'Rose' wandered from ancient Iran through Greek and Latin to English — giving us 'Rhodes' and 'rosary.'
A prickly bush or shrub that typically bears red, pink, yellow, or white fragrant flowers, native to north temperate regions.
From Old English 'rōse,' from Latin 'rosa,' from Greek 'rhódon' (ῥόδον), likely borrowed from Old Iranian *wṛda- (compare Avestan 'varəδa-,' Armenian 'vard'), possibly from a lost PIE form *wṛdʰo- ('thorn, briar, rose'). The word is a cultural wanderwort—it moved with the flower itself along ancient trade routes from Iran and Central Asia into the Mediterranean world. The initial Greek 'rh-' from Iranian 'wr-' shows the phonological adaptation. The Latin form 'rosa' (with rhotacism from an earlier *roda) then