hazelnut

See also: hazel nut

English

Hazelnuts

Alternative forms

• hazel nut

Etymology

Equivalent to hazel +‎ nut; from Middle English haselnote, from Old English hæselhnutu (“hazelnut”). Cognate with West Frisian hazzenút (“hazelnut”), Saterland Frisian Hoaselnuute (“hazelnut”), Dutch hazelnoot, German Haselnuss.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈheɪzəlnʌt/

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• Rhymes: -ʌt

Noun

hazelnut (plural hazelnuts)

1. The fruit of the hazel, especially Corylus avellana, which is grown commercially.

Synonyms

• cob, cobnut (usually the common hazel (Corylus avellana) which grows in the UK and Europe; filbert (usually the American hazel (Corylus americana or Corylus maxima) which is common in Oregon.)

Derived terms

• American hazelnut (Corylus americana)
• beaked hazelnut (Corylus cornuta)
• California hazelnut (Corylus cornuta subsp. californica)
• Chilean hazelnut (Gevuina avellana)
• hazelnut aphid (Corylobium avellanae)
• hazelnut gall midge (Mikomyia coryli)
• hazelnut milk
• hazelnut mite (Tetranycopsis horridus)
• Siberian hazelnut (Corylus heterophylla)

Translations

fruit

• Afrikaans: hazelnoot
• Albanian: lajthi (sq) f
• Arabic: بُنْدُق‎ (ar) m (bunduq) (collective), بُنْدُقَة‎ f (bunduqa)

  Moroccan Arabic: بندق‎ (bunduq)

• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܦܢܕܩܐ‎ (pendəqā)

• Armenian: պնդուկ (hy) (pnduk), կաղին (hy) (kałin), տկողին (hy) (tkołin)
• Asturian: ablana (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: fındıq (az)
• Basque: hur (eu)
• Bengali: হ্যাজেল নাট (hêjel naṭ)
• Breton: kraoñenn-gelvez
• Bulgarian: ле́шник (bg) m (léšnik), цариградски лешник m (carigradski lešnik)
• Catalan: avellana (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᎠᏳᎩᏛ (ayugidv)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 榛子 (zeon¹ zi²)

  Mandarin: 榛子 (zh) (zhēnzi), 榛果 (zh) (zhēnguǒ), 榛仁 (zh) (zhēnrén), 榛實／榛实 (zh) (zhēnshí), 榛栗 (zh) (zhēnlì)

• Classical Nahuatl: caxtīllān tlalcacahuatl
• Cornish: knowen goll f
• Crimean Tatar: fındıq
• Czech: lískový ořech (cs) m
• Danish: hasselnød (da) c
• Dutch: hazelnoot (nl) f
• Erzya: пеште (pešťe)
• Esperanto: avelo
• Estonian: sarapuupähkel, metspähkel
• Faroese: heslinøt f
• Finnish: hasselpähkinä (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: nusèlye f, âlâgne f
• French: noisette (fr) f, aveline (fr) f
• Friulian: nole f
• Galician: abelá (gl) f
• Georgian: თხილი (txili)
• German: Haselnuss (de) f
• Greek: φουντούκι (el) n (fountoúki)

  Ancient: Ποντικόν κάρυον n (Pontikón káruon)

• Greenlandic: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: אֱגוֹז לוּז / אגוז לוז‎ (he) m (egoz luz), אִלְסָר‎ (he)
• Hiligaynon: abelyána
• Hindi: हेज़लनट f (hezalnaṭ)
• Hungarian: mogyoró (hu)
• Hunsrik: Hasselnuss f
• Icelandic: heslihneta (is) f
• Ido: avelano (io)
• Irish: cnó coill m, cnó gaelach m
• Italian: nocciola (it) f
• Japanese: ヘーゼルナッツ (hēzerunattsu), 榛 (ja) (ハシバミ, hashibami)
• Korean: 개암 (ko) (gaeam)
• Kyrgyz: токой жаңгагы (ky) (tokoy jaŋgagı)
• Lao: ໝາກຮັດເຊລ (māk hat sēn)
• Ladin: linciola f
• Latin: abellana f
• Latvian: rieksts, lazdu rieksts
• Laz: თხირი (txiri)
• Lithuanian: lazdyno riešutas, riešutas
• Low German: Hasselnööt f
• Luxembourgish: Hieselnoss f
• Macedonian: ле́шник m (léšnik)
• Malay: kacang hazel
• Malayalam: തെളിവും (teḷivuṃ)
• Maltese: ġellewża
• Manchu: ᠰᡳᠰᡳ (sisi)
• Manx: cro coull m, cro couyll m, cro sharroo m, cro keylley mooar m
• Marathi: कढई (kaḍhaī)
• Middle Persian: pndk' (pondik)
• Mingrelian: თხირი (txiri)
• Navajo: neeshchʼíínímazí
• Norman: codrette f
• Northern Sami: niehtti
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hasselnøtt m or f

  Nynorsk: haslenøtt f, hasselnøtt f

• Occitan: avelana (oc) f
• Ojibwe: bagaan
• Ottoman Turkish: فندق‎ (fındık)
• Persian: فندق‎ (fa) (fandoq)
• Plautdietsch: Hauselnät f
• Polish: orzech laskowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: avelã (pt) f
• Romanian: alună (ro) f
• Romansch: nitschola f, nitschoula f
• Russian: лесно́й оре́х (ru) m (lesnój oréx), фунду́к (ru) m (fundúk), оре́х (ru) m (oréx)
• Sanskrit: please add this translation if you can
• Scottish Gaelic: cnò challtainn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лешник m / љешник m, љешњак m

  Roman: lešnik (sh) m / lješnik m, lješnjak (sh) m

• Sicilian: nuzzola (scn) f, nucidda (scn) f, nucilla (scn) f
• Sindhi: ڦندڪ‎, फंदक (fandak)
• Slovak: lieskový orech f
• Slovene: lešnik (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wórješk m, lěšćink m

• Spanish: avellana (es) f
• Svan: შდიხ (šdix)
• Swedish: hasselnöt (sv) c
• Tagalog: abelyana
• Tajik: фундуқ (funduq)
• Tamil: ஜாதிபத்திரி (jātipattiri)
• Telugu: లేత గోధుమ రంగు టెంకాయ (lēta gōdhuma raṅgu ṭeṅkāya)
• Thai: ลูกฮาเซลนัท (lôok haa sennát)
• Turkish: fındık (tr)
• Urdu: ہیزلنٹ‎
• Venetian: noxeła f, nisoła f, olana f
• Vietnamese: hạt phỉ
• Volapük: (Corylus avellana, Corylus tubulosa) tuinavaälanöt, (kernel) vaälanötaker
• Welsh: cneuen gyll f

shrub — see hazel