rowan

See also Rowan

English

Etymology

From Northern English or Scottish, of Old Norse origin: cf. reynir; compare Norwegian rogn, Danish røn. Ultimately related to the root of red.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /rəʊən/
• (US) IPA: /roʊən/
• Rhymes: -əʊən

Noun

rowan (plural rowans)

1. Sorbus aucuparia, the European rowan.
2. Any of various small deciduous trees or shrubs of genus Sorbus, belonging to the rose family, with pinnate leaves, corymbs of white flowers, and usually with orange-red berries.

Translations

tree

• Belarusian: рабіна (be) (rabína) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 花楸 (cmn) (huāqiū)

• Czech: jeřáb (cs) m
• Danish: røn (da) c, rønnebærtræ (da) n
• Estonian: pihlakas (et)
• Finnish: pihlaja (fi)
• French: sorbier des oiseleurs (fr) f
• German: Eberesche (de) f, Vogelbeere (de) f
• Hungarian: vörösberkenye (hu)
• Icelandic: reynir (is) m, reynitré (is) n, reyniberjatré (is) n
• Japanese: ナナカマド (ja) (nanakamado)

• Latgalian: cārmyukša f
• Latvian: pīlādzis (lv) m
• Lithuanian: šermukšnis (lt) m
• Norwegian: rogn (no) m
• Old Norse: reynir m
• Polish: jarzębina (pl) f
• Russian: рябина (ru) (rjabína) f
• Scottish Gaelic: caorann (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: oskoruša (sh) f
• Swedish: rönn (sv) c
• Ukrainian: горобина (uk) (horobýna) f

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• Arabic: غبيراء (ar)
• Aragonese: sorbus (an)
• Azeri: quşarmudu (az)
• Bashkir: миләш (miläš)
• Catalan: sorbus (ca)
• Dutch: lijsterbes (nl)
• Esperanto: sorpujo (eo)
• Estonian: pihlakas (et)
• Finnish: pihlajat (fi)
• French: sorbus (fr)
• Galician: sorba (gl)
• German: Mehlbeeren (de)
• Greek: σόρβον (el) (sórvon)
• Hungarian: (növénynemzetség) berkenye (hu)

• Italian: sorbus (it)
• Japanese: ナナカマド属 (ja)
• Kazakh: шетен (kk) (şeten)
• Norwegian: asalslekten (no), asalslekta (nn)
• Ossetian: цъуй (cʺuj)
• Polish: jarząb (pl)
• Portuguese: sorbus (pt)
• Sakha: сарбанньах
• Spanish: sorbus (es)
• Swedish: rönnsläktet (sv)
• Turkish: (bitki) üvez (tr)
• Upper Sorbian: mučnica (hsb)
• Vietnamese: thanh lương trà (vi)
• Welsh: criafolen (cy)

See also

• Rowan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sorbus subg. Sorbus on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Sorbus subg. Sorbus

Anagrams

• WARNO

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *rōaną (“to row”), from Proto-Indo-European *ere-, *h₁reh₁- (“to row”). Akin to Old Frisian *rōia (West Frisian roeie), Middle Dutch royen (Dutch roeien), Old Norse róa (Danish and Swedish ro).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈroːwɑn/

Verb

rōwan (strong class VII)

1. to row (with oars etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of rowan (strong class VII)

indicative	present	preterite
1st-person singular	rōwo	rēow
2nd-person singular	rēwst	rēowe
3rd-person singular	rēwþ	rēow
plural	rōwaþ	rēowon
subjunctive	present	preterite
singular	rōwe	rēowe
plural	rōwen	rēowen
imperative
singular	rōw(e)
plural	rōwaþ
participle	present	past
	rōwende	rōwen

Related terms

• rōþor

Descendants

• Middle English: rowen
  • English: row