cherry
English
/ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/
noun
Definitions
- A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
- Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
- The wood of a cherry tree.
- (color) cherry Cherry red.
- (slang) Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.
- (graph theory) A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
- (cricket) A cricket ball.
- Cherrytop.
- Burning tip of a cigarette.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English chery derived from cherise inherited from Old English ċiris derived from Latin ceresia, ceresium derived from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (cherry, cherry fruit).
Origin
Ancient Greek
κεράσιον
Gloss
cherry, cherry fruit
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
桜
Emoji
🌸 🍒
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cerise English
- cherried English
- cherriest English
- cherryade English
- cherrying English
- cherryless English
- cherrylike English
- cherrystone English
- cherrytop English
- cherrywood English
- choke English
- chokecherry English
- ground English
- groundcherry English
- stone English
- top English
- wood English
- cerasium Latin
- ceresia Latin
- ceresiam Latin
- ceresium Latin
- ciliegia Italian
- cerisaie French
- cerise French
- ceriseraie French
- cerisier French
- cereza Spanish, Castilian
- κεράσιον Ancient Greek
- κερασός Ancient Greek
- κερᾰσός Ancient Greek
- cereja Portuguese
- cerise Swedish
- チェリー Japanese
- ċiris Old English
- chery Middle English
- *čeršьňa Proto-Slavic
- cerise Old French
- ĉerizo Esperanto
- cirera Catalan, Valencian
- चेरी Hindi
- cireașă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- เชอร์รี Thai
- κεράσι Greek (modern)
- seri Indonesian
- kerse Middle Dutch
- sơ ri Vietnamese
- seresa Tagalog
- ချယ်ရီ Burmese
- qershi Albanian
- *kirsijā gmw-pro
- cereyja Old Portuguese
- *keresyā Proto-Celtic
- 車厘子 Chinese
- kersebere Middle Low German
- cireashã Aromanian
- tsireashã Aromanian
- cheri Swahili
- kirsebär Old Swedish
- tscharescha Romansh
- tschariescha Romansh
- tscherescha Romansh
- tschirescha Romansh
- cereza Asturian
- cjariese Friulian
- ceresa Old Spanish
- cherise xno
- çêxa Ligurian
- cris Dalmatian
- seriz Haitian, Haitian Creole
- cerize Bourguignon
- sareza Istriot
- cherise ONF.
- sciresa Lombard