juniper

See also: Juniper

English

The berry-like cones and leaves of a juniper

Etymology

Late Middle English junyper, juniperus, from Latin iūniperus (“juniper-tree”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒunɪpə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒunɪpɚ/, [ˈd͡ʒunɪ̈pɚ]
• Hyphenation: ju‧ni‧per

Noun

juniper (plural junipers)

1. Any shrub or tree of the genus Juniperus of the cypress family, which is characterized by pointed, needle-like leaves and aromatic berry-like cones.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion, →OL:

     One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.

2. One of a number of coniferous trees which resemble junipers.

Derived terms

• Chinese juniper
• common juniper
• juniper berry
• juniper bush
• juniperin
• juniperlike
• juniper oil
• juniper tar
• juniper wood
• juniper worm

 

Related terms

• Juniperites

Translations

shrub or tree of the genus Juniperus

• Akkadian: 𒄑𒁾𒊏𒀭 m (^GEŠDUB.RA.AN /⁠daprānu⁠/)
• Albanian: dëllinjë (sq) f
• Arabic: عَرْعَر m (ʕarʕar)
• Aramaic:

  Jewish Aramaic: דפרנא m (dap̄rānā)

  Classical Syriac: ܕܦܪܢܐ m (dap̄rānā)

• Armenian: գիհի (hy) (gihi)

  Old Armenian: գի (gi)

• Aromanian: giuneapini, giuneapine
• Azerbaijani: ardıc (az)
• Bashkir: артыш (artış)
• Belarusian: ядло́вец (be) m (jadlóvjec)
• Bulgarian: хво́йна (bg) f (hvójna)
• Catalan: ginebre (ca)
• Cherokee: ᎠᏥᎾ (atsina)
• Cheyenne: évoneešenose, heškóšéstótó'e, vé'evêšéstótó'e
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刺柏 (zh) (cìbǎi), 杜松 (zh) (dùsōng)

• Choctaw: chuała
• Chuvash: уртӑш (urt̬ăš)
• Crimean Tatar: ardıç
• Czech: jalovec (cs) m
• Danish: ene (da) c, enebær (da) c
• Dutch: jeneverbes (nl) f
• Esperanto: junipero
• Estonian: kadakas
• Faroese: baraldur m
• Finnish: kataja (fi)
• French: genévrier (fr) m
• Friulian: zenevre f, genevre f
• Galician: cimbro (gl) m
• Georgian: ღვია (ka) (ɣvia)
• German: Wacholder (de) m
• Greek: άρκευθος (el) m (árkefthos)

  Ancient: ἄρκευθος f (árkeuthos)

• Gujarati: શેરણી (śerṇī), હપુષા (hapuṣā)
• Hawaiian: lokema
• Hebrew: עַרְעָר m (ʿarʿar)
• Hindi: हाउबेर (hāuber), हाऊबेर (hāūber), हौबेर (hauber), हपुषा (hi) (hapuṣā)
• Hungarian: boróka (hu)
• Icelandic: einer m
• Ido: junipero (io)
• Irish: aiteal m, biora leacra m, iúr binne m, iúr creige m
• Italian: ginepro (it) m
• Japanese: ビャクシン (byakushin)
• Kashubian: jałówc
• Kazakh: арша (arşa)
• Kyrgyz: арча (ky) (arca)
• Latgalian: paegle
• Latin: iūniperus f
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• Latvian: kadiķis (lv) m, paeglis
• Lithuanian: kadagys (lt) m, ėglis m, ėglius m
• Low German:

  German Low German: machandel

• Luxembourgish: Wakelter m
• Macedonian: смрека f (smreka), боровница f (borovnica)
• Malay: juniper
• Maltese: għargħar m
• Maori: tunipere
• Mongolian: арц (mn) (arc)
• Nahuatl: tlaxcatl
• Navajo: gad
• Norwegian: einer m
• Occitan: cadenèla f, chai m
• Old Norse: einir m
• Panamint: samapi
• Persian: ارس (fa) (ors), برس (fa) (bors)
• Polish: jałowiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: zimbro (pt) m, junípero m
• Romanian: ienupăr (ro) m, jneapăn (ro)
• Russian: можжеве́льник (ru) m (možževélʹnik), арча́ (ru) f (arčá)
• Sardinian: tziníbiri, tziníperu
• Scottish Gaelic: aiteann m, aiteal m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: клека f, смрека f, вења f, боровица f

  Roman: kleka (sh) f, smreka (sh) f, venja (sh) f, borovica (sh) f

• Slovak: jalovec m, borievka f
• Slovene: brin (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: jałowjeńc m

  Upper Sorbian: jałorc m

• Southern Altai: артыш (artïš)
• Spanish: junípero m, enebro (es) m
• Swahili: mreteni
• Swedish: en (sv)
• Tagalog: hunipero
• Tajik: ардач (ardač), арча (tg) (arča)
• Taos: hų̏p’ôhaną
• Tatar: арча (arça), артыш (tt) (artış)
• Turkish: ardıç (tr)
• Turkmen: arça (tk)
• Tuvan: артыш (artış)
• Ugaritic: 𐎄𐎔𐎗𐎐 m (dprn)
• Ukrainian: ялове́ць (uk) m (jalovécʹ), яліве́ць (uk) m (jalivécʹ)
• Uzbek: archa (uz)
• Venetian: xenevro m
• Veps: kadag
• Welsh: merywen f
• Westrobothnian:
• Yakut: кытыан (kıtıan)
• Yiddish: דזשוניפּער (dzhuniper)

Further reading

• juniper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Middle English

Noun

juniper

1. Alternative form of junyper