hawthorn

See also: Hawthorn

English

Crataegus laevigata

Etymology

From Middle English hawthorn, from Old English hagaþorn, hæguþorn, from Proto-West Germanic *haguþorn; equivalent to haw (“hedge, enclosure”) +‎ thorn.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔː.θɔːn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔ.θɔɹn/

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Noun

hawthorn (plural hawthorns)

1. Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Crataegus having small, apple-like fruits and thorny branches
   • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 59:

     Proust, an author to whom Humboldt had introduced me and in whose work he gave me heavy instruction, said he was often attracted to people whose faces had something in them of a hawthorn hedge in bloom.

Synonyms

• (a Crataegus): albaspine, may, maythorn, may tree, quickthorn, whitethorn

Derived terms

• Chinese hawthorn
• cockspur hawthorn
• hawthorn berry
• hawthorn fly
• hawthorn tree
• hawthorny
• Indian hawthorn
• parsley-leaved hawthorn
• Washington hawthorn

 

Related terms

• haw, mayblossom, mayflower

Translations

shrub or tree of the genus Crataegus

• Albanian: murriz (sq) m
• Arabic: زُعْرُور m (zuʕrūr), زَعْرُور m (zaʕrūr)
• Armenian: սզնի (hy) (szni), ալոճենի (aločeni), սինձ (hy) (sinj)
• Azerbaijani: yemişan (az), alıç
• Bashkir: энәлек (enəlek), еҙәй (yeźəy), ҡамыраш (qamıraş), дунала (dunala)
• Basque: elorriondo
• Breton: spern-gwenn m
• Bulgarian: глог (bg) m (glog)
• Catalan: albespí m, arç blanc m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 山楂 (zh) (shānzhā)

• Cornish: hogan m, spernen wynn f
• Czech: hloh (cs) m
• Danish: tjørn c
• Dutch: meidoorn (nl) m, meidoren (nl) m
• Esperanto: kratago
• Finnish: orapihlaja (fi)
• French: aubépine (fr) f
• Galician: estripeiro (gl) m, espiño albar m, espiño cambrón m
• Georgian: კუნელი (ḳuneli)
• German: Weißdorn (de) m, Hagedorn (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: κράταιγος m (krátaigos)

• Hungarian: galagonya (hu)
• Irish: sceach gheal f
• Italian: biancospino (it) m
• Japanese: 山査子 (ja) (sanzashi), サンザシ (ja) (sanzashi)
• Kazakh: долана (dolana)
• Khakas: тоо (too)
• Korean: 산사나무 (ko) (sansanamu), 아가위나무 (agawinamu), 동배나무 (dongbaenamu), 뚱광나무 (ttunggwangnamu), 아그배나무 (ko) (ageubaenamu), 이광나무 (igwangnamu), 애광나무 (aegwangnamu), 야광나무 (yagwangnamu), 질구나무 (jilgunamu), 질배나무 (jilbaenamu), 찔광나무 (jjilgwangnamu), 찔구배나무 (jjilgubaenamu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: گۆیِژ (goyij)

  Northern Kurdish: guhîj (ku) f

• Low German:

  German Low German: Mehldorn

• Macedonian: глог m (glog)
• Maltese: żagħrun m
• Manchu: ᡠᠮᡦᡠ (umpu)
• Mazanderani: ولیک (valik)
• Middle English: hawthorn, hawe tre
• Norman: blianche êpîngne f
• Ottoman Turkish: آق دیكن (ak diken)
• Persian: نلک (fa) (nelk)
• Polish: głóg (pl) m
• Portuguese: espinheiro branco m
• Romanian: păducel (ro) m, albaspină (ro) f
• Romansch: chagliastretg m
• Russian: боя́рышник (ru) m (bojáryšnik)
• Scottish Gaelic: sgìtheach m
• Serbo-Croatian: glog (sh)
• Slovak: hloh (sk)
• Slovene: glog (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: głog m

• Spanish: espino albar (es) m, espino blanco (es) m, majuelo (es) m
• Swedish: hagtorn (sv)
• Tarifit: admam f
• Tatar: дүләнә (tt) (dülänä), камыр агачы (tt) (qamır ağaçı)
• Thai: ซานจา
• Turkish: alıç (tr)
• Turkmen: ýemşen
• Ukrainian: глід (hlid)
• Uyghur: دولانا (dolana)
• Uzbek: doʻlana (uz)
• Vietnamese: sơn tra
• Volapük: krateg (vo), redakrateg
• Welsh: draenen wen f
• Yakut: долохуна (doloquna), долохоно (doloqono)

References

• Crataegus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Crataegus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Hanworth

Middle English

Alternative forms

• haȝ þorn, haȝþorne, haue-thorne, hauȝ þorne, hauthorne, hauþorn, hauþorne, hawethorn, hawethorne, haweþorn, hawe-þorn, hawe þorn, hawȝþorn, hawthern, hawthorne, hawthorun, haw-thron, hawþrone

Etymology

Inherited from Old English hagaþorn, hæguþorn, from Proto-West Germanic *haguþorn; equivalent to hawe +‎ thorn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhau̯(ə)ˌθɔrn/, /ˈhau̯(ə)ˌθoːrn/, /ˈhau̯(ə)ˌθrɔn/

Noun

hawthorn (plural hawthornes)

1. A hawthorn or similar tree or shrub.

Synonyms

• hawe tre

Descendants

• English: hawthorn
• Scots: hawthorn

References

• “hau(e-thorn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-12.