forest

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French (deprecated template usage) forest < Template:LL. (deprecated template usage) forestem silvam, in reference to the royal forest < (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) foris, from Template:proto, whence also English (deprecated template usage) door. See also (deprecated template usage) foreign.

A forest.

Pronunciation

• enPR: fŏrˈəst, , Template:SAMPA

Noun

forest (plural forests)

1. A dense collection of trees covering a relatively large area. Larger than woods.
2. Any dense collection or amount.

   Forest of criticism.

3. A defined area of land formerly set aside in England as a royal hunting ground.
4. Template:graph theory a disjoint union of trees

Derived terms

terms derived from forest (noun)

• forestal
• forested
• forester
• forestial

• forestlike
• forestry
• can't see the forest for the trees
• rainforest

Related terms

• afforest

See also

• Template:commonslite

Translations

dense collection of trees

• Afrikaans:
• Amharic: Template:tø
• Arabic: غابة f (ghaaba(t))
• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܥܒܐ (‘ābā, ‘obo)

  Hebrew: עבא (‘ābā, ‘obo)

• Armenian: անտառ (antaṙ)
• Azeri:
• Basque: baso
• Blackfoot: ĭspitcĭko
• Bulgarian: гора (bg) f (gora), лес (bg) m (les)
• Catalan: bosc (ca) m, forest (ca) f, selva
• Central Atlas Tamazight: Template:tø
• Ch'orti': tah
• Chamicuro: Template:tø, Template:tø
• Cheyenne: ma'tää'e
• Chinese: 森林 (sēnlín)
• Creek: etvlkē
• Croatian:
• Czech: les (cs) m
• Danish: skov c
• Dutch: woud (nl) n, bos (nl) n
• Esperanto:
• Estonian: mets (et)
• Finnish: metsä (fi)
• French: forêt (fr) f, brousse (fr), sylve (fr), bois (fr), boqueteau (fr), bosquet (fr)
• Galician: bosque, floresta, selva
• Georgian:
• German: Wald (de) m, Forst (de), Gehölz n, Hain (de)
• Greek: δάσος (el) n (dásos), δρυμός (el) m (drymós)
• Hebrew: יער (ya'ar)
• Hungarian: erdő (hu), erdőség (hu)
• Icelandic: skógur (is)
• Ido: foresto
• Indonesian:
• Interlingua: foreste
• Italian: foresta (it) f, bosco (it), selva (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 森 (もり, morí), 森林 (しんりん, shinrín)
• Kazakh: ,
• Korean: 숲 (sup), 삼림 (samrim)
• Kurdish: Template:ku-Arab, Template:ku-Arab
• Lakota: kaƞwita
• Latin: silva (la) f
• Latvian:
• Lithuanian:
• Luhya: Template:tø
• Malay:
• Maltese: foresta Template:f, masġar
• Mi'kmaq: nebŏŏkt'
• Mingo: kaháta'
• Northern Sami: vuovdi
• Norwegian: skog (no) m
• Occitan: forèst Template:f, selva Template:f
• Ojibwe: mitigwaaki, mitigwaakiin |
• Old Church Slavonic: Template:tø
• Persian: ,
• Polish: las (pl) m
• Portuguese: floresta (pt) f, selva (pt), bosque (pt)
• Romanian: pădure Template:f, silvă (rare) Template:f
• Russian: лес (ru) m (les)
• Scottish Gaelic: coille Template:f
• Serbian: шума (šuma) Template:f, les , lug
• Slovak: les m, hora f
• Slovene: gozd (sl) m, les (sl) m, hosta f
• Spanish: bosque (es) m, floresta f, selva (es)
• Swahili: ,
• Swedish: skog (sv)
• Tajik: ,
• Telugu: అడవి (aDavi)
• Walloon: bwès, bos
• West Frisian: ,
• Yucatec Maya: ƙahš

any dense collection

• Croatian:
• Greek: δάσος (el) n (dásos)
• Italian: foresta (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Slovene: gozd (sl) m, slap (sl) m
• Swahili: ,
• Telugu: అడవి (aDavi)

graph theory: union of trees

• Danish: skov c
• Greek: δάσος (el) n (dásos)
• Hungarian: erdő (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: foresta (it)
• Swahili: ,

Verb

forest (third-person singular simple present forests, present participle foresting, simple past and past participle forested)

1. Template:transitive To cover an area with trees.

Translations

to cover an area with trees

• Bulgarian: залесявам
• Dutch: bebossen
• Esperanto: arbari
• Hungarian: fásít, erdősít
• Latvian: apmežot
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Macedonian:
• Romanian: înpăduri
• Slovene: pogozdovati
• Swahili: ,

See also

• bush
• deforest
• jungle
• wood
• woodland
• woods

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Middle French

Noun

(deprecated template usage) forest f

1. forest

   Mais quand il eut mis fin a ses parolles, & que semblablement les forestz resonnãtes se furent appaisées […] (L’Arcadie-Trad-Massin, published 1544, Paris)

   But when he had finished talking, and the forests felt appeased […]

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Old French

Noun

1. forest

Descendants

• English: forest
• French: forêt
• Middle French: forest