cranberry

See also: Cranberry

English

common cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)

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/

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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.
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.

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)
• highbush cranberry (Viburnum trilobum, Viburnum edule, Viburnum opulus (European))
• large cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon)
• mountain cranberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea; Actous alpina, syn. Arctostaphylos alpina)
• New Zealand cranberry (Ugni molinae)
• northern cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
• small cranberry (Vaccinium microcarpum)
• southern mountain cranberry (Vaccinium erythrocarpum)

other

• cranberried
• cranberry glass
• cranberry juice
• cranberrylike
• cranberry morpheme
• cranberry word
• Cranmoor

 

Descendants

• → German: Cranberry

Translations

shrub

• 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
• 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)

berry

• Arabic: عَنْبِيَّة حَادَة الخَبَاء (ʕanbiyya(t) ḥāda(t) al-ḵabāʔ)
• 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: Amerikaanse veenbes 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)
• Hungarian: tőzegáfonya (hu)
• Icelandic: trönuber n
• Ingrian: karpalo
• Irish: mónóg f
• Italian: ossicocco m, mirtillo palustre m
• Japanese: クランベリー (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
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• “cranberry”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.