maple

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striped maple Acer pensylvanicum

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Etymology

Old English mapultrēow, from Proto-Germanic *mapulaz (compare Old Icelandic möpurr, Middle Low German mapeldorn, German Masseller, Maßholder), perhaps a blend of *masuraz 'knob; maple-tree' (compare Old Icelandic mösurr 'maple', Low German/German Maser 'knob, offshoot') and *apulaz 'apple' (see apple), from *masam 'lump, knob' (compare obsolete German Mase 'scar', modern Maser 'speck, measle'). More at measles.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪpəl

Noun

maple (plural maples)

1. A tree of the Acer genus, characterised by its usually palmate leaves and winged seeds.

Derived terms

Derived terms

hard maple Japanese maple mapled maple ham maple leaf maple syrup maple sugar maple tree

maplelike Norway maple red maple rock maple silver maple sugar maple tiger maple vine maple

Translations

tree of the Acer genus

• Albanian: panjë (sq) f
• Arabic: قَيقَب (ar) (qayqab) m
• Armenian: թխկի (hy) (t'xki)
• Azeri: ağcaqayın (az)
• Bashkir: саған (sağan)
• Belarusian: клён (be) (klën)
• Bulgarian: клен (bg) (klen) m
• Cherokee: ᏢᏩᎵᎦ (chr) (hlvwaliga)
• Cheyenne: me'êškema
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 槭树 (cmn) (qi shu), 枫树 (cmn) (feng shu)

• Chuvash: вĕрене (vĕrene)
• Czech: javor (cs) m
• Dalmatian: vaple m
• Danish: ahorn (da), (rare) løn (da) c, (rare) ær (da) c
• Dutch: esdoorn (nl)
• Eastern Mari: ваштар (vaštar)
• Esperanto: acero (eo)
• Estonian: vaher (et)
• Faroese: lynur (fo) m, ahorn (fo) n
• Finnish: vaahtera (fi)
• French: érable (fr) m
• German: Ahorn (de) m
• Greek: σφενδάμι (el) (sfendámi) n
• Hebrew: אדר (he)
• Hungarian: juhar (hu)
• Italian: acero (it) m (A. platanoides), loppio (it) m (A. campestre)
• Japanese: かえで (ja) (楓, kaede)
• Karachay-Balkar: юрге (ürge)

• Kazakh: үйеңкі (kk) (üyeñki)
• Korean: 단풍나무 (ko) (danpung-namu)
• Kumyk: уьрге (ürge)
• Kyrgyz: зараң (ky) (zarañ)
• Latgalian: kļovs m
• Latvian: kļava (lv) f
• Lithuanian: klevas (lt)
• Malay: mapel (ms)
• Mongolian: агч мод (mn) (agč mod)
• Navajo: sóól
• Norwegian: lønn (no)
• Old Norse: hlynr m
• Polish: klon (pl) m
• Portuguese: bordo (pt)
• Romanian: paltin (ro) m (A. pseudoplatanus), arțar (ro) m (A. platanoides)
• Russian: клён (ru) (kljon)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јавор (sh) m

  Roman: javor (sh) m

• Slovak: javor (sk) m
• Slovene: javor (sl) m
• Spanish: arce (es) m
• Swahili: mshira (sw)
• Swedish: lönn (sv) c
• Tatar: çağan (tt) (çağan), öräñge (tt) (öräñge)
• Turkish: akçaağaç (tr), isfendan (tr)
• Ukrainian: клен (uk) (klen) m
• Upper Sorbian: klon (hsb)
• Uzbek: zarang (uz)
• Vietnamese: phong, thích

Derived terms

• maple syrup
• maple sugar

Anagrams

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