willow

English

Wikipedia

A weeping willow, a commonly seen willow cultivar.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈwɪl.əʊ/, SAMPA: /"wIl.@U/
• Rhymes: -ɪləʊ
• (US) IPA: /ˈwɪloʊ/, SAMPA: /"wIloU/
• Rhymes: -ɪloʊ

Etymology

Middle English wilwe, welew, variant of wilghe, from Old English welig, from Proto-Germanic *weligaz (compare West Frisian wylch, Dutch wilg), from Proto-Indo-European *u̯elig- (compare Ancient Greek (Arcadian) ἑλίκη (helíkē), Hittite welku ‘grass’), from *u̯el- ‘twist, turn’.

Noun

willow (plural willows)

1. Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere.
2. (cricket, colloquial) A cricket bat
3. (baseball, slang, 1800s) The baseball bat.
4. A rotating, spiked drum used to open, and clean cotton heads

Synonyms

• withy

Derived terms

• weeping willow
• willow in the wind

Translations

tree

Albanian: shelg (sq) m. Arabic: صفصاف (ar) (SafSaaf) m. Armenian: ուռենի (hy) (uṙeni) Azeri: söyüd (az) Baluchi: please add this translation if you can Basque: sahats (eu) Belarusian: вярба (be) (vyarba) Bosnian: vrba (bs) Bulgarian: върба (bg) (vǎrba) f. Catalan: salze (ca) Cherokee: ᏕᎴᎦᎵᏍ (chr) (delegalis), ᏗᎵᎦᎵᏍᎩ (chr) (diligalisgi) Cheyenne: ménó'ke Chinese: Mandarin: 柳 (zh) (liǔ), 柳樹 (zh), 柳树 (zh) (liǔshù) Croatian: vrba (hr) f. Czech: vrba (cs) f. Danish: pil (da) c., piletræ (da) n. Dutch: wilg (nl) m. Erzya: каль (kal') Esperanto: saliko (eo) Estonian: paju (et) Faroese: pílur (fo) m. Finnish: paju (fi) French: saule (fr) m. Galician: salgueiro (gl) Georgian: ტირიფი (tiripʻi) German: Weide (de) f. Greek: ιτιά (el) (itiá) f. Hawaiian: wīlou (haw) Hebrew: עֲרָבָה (arava) f. Hungarian: fűzfa (hu) Icelandic: víðir (is) m. Ido: saliko (io) Indonesian: dedalu (id) Irish: saileach (ga) f., sail (ga) f., saileog (ga) f. Italian: salice (it) m. Japanese: ヤナギ (ja) (yanagi) (柳 (ja)) Kazakh: кызыл тал (kk) (kyzyl tal) Komi: бадь (bad')

Korean: 버들 (beodeul), 버드나무 (beodeunamu) Kurdish: bî (ku) Latgalian: veituls m. Latin: salix (la) f. Latvian: vītols (lv) Lithuanian: gluosnis (lt) Macedonian: врба (mk) (vrba) Nahuatl: huexōtl (nah) Navajo: kʼaiʼ Northern Sami: sieđga Norwegian: vier (no) m., vierslekt (no) m., viere (no) pl. Occitan: sause (oc) Old Church Slavonic: (collective) врьбиѥ (vrĭbije) n. Ossetian: хæрис (xæris) Pashto: وله (ps) (wala) f. Persian: بید مجنون (fa) (bid majnun), بید (fa) (bid) Polish: wierzba (pl) f. Portuguese: salgueiro (pt) m. Quechua: sawsi (qu), wayaw (qu) Romanian: salcie (ro) f. Russian: ива (ru) (íva) f., верба (ru) (vérba) f. Scottish Gaelic: seileach (gd) m. Serbian: vrba (sr) f. Slovak: vŕba (sk) f. Slovene: vrba (sl) f. Spanish: sauce (es) m. Swahili: msafsafi (sw) sg., misafsafi (sw) pl. Swedish: pil (sv) c. Taos: íałoną Telugu: please add this translation if you can Thai: ต้นหลิว (th) (ton lio) Tibetan: ལྕང་མ། (lang-mo) Turkish: söğüt (tr) Ukrainian: верба (uk) (verba) f. Upper Sorbian: wjerba (hsb) Vietnamese: liễu (vi) Volapük: salig (vo) West Frisian: wylch Yakut: үөт (yöt) Yiddish: ערבה (yi) (arava)