English
Walnuts for sale. The kernel of a walnut with the shell in the background.
Etymology
From Middle English walnote walnutte walnotte walnote Old English wealhhnutu ( “ walnut ” , literally “ foreign nut ” ) , from (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *walhaz ( “ foreigner ” ) + *hnuts ( “ nut ” ) . Cognate with Dutch walnoot German Walnuss Swedish valnöt Icelandic valhnota Welsh onion Welsh to mean “foreign”.
Pronunciation
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Noun
walnut (usually uncountable , plural walnuts
A hardwood tree of the genus Juglans
A nut of the walnut tree.
Wood of the walnut tree.Dark brown colour , the colour of walnut wood.
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Translations
tree
Adyghe: дэ ( dɛ )
Albanian: arrë (sq)
Armenian: ընկուզենի (hy) ( ənkuzeni )
Aromanian: nuc m
Breton: kraoñenn (br) f gwezenn-graoñ f
Catalan: noguera (ca) f
Cherokee: ᏎᏗ ( sedi )
Cheyenne: otaesémenôtse
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
Georgian: კაკალი ( ḳaḳali )
German: Walnussbaum (de) m
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 )
Lakota: cansapa
Latin: iūglāns f
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Low German: Wallnööt Wallnöötboom
Macedonian: орев m ( orev )
Malay: walnat pokok walnat
Manx: billey galchro
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)
Polish: orzech włoski (pl)
Portuguese: nogueira (pt) f
Quechua: tuqti
Romanian: nuc (ro) m
Russian: оре́х (ru) m ( oréx )
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 n
Tagalog: nogales
Turkish: ceviz (tr)
Unami: tùkwimënshi ( black walnut tree )
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 )
Moroccan Arabic: ڭرڭاع m ( gargāʿ ) ( collective ) , ڭرڭاعة f ( gargāʿa ) ( singulative )
Armenian: պոպոք (hy) ( popokʻ ) , ընկույզ (hy) ( ənkuyz )
Aromanian: nucã f
Basque: intxaur (eu)
Bulgarian: орех (bg) m ( oreh )
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
Esperanto: juglando (eo) , juglandonukso
Estonian: kreeka pähkel
Faroese: valnøt f
Finnish: saksanpähkinä (fi)
French: noix (fr) f
Galician: noz (gl) f
Georgian: ნიგოზი (ka) ( nigozi ) , კაკალი ( ḳaḳali )
German: Walnuss (de) f
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 ( kurumi )
Korean: 호두 ( hodu )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: گوێز ( gwêz )
Northern Kurdish: gûz (ku)
Ladin: cucia f
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Latin: iūglāns f
Low German: Wallnööt f
Malay: walnat
Maltese: gewż ( 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
Old English: wealhhnutu f
Ossetian: ӕнгуз ( ænguz )
Persian: گردو (fa) ( gerdu ) , گوز (fa) ( gowz )
Plautdietsch: Waulnät f
Polish: orzech włoski (pl)
Portuguese: noz (pt) f
Romanian: nucă (ro) f
Romansch: nusch f
Russian: гре́цкий оре́х (ru) m ( gréckij oréx ) , оре́х (ru) m ( oréx )
Sanskrit: अक्षोट (sa) m ( akṣoṭa )
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
Tibetan: སྟར་ཀ ( star ka )
Turkish: ceviz (tr)
Unami: tùkwim ( black walnut )
Urdu: اخروٹ m ( axroṭ )
Vietnamese: óc chó (vi)
Walloon: djaeye (wa) f gaeye (wa) f
Welsh: cneuen Ffrengig f
Adjective
walnut (not comparable )
Having a dark brown colour , the colour of walnut wood.
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Further reading
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walnut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Juglans on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
