Kastanie

German

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin castanea

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kasˈtaːni̯ə/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

Kastanie f (genitive Kastanie, plural Kastanien)

1. chestnut, tree of genus Castanea
2. chestnut, nut of such trees
3. (colloquial, short for Rosskastanie) horse-chestnut, tree of genus Aesculus
4. (colloquial, short for Rosskastanie) horse-chestnut, nut of such trees

Derived terms

• Kastanienbaum m
• Kastanienente f
• kastanienfarbig
• Kastanienholz n

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: кестен (kesten) (or from Ottoman Turkish)
• → Hungarian: gesztenye
• → Polish: kasztan
  • → Belarusian: кашта́н (kaštán)
  • → Esperanto: kaŝtano
  • → Russian: кашта́н (kaštán)
  • → Ukrainian: кашта́н (kaštán)
  • → Yiddish: קאַשטאַן (kashtan)
• → Serbo-Croatian: (or from Ottoman Turkish)

  Cyrillic script: кестен

  Latin script: kesten

Further reading

• “Kastanie” in Duden online