cranberry

See also: Cranberry

English

common cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)

Etymology

Adapted in the 1640s from Dutch Low Saxon or German Low German Kraanbeere, from Kraan m, which means and is cognate to crane + Beere f, which means and is cognate to berry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkræn.b(ə).ri/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkræn.bɛr.i/

• Audio (UK):

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Noun

cranberry (plural cranberries)

1. A shrub belonging to the section of the genus Vaccinium.
2. The edible red berry of that shrub.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.

3. An intense red colour, like that of a cranberry

   cranberry:  

Hypernyms

• berry

Hyponyms

• arando Vaccinium erythrocarpum
• bearberry Vaccinium erythrocarpum or
• dingleberry Vaccinium erythrocarpum
• fenberry (dated) Vaccinium oxycoccos
• moorberry
• mossberry (Canada)
• American cranberry ()
• common cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
• highbush cranberry (, Viburnum edule, Viburnum opulus (European))
• large cranberry ()
• northern cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
• small cranberry ()
• southern mountain cranberry (Vaccinium erythrocarpum)

Derived terms

• cranberried
• cranberry juice
• cranberrylike
• cranberry morpheme
• Cranmoor

 

Descendants

• → German: Cranberry

Translations

shrub

• Bulgarian: червена боровинка f (červena borovinka)
• Catalan: nabiu de grua m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蔓越橘 (zh) (mànyuèjú), 蔓越桔 (mànyuèjú)

• Chukchi: кԓёкаԓгын (kḷjokaḷgyn), кԓюкэт pl (kḷjukėt)
• Czech: brusinka (cs) f
• Danish: tranebær c
• Esperanto: oksikoko
• Finnish: karpalo (fi)
• French: canneberge (fr) f
• Georgian: შტოში (šṭoši)
• German: Moosbeere (de) f, Kronsbeere (de) f (North German), Kranbeere (de) f, Cranberry (de) f (gastronomy)
• Hungarian: tőzegáfonya (hu)
• Irish: mónóg f, tom mónóg m
• Latgalian: dzērvine f
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• Latvian: dzērvene (lv) f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Kroonsbeer (nds) f

• Macedonian: брусница f (brusnica)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tranebær n

  Nynorsk: tranebær n

• Polish: żurawina (pl) f
• Portuguese: oxicoco m
• Russian: клю́ква (ru) f (kljúkva)
• Scottish Gaelic: muileag f
• Swahili: mkranberi
• Turkish: Anadolu otu, avcı üzümü, ayı üzümü (tr), çay üzümü, çobanüzümü (tr), keçi yemişi (tr), yaban mersini (tr), yayla likabası
• Ukrainian: журавли́на f (žuravlýna)

berry

• Arabic: عَنْبِيَّة حَادَة الخَبَاء (ʕanbiyya(t) ḥāda(t) al-ḵabāʔ)
• Atikamekw: mickekominan
• Basque: ahabi garratz
• Catalan: nabiu (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蔓越莓 (mànyuèméi)

• Chukchi: кԓёкаԓгын (kḷjokaḷgyn), кԓюкэт pl (kḷjukėt)
• Czech: brusinka (cs) f
• Danish: tranebær n
• Dutch: Amerikaanse veenbes c
• Esperanto: oksikoko
• Estonian: jõhvikas, kuremari (et)
• Faroese: tranuber n
• Finnish: karpalo (fi)
• French: canneberge (fr) f
• Georgian: შტოში (šṭoši)
• German: Cranberry (de) f, Moosbeere (de) f, Kranichbeere f (northern German), Kronsbeere (de) f (northern German)
• Greek: κρανμπερι (kranmperi)
• Hungarian: tőzegáfonya (hu)
• Icelandic: trönuber n
• Irish: mónóg f
• Italian: ossicocco m, mirtillo palustre m
• Japanese: クランベリー (kuranberī)
• Kazakh: мүкжидек (mükjidek)
• Korean: 넌출월귤 (neonchurwolgyul), 크랜베리 (keuraenberi)
• Macedonian: брусница f (brusnica)
• Miami: neehpikicia
• Mohegan-Pequot: pôcum
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• Mongolian: цангис жимс (cangis žims)
• Norman: cannebèrge f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tranebær n

  Nynorsk: tranebær n

• Occitan: brimbalièr m
• Polish: żurawina (pl) f
• Portuguese: oxicoco m, arando (pt) m
• Romanian: merișor (ro)
• Russian: клю́ква (ru) f (kljúkva)
• Scottish Gaelic: muileag f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: брусница f

  Roman: brusnica (sh) f

• Slovene: brusnica (sl) f
• Spanish: arándano (es) m, arándano rojo m
• Swahili: kranberi
• Swedish: tranbär (sv) n
• Tagalog: arandano, pulang arandano
• Tlingit: ḵ'eishkaháagu (bog, low bush), dáxw (bog, low bush)
• Turkish: vaccinium, turna yemişi
• Udmurt: нюрмульы (ńurmuľy)
• Ukrainian: журавли́на f (žuravlýna)
• Unami: pakim
• Welsh: llugaeronen f, cryglusen f
• West Frisian: feanbei
• Wolof: kanbeers
• Yiddish: זשורעכלינע (zhurekhline)

References

• cranberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “cranberry”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “cranberry”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Adjective

cranberry (not comparable)

1. Of the intense red colour of a cranberry.
   • 2011, Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins, Glorious Appearing: The End of Days

     Leon was in his most resplendent, gaudiest, Day-Glo getup, including a purple felt fez with multiple hangy-downs and a cranberry vestment with gold collar, appliquéd with every religious symbol known to man […]