walnut

See also: Walnut

English

Walnuts for sale.

The kernel of a walnut with the shell in the background.

Etymology

From Middle English walnote, walnutte, walnotte, from Old English wealhhnutu (“walnut”, literally “foreign nut”), from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreigner”) + *hnuts (“nut”). Cognate with Dutch walnoot, German Walnuss, Swedish valnöt, Icelandic valhneta. Compare more recent term Welsh onion, which also uses Welsh to mean “foreign”.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔːlnʌt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔlnət/, /ˈwɔlˌnʌt/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈwɑlnət/, /ˈwɑlˌnʌt/

• Audio (GA)

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• Hyphenation: wal‧nut

Noun

walnut (countable and uncountable, plural walnuts)

1. A hardwood tree of the genus Juglans.
2. A nut of the walnut tree.
3. Wood of the walnut tree.
4. Dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.

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Derived terms

• Arizona black walnut
• Arizona walnut
• ash-leaved walnut
• black walnut
• English walnut
• European walnut
• Queensland walnut
• royal walnut moth
• satin walnut
• sea walnut
• Walnut Ridge
• walnutty, walnuty
• white walnut

 

Related terms

• walshnut

Translations

tree

• Adyghe: дэ (dɛ)
• Afrikaans: okkerneutboom
• Albanian: arrë (sq)
• Armenian: ընկուզենի (hy) (ənkuzeni)
• Aromanian: nuc m
• Asturian: nozal (ast) m or f
• Breton: kraoñenn (br) f, gwezenn-graoñ f
• Bulgarian: орех (bg) m (oreh)
• Catalan: noguera (ca) f, noguer (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏎᏗ (sedi)
• Cheyenne: otaesémenôtse
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 核桃树 (hétáoshù)

• Crimean Tatar: ceviz
• Czech: ořešák (cs) m
• Dalmatian: nochiera f
• Danish: valnøddetræ n, valnød (da) c
• Dutch: walnotenboom (nl) m
• Esperanto: juglandujo, juglandarbo
• Estonian: kreeka pähklipuu
• Finnish: pähkinäpuu (fi)
• Fox: mahkwipakâni
• French: noyer (fr) m
• Galician: nogueira (gl) f, concheiro (gl) m
• Georgian: კაკალი (ḳaḳali)
• German: Walnuss (de) f, Walnussbaum (de) m, Nussbaum (de) m
• Gilaki: آغوز دار
• Greek: καρυδιά (el) f (karydiá)
• Hebrew: אֱגוֹז (he) m (egóz)
• Hungarian: diófa (hu)
• Ido: nuco (io)
• Irish: crann gallchnó m
• Italian: noce (it) m
• Japanese: クルミの木 (kurumi no ki)
• Korean: 호두나무 (ko) (hodunamu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: gûz (ku) f, dargûz f

• Lakota: cansapa
• Latin: iūglāns f
• Lombard: nos (lmo) f
• Low German: Wallnööt, Wallnöötboom
• Macedonian: орев m (orev)
• Malay: walnat, pokok walnat, jauzah
• Manx: billey galchro
• Mazanderani: آغوز دار
• Mohegan-Pequot: wusqat
• Norman: nouoyi m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: valnøtt m or f, valnøttre n, valnøtt-tre n

  Nynorsk: valnøtt f, valnòttre n, valnøttre n, valnøtt-tre n

• Occitan: noguièr (oc)
• Odia: ଅଖରୋଟ (ôkhôroṭô)
• Polish: orzech (pl) m
• Portuguese: nogueira (pt) f
• Quechua: tuqti
• Romani: akhorin
• Romanian: nuc (ro) m
• Russian: оре́х (ru) m (oréx)
• Sardinian: nughe f
• Scottish Gaelic: crann ghall-chnò m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: орах m

  Roman: òrah (sh) m

• Slovene: oreh (sl) m
• Spanish: nogal (es) m, noguera (es) f
• Swahili: mjozi
• Swedish: valnötsträd (sv) n, valnöt (sv) c
• Tagalog: nogales
• Tibetan: སྟར་སྡོང (star sdong), སྟར་ཤིང (star shing), སྟར་ཁའི་ཤིང (star kha'i shing)
• Turkish: ceviz (tr)
• Ukrainian: воло́ський горі́х m (volósʹkyj horíx), гре́цький горі́х m (hrécʹkyj horíx), горі́х (uk) m (horíx)
• Unami: tùkwimënshi (black walnut tree)
• Venetian: nósa
• Vietnamese: óc chó (vi)
• Walloon: djaeyî (wa) m, gaeyî (wa) m
• Welsh: collen Ffrengig f

nut

• Abenaki: pagimen
• Adyghe: дэ (dɛ)
• Albanian: arrë (sq)
• Arabic: (collective) جَوْز (jawz)

  Egyptian Arabic: جوز m (gōz) (collective), جوزة f (gōza) (singulative)

  Hijazi Arabic: جوز m (jōz) (collective)

  Moroccan Arabic: ڭرڭاع m (gargāʕ) (collective), ڭرڭاعة f (gargāʕa) (singulative)

• Armenian: պոպոկ (hy) (popok), ընկույզ (hy) (ənkuyz)
• Aromanian: nucã f
• Asturian: nuez (ast) f
• Basque: intxaur (eu)
• Bengali: আখরোট (bn) (akhorōṭ)
• Bulgarian: орех (bg) m (oreh)
• Catalan: nou (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 合桃 (hap⁶ tou⁴)

  Mandarin: 核桃 (zh) (hétao)

• Crimean Tatar: ceviz
• Czech: vlašský ořech m
• Danish: valnød (da) c
• Dutch: walnoot (nl) m, okkernoot (nl) f
• Esperanto: juglando (eo), juglandonukso
• Estonian: kreeka pähkel
• Faroese: valnøt f
• Finnish: saksanpähkinä (fi)
• French: noix (fr) f
• Galician: noz (gl) f, concho (gl) m
• Georgian: ნიგოზი (ka) (nigozi), კაკალი (ḳaḳali)
• German: Walnuss (de) f
• Gilaki: آغوز
• Greek: καρύδι (el) n (karýdi)
• Greenlandic: valnødi
• Hawaiian: walanuka
• Hebrew: אגוז מלך (he) m (egóz mélekh)
• Hindi: अखरोट (hi) m (akhroṭ)
• Hungarian: dió (hu)
• Icelandic: valhneta f
• Ido: nuciero (io)
• Irish: cnó francach m, cnó gallda m, gallchnó m
• Italian: noce (it) f
• Japanese: クルミ (ja) (kurumi)
• Korean: 호두 (hodu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: گوێز (gwêz)

  Northern Kurdish: gûz (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: жаңгак (ky) (jaŋgak)
• Ladin: cucia f
• Latin: iūglāns f
• Ligurian: nôxe f
• Lombard: nos (lmo) f
• Low German: Wallnööt f
• Malay: jauzah, walnat, akrot (archaic), kacang otak
• Maltese: ġewż (collective)
• Manx: cro frangagh, galchro
• Maori: wōnati
• Mazanderani: اغوز (ağuz)
• Mingrelian: ნეძი (neʒi), ნეზი (nezi)
• Mohegan-Pequot: wusqatôm
• Mongolian: грек самар (grek samar)
• Moroccan Amazigh: ⴷⴷⵓⵊ m (dduj)
• Navajo: haʼałtsédii
• Nogai: коз (koz)
• Norman: nouoyi m
• Northern Sami: valniehtti
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: valnøtt m or f

  Nynorsk: valnøtt f

• Occitan: notz (oc) f, noga (oc) f
• Old English: wealhhnutu f
• Ossetian: ӕнгуз (ænguz)
• Pashto: اکوړ (ps) m
• Persian: گردو (fa) (gerdu), گوز (fa) (gowz)
• Plautdietsch: Waulnät f
• Polish: orzech (pl) m
• Portuguese: noz (pt) f
• Romagnol: nôșa f, nôș m
• Romani: akhor m
• Romanian: nucă (ro) f
• Romansch: nusch f
• Russian: гре́цкий оре́х (ru) m (gréckij oréx), оре́х (ru) m (oréx)
• Sanskrit: अक्षोट (sa) m (akṣoṭa)
• Sardinian: nughe f, cocolo m
• Scottish Gaelic: cnò Fhrangach f, gall-chnò f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: орах m

  Roman: òrah (sh) m

• Spanish: nuez (es) f
• Swahili: jozi
• Swedish: valnöt (sv) c
• Tagalog: nogales
• Tamil: அக்கரோட்டு (ta) (akkarōṭṭu)
• Tibetan: སྟར་ཀ (star ka), སྟར་ཁ (star kha)
• Turkish: ceviz (tr)
• Ukrainian: воло́ський горі́х m (volósʹkyj horíx), гре́цький горі́х m (hrécʹkyj horíx), горі́х (uk) m (horíx)
• Unami: tùkwim (black walnut)
• Urdu: اخروٹ m (axroṭ)
• Vietnamese: óc chó (vi)
• Walloon: djaeye (wa) f, gaeye (wa) f
• Welsh: cneuen Ffrengig f

wood

• Albanian: arrishtë (sq)
• Bulgarian: орех (bg) (oreh)
• Czech: vlašský ořech m
• Danish: valnøddetræ n
• Dutch: walnotenhout (nl) n
• Estonian: pähklipuu
• Finnish: pähkinäpuu (fi)
• French: noyer (fr) m
• Galician: nogueira (gl) f
• German: Walnussholz (de) n, Nussbaumholz (de) n
• Greek: καρυδιά (el) f (karydiá)
• Hungarian: diófa (hu)
• Irish: adhmad gallchnó m
• Italian: noce (it) m
• Japanese: クルミ材 (kurumizai)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: valnøtt m or f, valnøttre n, valnøtt-tre n

  Nynorsk: valnøtt f, valnòttre n, valnøttre n, valnøtt-tre n

• Polish: orzech (pl) m
• Portuguese: nogueira (pt) f
• Romanian: nuc (ro) m
• Russian: оре́х (ru) m (oréx)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: орах m

  Roman: òrah (sh) m, òrahovina (sh) f

• Spanish: nogal (es) m
• Swedish: valnötsträ n, valnöt (sv) c
• Tibetan: སྟར་ཤིང (star shing), སྟར་ཁའི་ཤིང (star kha'i shing)
• Ukrainian: горі́х (uk) m (horíx)
• Walloon: djaeyî (wa) m, gaeyî (wa) m
• Welsh: pren collen Ffrengig m, coed collen Ffrengig f

colour

• Bulgarian: орех (bg) m (oreh)
• German: dunkelbraune Farbe f
• Greek: καρυδί (karydí)
• Hungarian: diófaszín (hu)
• Japanese: くるみ色 (kurumiiro)
• Manx: daah galchro
• Persian: گردویی
• Polish: orzech (pl) m
• Romanian: nuciu (regional)
• Walloon: nwè (wa) m

Adjective

walnut (not comparable)

1. Having a dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.

Translations

colour

• Bulgarian: орехов (orehov)
• Hungarian: diófaszínű
• Ido: nucea
• Italian: noce (it)
• Japanese: くるみ色の (kurumiiro no)
• Polish: orzechowy (pl)
• Russian: оре́ховый (ru) (oréxovyj)
• Spanish: nogal (es)

See also

• butternut
• hickory
• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

Wikibooks

• walnut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Juglans on Wikispecies.Wikispecies