rowan

See also: Rowan

English

A European rowan

Etymology 1

Scots and Northern English, of North Germanic origin (Old Norse reynir). Related to Norwegian Bokmål rogn, Danish røn. Ultimately related to the root of red.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊ.ən/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɹaʊ.ən/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɹaʊ.ən/, /ˈɹoʊ.ən/
• Rhymes: -əʊən, -aʊən

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

• Armenian: արոսենի (hy) (aroseni)
• Bashkir: миләш (miləş), мышар (mışar)
• Belarusian: рабіна звычайная f (rabina zvyčajnaja)
• Catalan: moixera de guilla f
• Czech: jeřáb ptačí m
• Danish: almindelig røn c, røn c, rønnebærtræ n
• Erzya: пизёл (piźol)
• Esperanto: sorparboo
• Estonian: harilik pihlakas
• Finnish: pihlaja (fi), kotipihlaja (fi)
• French: sorbier des oiseleurs (fr) f
• Galician: capudre (gl) m, cancereixo (gl) m, canfreixo m, raña (gl) f
• Georgian: ცირცელი (circeli)
• German: Eberesche (de) f, Vogelbeere (de) f
• Hungarian: madárberkenye (hu)
• Icelandic: ilmreynir m
• Irish: caorthann m
• Italian: sorbo degli uccellatori m
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• 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 or f

  Nynorsk: rogn m or f, raun m

• Old Norse: reynir m
• Persian: جیلان (jilân), 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)
• Scottish Gaelic: : caorann m, caora-caorainn f
• Serbo-Croatian: jarebika (sh) f
• Spanish: serbal
• Swedish: rönn (sv) c
• Udmurt: горд палэзь (gord paleź)
• Ukrainian: гороби́на звича́йна f (horobýna zvyčájna)
• Welsh: cerddinen f, criafolen f

tree or shrub of the genus Sorbus

• Bashkir: миләш (miləş), мышар (mışar)
• Belarusian: рабі́на f (rabína)
• Czech: jeřáb (cs) m
• Danish: røn c
• Estonian: pihlakas
• Finnish: pihlaja (fi)
• French: sorbier (fr) f, alisier (fr) f
• Galician: raña (gl) f
• German: Mehlbeere (de) f
• Greek: σόρβον n (sórvon)
• Hungarian: berkenye (hu)
• Icelandic: reynir m, reynitré n, reyniberjatré n
• Inari Sami: pihlejâš, pihlájâš
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• Italian: sorbo (it) m
• Japanese: ナナカマド (ja) (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)
• Scottish Gaelic: : caorann m
• Slovene: jerebika f
• Swedish: rönn (sv) c
• Udmurt: палэзь (paleź)
• Ukrainian: гороби́на f (horobýna)
• Vietnamese: thanh hương trà

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} غبيراء
• Aragonese: ^{(please verify)} sorbus
• Azerbaijani: ^{(please verify)} quşarmudu
• Bashkir: ^{(please verify)} миләш (miləş)
• Catalan: ^{(please verify)} sorbus (ca)
• Chinese:

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

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} lijsterbes (nl)
• Galician: ^{(please verify)} sorba (gl)
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} vörösberkenye
• Kazakh: ^{(please verify)} шетен (şeten)
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• Latgalian: ^{(please verify)} cārmyukša f
• Ossetian: ^{(please verify)} цъуй (c’uj)
• Polish: ^{(please verify)} jarzębina (pl) f
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} oskoruša (sh) 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
• Yakut: ^{(please verify)} сарбанньах (sarbannyaq)

Etymology 2

Noun

rowan (plural rowans)

1. Alternative form of rowen (“aftermath”)

See also

• rowan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sorbus subg. Sorbus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• WARNO, Wrona

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Old English

Alternative forms

• rōƿan — wynn spelling

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 ro, Swedish ro).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈroː.wɑn/

Verb

rōwan

1. to row (with oars etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of rōwan (strong class 7)

infinitive	rōwan	rōwenne
indicative mood	present tense	past tense
first person singular	rōwe	rēow
second person singular	rēwst	rēowe
third person singular	rēwþ	rēow
plural	rōwaþ	rēowon, rēon
subjunctive	present tense	past tense
singular	rōwe	rēowe
plural	rōwen	rēowen
imperative
singular	rōw
plural	rōwaþ
participle	present	past
	rōwende	(ġe)rōwen

Related terms

• rōþor

Descendants

• Middle English: rowen
  • English: row