sour cherry

English

Sour cherry

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Noun

sour cherry (plural sour cherries)

1. Species of Prunus subg. Cerasus, (cherries), native to much of Europe and southwest Asia, especially, Prunus cerasus, Prunus pseudocerasus, and Prunus cerasoides.
2. The fruit of these trees, often used for cooking.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sour,‎ cherry.

Coordinate terms

• sweet cherry

Translations

Prunus cerasus

• Armenian: բալենի (hy) (baleni)
• Basque: gingondo
• Belarusian: ві́шня (be) f (víšnja)
• Bulgarian: ви́шна (bg) f (víšna)
• Catalan: guinder m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 櫻桃樹 / 樱桃树 (yīngtáoshù)

• Czech: višeň (cs) f
• Danish: surkirsebær (da) n
• Finnish: hapankirsikka (fi)
• French: griotte (fr) f
• Galician: guindeira (gl) f
• German: Sauerkirsche (de) f, Weichsel (de) f
• Greek: βυσσινιά (el) f (vyssiniá)
• Hungarian: meggyfa (hu)
• Irish: crann silíní searbha m
• Italian: amareno m, agriotto m
• Japanese: スミミザクラ (sumimizakura)
• Laz: ვიშნე (vişne)
• Macedonian: ви́шна (mk) f (víšna)
• Pannonian Rusyn: вишня f (višnja)
• Polish: wiśnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: ginjeira (pt) f
• Romanian: vișin (ro) m
• Russian: ви́шня (ru) f (víšnja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вишња f

  Roman: višnja (sh) f

• Slovak: višňa f
• Slovene: višnja (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wišńa f

  Upper Sorbian: wišeń f

• Spanish: guindo (es) m, cerezo ácido, cerezo de Morello
• Swedish: surkörsbär (sv) n, surkörsbärsträd (sv) n
• Turkish: vişne (tr)
• Ukrainian: ви́шня (uk) f (výšnja)
• Volapük: züdöfacelep, züdöfacelabim
• Yiddish: ווײַנשלבוים m (vaynshlboym)

fruit

• Albanian: vishnjë (sq) f
• Armenian: բալ (hy) (bal)
• Basque: ginga (eu)
• Belarusian: ві́шня (be) f (víšnja)
• Bulgarian: ви́шна (bg) f (víšna)
• Catalan: guinda f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 櫻桃 / 樱桃 (zh) (yīngtáo)

• Czech: višně f
• Danish: surkirsebær (da) n
• Dutch: zure kers (nl) f, morel (nl) f, kriek (nl) f
• Esperanto: grioto
• Finnish: hapankirsikka (fi)
• French: griotte (fr) f, morelle (fr) f
• Galician: guinda (gl) f
• Georgian: ალუბალი (alubali)
• German: Sauerkirsche (de) f, Weichsel (de) f
• Greek: βύσσινο (el) n (výssino)
• Hungarian: meggy (hu)
• Irish: silín searbh m
• Italian: amarena (it), marasca f, visciola (it), agriotta f
• Japanese: スミミザクラ (sumimizakura)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: albalû (ku), fişne (ku)

• Ladino: vijna, vishna
• Laz: ვიშნე (vişne)
• Macedonian: ви́шна (mk) f (víšna)
• Mingrelian: ქვიშნაბული (kvišnabuli)
• Persian: آلبالو (fa) (âlbâlu)
• Polish: wiśnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: ginja (pt) f, amarena f
• Romanian: vișină (ro) f
• Russian: ви́шня (ru) f (víšnja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вишња f

  Roman: višnja (sh) f

• Slovak: višňa f
• Slovene: višnja (sl) f
• Spanish: guinda (es) f
• Swedish: surkörsbär (sv) n
• Turkish: vişne (tr), albalı (tr)
• Ukrainian: ви́шня (uk) f (výšnja)
• Volapük: züdöfacel
• Welsh: ceiriosen ddu f
• Yiddish: ווײַנשל m (vaynshl)

See also

• Amarelle
• marasca
• morello

Further reading

• Prunus cerasus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Prunus cerasus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies