cranberry

See also: Cranberry

English

Etymology

Adapted in the 1640s from Dutch Low Saxon or German Low German Kraanbeere, from Kraan m (which means and is cognate to crane) + Beere f (which means and is cognate to berry).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkræn.b(ə).ri/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹæn.bɛr.i/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

cranberry (countable and uncountable, plural cranberries)

1. (countable) A shrub belonging to the section Vaccinium sect. Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium.

   Synonym: fenberry (esp. the common cranberry, Vaccinium oxycoccos)

2. (countable) The edible red berry of that shrub.
   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.

   Synonym: fenberry (esp. the common cranberry, Vaccinium oxycoccos)

3. An intense red colour, like that of a cranberry.

   cranberry:  

Hypernyms

• berry

Derived terms

plants

• American cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon)
• Chilean cranberry (Ugni molinae)
• common cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
• cranberry heath (Astroloma humifusum, syn. Styphelia humifusa)
• highbush cranberry (Viburnum trilobum, Viburnum edule, Viburnum opulus (European))
• large cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon)
• lowbush cranberry
• mountain cranberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea; Actous alpina, syn. Arctostaphylos alpina)
• native cranberry (Astroloma humifusum, syn. Styphelia humifusa)
• New Zealand cranberry (Ugni molinae)
• northern cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
• small cranberry (Vaccinium microcarpum)
• southern mountain cranberry (Vaccinium erythrocarpum)

other

• craisin
• cranapple
• cranberried
• cranberrita
• cranberryade
• cranberry glass
• cranberrying
• cranberry juice
• cranberrylike
• cranberry morpheme
• Cranberry Portage
• cranberry word
• crangrape
• Cranmoor
• crantini

Descendants

• → Dutch: cranberry
• → German: Cranberry

Translations

shrub

Armenian: լոռամրգի (hy) (loṙamrgi) Bulgarian: червена боровинка f (červena borovinka) Catalan: nabiu de grua m Chinese: Mandarin: 蔓越橘 (zh) (mànyuèjú), 蔓越桔 (mànyuèjú) Chukchi: кԓёкаԓгын (kḷjokaḷgyn), кԓюкэт pl (kḷjukėt) Czech: brusinka (cs) f Danish: tranebær c Esperanto: oksikoko Finnish: karpalo (fi) French: canneberge (fr) f Georgian: შტოში (šṭoši) German: Moosbeere (de) f, Kronsbeere (de) f (North German), Kranbeere (de) f, Cranberry (de) f (gastronomy) Hungarian: tőzegáfonya (hu) Ingrian: karpalo Irish: mónóg f, tom mónóg m Latgalian: dzērvine f Latvian: dzērvene (lv) f Low German: German Low German: Kroonsbeer (nds) f Macedonian: брусница f (brusnica) Norwegian: Bokmål: tranebær n Nynorsk: tranebær n Polish: żurawina (pl) f Portuguese: oxicoco m Russian: клю́ква (ru) f (kljúkva) Scottish Gaelic: muileag f Spanish: arándano rojo m, mortiño rojo m, anavia roja f Swahili: mkranberi Turkish: Anadolu otu, avcı üzümü, ayı üzümü (tr), çay üzümü, çobanüzümü (tr), keçi yemişi (tr), yaban mersini (tr), yayla likabası Ukrainian: журавли́на f (žuravlýna) Winnebago: hoocąkehu

berry

Arabic: عَنْبِيَّة حَادَة الخَبَاء (ʕanbiyya(t) ḥāda(t) al-ḵabāʔ) Armenian: լոռամիրգ (hy) (loṙamirg) Atikamekw: mickekominan Basque: ahabi garratz Catalan: nabiu (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 蔓越莓 (zh) (mànyuèméi) Chinook Jargon: suləmix Chukchi: кԓёкаԓгын (kḷjokaḷgyn), кԓюкэт pl (kḷjukėt) Czech: brusinka (cs) f Danish: tranebær n Dutch: veenbes (nl) f, cranberry (nl) c Esperanto: oksikoko Estonian: jõhvikas, kuremari (et) Faroese: tranuber n Finnish: karpalo (fi) French: canneberge (fr) f Georgian: შტოში (šṭoši) German: Cranberry (de) f, Moosbeere (de) f, Kranichbeere f (northern German), Kronsbeere (de) f (northern German) Greek: κρανμπερι (kranmperi) Hebrew: חֲמוּצִית (he) f (khamutsít), קַפְטָה (kaftá) Hungarian: tőzegáfonya (hu) Icelandic: trönuber n Ingrian: karpalo Irish: mónóg f Italian: ossicocco m, mirtillo palustre m Japanese: クランベリー (ja) (kuranberī) Kazakh: мүкжидек (mükjidek) Korean: 넌출월귤 (neonchurwolgyul), 크랜베리 (keuraenberi) Macedonian: брусница f (brusnica) Miami: neehpikicia Mohegan-Pequot: pôcum Mongolian: цангис жимс (cangis žims) Norman: cannebèrge f Norwegian: Bokmål: tranebær n Nynorsk: tranebær n Occitan: brimbalièr m, brimbèla (oc) f Polish: żurawina (pl) f Portuguese: oxicoco m, arando (pt) m Romanian: merișor (ro) Russian: клю́ква (ru) f (kljúkva) Sami: Kildin Sami: рыһпмӯррьй (ryhpmūrr’j), рыһпмушш (ryhpmušš) Skolt Sami: reppjoŋŋ, jeäʹǧǧlåʹddmueʹrjj Scottish Gaelic: muileag f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: брусница f Roman: brusnica (sh) f Slovene: brusnica (sl) f Spanish: arándano (es) m, arándano rojo m, mortiño rojo m, anavia roja f Swahili: kranberi Swedish: tranbär (sv) n Tagalog: arandano, pulang arandano Tlingit: ḵ'eishkaháagu (bog, low bush), dáxw (bog, low bush) Turkish: vaccinium, turna yemişi Udmurt: нюрмульы (ńurmuľy) Ukrainian: журавли́на f (žuravlýna) Unami: pakim Welsh: llugaeronen f, cryglusen f West Frisian: feanbei Winnebago: hoocąke Wolof: kanbeers Yiddish: זשורעכלינע (zhurekhline)

Adjective

cranberry (not comparable)

1. Of the intense red colour of a cranberry.
   • 2011, Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins, Glorious Appearing: The End of Days:

     Leon was in his most resplendent, gaudiest, Day-Glo getup, including a purple felt fez with multiple hangy-downs and a cranberry vestment with gold collar, appliquéd with every religious symbol known to man […]

See also

• arando (Vaccinium erythrocarpum)
• bearberry (Vaccinium erythrocarpum, Vaccinium macrocarpon)
• dingleberry (Vaccinium erythrocarpum)
• fenberry (dated) (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
• moorberry (Vaccinium spp,)

References

• cranberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “cranberry”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “cranberry”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cranberry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrɛnˌbɛ.ri/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: cran‧ber‧ry

Noun

cranberry c (plural cranberry's)

1. cranberry

   Synonym: veenbes

References

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “cranberry”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Further reading

• cranberry on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl