myrtle

See also: Myrtle

English

common myrtle (Myrtus communis)

Myrtus communis in fruit

Etymology

From Old French myrte, from Latin myrtus, from Ancient Greek μύρτος (múrtos, “myrtle”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɜːtl̩/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) enPR: mûrʹtəl, IPA^(key): /ˈmɝtl̩/, [ˈmɝtɫ̩], [ˈmɝɾɫ̩]

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)təl

Noun

myrtle (plural myrtles)

1. An evergreen shrub or small tree of the genus Myrtus, native to southern Europe and north Africa.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 162:

     In the Middle Ages pulverized myrtle leaves were applied to the body as a sexual stimulation.

2. Cyrilla species.
3. A dark green shade that resembles the color of Myrtus leaves.

   myrtle:  

Derived terms

• bog myrtle, bog-myrtle (Myrica gale)
• common myrtle (Myrtus communis)
• crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia spp.)
• creeping myrtle (Vinca minor)
• crêpe myrtle, crepe myrtle (Lagerstroemia spp.)
• Jew's myrtle (Ruscus aculeatus)
• lemon myrtle (Backhousia citriodora)
• Myrtle Beach
• myrtle beech (Nothofagus cunninghamii)
• myrtled
• myrtlelike
• myrtle of the river (Calyptranthes zuzygium)
• myrtle rust (Austropuccinia psidii)
• myrtle warbler (Setophaga coronata coronata)
• myrtle wax
• native myrtle (Myoporum acuminatum)
• Oregon myrtle (Umbellularia californica)
• rose myrtle (Rhodomyrtus tomentosa)
• Saharan myrtle (Myrtus nivellei)
• salt myrtle, salt-myrtle (Baccharis halimifolia)
• sand myrtle (Kalmia buxifolia)
• sea myrtle, sea-myrtle
• strawberry myrtle (Ugni molinae)
• Tasmanian myrtle (Nothofagus cunninghamii)
• true myrtle (Myrtus communis)
• wax myrtle (Morella cerifera, syn. Myrica cerifera)

Translations

evergreen shrub

• Akkadian: 𒄑𒊍 f (^GIŠAZ /⁠asu⁠/)
• Amharic: ኣደስ (ʾadäs), አደስ (ʾädäs), ባርሰነት (barsänät), የሚለመልም (yämilämälm), ምርሰኔ (mərsäne)
• Arabic: آس (ar) m (ʔās), رَيْحَان m (rayḥān), مَرْسِين m (marsīn), قُمَام m (qumām), هَدَس m (hadas) (Yemen, Oman)

  Moroccan Arabic: ريحان m (rīḥān), هلموش m (halmūš)

• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܐܵܣܵܐ m (ʾāsā)

  Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אָסָא m (ʾāsā), הֲדַסַא m (hăḏasā)

  Jewish Palestinian Aramaic: אָסָא m (ʾāsā), הֲדַסַא m (hăḏasā)

• Armenian: մրտենի (hy) (mrteni)

  Old Armenian: մուրտ (murt)

• Assamese: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: мірт m (mirt)
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: ми́рта f (mírta), мирт m (mirt)
• Catalan: murta (ca) f, murtera (ca) f, murtra (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 桃金娘 (táojīnniáng), 香桃木 (xiāngtáomù)

• Czech: myrta (cs) f
• Danish: myrte
• Dutch: mirte (nl) c
• Esperanto: mirto (eo)
• Finnish: myrtti (fi)
• French: myrte (fr) m
• Galician: murteira f, murta f, silvarda f, lundio (gl) m
• Ge'ez: አደስ (ʾädäs), ምርስኔ (mərsəne), መርሳኒ (märsani), ሚርስንስ (mirsəns), ሚርሰንስ (mirsäns), ሚረሲንስ (miräsins), ሜርሴንስ (mersens), ምርስኔን (mərsənen), መርሲኔ (märsine), መርሲኔን (märsinen), ብርስኖት (bərəsnot), ብርስዩን (bərsəyun), ብርስዮን (bərsəyon) , እልኣስ (ʾəlʾas)
• Georgian: მირტი (mirṭi)

  Old Georgian: მურტი (murṭi)

• German: Myrte (de) f
• Greek: μυρτιά (el) f (myrtiá)

  Ancient: μυρσίνη f (mursínē)

• Hawaiian: mā'kala
• Hebrew: הֲדַס (he) (hăḏás)
• Hungarian: mirtusz (hu)
• Irish: miortal m
• Italian: mirto (it) m
• Japanese: ギンバイカ (ginbaika)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 은매화 (eunmaehwa), 도금양 (dogeumyang)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: مۆرت (mort)

  Northern Kurdish: mord (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: myrtus f
• Macedonian: мирта f (mirta)
• Malay: murad
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: myrte
• Old Church Slavonic: мрътва f (mrŭtva), мѵръта f (mürŭta)
• Old English: wīr (ang) m
• Ottoman Turkish: مرسین (mersin), مورد (murd)
• Pashto: ماڼو (ps) m or m pl (māṇo)
• Persian: مورد (fa) (murd), مور (fa) (mur) (archaic)
• Plautdietsch: Mirt f
• Polish: mirt (pl) m
• Portuguese: murta (pt) f, mirto (pt) m
• Romanian: mirt (ro) m
• Russian: мирт (ru) m (mirt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мр̏ча f, ми̑рта f

  Latin: mȑča (sh) f, mȋrta (sh) f

• Sicilian: murtiḍḍa f
• Slovak: myrta f
• Slovene: mírta (sl) f
• Spanish: arrayán (es) f, murta (es) f, mirto (es) m
• Swahili: mhadasi
• Swedish: myrten (sv)
• Tagalog: mirto
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Tigrinya: ኣደስ (ʾadäs)
• Turkish: mersin (tr), murt (tr)
• Ugaritic: unknown, absent from the texts
• Ukrainian: мирт (uk) m (myrt)
• Welsh: myrtwydden f

References

• “myrtle”, in Collins English Dictionary.

Anagrams

• termly