barberry

English

shoot with fruit

common barberry, Berberis vulgaris

Etymology

From Middle English berberie, from Medieval Latin berberis, on which see Arabic بَرْبَارِيس (barbārīs). Doublet of berberis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑɹbɛɹi/

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Noun

barberry (plural barberries)

1. Any of the thorny shrubs of genus Berberis, which bear yellow flowers and red or blue-black berries.
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Derived terms

• creeping barberry
• holly barberry
• holly-leaved barberry
• Magellan barberry

 

Translations

Berberis

• Abkhaz: акаҵахәыр (akʼacʼaxʷər)
• Adyghe: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: بَرْبَارِيس m (barbārīs), زَرَّشْك m (zarrašk)
• Armenian: կծոխուր (hy) (kcoxur), ծոր (hy) (cor), զրիշկ (hy) (zrišk)
• Azerbaijani: zirinc (az)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: барбари́с m (barbarís)
• Catalan: coralet m
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小檗 (xiǎobò)

• Esperanto: berberiso
• Finnish: happomarja (fi)
• French: épine-vinette (fr) f
• Galician: please add this translation if you can
• Georgian: კოწახური (ḳoc̣axuri)
• German: Berberitze (de) f, Sauerdorn (de) m, Essigbeere f
• Hungarian: borbolya (hu)
• Ido: berberiso (io)
• Irish: barbróg f
• Italian: crespino (it) m
• Japanese: メギ (megi)
• Kabardian: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: бөріқарақат (börıqaraqat)
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• Korean: 매자나무 (maejanamu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: زِریشک (zirîşk)

• Latin: berberis, -is f, oxyacanthus, -ī f, oxyacantha, -ae f, spīna acida f (all Medieval Latin and New Latin)
• Laz: კაწახური (ǩaǯaxuri)
• Macedonian: жолтика f (žoltika)
• Mazanderani: please add this translation if you can
• Mingrelian: კორწოხული (ḳorc̣oxuli)
• Navajo: shashdą́ą́ʼ
• Norman: èpinne-vinnette f (Jersey)
• Persian: زرشک (fa) (zerešk)
• Polish: berberys (pl) m, kwaśnica (pl) f
• Portuguese: bérberis f, uva-espim (pt) f
• Romanian: dracilă (ro) f
• Russian: барбари́с (ru) m (barbarís)
• Scots: guil-tree
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жу̀тика f, чѐсмина

  Latin: žùtika (sh) f, čèsmina (sh)

• Slovak: dráč m
• Slovene: česmína f, česmȋn m
• Spanish: agracejo (es) m (the European type species), alarguez (es) m (archaic, dialectal), michay (es) m (Chile, Argentine, the respective species), calafate (es) m (Chile, Argentine, the respective species)
• Svan: გოწხირ (goc̣xir), გვაწხირ (gvac̣xir)
• Tocharian B: śkwaśko
• Turkish: sarıçalı (tr)
• Ukrainian: барбари́с (uk) m (barbarýs)
• Welsh: eurddraenen f

References

• Berberis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Berberis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Berberis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• barberry at USDA Plants database