beech

English

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Etymology

From Middle English beche, from Old English bēċe, from Proto-Germanic *bōkijōn (compare Dutch beuk, German Buche, Danish bøg), from Proto-Germanic *bōks 'beech; book'. More at book.

Pronunciation

• enPR: bēch, IPA: biːʧ/, SAMPA: /bi:tS/

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• Rhymes: -iːtʃ

• Homophones: beach

Noun

beech (plural beeches)

1. A tree of the genus Fagus having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval, pointed leaves and many branches.
2. The wood of the beech tree.

Synonyms

• beech tree

Derived terms

• common beech
• European beech

Translations

tree of Fagus family

Arabic: مُرّان (murrān), زَان (zān) Egyptian Arabic: زان (zān) m. Armenian: հաճարենի (hy) (hač̣areni) Basque: pago (eu) Bosnian: bukva (bs) f. Bulgarian: бук (bg) Catalan: faig (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 山毛櫸 (cmn), 山毛榉 (cmn) (shānmáojǔ) Crimean Tatar: bik Croatian: bukva (hr) f. Czech: buk (cs) m. Danish: bøg (da) c., bøgetræ (da) n. Dutch: beuk (nl) Esperanto: fago (eo) Estonian: pöök (et) Finnish: pyökki (fi) French: hêtre (fr) m. Georgian: წიფელი (ka) (cip'eli) German: Buche (de) f. Greek: οξιά (el) (oxia) f. Hebrew: אשור (he) Hungarian: bükk (hu) Italian: faggio (it) m.

Japanese: ブナ, ぶな (buna) Korean: 너도밤나무 (ko) (neodobamnamu) Latin: fagus (la) m. Latvian: dižskābardis (lv) f. Lithuanian: bukas (lt) f. Luxembourgish: Bich (lb) f. Norwegian: bøk (no) m. Old English: bēċe (ang) f. Persian: آلش (fa), ممرز (fa), زان (fa) Polish: buk (pl) m. Portuguese: faia (pt) Romanian: fag (ro) m. Russian: бук (ru) (buk) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: буква (sr) f. Roman: bukva f. Slovene: bukev (sl) f. Spanish: haya (es) f. Swedish: bok (sv) c. Turkish: kayın (tr) Ukrainian: бук (uk) m. Vietnamese: cây gie gai (vi) Welsh: ffawydd (cy) f.