# maple
## English

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### Etymology

From Middle English mapel, from Old English *mapul (attested in mapultrēow and mapulder), from Proto-Germanic *mapulaz (compare Old Saxon mapulder, Old High German mazaltra, mazzaltra; Old Norse mǫpurr, Middle Low German mapeldorn, dialectal Dutch meppel, German Masseller, Maßholder), perhaps a blend of *masuraz (“knob; maple-tree”) (compare Old English mæsen (“maple”), Old Norse mǫsurr (“maple”), German Maser (“knob, offshoot”)) and *aplaz (“apple”) (see apple), from *masą (“lump, knob”) (compare obsolete German Mase (“scar”), modern Maser (“speck, measle”). More at measles.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmeɪpl̩/, (South Asia) /ˈmeːpil/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪpəl

### Noun

maple (countable and uncountable, plural maples)
* A tree of the genus Acer, characterised by its usually palmate leaves and winged seeds.
* The wood of such a tree, prized for its hardness and attractive appearance.

#### Derived terms

* Amur maple (Acer ginnala)
* ashleaf maple (Acer negundo)
* bigleaf maple
* big-leaf maple (Acer macrophyllum)
* bird's-eye maple
* black maple (Acer nigrum)
* box elder maple (Acer negundo)
* broad-leaf maple (Acer macrophyllum)
* bush maple
* Canadian maple (Acer saccharum)
* Cappadocian maple (Acer cappadocicum)
* chalk maple (Acer leucoderme)
* dwarf maple (Acer glabrum)
* English maple (Acer campestre)
* field maple (Acer campestre)
* Florida maple (Acer floridianum)
* flowering maple (Abutilon spp.)
* ground maple (Heuchera spp.)
* hard maple (Acer saccharum)
* hedge maple (Acer campestre)
* Indian maple (Acer caesium)
* Japanese maple (Acer palmatum)
* Japanese maple tree
* Manitoba maple (Acer negundo)
* maple ash (Acer negundo)
* maple bark disease
* maple bark stripper's disease
* maple butter
* Maple Creek
* Maple Cross
* mapled
* maple fever
* maple ham
* Maple Heights
* maple honey
* maple key
* maple leaf
* maple-leaf
* maple-leaved
* maplelike
* maple molasses
* maple pug
* Maple Ridge
* maple sugar
* maple-sugar
* maple syrup
* maple taffy
* mapletini
* maple toffee
* maple tree
* Montpelier maple
* Montpellier maple (Acer monspessulanum)
* moose maple (Acer pensylvanicum, Acer spicatum)
* mountain maple (Acer spicatum)
* Norway maple (Acer platanoides)
* Oregon maple (Acer macrophyllum)
* Pacific maple (Acer macrophyllum)
* paperbark maple (Acer griseum)
* pointed-leaf maple (Acer argutum)
* Queensland maple (Flindersia brayleana)
* red maple (Acer rubrum)
* river maple (Acer saccharinum)
* rock maple (Acer saccharum)
* Rocky Mountain maple (Acer glabrum)
* scarlet maple (Acer rubrum)
* silver maple (Acer saccharinum)
* snakebark maple
* soft maple (Acer rubrum)
* striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum)
* sugar-maple
* sugar maple (Acer saccharum)
* swamp maple (Acer saccharinum)
* sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus)
* sycamore maple tree
* tiger maple
* vine maple (Acer circinatum)
* white maple

#### Descendants

* → Kashubian: majpél (Canada, United States)
* → Portuguese: meiple

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Friedrich Kluge, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, s.v. "Maser" (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2002).
* ↑ Francis A. Wood, "Germanic Etymologies", Modern Philology (University of Chicago Press, January 1914), 1.

### Anagrams

* Mapel, Palme, ample, pelma

## Middle English
### Noun

maple
* Alternative form of mapel

## Spanish
### Noun

maple m (plural maples)
* (Mexico) maple syrup
* (Mexico) a maple tree
* an egg carton

### Further reading

* “maple”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
* “maple”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
* “maple”, in Diccionario del español de México, Segunda edición, Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, 2019