weeping willow

English

A weeping willow in Alconbury, England

Noun

weeping willow (plural weeping willows)

1. A willow of species Salix babylonica, with pendulous branches, native to China.
2. Any of the numerous decorative cultivars and hybrids of Salix babylonica with white willow (Salix alba) or crack willow (Salix fragilis).

Synonyms

• (Salix babylonica): Peking willow, Babylon willow

Translations

Salix babylonica

• Afrikaans: treurwilger
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 垂柳 (zh) (chuíliǔ)

• Crimean Tatar: öksüz tal
• Dutch: treurwilg (nl) m
• Esperanto: plorema saliko
• Finnish: itkupaju, itkuraita
• French: saule pleureur (fr) m
• Galician: salgueiro chorón m, chorón m
• German: Echte Trauerweide f, Chinesische Trauerweide f, Babylonische Trauerweide f
• Greek: ιτιά η κλαίουσα f (itiá i klaíousa)
• Hungarian: babiloni szomorúfűz (hu)
• Irish: saileach shilte f
• Italian: salice piangente m
• Japanese: 枝垂柳 (ja) (shidareyanagi), シダレヤナギ (shidareyanagi)
• Korean: 실버들 (ko) (silbeodeul), 수양버들 (suyangbeodeul)
• Macedonian: жална врба f (žalna vrba)
• Ottoman Turkish: صالقیم سوكوت (salkım söğüt)
• Persian: بید مجنون (bid-e majnun)
• Polish: wierzba płacząca (pl) f
• Portuguese: chorão (pt) m, salgueiro-chorão m
• Romanian: salcie plângătoare (ro) f, salcie pletoasă (ro) f
• Russian: плаку́чая и́ва f (plakúčaja íva)
• Serbo-Croatian: žalosna vrba (sh) f
• Slovak: smutná vŕba f
• Spanish: sauce llorón m
• Swedish: tårpil c
• Thai: หลิว (th) (lǐu)
• Turkish: salkım söğüt (tr)
• Ukrainian: плакуча верба (uk) f (plakuča verba)
• Uzbek: majnuntol (uz)
• Vietnamese: thuỳ dương (vi)
• Volapük: lügasalig
• Welsh: helygen wylofus f

hybrids of Salix babylonica

• Finnish: itkupaju
• German: Trauerweide (de) f
• Hungarian: szomorúfűz (hu)

Further reading

weeping willow on Wikipedia.Wikipedia