rowan

See also: Rowan

English

A European rowan

Etymology

From Northern English or Scottish, of Old Norse origin: compare reynir; compare Norwegian rogn, Danish røn. Ultimately related to the root of red.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /rəʊən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /roʊən/
• Rhymes: -əʊən

Noun

rowan ‎(plural rowans)

1. Sorbus aucuparia, the European rowan.
2. Any of various small deciduous trees or shrubs of genus Sorbus, belonging to the rose family, with pinnate leaves, corymbs of white flowers, and usually with orange-red berries.

Translations

Sorbus aucuparia

• Bashkir: миләш ‎(miläš), мышар ‎(mïšar)
• Belarusian: рабіна звычайная f ‎(rabina zvyčajnaja)
• Catalan: moixera de guilla f
• Czech: jeřáb ptačí m
• Danish: almindelig røn c, røn c, rønnebærtræ n
• Estonian: harilik pihlakas
• Finnish: pihlaja (fi), kotipihlaja
• French: sorbier des oiseleurs (fr) f
• Galician: capudre (gl) m, cancereixo (gl) m, canfreixo m
• German: Eberesche (de) f, Vogelbeere (de) f
• Hungarian: madárberkenye (hu)
• Icelandic: ilmreynir m
• Irish: caorthann m
• Italian: sorbo degli uccellatori m
• Japanese: セイヨウナナカマド
• Latvian: parastais pīlādzis m, pucene f (dialectism)

• Lithuanian: aprastasis šermukšnis m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rogn (no) m, f

  Nynorsk: rogn m, f, raun m

• Old Norse: reynir m
• Persian: شیلان (fa) ‎(šilân), چیلان (fa) ‎(čilân), تیس (fa) ‎(tis), بارانک (fa) ‎(bârânak)
• Polish: jarząb pospolity m
• Portuguese: tramazeira (pt) f, sorveira (pt) f
• Romanian: scoruș-de-munte (ro) m, scoruș-păsăresc (ro) m
• Russian: ряби́на обыкнове́нная f ‎(rjabína obyknovénnaja)
• Serbo-Croatian: jarebika (sh) f
• Swedish: rönn (sv) c
• Udmurt: горд палэзь ‎(gord palezʹ)
• Ukrainian: горобина звичайна f ‎(horobýna zvyčájna)
• Welsh: cerddinen f, criafolen f

tree or shrub of the genus Sorbus

• Bashkir: миләш ‎(miläš), мышар ‎(mïšar)
• Belarusian: рабіна f ‎(rabína)
• Czech: jeřáb (cs) m
• Danish: røn c
• Estonian: pihlakas
• Finnish: pihlaja (fi)
• French: sorbier (fr) f, alisier (fr) f
• German: Mehlbeere (de) f
• Greek: σόρβον n ‎(sórvon)
• Hungarian: berkenye (hu)
• Icelandic: reynir m, reynitré n, reyniberjatré n

• Italian: sorbo (it) m
• Japanese: ナナカマド ‎(nanakamado), ナナカマド属 ‎(nanakamado zoku)
• Latvian: pīlādzis (lv) m, sērmūkslis m
• Lithuanian: šermukšnis m
• Polish: jarząb m, jarzębina (pl) f
• Portuguese: sorveira (pt) f
• Russian: ряби́на (ru) f ‎(rjabína)
• Slovene: jerebika f
• Swedish: rönn (sv) c
• Udmurt: палэзь ‎(palezʹ)
• Ukrainian: горобина f ‎(horobýna)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} غبيراء
• Aragonese: ^{(please verify)} sorbus
• Azeri: ^{(please verify)} quşarmudu
• Bashkir: ^{(please verify)} миләш ‎(miläš)
• Catalan: ^{(please verify)} sorbus
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 花楸 (zh) ‎(huāqiū)

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} lijsterbes (nl)
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} sorpujo
• Galician: ^{(please verify)} sorba (gl)
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} vörösberkenye
• Kazakh: ^{(please verify)} шетен ‎(şeten)

• Latgalian: ^{(please verify)} cārmyukša f
• Ossetian: ^{(please verify)} цъуй ‎(c’uj)
• Polish: ^{(please verify)} jarzębina (pl) f
• Yakut: ^{(please verify)} сарбанньах ‎(sarbanńax)
• Scottish Gaelic:: ^{(please verify)} caorann m
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} oskoruša f
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} sorbus
• Turkish: (bitki) ^{(please verify)} üvez (tr)
• Upper Sorbian: ^{(please verify)} mučnica
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} thanh lương trà
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} criafolen

See also

• Rowan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sorbus subg. Sorbus on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Sorbus subg. Sorbus

Anagrams

• WARNO

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *rōaną ‎(“to row”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- ‎(“to row”). Akin to Old Frisian *rōia (West Frisian roeie), Middle Dutch royen (Dutch roeien), Old Norse róa (Danish and Swedish ro).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈroːwɑn/

Verb

rōwan

1. to row (with oars etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of rōwan (strong class 7)

infinitive	rōwan	tō rōwenne
indicative	present	past
1st-person singular	rōwe	rēow
2nd-person singular	rēwst	rēowe
3rd-person singular	rēwþ	rēow
plural	rōwaþ	rēowon
subjunctive	present	past
singular	rōwe	rēowe
plural	rōwen	rēowen
imperative
singular	rōw(e)
plural	rōwaþ
participle	present	past
	rōwende	(ġe)rōwen

Related terms

• rōþor

Descendants

• Middle English: rowen
  • English: row