acorn

English

Acorns.

Etymology

From Middle English acorne, an alteration (after corn) of earlier akern, from Old English ǣcern (“acorn, oak-mast”), from Proto-Germanic *akraną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ógeh₂ (“berry”). Cognate with Scots aicorn, Saterland Frisian Äkkene, Dutch aker, Danish agern, Low German ecker; Welsh eirin (“plums”), Breton irin (“plum”), Irish airne (“sloe”), Lithuanian úoga, Russian я́года (jágoda, “berry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.kɔɹn/
• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.kɔːn/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

acorn (plural acorns)

1. The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
2. (nautical) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
3. (zoology) See acorn-shell.
4. (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.

Holonyms

• (fruit of an oak): oak

Derived terms

Derived terms

• acorn cup
• acorn nut
• acorn squash

• eggcorn
• ride a horse foaled by an acorn

Translations

fruit of the oak tree

• Abenaki: anaskemen (red or black oak acorn; literally "oak berry"), anaskebagôn (red or black oak acorn; literally "oak nut"), wachil (white oak acorn)
• Adyghe: мышкӏу (məškʷʼu)
• Afrikaans: akker (af)
• Albanian: lende (sq) f, gogël (sq) f
• Apache:

  Western Apache: chíchʼil

• Arabic: بَلُّوط m (ballūṭ) (collective), بَلُّوطَة f (ballūṭa) (singulative)

  Moroccan Arabic: بلوط m (ballūṭ) (collective), بلوطة f (ballūṭa) (singulative)

• Aragonese: ballota (an) f
• Armenian: կաղին (hy) (kaġin)

  Middle Armenian: պալուտ (palut)

• Aromanian: gljindã f, docãrã f, vãlani f
• Asturian: llande m, abeyota f, abellota f
• Azerbaijani: palıd qozası
• Basque: ezkur (eu)
• Belarusian: жо́луд m (žólud)
• Breton: mezenn (br) f
• Bulgarian: жъ̀лъд (bg) m (žǎ̀lǎd)
• Catalan: gla (ca) f
• Catawba: tumo (plural)
• Central Mazahua: løjø
• Central Sierra Miwok: watýkˑa-, watýk·a-
• Cherokee: ᎬᎴ (gvle)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 橡子 (zoeng⁶ zi²)

  Mandarin: 橡子 (zh) (xiàngzǐ), 橡果 (xiàngguǒ)

• Classical Nahuatl: āhuacuauhtomatl, āhuatomatl
• Cree: ᒥᐢᑎᑯᒥᐣ (mistikomin) (literally "oak berry"), ᒥᐢᑎᑯᐹᑲᐣ (mistikopâkan) (literally "oak nut")
• Czech: žalud (cs) m
• Danish: agern (da) n
• Dhivehi: ކަށި ބުރޮޅި (kaṣi buroḷi)
• Dutch: eikel (nl) m
• Esperanto: glano
• Estonian: tammetõru
• Faroese: akarn n, eikinøt f
• Finnish: tammenterho (fi)
• French: gland (fr) m
• Friulian: gland m
• Galician: belota f, landra f, landa f, glande (gl) m
• Georgian: რკო (rḳo)
• German: Eichel (de) f
• Greek: βελανίδι (el) n (velanídi)

  Ancient: βάλανος f (bálanos)

• Hebrew: בַּלּוּט (he) m (balút)
• Hindi: बाँजफल m (bāñjphal)
• Hungarian: makk (hu)
• Icelandic: akarn n
• Ido: glano (io)
• Interlingua: glande
• Interlingue:
• Irish: dearcán m
• Italian: ghianda (it) f
• Japanese: どんぐり (ja) (donguri), 団栗 (ja) (どんぐり, donguri)
• Kazakh: емен жаңғағы (emen jañğağy)
• Korean: 에이콘 (eikon), 도토리 (ko) (dotori)
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• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:

• Kyrgyz: жёлудь (jyolud)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latgalian: zeile f
• Latin: glans f
• Latvian: zīle f, ozolzīle f
• Lithuanian: gilė f
• Luxembourgish: Eechel f
• Macedonian: желад m (želad), жир m (žir)
• Malagasy: voan'oaka
• Maori: huaōki
• Mohegan-Pequot: anôhcum
• Nahuatl : ahuatomatl (nah)
• Navajo: chéchʼil binááʼ
• Neapolitan: gliandra f
• Norman: tchênelle f
• Norwegian: kongle m or f, åkorn n

  Bokmål: eikenøtt m or f

  Nynorsk: eikenøtt f

• Occitan: agland (oc) m
• Ohlone:

  Northern Ohlone: yuu

• Ojibwe: mitigomin
• Old Church Slavonic: желѫдь m (желѫдь)
• Old English: ǣcern n
• Ossetian: гыркъо (gyrk’o)
• Panamint: wiyan, wiyampi
• Persian: بلوط (fa) (balut)
• Polish: żołądź (pl) m
• Portuguese: bolota (pt) f
• Romanian: ghindă (ro) f
• Romansch: glogn, glonda, glànd, glanda
• Russian: жёлудь (ru) m (žóludʹ)
• Sardinian: landha, landhe, landi
• Saterland Frisian: Äkkene n
• Scots: aicorn
• Scottish Gaelic: dearc-dharaich f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жи̑р m, желуд m

  Roman: žȋr (sh) m, želud m

• Sicilian: agghiànnara (scn) f
• Silesian: ajchel f
• Slovak: žaluď m
• Slovene: želod (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: žołź m

  Upper Sorbian: žołdź m

• Southern Ohlone: rappak
• Spanish: bellota (es) f
• Sudovian: gile
• Swedish: ekollon (sv) n
• Tagalog: ensina, belyota
• Tajik: балут (balut)
• Thai: ผลต้นโอ๊ก (pǒn-dtôn-óok)
• Turkish: palamut (tr)
• Ukrainian: жо́лудь (uk) m (žóludʹ)
• Uzbek: choʻchqayongʻoq (uz)
• Vietnamese: đầu (vi)
• Vilamovian: achuł f
• Volapük: kvär (vo), (older word, obsolete) gölogafluk
• Walloon: gland (wa) f
• Welsh: mesen (cy) f

See also

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Anagrams

• Coran, Corna, acron, caron, coran, narco, narco-, racon