cypress

See also: cy pres

English

Cypress

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪ.pɹəs/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: Cyprus

Etymology 1

From Old French cipres (French cyprès), from Ancient Greek κυπάρισσος (kupárissos), probably from an unknown Mediterranean language; see Hebrew גֹּפֶר (gōp̄er), the name of the tree whose wood was used to make the ark (Genesis. vi:14).

Noun

cypress (plural cypresses)

1. An evergreen coniferous tree with flattened shoots bearing small scale-like leaves, whose dark foliage is sometimes associated with mourning, in family Cupressaceae, especially the genera Cupressus and Chamaecyparis.

Translations

an evergreen coniferous tree

• Albanian: selvi (sq) f
• Akkadian: 𒋗𒌫𒎙 (šu-ur₂-min₃ /⁠šurmēnu⁠/), 𒇷 (burāšu) (often held to mean more specifically the juniper)
• Arabic: سَرْوَة f (sarwa) (one), سَرْو m (sarw) (many or in general)

  Egyptian Arabic: سرو m (sarw) (collective), سروة f (sarwa) (singulative)

• Aramaic:

  Jewish Aramaic: שׁוּרְבִּינָא (šurbinnā), בְּרֹותָא (bərōṯā), בְּרָָתָא‎ (bərāṯā) (often held to mean more specifically the juniper)

  Classical Syriac: ܫܘܽܪܒܻܝܢܳܐ (šurbinnā), ܫܱܪܘܱܝܢܳܐ (šarwēnā), ܒܪܽܘܬܳܐ (bərōṯā) (often held to mean more specifically the juniper)

• Armenian: նոճի (hy) (noči), կիպարիս (hy) (kiparis)
• Bulgarian: кипарѝс m (kiparìs), сѐлвия f (sèlvija) (obsolete)
• Catalan: xiprer (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 柏樹／柏树 (zh) (bǎishù), 柏树 (zh) (bǎishù, bóshù)

• Crimean Tatar: servi, selbi
• Czech: cypřiš (cs) m
• Dutch: cipres (nl) m
• Esperanto: cipreso
• Estonian: küpress
• Finnish: sypressi (fi)
• French: cyprès (fr) m
• German: Zypresse (de) f
• Greek: κυπαρίσσι (el) n (kyparíssi)

  Ancient: κυπάρισσος f (kupárissos)

• Hawaiian: kupeleko
• Hebrew: בְּרוֹשׁ (he) m (bərṓš), תְּאַשּׁוּר‎ f (təʾaššū́r)
• Hungarian: ciprus (hu), ciprusfa (hu)
• Ido: cipreso (io)
• Italian: cipresso (it) m
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• Japanese: サイプレス (saipuresu), 糸杉 (いとすぎ, itosugi)
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: cupressus
• Latvian: ciprese m
• Lithuanian: kiparisas m
• Macedonian: чемпрес (čempres)
• Maori: kaiperi
• Nahuatl: tlatskakuauitl, tlatskan (nah)
• Norman: cyprès m
• Norwegian: sypress (no) m
• Occitan: cipres
• Persian: سرو (fa) (sarv)
• Polish: cyprys (pl) m
• Portuguese: cipreste m
• Romanian: chiparos (ro) m
• Russian: кипари́с (ru) m (kiparís)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чѐмпрес m, сѐлвија f, сѐвлија f

  Roman: čèmpres (sh) m, sèlvija f, sèvlija f

• Slovak: cyprus (sk) m
• Slovene: cipresa (sl) f
• Spanish: ciprés (es) m
• Sumerian: 𒋗𒌫𒈨 (šu-ur₂-me /⁠šurmen⁠/)
• Swahili: mvinje
• Swedish: cypress (sv) c
• Tagalog: sipres (tl)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: سروی (servi), سلوی (selvi)

  Modern Turkish: servi (tr), selvi (tr)

• Ugaritic: 𐎚𐎛𐎌𐎗 m (tỉšr)

Etymology 2

Noun

cypress

1. Alternative form of Cyprus (“type of fabric”)

See also

• cypress on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Swedish

Noun

cypress c

1. cypress

Declension

Declension of cypress
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	cypress	cypressen	cypresser	cypresserna
Genitive	cypress	cypressens	cypressers	cypressernas