hawthorn

See also: Hawthorne

English

Crataegus laevigata

Etymology

From Middle English hawthorn, from Old English hagaþorn, hæguþorn, from Proto-Germanic *haguþurnuz, equalling haga (“enclosure, hedge”) + þorn (“thorn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɔː.θɔːn/
• IPA^(key): /ˈhɔ.θɔɹn/

Noun

hawthorn (plural hawthorns)

1. Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Crataegus having small, apple-like fruits and thorny branches

Synonyms

• (a Cratageus): albaspine, may, maythorn, may tree, quickthorn, whitethorn

Derived terms

• hawthorny, hawthorn berry

Related terms

• haw, mayblossom, mayflower

Translations

type of shrub

• Arabic: زُعْرُور m (zuʕrūr), زَعْرُور m (zaʕrūr)
• Armenian: սզնի (hy) (szni), ալոճենի (aločeni), սինձ (hy) (sinj)
• Azerbaijani: yemişan (az), alıç
• Bashkir: энәлек (enəlek), еҙәй (yeźəy), ҡамыраш (qamıraş), дунала (dunala)
• Breton: spern-gwenn m
• Bulgarian: глог (bg) m (glog)
• Catalan: arç (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 山楂 (zh) (shānzhā)

• Cornish: hogan m, spernen wynn f
• Czech: hloh (cs) m
• Danish: tjørn c
• Dutch: meidoorn (nl) m, meidoren m
• Esperanto: kratago
• Finnish: orapihlaja (fi), tylppäliuskaorapihlaja, tylppöorapihlaja
• French: aubépine (fr) f
• Galician: estripeiro (gl) m, espiño albar m, espiño cambrón m
• Georgian: კუნელი (ḳuneli)
• German: Weißdorn (de) m, Hagedorn (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: κράταιγος m (krátaigos)

• Hungarian: galagonya (hu)
• Irish: sceach gheal f
• Italian: biancospino (it) m
• Japanese: 山査子 (ja) (sanzashi), サンザシ (ja) (sanzashi)
• Kazakh: долана (dolana)
• Low German:

  German Low German: Mehldorn

• Macedonian: глог m (glog)
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• Manchu: ᡠᠮᡦᡠ (umpu)
• Mazanderani: ولیک (valik)
• Middle English: hawthorn, hawe tre
• Norman: blianche êpîngne f
• Persian: نلک (fa) (nelk)
• Polish: głóg (pl) m
• Portuguese: espinheiro m
• Romanian: păducel (ro) m, albaspină (ro) f
• Russian: боя́рышник (ru) m (bojáryšnik)
• Serbo-Croatian: glog (sh)
• Slovak: hloh (sk)
• Slovene: glog (sl)
• Spanish: espino (es) m
• Swedish: hagtorn (sv)
• Tatar: дүләнә (tt) (dülänä), камыр агачы (tt) (qamır ağaçı)
• Turkish: alıç (tr)
• Turkmen: ýemşen
• Ukrainian: глід (hlid)
• Uyghur: دولانا (dolana)
• Uzbek: doʻlana (uz)
• Vietnamese: sơn tra
• Volapük: krateg (vo), redakrateg
• Welsh: draenen wen f
• Yakut: долохоно (doloqono)

See also

• hawthorn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Crataegus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Hanworth

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• hauþorne, haweþorn, hawthern, hawethorn, hawthorun, hawþrone, hawthorne, hauthorne, haw-thron, haue-thorne, hauȝ þorne, haȝþorne, hauþorn, hawethorne, haȝ þorn, hawȝþorn, hawe-þorn, hawe þorn

Etymology

Inherited from Old English hagaþorn, hæguþorn, from Proto-Germanic *haguþurnuz; equivalent to hawe +‎ thorn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhau̯(ə)θɔrn/, /ˈhau̯(ə)θrɔn/

Noun

hawthorn (plural hawthornes)

1. A hawthorn or similar tree or shrub.

Synonyms

• hawe tre

Descendants

• English: hawthorn
• Scots: hawthorn

References

• “hau(e-thorn (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-12.