mulberry

English

Mulberries on a tree.

Etymology

From Middle English Mulbery, molberye, murberie, partly from Old English mōrberiġe (“mulberry”) and partly from Middle Low German mulbere (“mulberry”). Compare Dutch moerbezie, moerbei (“mulberry”), German Maulbeere (“mulberry”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈmʌlbɛɹi/
• IPA^(key): /ˈmʌlbəɹi/, /ˈmʌlbɹi/

Noun

mulberry (plural mulberries)

1. (botany) Any of several trees, of the genus Morus, having edible fruits.
   • 1837, Luigi Tinelli, Hints on the Cultivation of the Mulberry, with Some General Observations on the Production of Silk, page 39:

     Different qualities of the Mulberry. Among the different species of the Mulberry, it is ascei'tained that the Italian, (Morus italica) is eaten by the silk worm, with eager appetite. It's fruit is very small, and of a pale rose colour.

2. The fruit of this tree.
   • 2010, Geoff Stebbings, Growing Your Own Fruit and Veg For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons (→ISBN)

     You can also make good jam with mulberries, and they taste great cooked or mixed together with other fruits. Mulberries are rich in sugar with moderate amounts of vitamin C. Their rich colours are a sign that they contain high levels of […]

3. A dark purple colour tinted with red.

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Derived terms

terms derived from mulberry

• African mulberry ()
• Australian mulberry ()
• black mulberry ()
• Chinese mulberry (Morus spp. and )
• fig-mulberry (Ficus sycomorus)
• French mulberry ()
• Himalayan mulberry ()
• Indian mulberry (Morinda spp.)

• mulberrying
• native mulberry ()
• paper mulberry (, syn. )
• red mulberry ()
• white mulberry ()
• Mulberry Harbor

Related terms

Related terms

• morula
• murrey

Translations

the tree

• Albanian: man (sq)
• Arabic: تُوت m (tūt)

  Egyptian Arabic: توت m (tūt) (collective), توتة f (tūta) (singulative)

• Armenian: թթենի (hy) (tʻtʻeni)
• Azerbaijani: tut ağacı
• Baluchi: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: masustondo
• Belarusian: шаўко́віца f (šaŭkóvica)
• Bulgarian: черница (bg) f (černica)
• Catalan: morera (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᎫᏩ (kuwa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 桑樹／桑树 (zh) (sāngshù), 桑树 (zh) (sāngshù)

• Czech: moruše (cs) f
• Dutch: moerbeiboom (nl) m
• Esperanto: moruso
• Faroese: morberjatræ n
• Finnish: mulperipuu (fi), mulperi (fi)
• French: mûrier (fr)
• Galician: moreira (gl) f
• Georgian: თუთა (ka) (tuta)
• German: Maulbeerbaum (de) m
• Greek: μουριά (el) f (mouriá)

  Ancient: μορέα f (moréa), συκάμινος (sukáminos)

• Gujarati: શેતૂર (śetūr)
• Hebrew: אוכמן f
• Hindi: शहतूत (hi) m (śahtūt), तूत (hi) m (tūt)
• Hungarian: eperfa (hu)
• Hunsrik: Maulbeerebaam m
• Icelandic: mórberjatré n
• Ido: morusiero (io)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: moro (it) m, gelso m (botanical)
• Japanese: 桑 (ja) (くわ, kuwa), クワ (ja) (kuwa)
• Korean: 뽕나무 (ppongnamu)
• Kurdish: ,
• Latin: mōrus (la) f
• Macedonian: црница f (crnica), дуд m (dud)
• Manchu: ᠨᡳᠮᠠᠯᠠᠨ (nimalan)
• Maori: māpere, maupere
• Occitan: amora (oc) f, ase (oc) m
• Old English: mōrbēam m
• Pashto: توت (ps) m (tut)
• Persian: توت (fa) (tut)
• Polish: morwa (pl) f
• Portuguese: amoreira (pt) f
• Romanian: dud (ro) m
• Russian: шелкови́ца (ru) f (šelkovíca), шелко́вица (ru) f (šelkóvica), ту́та (ru) f (túta), ту́товое де́рево (ru) n (tútovoje dérevo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ду̏д m, му̑рва f

  Roman: dȕd (sh) m, mȗrva (sh) f

• Slovene: murva (sl)
• Spanish: moral (es) m, moro (es)
• Swahili: mforsadi
• Tajik: марминьон (marminon)
• Thai: หม่อน (th) (mɔ̀n)
• Turkish: dut (tr)
• Ukrainian: шовкови́ця, шовко́виця f (šovkovýcja, šovkóvycja)
• Uzbek: maymujon
• Welsh: morwydden f
• Zazaki: tuwêr f, tuyêr

the fruit

• Afrikaans: moerbei (af)
• Albanian: man (sq)
• Arabic: تُوت m (tūt)

  Moroccan Arabic: توت (tūt)

• Armenian: թութ (hy) (tʻutʻ)
• Azerbaijani: tut (az)
• Basque: masusta (eu)
• Belarusian: шаўко́віца f (šaŭkóvica)
• Catalan: móra (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 桑椹 (zh) (sāngshèn)

• Czech: moruše (cs) f
• Danish: morbær n
• Dutch: moerbei (nl) f
• Esperanto: moruso
• Faroese: morber n
• Finnish: mulperinmarja
• French: mûre (fr) f
• Galician: amora (gl) f
• Georgian: თუთა (ka) (tuta), ბჟოლა (bžola)
• German: Maulbeere (de) f
• Greek: μούρο (el) n (moúro)

  Ancient: μόρον n (móron), συκάμινον n (sukáminon)

• Haitian Creole: sikomò
• Hebrew: תות (he) (tut)
• Hindi: शहतूत (hi) (śahtūt), तूत (hi) (tūt)
• Hungarian: faeper (hu), eper (hu)
• Hunsrik: Maulbeer f
• Icelandic: mórber n
• Ido: moruso (io)
• Indonesian: bebesaran (id), murbei (id)
• Irish: maoildearg f
• Italian: mora (it) f
• Japanese: クワの実 (kuwa no mi)
• Korean: 오디 (ko) (odi)
• Kurdish:
• Lao: ປໍສາ (pǭ sā)
• Latin: mōrum (la) n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Low German: Muulbeer f
• Macedonian: црница f (crnica), дудинка f (dudinka)
• Malay: mulberi
• Maltese: tut m, tuta f
• Maori: māpere, maupere
• Marathi: तुतीचे झाड m (tutīcē jhāḍa)
• Norwegian: morbær n
• Old English: mōrberiġe f
• Ossetian: тута (tuta)
• Pashto: توت (ps) m (tut)
• Persian: توت (fa) (tut), شاتوت (šâtut)
• Polish: morwa (pl) f
• Portuguese: amora (pt) f
• Romanian: dudă (ro) f
• Romansch: mura f
• Russian: шелкови́ца (ru) f (šelkovíca), шелко́вица (ru) f (šelkóvica), тут (ru) m (tut)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ду̏д m, му̑рва f

  Roman: dȕd (sh) m, mȗrva (sh) f

• Slovene: murva (sl)
• Spanish: mora (es) f
• Swahili: forsadi, forosadi
• Swedish: mullbär (sv) n
• Tagalog: moras
• Tajik: тут (tg) (tut)
• Thai: หม่อน (th) (mɔ̀n)
• Tongan: fuamelie
• Turkish: dut (tr)
• Ukrainian: шовкови́ця, шовко́виця f (šovkovýcja, šovkóvycja)
• Urdu: شہتوت (śahtūt), توت (tūt)
• Venetian: moraro (vec)
• Vietnamese: trái dâu
• Welsh: mwyar Mair
• Yagnobi: тут (tut)
• Zazaki: tuy f, tuw f or c

  Zazaki: tuw f or c pl

the colour

• Catalan: morat (ca) m
• Faroese: morberjalitur m
• French: mûre écrasée
• Ido: morusea
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: morado (es) m
• Swahili: rangi ya maforsadi
• Zazaki: tuwrek

Adjective

mulberry (comparative more mulberry, superlative most mulberry)

1. Of a dark purple colour tinted with red.

See also

• fig
• fustic
• hop (plant)

• sycamine
• sycamore
• tapa

• weeping fig
• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• mulberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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