sow thistle

See also: sowthistle and sow-thistle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saʊ θɪsl̩/

Noun

sow thistle (countable and uncountable, plural sow thistles)

1. Any of the thistles in one of the genera Cicerbita and Sonchus.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 5, member 1, subsection vi:

     The decoction of the roots of sow-thistle before meat, by the same author is much approved.

Derived terms

• alpine blue sowthistle (Cicerbita spp.)
• common sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceus)
• creeping sow thistle, field sow thistle, perennial European sow thistle (Sonchus arvensis)
• prickly sow thistle, spiny sow thistle (Sonchus asper)

Translations

thistle

• Arabic: تِفَاف m (tifāf), جَعْضِيض m (jaʕḍīḍ) (both Sonchus)
• Armenian: կաթնբեկ (hy) (katʻnbek), իշամառոլ (išamaṙol)
• Basque: kardabera
• Bulgarian: кострец m (kostrec)
• Catalan: lletsó m
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 荼 (tô͘)

  Mandarin: 荼 (zh) (tú)

• Danish: svinemælk c (Sonchus), svinetidsel c (Sonchus, archaic), svinedild c (Sonchus, archaic), turt (Cicerbita alpina)
• Finnish: valvatti (fi) (Sonchus); sinivalvatti (Cicerbita)
• French: laiteron (fr) m
• Georgian: ღიჭა (ɣič̣a)
• German: Gänsedistel f (Sonchus), Saudistel f (Sonchus), Milchlattich m (Cicerbita)
• Greek: ζοχός (el) m (zochós)

  Ancient: σόγχος m (sónkhos)

• Irish: bainne muice m, bleachtán m, bleachtfheochadán m, slóchtán m
• Maori: pūwhā, pūhā, rauriki, raurōroa
• Mingrelian: ბურცხალე (burcxale), გინიში ჯონჯღო (giniši ǯonǯɣo), გინიშ ჯღონჯღო (giniš ǯɣonǯɣo)
• Norwegian: turt, tort (no), turta, torta (no) (Cicerbita alpina)
• Plautdietsch: Säajenkool m
• Polish: mlecz (pl) m
• Russian: осо́т (ru) m (osót)
• Scottish Gaelic: cluaran-cruaidh m
• Spanish: cerraja
• Swedish: torta (sv), tolta (Cicerbita alpina)
• Ukrainian: осо́т m (osót)