Hazel

See also: hazel and házel

English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈheɪzəl/
  • Rhymes: -eɪzəl

Proper noun

Hazel (countable and uncountable, plural Hazels)

  1. A female given name from English from the plant or colour hazel. Popular in the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century.
    • 1880, Steele MacKaye, Hazel Kirke ( An Iron Will):
      GREEN. - - Squire Rodney has been looking into your affairs, and, by Jove! he swears you've deceived Hazel Kirke!
      ARTHUR. Deceived her? How?
      GREEN. He says that your marriage to her was a pretence, a farce, a lie.
    • 1908, S. Florence Ray, Fallen Petals, page 17:
      In the month of May,
      When all nature seems in touch with hidden jewels,
      We called her Hazel,
      Hazel May.
    • 2002, Susan Starbuck, Hazel Wolf: Fighting the Establishment., →ISBN, page 26:
      Now, as I mentioned earlier, I never liked the name Hazel. I didn't like being called after a nut. I wanted to be called Rosemary, something pretty.
  2. A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a hazel tree.
  3. A place in the United States:
    1. A minor city in Calloway County, Kentucky.
    2. A town in Hamlin County, South Dakota.
    3. An unincorporated community in Snohomish County, Washington.
    4. An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia.

Anagrams

Cebuano

Etymology

From English Hazel, from hazel.

Proper noun

Hazel

  1. a female given name from English

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Hazel.

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Hazel.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈxeiθel/ [ˈxei̯.θel]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈxeisel/ [ˈxei̯.sel]
  • (Spain) Rhymes: -eiθel
  • (Latin America) Rhymes: -eisel

Proper noun

Hazel f

  1. a female given name from English

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English Hazel.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈhejzel/ [ˈhɛɪ̯.zɛl]
    • IPA(key): (more native-sounding) /ˈhejsel/ [ˈhɛɪ̯.sɛl]
  • Rhymes: -ejzel, (more native-sounding) -ejsel
  • Syllabification: Ha‧zel

Proper noun

Hazel (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜌ᜔ᜐᜒᜎ᜔)

  1. a female given name from English, popular around the 1990s and 2000s
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