elderberry

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Middle English eldre

English elder

Proto-Germanic *bazją

Proto-West Germanic *baʀi

Old English berġe

Middle English berye

English berry

English elderberry

Compound of elder +‎ berry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛldə(ɹ)ˌbɛɹi/

• Audio (General American):

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Noun

elderberry (plural elderberries)

1. Any shrub or tree of the genus Sambucus;

   Synonym: elder

2. The small, edible, purplish-black fruit of this plant, used in cooking and to flavour drinks etc.

Translations

elder tree — see elder

fruit

• Arabic: بَيْلَسَان (ar) m (baylasān)
• Azerbaijani: gəndalaş (az)
• Basque: intsusa (eu)
• Belarusian: бузіна́ f (buziná)
• Bulgarian: плод от бъз m (plod ot bǎz)
• Cherokee: ᎪᏒᎦ (gosvga)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 接骨木果 (zip³ gwat¹ muk⁶ gwo²)

  Mandarin: 接骨木果 (jiēgǔmùguǒ)

• Czech: bezinka (cs) f
• Danish: hyldebær n
• Dutch: vlierbes (nl) f
• Esperanto: sambuko
• Finnish: seljanmarja (fi)
• French: baie de sureau (fr) f
• German: Holunderbeere (de) f, Fliederbeere f (regional)
• Hungarian: bodza (hu)
• Icelandic: ylliber n
• Italian: sambuco (it) m
• Japanese: 接骨木 (ja) (にわとこ, niwatoko, せっこつぼく, sekkotsuboku)
• Latin: sambūcum n, sabūcum n
• Luiseño: kutpat
• Macedonian: бозел m (bozel)
• Navajo: jiłhazhí
• Norman: chérise dé seu f (Jersey), graine dé seu f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hyllebær n

  Nynorsk: hyllebær n

• Polish: bez czarny (pl) m, czarny bez (pl) m
• Portuguese: sabugo (pt) m
• Romanian: soc (ro) m
• Russian: бузина́ (ru) f (buziná)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ба̀зга f, зо́ва f

  Roman: bàzga (sh) f, zóva (sh) f

• Slovene: bezeg (sl) m
• Spanish: baya del saúco f
• Swedish: fläderbär (sv) n
• Turkish: mürver (tr)
• Ukrainian: бузина́ (uk) f (buzyná)

See also

• sambuca

Further reading

• sambucus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia