bilberry

English

Bilberries

Wikispecies

Etymology

Probably of North Germanic origin (Danish bøllebær), from Old Norse bolli (Proto-Germanic *bullǭ) + ber.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbɪlb(ə)ɹɪ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

bilberry (plural bilberries)

Vaccinium myrtillus, the wild European blueberry of the cowberry family.
Synonyms: blaeberry, fraughan, whort, whortle, whortleberry, whimberry
The shrub of the above-mentioned plant.

Derived terms

Translations

Also see the translations of blueberry

type of blueberry from the cowberry family — see also blueberry

Albanian: kulumri f, thrashegër (sq) f, boronicë (sq) f, belush (sq) m, qershigël (sq) f,
Bulgarian: черна боровинка (černa borovinka)
Catalan: nabiu (ca) m
Czech: borůvka (cs) f
Danish: blåbær (da)
Dutch: bosbes (nl) c
Estonian: mustikas, harilik mustikas
Faroese: bláber n
Finnish: mustikka (fi)
French: myrtille (fr) f
Galician: arando (gl) m
German: Heidelbeere (de)
Alemannic German: Buderi pl
Greek: μύρτιλο (el) n (mýrtilo)
Hungarian: fekete áfonya (hu)
Icelandic: aðalbláber (is) n
Irish: fraochán
Italian: mirtillo (it) m
Ladin: gialvëija f
Latin: vaccīnium n
Latvian: mellene (lv) f
Lithuanian: mėlynė (lt) f
Malay: bilberi
Norwegian:
Bokmål: blåbær n

Nynorsk: blåbær n
Old English: hǣþberiġe f
Polish: borówka (pl) f, czarna jagoda (pl) f
Portuguese: arando (pt) m
Romanian: afin (ro)
Russian: черни́ка (ru) f (černíka) (evergreen bilberry, Vaccinium myrtillus), голуби́ка (ru) f (golubíka) (bog bilberry, whortleberry, Vaccinium uliginosum)
Scottish Gaelic: dearc-fhraoich f, dearcag-mhonaidh f, dearcag-fhraoich f
Serbo-Croatian: borovnica (sh) f
Slovak: čučoriedka (sk) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: carnica f
Spanish: arándano (es) m, mirtilo m
Swedish: blåbär (sv)
Turkish: yabanmersini (tr)
Ukrainian: чорни́ця f (čornýcja)
Vietnamese: cây nham lê
Walloon: caclindje (wa) m, frambåjhe (wa) m
Welsh: llusen f
Zazaki: boronc du or n du

the shrub of this plant

Afrikaans: bosbessen
Catalan: nabinera f
Dutch: bosbessenstruik (nl)
Estonian: mustikas
Finnish: mustikanvarpu
Galician: arandeira (gl) f
German: Blaubeere (de)
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: blåbær n

Nynorsk: blåbær n
Polish: borówka (pl) f, czarna jagoda (pl) f
Russian: черни́ка (ru) f (černíka) (evergreen bilberry, Vaccinium myrtillus), голуби́ка (ru) f (golubíka) (bog bilberry, whortleberry, Vaccinium uliginosum)
Scottish Gaelic: dearc-fhraoich f
Slovak: čučoriedka (sk) f
Ukrainian: чорни́ця f (čornýcja)
Walloon: caclindjî (wa) m, frambåjhî (wa) m

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Translations to be checked

Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} bláber (is)
Japanese: ^{(please verify)} ビルベリー (ja) (biruberī)
Persian: ^{(please verify)} بیل بری (bil beri)

References

“bilberry”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

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