sloe

See also: slöe and slö

English

Etymology

From Middle English slo, sla, slagh, from Old English slāh, from Proto-Germanic *slaihǭ, *slaihwō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₃y- (“bluish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsləʊ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsloʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophone: slow

Noun

sloe (plural sloes)

1. The small, bitter, wild fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa).
   • 1796, Zoonomia, or, the Laws of Organic Life, by Erasmus Darwin, part II.I.I.III

     There is also a dryness in the mouth from the increased action of the absorbent vessels, when a sloe or a crab-apple are masticated...

   • 1872, The Snow Queen by H.C.Andersen, translation by Paull

     The dew-drops fell like water, leaf after leaf dropped from the trees, the sloe-thorn alone still bore fruit, but the sloes were sour, and set the teeth on edge. Oh, how dark and weary the whole world appeared!

   • 1899, Resurrection, by Leo Tolstoy, translation by Maude, chapter 12

     Katusha, with her eyes black as sloes, her face radiant with joy, was flying towards him, and they caught hold of each other`s hands.

2. The tree Prunus spinosa.
3. Any of various other plants of the genus Prunus, as a shrub or small tree, , bearing dark-purple fruit.

Derived terms

• sloe gin
• sloe-eyed

Translations

fruit of Prunus spinosa

• Abaza: дзхӏвы (dzḥʷə)
• Aragonese: arañón m
• Armenian: մամուխ (hy) (mamux), կոկան (hy) (kokan)
• Azerbaijani: göyəm (az)
• Bashkir: күгэн (kügen)
• Catalan: aranyó (ca) m
• Chagatai: كوگم (köğem)
• Czech: trnka f
• Dutch: slee (nl) m, sleepruim (nl) f
• Finnish: oratuomenmarja, oratuomen marja
• French: prunelle (fr) f
• Gagauz:

  Cyrillic: гӱвен

  Latin: güven

• Galician: abruño (gl) m, agruño (gl) m
• Georgian: კვრინჩხი (ḳvrinčxi)
• German: Schlehe (de) f
• Irish: airne f

  Old Irish: áirne f

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• Hungarian: kökény (hu)
• Italian: prugnola f
• Kumyk: гоган (gogan)
• Lak: бухъ (buq)
• Nogai: көген
• Occitan: aranhon (oc) m, aragnou m, agragnou m
• Ossetian: какон (kakon)
• Persian: گوجه وحشی (gowje vahši), آلوچه (fa) (âluče) (generic word for small Prunus fruits), آلوچه جنگلی (âluče jangali)
• Polish: tarnina (pl) f, tarka (pl) f, ciarka f, cierniówka f
• Portuguese: abrunho (pt) m
• Romani: mamux
• Russian: тёрн (ru) m (tjorn), терно́вая я́года f (ternóvaja jágoda)
• Slovene: opȃrnica f, trnúlja f, trnólja f, trnóljica f
• Spanish: endrina (es) f, arañón m
• Swedish: slånbär (sv) n
• Tatar: күгэн (kügen)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: گوگم (göğem, güğem), گووم (gövem, güvem)

  Modern Turkish: güvem — dialectally also gövem (tr), göğem (tr), güğem —, çakaleriği (tr)

tree Prunus spinosa — see blackthorn

tree of the genus Prunus bearing dark-purple fruit

• Finnish: luumu (fi)
• Galician: abruñeiro (gl) m, agruñeiro m, escambroeiro m, ameixeira (gl) f
• German: Schlehe (de) f, Schlehdorn m
• Irish: airne f

  Old Irish: áirne f

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• Portuguese: abrunho (pt) m, abrunheiro (pt) m
• Spanish: endrino (es) m

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

• Basque: ^{(please verify)} basaran (eu)
• Danish: ^{(please verify)} slåen (da)
• Luxembourgish: ^{(please verify)} Schléif f
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• Norman: ^{(please verify)} néthe êpîngne f, ^{(please verify)} reunellyi m, ^{(please verify)} preunelle f
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} slåpetorn

Anagrams

• EOLs, ESOL, Elos, LEOs, Leos, OELs, Sole, elos, leos, lose, sole