chestnut

English

chestnuts

Etymology

Formerly chesten nut, from Middle English chesteyne, chasteine, from Old French chastaigne, from Latin castanea, from Ancient Greek καστάνεια (kastáneia).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɛs.nʌt/, /ˈtʃɛst.nʌt/

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Noun

chestnut (countable and uncountable, plural chestnuts)

1. A tree or shrub of the genus Castanea.
2. The nut of this tree or shrub.
3. (uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color.

   chestnut:  

4. A reddish-brown horse.
   • 1877, George Nevile, Horses and Riding, page 105:

     […] browns are the soberest, bays are the worst tempered, and chestnuts are the most foolish.

5. (uncountable) The wood of a chestnut tree.
6. (idiomatic) (Often "old chestnut") An old joke; a worn-out meme, phrase, ploy, etc. so often repeated as to have grown tiresome or ineffective.
7. A round or oval horny plate found on the inner side of the leg of a horse or other animal, similar to a birthmark on a human.

   Synonym: night eye

8. (UK) horse-chestnut

Synonyms

• (tree): chestnut tree

Derived terms

terms derived from chestnut (noun)

• American chestnut
• chestnut blight
• chestnut oak
• chestnut tree
• dwarf chestnut
• horse chestnut

• Moreton Bay chestnut
• pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire
• Spanish chestnut
• sweet chestnut
• water chestnut

Descendants

• → Gujarati: ચેસ્ટનટ (cesṭanaṭ)

Translations

chestnut tree — see chestnut tree

nut of the chestnut tree

• Albanian: gështenjë (sq) f
• Arabic: كَسْتَنَاء f (kastanāʔ)

  Egyptian Arabic: ابو فروة m (abō farwa)

  Hijazi Arabic: أبو فَرْوَة m (ʾabū farwa), كستنا f (kastanā)

• Armenian: շագանակ (hy) (šaganak)

  Middle Armenian: շահպալութ (šahpalutʻ)

• Asturian: castaña (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: şabalıd (az)
• Belarusian: кашта́н m (kaštán)
• Bengali: বাদামী (badami)
• Bulgarian: ке́стен (bg) m (késten)
• Catalan: castanya (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᏘᎵ (tili)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 栗子 (leot⁶ zi²)

  Mandarin: 板栗 (zh) (bǎnlì), 栗子 (zh) (lìzi)

• Cornish: kestenen f
• Czech: kaštan (cs) m
• Danish: kastanje c
• Dutch: kastanje (nl) f, tamme kastanje f
• Esperanto: kaŝtano (eo)
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: kastanja f
• Finnish: kastanja (fi)
• French: châtaigne (fr) f, marron (fr) m
• Friulian: cjastine f
• Galician: castaña (gl) f, bullote (gl) m, baloca f
• Georgian: წაბლი (c̣abli)
• German: Kastanie (de) f, Esskastanie f
• Greek: κάστανο (el) n (kástano)

  Ancient: κάστανον n (kástanon)

• Greenlandic: please add this translation if you can
• Gujarati: ચેસ્ટનટ (cesṭanaṭ)
• Hawaiian: pelakano, pelane
• Hebrew: ערמון (he) m (armon)
• Hungarian: gesztenye (hu)
• Icelandic: kastaníuhneta f, kastanía (is) f
• Ido: kastano (io)
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• Irish: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: castagna (it) f
• Japanese: 栗 (ja) (kuri)
• Korean: 밤 (ko) (bam)
• Kurdish: ,
• Lao: ໝາກກໍ່ໜາມ (mak ko nam)
• Latgalian: kaštans
• Latin: castanea f
• Latvian: kastanis
• Lithuanian: kaštonas
• Luxembourgish: Käscht f
• Macedonian: ко́стен m (kósten)
• Maltese: qastan
• Manx: castan m, cro Spaainagh m, castan Spaainagh m
• Navajo: neeshchʼííłchííʼ
• Northern Sami: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kastanje m

  Nynorsk: kastanje m

• Occitan: castanha (oc) f
• Polish: kasztan (pl) m
• Portuguese: castanha (pt) f
• Romanian: castană (ro)
• Russian: кашта́н (ru) m (kaštán)
• Scottish Gaelic: castan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кестен m

  Roman: kesten (sh) m

• Slovak: gaštan (sk) m
• Slovene: kostanj (sl) m
• Spanish: castaña (es) f
• Swahili: aramoni
• Swedish: kastanj (sv) n
• Tagalog: kastanyas
• Thai: เกาลัด (th) (gao-lát)
• Turkish: kestane (tr)
• Ukrainian: кашта́н m (kaštán)
• Vietnamese: hạt dẻ
• Volapük: kätan, kätuk
• Walloon: cascagne (wa) f
• Welsh: please add this translation if you can

reddish-brown colour

• Armenian: շագանակագույն (hy) (šaganakaguyn)
• Asturian: marrón m
• Bulgarian: кестеняв (kestenjav)
• Catalan: castany (ca) m, marró (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 栗色 (zh) (lìsè)

• Czech: kaštanově hnědá f
• Danish: kastanjebrun
• Dutch: kastanjebruin (nl) n
• Finnish: kastanjanruskea (fi), pähkinänruskea
• French: marron (fr) m, châtain (fr) m
• Galician: castaño (gl) m, marrón (gl) m, pardo m, bis (gl) m, brun (gl) m, fouveiro m, teixo (gl) m
• Georgian: წაბლისფერი (c̣ablisperi)
• German: Kastanienbraun n
• Greek: καστανό (el) n (kastanó)
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• Irish: donnrua m
• Italian: castano (it) f
• Japanese: 栗色 (kuriiro)
• Latin: spādīx
• Macedonian: костенлива f (kostenliva)
• Mongolian:
• Norwegian: kastanje
• Portuguese: castanho (pt) m
• Russian: кашта́новый (ru) m (kaštánovyj) (hair color)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кестењаста f

  Roman: kestenjasta (sh) f

• Spanish: castaño (es) m, marrón (es) m
• Swedish: kastanjebrunt, kastanj (sv)
• Turkish: kestane (tr)

reddish-brown horse

• Bulgarian: дорест кон (dorest kon)
• Finnish: raudikko, rautias (fi)
• German: Fuchs (de) m
• Hungarian: pej (hu)
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• Italian: castano (it) f
• Russian: гнедо́й (ru) m (gnedój), гнеда́я ло́шадь f (gnedája lóšadʹ), гнедо́й конь m (gnedój konʹ)
• Swedish: fux (sv)

wood of a chestnut tree

• Bulgarian: ке́стен (bg) m (késten)
• Finnish: kastanja (fi), kastanjapuu (fi)
• French: châtaigner (fr) m, marronnier (fr) m
• Galician: castiñeiro (gl) m
• German: Kastanie (de) f
• Italian: castagneto (it) m
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• Japanese: クリ材 (kurizai)
• Macedonian: ко́стен m (kósten)
• Russian: кашта́н (ru) m (kaštán)
• Swedish: kastanj (sv) c
• Turkish: kestane (tr)

Adjective

chestnut (not comparable)

1. Of a deep reddish-brown colour, like that of a chestnut.

Translations

of a deep reddish-brown colour

• Asturian: castañu, marrón
• Bulgarian: кестеняв (kestenjav)
• Catalan: castany (ca), marró (ca)
• Danish: kastanjebrun
• Dutch: kastanjebruin (nl), kastanjebruine (nl)
• Finnish: punaruskea (fi), rautias (fi)
• French: marron (fr), châtain (fr)
• Galician: castaño (gl), marrón (gl)
• German: kastanienbraun (de)
• Greek: καστανός (el) (kastanós)
• Ido: kastanea (io)
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• Irish: donnrua
• Italian: castano (it) (of hair)
• Macedonian: костенлива f (kostenliva)
• Portuguese: castanho (pt), marrom (pt)
• Romanian: roib (ro)
• Russian: кашта́новый (ru) (kaštánovyj) (hair color)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кестењаст

  Roman: kestenjast (sh)

• Spanish: castaño (es), marrón (es)

Related terms

• castanet

See also

• Template:projectlink

• black bean
• buckeye
• caltrop
• chinquapin
• chinquapin oak

• conker
• maroon
• water caltrop
• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• Chesnutt