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A European rowan
Originally Scots and northern English, from Middle English ron, rone, compare also Northern English raan, ran. At first referring to its fruits, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse reynir.
Also related to Norwegian Bokmål rogn, Danish røn. Ultimately related to the root of red.
- roan (archaic)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹəʊ.ən/
- (Northern England, Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈɹaʊ.ən/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɹaʊ.ən/, /ˈɹoʊ.ən/
- Rhymes: -əʊən, -aʊən
rowan (plural rowans)
- Sorbus aucuparia, the European rowan.
Synonyms: mountain ash, quickbeam, wicken, wicky - 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.
- (obsolete) wych-elm, Ulmus glabra.
Sorbus aucuparia
- Albanian: vadhë e egër f
- Altai:
Southern Altai: беле (bele) - Arabic: غُبَيْرَاء f (ḡubayrāʔ), غُبَيْرَاء أُورُوبِّيَّة f (ḡubayrāʔ ʔūrūbbiyya)
- Armenian: արոսենի (hy) (aroseni)
- Bashkir: миләш (miləş), мышар (mışar)
- Belarusian: рабіна звычайная f (rabina zvyčajnaja)
- Breton: kerzhin-evned
- Bulgarian: офика (bg) f (ofika), самодивско дърво (samodivsko dǎrvo)
- Catalan: moixera de guilla f
- Czech: jeřáb ptačí m
- Danish: almindelig røn c, røn c, rønnebærtræ n
- Dutch: wilde lijsterbes (nl) f, gewone lijsterbes f
- Erzya: пизёл (piźol)
- Esperanto: sorparbo
- Estonian: harilik pihlakas
- Finnish: pihlaja (fi), kotipihlaja (fi)
- French: sorbier des oiseleurs (fr) f
- Galician: capudre (gl) m, cancereixo (gl) m, canfreixo m, cornabude (gl) m, raño m, sorbeira (gl) f, sorba (gl) f
- Georgian: ცირცელი (circeli)
- German: Eberesche (de) f, Vogelbeere (de) f
- Greek: σουρβιά των πτηνοθήρων f (sourviá ton ptinothíron), σορβιά (el) f (sorviá)
- Hungarian: madárberkenye (hu)
- Icelandic: ilmreynir (is) m
- Ingrian: pihlaja, rebinapuu
- Irish: caorthann m
- Italian: sorbo degli uccellatori (it) m
- Japanese: セイヨウナナカマド
- Kazakh: шетен (şeten)
- Kyrgyz: четин (ky) (cetin)
- Latin: ornus f
- Latvian: parastais pīlādzis m, pucene f (dialectism)
- Lithuanian: aprastasis šermukšnis m
- Mansi:
Northern Mansi: (please verify) пасяр (pasâr) - 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 (pl) m, jarzębina (pl) f
- Portuguese: tramazeira (pt) f, cornogodinho m
- Romanian: scoruș-de-munte (ro) m, scoruș-păsăresc (ro) m
- Russian: ряби́на обыкнове́нная f (rjabína obyknovénnaja), ряби́на (ru) f (rjabína)
- Scottish Gaelic: : caorann m, caora-caorainn f
- Serbo-Croatian: jarebika (sh) f
- Spanish: serbal de los cazadores m, azarollo m
- Swedish: rönn (sv) c
- Turkish: kuş üvezi (tr)
- Udmurt: горд палэзь (gord paleź)
- Ukrainian: гороби́на звича́йна f (horobýna zvyčájna)
- Walloon: håvurna (wa)
- Welsh: criafol f pl
tree or shrub of the genus Sorbus
- Altai:
Southern Altai: беле (bele) - Armenian:
Middle Armenian: սին (sin) - Bashkir: миләш (miləş), мышар (mışar)
- Belarusian: рабі́на f (rabína)
- Catalan: server (ca) m, servera f, moixera f
- Czech: jeřáb (cs) m
- Danish: røn c
- Dutch: lijsterbes (nl) f
- Estonian: pihlakas
- Faroese: royniviður m, roynitræ n
- Finnish: pihlaja (fi)
- French: sorbier (fr) f, alisier (fr) f
- Galician: sorbeira (gl) f
- German: Mehlbeere (de) f
- Greek: σόρβον n (sórvon)
- Hungarian: berkenye (hu)
- Icelandic: reynir (is) m, reynitré (is) n, reyniberjatré n
- Italian: sorbo (it) m
- Japanese: ナナカマド (ja) (nanakamado), ナナカマド属 (nanakamado zoku)
- Kazakh: шетен (şeten)
- Kyrgyz: четин (ky) (cetin)
- Latvian: pīlādzis (lv) m, sērmūkslis m
- Lithuanian: šermukšnis m
- Mansi:
Northern Mansi: пася̄рйив (pasâ̄rjiv) - Polish: jarząb (pl) m, jarzębina (pl) f
- Portuguese: sorveira (pt) f
- Russian: ряби́на (ru) f (rjabína)
- Sami:
Inari Sami: pihlejâš, pihlájâš - Scottish Gaelic: : caorann m
- Slovak: jarabina (sk) f
- Slovene: jerebika f
- Swedish: rönn (sv) c
- Turkish: üvez (tr)
- Udmurt: палэзь (paleź)
- Ukrainian: гороби́на f (horobýna)
- Vietnamese: thanh hương trà
Translations to be checked
- Arabic: (please verify) غبيراء
- Aragonese: (please verify) sorbus
- Azerbaijani: (please verify) quşarmudu
- Bashkir: (please verify) миләш (miləş)
- 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)
- Latgalian: (please verify) cārmyukša f
- Ossetian: (please verify) цъуй (c’uj)
- Serbo-Croatian: (please verify) oskoruša (sh) f
- Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: (please verify) mučnica - Spanish: (please verify) sorbus
- Turkish: (bitki) (please verify) üvez (tr)
- Vietnamese: (please verify) thanh lương trà
- Welsh: (please verify) criafolen
- Yakut: (please verify) сарбанньах (sarbanňaq)
rowan (plural rowans)
- Alternative form of rowen (“aftermath”).
rowan (countable and uncountable, plural rowans)
rowan (countable and uncountable, plural rowans)
- (archaic, Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Alternative form of rown (“fish-eggs”).
From Proto-West Germanic *rōan (“to row”).
rōwan
- to row (with oars etc.)