willow

English

Wikipedia

A weeping willow, a commonly seen willow cultivar.

Pronunciation

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

Etymology

Middle English wilwe, welew, variant of wilghe, from Old English weliġ, from Proto-Germanic *wiligaz (compare West Frisian wylch, Dutch wilg), from Proto-Indo-European *u̯elig- (compare Ancient Greek (Arcadian) ἑλίκη (helíkē), Hittite  (welku, “grass”)), from *wel-- ‘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)
• Aromanian: saltse (rup), saltsi (rup)
• Azeri: söyüd (az)
• Baluchi: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: sahats (eu)
• Belarusian: вярба (be) (vyarba)
• Bulgarian: върба (bg) (vǎrba) f
• Catalan: salze (ca)
• Cherokee: ᏕᎴᎦᎵᏍ (chr) (delegalis), ᏗᎵᎦᎵᏍᎩ (chr) (diligalisgi)
• Cheyenne: ménó'ke
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 柳 (cmn) (liǔ), 柳樹 (cmn), 柳树 (cmn) (liǔshù)

• Czech: vrba (cs) f
• Danish: pil (da) c, piletræ (da) n
• Dutch: wilg (nl) m
• Erzya: каль (kal')
• Esperanto: saliko (eo)
• Estonian: paju (et), remmelgas (et)
• Faroese: pílur (fo) m
• Finnish: paju (fi)
• French: saule (fr) m
• Friulian: venčhâr, molec
• Galician: salgueiro (gl)
• Georgian: ტირიფი (ka) (tiripʻi)
• German: Weide (de) f
• Greek: ιτιά (el) (itiá) f
• Hawaiian: wīlou
• 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)
• Khmer: ដើមសូល (km) (daəm sool)
• 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
• Sardinian: sabixi (sc), saighi (sc), sagili (sc), saliche (sc)
• Scottish Gaelic: seileach (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: vrba (sh) 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: ఒక విధమైన చెట్టు (te) (oka vidhamaina ceTTu)
• Thai: ต้นหลิว (th) (ton lio)
• Tibetan: ལྕང་མ། (bo) (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)

Verb

willow (third-person singular simple present willows, present participle willowing, simple past and past participle willowed)

1. (transitive) To open and cleanse (cotton, flax, wool, etc.) by means of a willow.