myrtle

See also: Myrtle

English

Wikispecies

common myrtle (Myrtus communis)

Myrtus communis in fruit

Etymology

From Old French myrte, from Latin myrtus, from Ancient Greek μύρτος (múrtos, “myrtle”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɜːtl̩/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(General American) enPR: mûrʹtəl, IPA^(key): /ˈmɝtl̩/, [ˈmɝtɫ̩], [ˈmɝɾɫ̩]
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)təl

Noun

myrtle (plural myrtles)

An evergreen shrub or small tree of the genus Myrtus, native to southern Europe and north Africa.
Cyrilla spp.

Derived terms

bog-myrtle
bog myrtle (Myrica gale)
common myrtle (Myrtus communis)
crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia spp.)
creeping myrtle (Vinca minor)
crêpe myrtle, crepe myrtle (Lagerstroemia spp.)
Jew's myrtle
lemon myrtle
myrtle beech (Nothofagus cunninghamii)
myrtle warbler (Setophaga coronata coronata)
myrtle wax
Oregon myrtle
rose myrtle (Rhodomyrtus tomentosa)
Saharan myrtle (Myrtus nivellei)
sand myrtle, sand myrtle (Kalmia buxifolia)
strawberry myrtle
true myrtle (Myrtus communis)
wax myrtle (Morella cerifera (syn. Myrica cerifera))

Translations

evergreen shrub

Akkadian: 𒄑𒊍 f (^GIŠAZ /⁠asu⁠/)
Amharic: ኣደስ (ʾadäs), አደስ (ʾädäs), ባርሰነት (barsänät), የሚለመልም (yämilämälm), ምርሰኔ (mərsäne)
Arabic: آس‎ (ar) m (ʔās), رَيْحَان‎ m (rayḥān), مَرْسِين‎ m (marsīn), قُمَام‎ m (qumām), هَدَس‎ m (hadas) (Yemen, Oman)
Moroccan Arabic: ريحان‎ m (rīḥān), هلموش‎ m (halmūš)
Aramaic:
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אָסָא‎ m (ʾāsā), הֲדַסַא‎ m (hăḏasā)

Jewish Palestinian Aramaic: אָסָא‎ m (ʾāsā), הֲדַסַא‎ m (hăḏasā)

Classical Syriac: ܐܵܣܵܐ‎ m (ʾāsā)
Armenian: մրտենի (hy) (mrteni)
Old Armenian: մուրտ (murt)
Assamese: please add this translation if you can
Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: мірт m (mirt)
Bengali: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: ми́рта f (mírta), мирт m (mirt)
Catalan: murta (ca) f, murtera (ca) f, murtra (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 香桃木 (xiāngtáomù)
Czech: myrta (cs) f
Danish: myrte
Dutch: mirte (nl) c
Finnish: myrtti (fi)
French: myrte (fr)
Galician: murteira f, murta f, silvarda f, lundio (gl) m
Ge'ez: አደስ (ʾädäs), ምርስኔ (mərsəne), መርሳኒ (märsani), ሚርስንስ (mirsəns), ሚርሰንስ (mirsäns), ሚረሲንስ (miräsins), ሜርሴንስ (mersens), ምርስኔን (mərsənen), መርሲኔ (märsine), መርሲኔን (märsinen), ብርስኖት (bərəsnot), ብርስዩን (bərsəyun), ብርስዮን (bərsəyon) , እልኣስ (ʾəlʾas)
Georgian: მირტი (mirṭi)
Old Georgian: მურტი (murṭi)
German: Myrte (de) f
Greek:
Ancient: μυρσίνη f (mursínē)
Hawaiian: mā'kala
Hebrew: הֲדַס‎ (he) (hăḏás)
Hungarian: mirtusz (hu)
Irish: miortal m
Italian: mirto (it) m
Japanese: ギンバイカ (ginbaika)
Kannada: please add this translation if you can
Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 은매화 (eunmaehwa)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: مۆرت‎ (mort)

Northern Kurdish: mord (ku) f
Kyrgyz: please add this translation if you can
Latin: myrtus f
Macedonian: мирта f (mirta)
Malay: murad
Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian: myrte
Old Church Slavonic: мрътва f (mrŭtva), мѵръта f (mürŭta)
Old English: wīr m
Ottoman Turkish: مرسین‎ (mersin), مورد‎ (murd)
Pashto: ماڼو‎ (ps) m or m pl (māṇo)
Persian: مورد‎ (fa) (murd), مور‎ (fa) (mur) (archaic)
Plautdietsch: Mirt f
Polish: mirt (pl) m
Portuguese: murta (pt) f, mirto (pt) m
Romanian: mirt (ro) m
Russian: мирт (ru) m (mirt)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: мр̏ча f, ми̑рта f

Latin: mȑča (sh) f, mȋrta (sh) f
Slovak: myrta f
Slovene: mírta (sl) f
Spanish: arrayán (es) f, murta (es) f, mirto (es) m
Swahili: mhadasi
Swedish: myrten (sv)
Tagalog: mirto
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Telugu: please add this translation if you can
Tigrinya: ኣደስ (ʾadäs)
Turkish: mersin (tr), murt (tr)
Ugaritic: unknown, absent from the texts
Ukrainian: мирт (uk) m (myrt)
Welsh: myrtwydden f

References

“myrtle”, in Collins English Dictionary.

Anagrams

termly

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