fuchsia

See also: Fuchsia and fúchsia

English

Fuchsia (1)

Etymology

From New Latin, after the genus Fuchsia, itself named after German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566).

Pronunciation

• enPR: fyū'shə, IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːʃə/
• (obsolete) enPR: fū'ksēə, IPA^(key): /ˈfuːksi.ə/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uːʃə

Noun

fuchsia (plural fuchsias)

1. A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
   • 1922, Katherine Mansfield, At The Bay (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 281)

     Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves

2. A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.

   Synonym: magenta

   fuchsia:  

   web fuchsia (magenta):  

   • 2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 258:

     She tilted a hand topped with long rectangular nails in furious fuchsia towards her cheeks and fluttered the fingers, fanning.

   • 2025 November 6, Ellie Muir, “In All's Fair, the girlboss archetype has never been more embarrassing”, in The Independent‎^[2], archived from the original on 16 February 2026:

     Born in the mid-2010s, the concept of the girlboss promised a utopia where women could bulldoze into workplaces, pull up a seat at male-dominated tables and become a celebrated CEO on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List by the ripe age of 23 (and do it all, of course, wearing a fuchsia blazer and a balayage hairdo).

Derived terms

• California fuchsia
• fuchsia eucalyptus
• fuchsia gum
• fuchsialike
• fuchsia mallee
• fuchsine
• native fuchsia

Translations

plant

• Albanian: lule vathi f (literally “ear flower”)
• Armenian: ֆուքսիա (fukʻsia), ականջօղ (hy) (akanǰōġ), աղվեսակ (aġvesak)
• Bulgarian: о́бички (bg) f pl (óbički)
• Catalan: fúcsia (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 倒掛金鐘 / 倒挂金钟 (zh) (dàoguàjīnzhōng)

• Czech: fuchsie f
• Danish: fuchsia c
• Esperanto: fuksio
• Finnish: verenpisara (fi), fuksia (fi)
• French: fuchsia (fr) m
• Galician: fucsia f
• Georgian: ფუქსია (puksia)
• German: Fuchsie (de) f
• Greek: φούξια (el) f (foúxia)
• Hebrew: פוּקְסְיָה (he) f (fúksya)
• Ido: fuxio (io)
• Italian: fucsia (it) f
• Japanese: フクシャ (fukusha), ホクシャ (hokusha)
• Māori: kōtukutuku (tree fuchsia)
• Mapudungun: chillko
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fuksia m

  Nynorsk: fuksia m, tåre f, Kristi blodsdrope m

• Persian: فوشیا (fušiyâ), گل آویز (gol-e âviz), فوکسیه (fa) (fuksiye)
• Polish: fuksja (pl) f, ułanka (pl) f
• Portuguese: fúcsia (pt) f
• Romanian: cerceluș (ro) m, fucsie (ro) f
• Russian: фу́ксия (ru) f (fúksija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фу̀ксија f

  Latin: fùksija (sh) f

• Slovak: fuksia f
• Spanish: fucsia (es), cinzolín (es) m
• Swedish: fuchsia (sv) c
• Tajik: нофамон (nofamon)
• Tatar: алкагөл (alqägöl), alqagöl
• Turkish: küpe çiçeği (tr)
• Ukrainian: фу́ксія f (fúksija)

colour

• Afrikaans: foksia
• Arabic: أُرْجُوَانِيّ (ʔurjuwāniyy)
• Basque: fuksiara
• Bengali: ম্যাজেন্টা (bn) (mêjenṭa)
• Catalan: fúcsia (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紫紅色 / 紫红色 (zh) (zǐhóngsè), 品紅色 / 品红色 (zh) (pǐnhóngsè)

• Dutch: foksia (nl) m
• Finnish: fuksianpunainen (fi), fuksia (fi)
• French: fuchsia (fr) m
• Galician: fucsia f
• Greek: φούξια (el) f (foúxia)
• Hebrew: פוקסיה (he) (fúksya)
• Italian: fucsia (it)
• Japanese: 赤紫色 (あかむらさきいろ, aka-murasaki-iro)
• Kazakh: фуксии (fuksii)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: foşya

• Malayalam: ഫ്യൂഷിയ (phyūṣiya)
• Māori: kōtukutuku
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fuksia m

• Occitan: fúcsia
• Persian: سرخابی سیر (sorxâbi sir)
• Polish: fuksja (pl) f
• Portuguese: fúcsia (pt) f
• Romanian: fucsie (ro) f
• Russian: фу́ксия (ru) f (fúksija), пурпу́рно-кра́сный цвет m (purpúrno-krásnyj cvet)
• Slovak: fuksia f
• Sotho: monjet
• Spanish: fucsia (es)
• Swedish: fuchsia (sv) c
• Tagalog: pusiya
• Tajik: фуксия (fuksiya)
• Turkish: fuşya

Adjective

fuchsia (not comparable)

1. Having a purplish-red colour.

See also

redsedit

• blood red
• brick red
• burgundy
• cardinal
• carmine
• carnation
• cerise
• cherry
• cherry red
• Chinese red
• cinnabar
• claret
• crimson
• damask
• fire brick
• fire engine red
• flame
• flamingo
• fuchsia
• garnet
• geranium
• gules
• hot pink
• incarnadine
• Indian red
• magenta
• maroon
• misty rose
• nacarat
• oxblood
• pillar-box red
• pink
• Pompeian red
• poppy
• raspberry
• red violet
• rose
• rouge
• ruby
• ruddy
• salmon
• sanguine
• scarlet
• shocking pink
• stammel
• strawberry
• Turkey red
• Venetian red
• vermilion
• vinaceous
• vinous
• violet red
• wine

Further reading

• fuchsia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:fuchsia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• fuchsia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Leonhart Fuchs on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Etymology

Named after Leonhart Fuchs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɔɡ̊ɕa]

Noun

fuchsia c (singular definite fuchsiaen, plural indefinite fuchsiaer or fuchsier)

1. fuchsia

Inflection

Declension of fuchsia

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fuchsia	fuchsiaen	fuchsiaer fuchsier	fuchsiaerne fuchsierne
genitive	fuchsias	fuchsiaens	fuchsiaers fuchsiers	fuchsiaernes fuchsiernes

References

• “fuchsia” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy.ʃja/, /fyk.sja/

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• Homophone: fuchsias

Noun

fuchsia m (plural fuchsias)

1. fuchsia

Adjective

fuchsia (invariable)

1. fuchsia

Further reading

• “fuchsia”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012