bramble

See also: Bramble

English

Flowering bramble

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English brembel, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English bræmbel, from earlier brǣmel, brēmel, from dialectal (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *brēmila- (compare West Frisian brommel, Flemish bramel, Low German Brommelbeer), diminutive of *brēm- (compare English broom). More at broom.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹæmbəl/
• Rhymes: -æmbəl

Noun

bramble (plural brambles)

1. (British) Common blackberry.
   • 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:

     The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.

   • 2016, Ann Burnett, Take a Leaf Out of My Book (page 37)

     Jeanette is making bramble jelly. She is trying to listen to the Morning Story on Radio 4 while she goes about her task. Jeanette's brow is furrowed as she weighs the deep purple fruit and tips the berries into the heavy jelly pan […]

2. (US) Any of several closely related thorny plants in the genus Rubus, including blackberry and raspberry.
3. Any thorny shrub.
4. A cocktail of gin, lemon juice, and blackberry liqueur.

Derived terms

• stone bramble
• brambled
• brambling

Translations

blackberry

• Basque: lapar
• Bulgarian: къпина (bg) f (kǎpina)
• Catalan: esbarzer (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑莓 (zh) (hēiméi)

• Finnish: karhunvatukka (fi)
• French: ronce (fr) f
• German: Brombeere (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: βάτος f (bátos)

• Hungarian: földi szeder
• Icelandic: brómber (is) n, bjarnarber n
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• Italian: rovo (it) m
• Korean: 검은딸기 (geomeunttalgi)
• Latin: rubus m, batus m
• Maori: parakipere
• Polish: jeżyna (pl) f
• Portuguese: amoreira (pt) f
• Romanian: mur (ro) m
• Russian: ежеви́ка (ru) f (ježevíka)
• Scottish Gaelic: (plant) dris f, (fruit) smeur f
• Spanish: mora (es) f, zarzamora (es) m
• Swedish: björnbär (sv)
• Ukrainian: ожи́на (uk) f (ožýna)
• Welsh: mwyaren (cy) f

plant in the genus Rubus

• Asturian: artu m
• Finnish: vatukka (fi)
• French: roncier (fr) m
• Italian: rovo (it) m
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• Kikuyu: mũtare class 3, ndare class 9/10
• Portuguese: sarça (pt) f
• Spanish: zarza (es) f

any thorny shrub

• Catalan: bardissa (ca) f
• Finnish: piikkipensas
• Irish:

  Old Irish: dris f

• Italian: rovo (it) m
• Latin: veprēs m, batus m
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• Maori: tairo, taraheke, taramoa, tātarāmoa
• Portuguese: espinheiro m
• Quechua: kichka (qu)
• Romanian: rug (ro) m
• Spanish: zarzal (es) m
• Telugu: కంప (te) (kampa), క్రంప (te) (krampa)
• Welsh: miaren f

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• Norman: ^{(please verify)} ronche f (Jersey)
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• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} zarza (es) f