# tree
## English

Picture dictionary :
tree (1) :
* rootroot
* trunktrunk
* branchbranch
* leafleaf
* needleneedle
* fruitfruit

### Etymology

* PIE word
* *dóru
From Middle English tre, tree, treo, treou, trew, trow, from Old English trēo, trēow (“tree, wood, timber, beam, log, stake, stick, grove, cross, rood”), from Proto-West Germanic *treu, from Proto-Germanic *trewą (“tree, wood”), from pre-Germanic *dréwom, thematic e-grade derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”). Eclipsed alternative terms for tree in Middle English: Middle English beem, from Old English bēam (see beam) and Middle English arbre, from Old French arbre.
From the same Proto-Indo-European: Scots tree (“wood, rod, stick”), North Frisian tre, trä (“tree”)Danish træ (“tree”), Swedish trä (“wood”), träd (“tree”), Norwegian tre (“tree”), Icelandic tré (“tree”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌿 (triu, “tree, wood, piece of wood”), Sanskrit दारु (dāru, “tree, wood”), Albanian dru (“tree, wood”), Welsh dâr (“oaks”), Ancient Greek δόρυ (dóru, “wood, spear”), Russian де́рево (dérevo) or дре́во (drévo), Tocharian A or. Related to tar, true.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: trē, IPA: /tɹiː/, [t̠ʰɹʷiː], [t͡ʃʰɹʷiː], [t̠͡ɹ̠̊˔ʷiː]
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* Rhymes: -iː
* Homophone: three (th-stopping)

### Noun

tree (plural trees or (obsolete) treen)
* A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
    Hyperion is the tallest living tree in the world.
    Birds have a nest in a tree in the garden.
** 1992 April 5, “The Full House”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 2:B. Wooster: Of all the places on this great planet of ours, West Neck, Long Island, has chosen to be the most unexciting. The last time anything remotely interesting happened here was in 1842, when a tree fell over. They still talk about it in the village.
** 2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 42:When we see a train trapped behind (or embedded in) a fallen tree our first thought should be 'what was it doing there anyway?' […] Trees are also responsible for numerous minor delays in autumn [due to leaves falling on the track], which rolling stock engineers are supposed to cope with as usual.
* Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size.
    The banana tree is a tall perennial herb: its trunk is not woody.
* An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
    He had the choice of buying a scratching post or a cat tree.
* A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
    He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes.
* The structural frame of a saddle.
* (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.
* (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.
* (graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
    We’ll show it as a tree list.
* Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.
    family tree; skill tree
* The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
* (often in the plural, slang) Marijuana.
** 2005, “Shake That”, in Eminem, Nate Dogg (lyrics), Curtain Call: The Hits:I like good pussy and I like good trees / Smoke so much weed you wouldn't believe
** 2017 September 22, “Man's Not Hot”‎performed by Big Shaq [Michael Dapaah]:Everyday man's on the block / Smoke trees (ah)
** 2018, “Ace”, in Room 25‎, performed by Noname ft. Smino & Saba:Whiskey with the team, got it bubblin' / I got trees in my luggage, I got tings out in London / Hope UK, what you say? Fuck is you sayin'?
* (archaic outside Christianity) A cross or gallows.
    Tyburn tree
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 5:30:The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
** 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 12:Ste[phano]. Trinculo, keepe a good tongue in your head: If you proue a mutineere, the next Tree: […]
** 1707, Isaac Watts, “Godly Sorrow ariſing from the Sufferings of Chriſt”, in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, London: J. Humfreys, page 86:Was it for Crimes that I had done / He groan’d upon the Tree?
** 1997, Warren W. Wiersbe, The Names of Jesus:When Jesus died on that tree, he bore the awful curse of the law for us so that we might be saved.
** 2004, Jon Courson, Jon Courson's Application Commentary, page 1130:Oh, that's not to say Peter's life was easy. In fact, he, too, ended up on a tree—not hung up by guilt, but crucified upside down on a cross for the sake of the One who not only hung on a tree for him, but rose and lived within him, empowering him to live a life of incredible impact and ministry.
** 2015, Bruce Thomas, God's Purpose for His Creation:Jesus was crucified on a tree to give us life.
** 2022, Sharmila Panirselvam, Life in the Hands of Jesus:Outside of Jerusalem, at Golgotha, Jesus was crucified on a tree with two other thieves because He claimed to be the king of the Jews.
* (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
* (cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.
* (uncountable, mathematics) Alternative letter-case form of TREE.

#### Synonyms

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* sapling
* seedling

#### Hypernyms

* plant
* (in graph theory): graph

#### Hyponyms

* cabbage tree
* chaste tree
* cherry tree
* Cherry Tree (places)
* hip tree
* Joshua tree
* lipstick tree
* Pear Tree (place)
* pear tree, peartree
* soap tree
* See also Category:en:Trees
* AVL tree
* binary tree
* caterpillar tree
* DOM tree
* Merkle tree
* red-black tree
* regression tree
* search tree
* spanning tree
* suffix tree
* syntax tree
* XML tree
* boottree
* boron tree
* b-tree
* call tree
* cat tree
* clothes tree
* coat tree
* dead tree
* decision tree
* family tree
* hat tree
* Jesse Tree
* Kurepa tree
* manteltree
* mantle-tree
* maple tree
* phylogenetic tree
* rood-tree
* saddle tree
* shoe tree
* skill tree
* technology tree
* trestle tree
* world tree

#### Meronyms

* branch
* knot
* leaf
* root
* tree bark
* tree ring
* tree sap
* tree trunk

#### Derived terms

* Coventry
* Daventry
* Kingstree
* Manningtree
* Tiptree
* treebound (adjective)
* treechanger (noun)
* treehood (noun)
* treeify (verb)
* treeiness (noun)
* treekind (noun)
* treeless (adjective)
* treelike (adjective)
* tree-lined, treelined
* treeling (noun)
* treely (adjective)
* treeness (noun)
* treescape (noun)
* treey (adjective)
* northern tree shrew
* snowy tree-cricket
* treecreeper
* tree-cricket
* tree farm
* tree fern
* tree frog
* tree hollow
* tree house, treehouse
* tree hugger
* tree kangaroo
* tree kingfisher
* tree lawn
* treelength
* tree line
* tree pangolin
* tree pipit
* treeplank
* tree rat
* tree shrew
* treestand
* tree surgeon
* tree traversal
* treewidth
* bark up the wrong tree
* in the green tree … in the dry
* up a tree
* money doesn't grow on trees
* see the forest for the trees
* 2-3-4 tree
* 2-3 tree
* 2-4 tree
* 3-on-the-tree
* AA tree
* a bad tree does not yield good apples
* African milk tree
* almond tree
* amber tree
* American tree sparrow
* American tulip tree
* Amur cork tree
* and a partridge in a pear tree
* angelica tree
* ants climbing a tree
* ant tree
* apple tree
* apple-tree
* apricot tree
* ash tree
* at the top of the tree
* Australian green tree frog
* autograph tree
* axletree
* B+ tree
* bark at the wrong tree
* bastard camphor tree
* bay tree
* bead tree
* bead-tree
* beam tree
* beard tree
* beech tree
* Beechtree
* bee tree
* bell tree
* big-eyed tree frog
* big tree
* binary indexed tree
* birch tree
* bird-catcher tree
* black birch tree
* blood tree
* blue ash tree
* blue marble tree
* bodhi tree
* boot tree
* boot-tree
* bored out of one's tree
* bo tree
* bottletree
* bottle tree
* box tree
* box-tree
* box tree moth
* brab tree
* Brazilian orchid tree
* Brazilian pepper tree
* bread tree
* bridal tree
* bridgetree
* B-tree
* bullet tree
* bully tree
* burflower tree
* buttercup tree
* butterspoon tree
* butter tree
* cajuput tree
* calabash tree
* calabur tree
* California pepper tree
* camphor tree
* cananga tree
* candelabra tree
* candle tree
* cannonball tree
* cassod tree
* Charlie Brown Christmas tree
* Charlie Brown's Christmas tree
* Charlie Brown tree
* chequer tree
* cherry-tree
* chestnut tree
* Chinese lacquer tree
* Chinese strawberry tree
* chocolate tree
* Christmas's tree
* Christmas tree
* Christmas tree bill
* Christmas tree effect
* Christmas tree formation
* Christmas tree packet
* Christmas tree worm
* clothestree
* clovetree
* coffee tree
* computation tree logic
* concatenation tree
* conker tree
* coral tree
* cotree
* cow-tree
* cow tree
* crabapple tree
* crab-tree
* crab tree
* cream of tartar tree
* crosstree
* cucumber tree
* curry tree
* daroo tree
* data collection tree
* date tree
* dead-tree
* dead tree edition
* dead-tree edition
* deal tree
* derivation tree
* diesel tree
* dodo tree
* dog-tree
* dool tree
* doubletree
* double-tree
* double tree
* dove tree
* downtree
* dragon tree
* dressed up like a Christmas tree
* drumstick tree
* dueling tree
* dule tree
* dynamite tree
* Dyson tree
* ebontree
* elephant-ear tree
* elephant tree
* elm tree
* emerald tree boa
* empress tree
* Eurasian tree sparrow
* European nettle tree
* event tree
* fall off the ugly tree
* fall out of the ugly tree and hit every branch
* false plane tree
* fault tree
* Fenwick tree
* fever tree
* fig tree
* finger tree
* firewheel tree
* firtree
* fish poison tree
* flame tree
* flea tree
* food tree
* forest green tree frog
* Franklin tree
* fringe tree
* fruit of the poisonous tree
* fruit-tree
* fruit tree
* full binary tree
* gallows tree
* gallow tree
* gatten tree
* gemstone tree
* gem tree
* generalized search tree
* ghost tree
* gingerbread tree
* glory tree
* gobstopper tree
* go climb a tree
* golden-chain tree
* goldenchain tree
* golden chain tree
* golden rain tree
* goldenrain tree
* golden-rain tree
* goldenrod tree
* golden shower tree
* gooseberry tree
* graft the forked tree
* granary tree
* grass tree
* green big-eyed tree frog
* green tree ant
* green tree frog
* groundsel tree
* groundsel-tree
* gum tree
* gum-tree
* hall tree
* handkerchief tree
* hand tree
* hanging tree
* happy as a possum up a gum tree
* hash tree
* have seen one's last gum tree
* hawthorn tree
* heaven tree
* hedge tree
* hemp tree
* henna tree
* henna-tree
* hextree
* Hilbert R-tree
* hog gum tree
* holiday tree
* hoptree
* horseradish tree
* huluppu tree
* hypertree
* imp tree
* incense tree
* Indian coral tree
* intertree
* in-tree
* ipê tree
* Italian tree cricket
* ivory tree
* Japanese lacquer tree
* Japanese maple tree
* Japanese tree lilac
* Japan tree lilac
* jellyfish tree
* Judas tree
* kananga tree
* kanya tree
* kapok tree
* kassod tree
* k-d tree
* Kruskal's tree theorem
* lacquer tree
* lac tree
* leopard tree
* light up like a Christmas tree
* lime-tree
* link/cut tree
* linktree
* lit up like a Christmas tree
* living tree doctrine
* loblolly tree
* locust tree
* London plane tree
* magic money tree
* maidenhair tree
* make like a tree
* make like a tree and leave
* Malacca-bean tree
* Malacca bean tree
* manchineel tree
* marking nut tree
* marking-nut tree
* mark tree
* marmalade tree
* Massoia tree
* Mexican hand tree
* milktree
* minimum spanning tree
* mirrortree
* money tree
* monkey-ear tree
* monkey-face tree
* monkey puzzle tree
* monkey tail tree
* Moon tree
* Moorean viviparous tree snail
* multitree
* mustard tree
* nail Jell-O to a tree
* narrow-winged tree cricket
* nettle tree
* nettle tree butterfly
* New Zealand tea tree
* nicker tree
* nontree
* nut tree
* oak tree
* octree
* off one's tree
* olive tree
* ople tree
* orange-ball-tree
* orange tree
* orchid tree
* ordeal tree
* order statistic tree
* order tree
* oriental plane tree
* Otomí tree cricket
* out of one's tree
* out-of-tree
* pad-tree
* pagoda tree
* painted tree rat
* paleotree
* palm-tree
* palm tree
* palm tree justice
* Pará rubber tree
* parasol tree
* parse tree
* parsing tree
* passion tree
* Patricia tree
* peach tree
* peanut tree
* pecan tree
* pencil tree
* peppermint tree
* pepper tree
* phone tree
* pine tree
* pipe-tree
* planer tree
* planetree
* plane tree
* plantain tree
* plough-tree
* plum tree
* Polynesian tree snail
* polytree
* Porphyrian tree
* prefix tree
* Pride of India tree
* princess tree
* PR-tree
* Punic tree
* purslane tree
* quadtree
* quiver tree
* R* tree
* R+ tree
* radix tree
* rain tree
* rain-tree
* raisin tree
* ramoon-tree
* rantle-tree
* rape tree
* raspberry jam tree
* red cotton-tree
* red cotton tree
* red oak tree
* rocking tree
* roof tree
* rooftree
* rooted tree
* R-tree
* rubber tree
* saddle-tree
* sad tree
* salt tree
* sandbox tree
* Saturn's tree
* sausage tree
* scale tree
* scar tree
* sea poison tree
* sea-tree
* seed tree
* segment tree
* service tree
* shade tree mechanic
* shake the pagoda tree
* shake the plum tree
* shea butter tree
* shea tree
* shepherd's tree
* shepherd tree
* shii tree
* shoetree
* Siberian pea tree
* Siberian pea-tree
* silk-cotton tree
* silk tree
* silver tree
* single-tree
* single tree
* singletree
* skunk tree
* smoke tree
* snowball tree
* soaptree
* spindle-tree
* spindle tree
* splay tree
* squirrel tree frog
* staff tree
* Steiner tree
* Stern-Brocot tree
* strawberry tree
* strike me up a gum tree
* strychnine tree
* stubby tree
* styptic tree
* subtree
* suicide tree
* sulfur tree
* sulphur tree
* sumtree
* sundari tree
* sunder tree
* supertree
* swamp oak tree
* sweetgum tree
* sweet gum tree
* swingle tree
* swingle-tree
* swingletree
* swingtree
* sycamore maple tree
* sycamore tree
* tallow tree
* tape tree
* tea tree
* tea tree oil
* temple tree frog
* Texas umbrella tree
* the apple does not fall far from the tree
* the apple doesn't fall far from the tree
* the apple never falls far from the tree
* the nut does not fall far from the tree
* thorn tree
* thorn-tree
* three-on-the-tree
* ti-tree
* toothache tree
* toothbrush tree
* tourist tree
* traveller's tree
* treant
* treap
* treeable
* tree-and-branch
* treebank
* treebark
* tree bear
* treebeard
* tree-beard
* tree boa
* tree-branch
* tree brown
* tree burial
* tree cactus
* tree calf
* tree cancer
* treechange
* treeconomics
* tree cookie
* tree cotton
* tree creeper
* tree disc
* tree disk
* treedom
* tree-dove
* tree duck
* tree ear
* tree failure
* treefall
* treefish
* tree fork
* tree fox
* treeful
* tree heath
* treehopper
* tree-hugger
* tree-hugging
* treehunter
* Tree Island
* tree isle
* tree jumper
* tree-kangaroo
* tree kernel
* treelet
* tree-line
* treelist
* tree lizard
* tree lobster
* treelogy
* tree lucerne moth
* tree lupin
* treemageddon
* tree-maker
* tree mallow
* tree man disease
* tree man syndrome
* treemap
* tree model
* treemoss
* tree moss
* tree nigger
* tree nut
* tree nymph
* tree ocelot
* tree of heaven
* tree of knowledge
* tree of life
* tree of Porphyry
* tree of sorrow
* treeology
* tree onion
* tree oyster
* treepie
* tree pit
* tree poppy
* tree rabbit
* tree-ring
* treerunner
* tree runner
* tree seat
* tree shaking
* treeship
* tree-shrew
* tree sorrel
* treespace
* tree sparrow
* tree spinach
* tree stand
* treestump
* tree stump
* tree surgery
* treeswift
* tree tent
* tree thinking
* tree toad
* treetop
* tree topper
* tree-topper
* tree tunnel
* treeward
* treewards
* treeware
* tree well
* tree worm
* treewright
* trestletree
* trumpet tree
* truth tree
* tulip tree
* tuliptree
* tung oil tree
* tung tree
* turpentine tree
* Tyburn tree
* umbrella tree
* up a gum tree
* upside-down tree
* uptree
* urn tree
* van Emde Boas tree
* varnish-tree
* varnish tree
* vegetable ivory tree
* vine and fig-tree
* vinetree
* vine-tree
* violet tree
* wagon tree
* Wallace tree
* Washington cherry tree
* water tree
* wayfaring-tree
* wayfaring tree
* weed tree
* weeping tree
* wheel tree
* whipple-tree
* whipple tree
* white oak tree
* White's tree frog
* wig tree
* wig tree fern
* wild service tree
* willow tree
* wine-tree
* winetree
* witchen-tree
* wolf tree
* woman's tongue tree
* Xmas tree
* X-tree
* ymp tree
* Yule tree
* ℝ-order tree

#### Descendants

* Jamaican Creole: chrii

#### Translations

Abkhaz: аҵла (acʼla)
Acehnese: bak
Acholi: yat, yadi pl
Adyghe: чъыгы (ĉəɣə), чъыг (ĉəɣ) (Shapsug)
Afar: caxa f
Afghan Sign Language: please add this translation if you can
Afrikaans: boom (af)
Ahom: 𑜄𑜤𑜃𑜫 (tun)
Ainu: ニ (ni)
Akan: dua
Akkadian: 𒄑 (iṣu)
Aklanon: kahoy
Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language: please add this translation if you can
Albanian: dru (sq) m, pemë (sq) f
Alviri-Vidari:
Vidari: دراخت (darāxt)
Ama: a
Amharic: ዛፍ (zaf)
Aneme Wake: ana
Anindilyakwa: please add this translation if you can
Antillean Creole: pyébwa
Apalaí: wewe
Arabic: شَجَر (ar) m (šajar) (collective), شَجَرَة (ar) f (šajara) (singulative)
Chadian Arabic: شدراي (šadarāy)
Egyptian Arabic: شجر m (šɑgɑr) (collective), شجرة f (šɑgɑrɑ) (singulative)
Gulf Arabic: شْيَرَة f (šyara)
Hassaniya Arabic: صضراية (ṣădṛɑ̄ya)
Iraqi Arabic: شجرة (šajara)
Moroccan Arabic: شجرة m (šəžṛa)
North Levantine Arabic: سجرة m (sežre)
San'ani Arabic: شجرة f (šeǧarih)
South Levantine Arabic: شجرة (šažara)
Tunisian Arabic: شجرة (šužra), سزرة (suzra)
Aragonese: árbol (an) m
Aramaic:
Hebrew: אילנא m (’īlānā’)
Syriac: ܐܝܠܢܐ m (’īlānā’)
Armenian: ծառ (hy) (caṙ)
Aromanian: arburi m, arbure, cupaci m, cupaciu m lemnu
Assamese: গছ (gos), ডাঙৰ গছ (daṅor gos)
Asturian: árbol (ast) m
Au: nu
Aukan: bon
Avar: гъветӏ (ğʷetʼ)
Aymara: khoka, quqa (ay)
Azerbaijani: ağac (az)
Balinese: wit, punya, ᬧᬸᬜᬦ᭄ (punyan)
Baluchi: درچک (dirack)
Bambara: jiri
Baruga: ika (in all dialects, including Bareji, Mado and Tafota)
Bashkir: ағас (ağas)
Basque: zuhaitz (eu), arbola (eu)
Bats: ხე$^ნ$ (xe$^n$)
Bavarian: Bam
Belarusian: дрэ́ва (be) n (dréva)
Bengali: গাছ (bn) (gach), বৃক্ষ (bn) (brikkho)
Bhojpuri: गाछ (gāch), पेड़ (pēṛ)
Bikol Central: kahoy (bcl)
Blackfoot: miistsís
Bonan: mortong, mutong
Borôro: i
Bouyei: please add this translation if you can
Brahui: درخت (daraxt)
Breton: gwez (br) f (collective), gwezenn (br) f
Brunei Malay: puhun, pukuk
Budukh: дар (dar)
Buginese: ᨄᨚᨂ (pong), aju
Bulgarian: дърво́ (bg) n (dǎrvó)
Burmese: သစ်ပင် (my) (sacpang)
Buryat: модон (modon)
Carpathian Rusyn: де́рево n (dérevo), стром m (strom)
Catalan: arbre (ca) m
Cebuano: kahoy
Chamicuro: chena'to
Chamorro: tronko
Chechen: дитт (ditt)
Chepang: सीङः (sing')
Cherokee: ᏡᎬ (tlugv)
Chichewa: mtengo
Chickasaw: itti'
Chinese:
Cantonese: 樹 / 树 (syu$^6$), 樹木 / 树木 (syu$^6$ muk$^6$)
Dungan: фу (fu)
Eastern Min: 樹 / 树 (chéu), 𣗬 (chéu)
Gan: 樹 / 树 (xy$^5$)
Hakka: 樹 / 树 (su), 樹仔 / 树仔 (su-é)
Hokkien: 樹 / 树 (zh-min-nan) (chhiū / sū / sī), 𣗬 (chhiū), 樹叢 / 树丛 (sū-chông / chhiū-châng) (Hokkien), 樹仔 / 树仔 (zh-min-nan) (chhiū-á)
Jin: 樹 / 树 (su$^3$)
Mandarin: 樹 / 树 (zh) (shù), 喬木 / 乔木 (zh) (qiáomù), 樹木 / 树木 (zh) (shùmù)
Northern Min: 樹 / 树 (chiū / sṳ̄)
Wu: 樹 / 树 ($^6$zy)
Xiang: 樹 / 树 (xy$^5$ / xy$^4$)
Choctaw: ʋpi
Chukchi: утгуут (utguut)
Chuvash: йывӑҫ (jyvăś)
Coptic: ϣⲏⲛ (šēn)
Cornish: (collective) gwydh, gwedhen f
Corsican: alberu (co) m
Cree: ᒥᔅᑎᒄ (mistikw), ᒥᐢᑎᐠ (mistik), ᒥᑐᐢ (mitos)
Crimean Tatar: terek
Czech: strom (cs) m
Dalmatian: juarbol m
Danish: træ (da) n
Dargwa: галга (galga)
Dhivehi: ގަސް (dv) (gas)
Dolgan: мас (mas)
Dongxiang: mutun
Drung: shing
Dutch: boom (nl) m
Dyirbal: yugu class 4, yuguɖaran du, yugu-yugu pl
Dzongkha: ཤིང (shing)
E: mai⁵⁵
East Franconian: Baam m
East Yugur: müdën
Eastern Arrernte: arne
Eastern Mari: пу (pu)
Ecuadorian Sign Language: please add this translation if you can
Egyptian: (šn m)
Enga: ita
Erzya: чувто (čuvto)
Eshtehardi: دار (dâr)
Esperanto: arbo (eo)
Estonian: puu (et)
Even: хякита (hẹkita)
Evenki: мо (mo)
Ewe: atí
Farefare: tɩa class 3/4
Faroese: træ (fo) n
Fijian: kau (fj)
Finnish: puu (fi)
Franco-Provençal: ârbro m
French: arbre (fr) m
Friulian: arbul
Gagauz: fidan, aaç
Galician: árbore (gl) f, arbre (gl) f
Gallurese: alburi
Gbari: gbwegbwe
Ge'ez: ዕፅ (ʿəṣ́)
Georgian: ხე (ka) (xe)
German: Baum (de) m
Alemannic German: böim (Formazza), baum (Issime, Carcoforo), bem (Rimella, Campello Monti)
Rhine Franconian: Baam (Palatine)
Gothic: 𐌱𐌰𐌲𐌼𐍃 m (bagms)
Greek: δέντρο (el) n (déntro)
Ancient: δένδρον n (déndron)
Greenlandic: orpik
Guaraní: yvyra
Gujarati: ઝાડ (gu) (jhāḍ), વૃક્ષ n (vŕkṣ), તરુ n (taru)
Hadza: cʼìtí-yà
Haida: k'íit
Haitian Creole: pyebwa
Halkomelem: thqá:t
Hausa: bishiyā̀ f, bishiyoyi pl
Hawaiian: kumulāʻau
Hebrew: עֵץ (he) m ('etz), אִילָן (he) m (ilán) (literary)
Higaonon: kayo
Hiligaynon: kahoy
Hindi: पेड़ (hi) m (peṛ), वृक्ष (hi) m (vŕkṣ)
Hittite: 𒋫𒀀𒊒 n (tāru)
Hungarian: fa (hu)
Hunsrik: Baam m
Icelandic: tré (is)
Ido: arboro (io), -iero
Ifè: egi
Igala: ólí
Igbo: osisi (ig)
Ilocano: kayo
Inari Sami: muorâ
Indonesian: pohon (id)
Interlingua: arbore
Inuktitut: ᓇᐹᖅᑐᖅ (iu) (napaaqtoq)
Inupiaq: napaaqtuq
Iranun: kayu
Iraqw: xa'ano m, xaa'i pl
Irish: crann (ga) m
Irula: மர (mara)
Istriot: àrbaro m
Istro-Romanian: debla
Italian: albero (it) m
Jamaican Creole: chrii
Japanese: 木 (ja) (き, ki), 樹木 (ja) (じゅもく, jumoku)
Jarai: kơyâo
Jarawa: taːŋ
Javanese: wit (jv)
Jeju: 낭 (nang)
K'iche': cheʼ
Kabardian: жыг (kbd) (žəɣ)
Kabuverdianu: arvi, arve
Kala Lagaw Ya: please add this translation if you can
Kalmyk: модн (modn)
Kambaata: haqqa
Kannada: ಮರ (kn) (mara), ವೃಕ್ಷ (kn) (vṛkṣa)
Kapampangan: dutung
Karachay-Balkar: терек (terek)
Karakalpak: ag'ash
Karakhanid: يِغَجْ (yïɣač)
Karelian: puu
Kari'na: wewe
Kashubian: drzewò n
Kazakh: ағаш (kk) (ağaş), дарақ (daraq)
Keoru-Ahia: kora
Ket: өксь
Khakas: ағас (ağas)
Khasi: dieng
Khinalug: вишаь (wišä)
Khmer: ដើមឈើ (daəm chəə)
Khoekhoe: hais
Komi-Zyrian: пу (pu)
Korafe-Yegha: ika (in all dialects, including Mokorua and Rabade)
Korean: 나무 (ko) (namu)
Kumyk: терек (terek)
Kuna: sapi
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: دار (ckb) (dar)
Laki: دار (ku) (dar)
Northern Kurdish: dar (ku) f
Kwoma: mi
Kyrgyz: жыгач (ky) (jıgac), дарак (ky) (darak)
Laboya: pu
Ladin: lën m
Ladin: alber m
Anpezan: brascion m
Badiot: lëgn m
Fascian: èlber m
Fodom: èlber m
Gherdëina: lën m
Ladino:
Hebrew: ארבולי m, ארבול m
Latin: arvolé m, arvol m
Lak: мурхь (murx̂)
Lakota: čháŋ
Lao: ຕົ້ນໄມ້ (lo) (ton mai)
Latgalian: kūks
Latin: arbor (la) f
Latvian: koks (lv)
Laz: ნჯა (nca)
Lezgi: ттар (t̄ar)
Ligurian: arbo m
Limburgish: boum (li) m
Lithuanian: medis (lt) m
Lokono: ada
Louisiana Creole: narb
Low German:
German Low German: Boom (nds) m
Lü: ᦂᦸᦺᦙᧉ (k̇oamay²)
Luganda: muti
Luxembourgish: Bam (lb) m
Maasai: olc(h)ani m, ilkeek m pl
Macedonian: дрво (mk) n (drvo)
Majang: kɛɛt
Makasar: poko
Malagasy: hazo (mg)
Malay: pokok (ms), pohon (ms)
Malayalam: മരം (ml) (maraṁ), വൃക്ഷം (ml) (vr̥kṣaṁ)
Maltese: siġra f
Manchu: ᠮᠣᠣ (moo)
Manx: billey (gv) m
Maore Comorian: mwiri class 3/4
Maori: rākau (mi)
Mapudungun: aliwen
Maranao: kayo
Marathi: झाड n (jhāḍ), वृक्ष m (vrukṣa)
Maricopa: h'a
Mbabaram: jalay
Mbyá Guaraní: yvyra
Megleno-Romanian: arbur f, arburi f
Mi'kmaq: midis
Middle Chinese: please add this translation if you can
Middle Korean: 나모 (namwo)
Mirandese: arble m
Miskito: dus
Mizo: thing
Mòcheno: pa'm m
Mon: ဆု (mnw) (chu)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: мод (mn) (mod)
Mongolian: ᠮᠣᠳᠤ (modu)
Mono (California): süngaabü
Motu: au
Mwani: muti
Nahuatl:
Central: cuahuitl
Central Huasteca: koauitl
Classical: cuahuitl
Northern Puebla: cohuitl
Temascaltepec: kouitl
Western Huasteca: kuauitl
Nanai: мо (mo)
Nauruan: imin ero, imin erò ogoda
Navajo: tsin ííʼáii, tsin ííʼáhígíí
Neapolitan: arbero m
Nepali: रूख (rūkh)
Newar: सिमा (simā)
Ngazidja Comorian: mri class 3/4
Nigerian Pidgin: stik, tri
Nogai: терек (terek)
North Frisian:
Föhr-Amrum, Halligen & Mooring: buum m
Helgoland: Booam m
Sylt: Boom m
Northern Mansi: йӣв (jīv)
Northern Sami: muorra
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tre (no) n
Nynorsk: tre (nn) n
Nuer: jiath
Nuosu: ꌩ (syr)
Nyunga: boorn
O'odham: ʼu꞉s, uhs
Occitan: arbre (oc)
Odia: ଗଛ (or) (gacha)
Ojibwe: mitig, mitigoog pl, ᒥᐦᑎᐟ (mitig), ᒥᐦᑎᑯᐟ pl (mitigoog)
Okinawan: 木 (きー, kī)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: дрѣво n (drěvo)
Glagolitic: ⰴⱃⱑⰲⱁ n (drěvo)
Old Czech: dřěvo n
Old East Slavic: дерево n (derevo)
Old English: trēow n
Old Frisian: bām
Old Javanese: kayu, wit
Old Norse: tré
Old Portuguese: arvor
Old Prussian: garian
Old Tamil: 𑀫𑀭𑀫𑁆 (maram)
Old Tupi: ybyrá
Old Turkic: 𐰃 (i /⁠ï⁠/), 𐰃𐰍𐰲 (iǧč /⁠ïɣač⁠/)
Olukumi: ijin
Oromo: muka (om)
Ossetian:
Digor: бӕласӕ (bælasæ)
Iron: бӕлас (bælas)
Ottoman Turkish: آغاج (ağaç)
Pali: rukkha m, taru m
Panamint: huuppin
Pangasinan: kiew
Pannonian Rusyn: древо n (drevo)
Papiamentu: palu
Pashto: ونه (ps) f (wᶕna), درخته (ps) f (draxta)
Pela: sak⁵⁵, sak⁵⁵ kɛ̃⁵⁵
Pennsylvania German: Baam
Persian:
Iranian Persian: دِرَخْت (deraxt), دَرَخْت (daraxt), دار (fa) (dâr)
Piedmontese: erbo m
Pipil: kwawit, cuahuit
Plautdietsch: Boom (nds) m
Polish: drzewo (pl) n
Portuguese: árvore (pt) f
Powhatan: mihitek
Pumpokol: hoxon, oksɨ
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਰੁੱਖ m (rukkha), ਰੁੱਖੜਾ m (rukkhaṛā) ਦਰੱਖ਼ਤ (daraxxat), ਪੇੜ (peṛ)
Shahmukhi: رُکّھ m (rukkh), رُکھڑا m (rukhṛā) دَرَخَت (daraxat), پیڑ (peṛ)
Purepecha: anátapu
Quechua: sach'a, mallki (qu), saca, haca
Romani: rukh m
Romanian: arbore (ro) m, copac (ro) m, pom (ro) m
Romanian Sign Language: please add this translation if you can
Romansch: planta f, plànta f, plonta f, plaunta f, bös-ch m, bos-ch m
Russian: де́рево (ru) n (dérevo), дре́во (ru) n (drévo) (archaic or poetic)
Rutul: хук (ꭓuk)
Rwanda-Rundi: igiti
Saho: xarha
Samoan: lā'au
Sandawe: tʰěː
Sanskrit: तरु (sa) m (taru), द्रुम (sa) m (druma), वृक्ष (sa) m (vṛkṣa), कुज (sa) m (kuja)
Santali: ᱫᱟᱨᱮ (dare)
Sardinian:
Campidanese: mata f, mata
Logudorese: àrvure, arbore
Sassarese: àiburu
Saterland Frisian: Boom
Scottish Gaelic: craobh f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: др̏во n, ста́бло n
Roman: dȑvo (sh) n, stáblo (sh) n
Shan: တူၼ်ႈမႆႉ (shn) (tūun mâ̰i)
Shona: muti
Shor: ағаш (ağaş)
Sicilian: àrbulu (scn) m
Sidamo: haqqe
Sikkimese: please add this translation if you can
Silesian: strům m
Sindhi: وڻ (sd) (vaṇu)
Sinhalese: ගස (si) (gasa)
Skolt Sami: muõrr
Slovak: strom (sk) m
Slovene: drevọ̑ (sl) n
Somali: geed (so) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: bom m
Upper Sorbian: štom (hsb) m
Sotho: sefate
Southern Altai: агаш (agaš)
Southern Pomo: kʰa:le
Southern Sami: moere
Spanish: árbol (es) m
Sranan Tongo: bon
Sukuma: ntɪ̌
Sumerian: 𒄑 (giš)
Sundanese: tangkal
Swahili: mti (sw) class 3/4
Swedish: träd (sv) n
Sylheti: ꠉꠣꠍ (gasó)
Tagalog: puno (tl), punongkahoy
Tajik: дарахт (tg) (daraxt), дор (tg) (dor), шаҷар (tg) (šajar)
Talysh:
Anbarani: دو (du)
Asalemi: دار (dâr)
Tamil: மரம் (ta) (maram), விருக்ஷம் (ta) (virukṣam)
Taos: túłoną
Tarantino: àrvule m
Tarifit: asešru m, aseklu m, ssejart f
Tat: дор
Tatar: агач (tt) (ağaç)
Tausug: kahuy
Telugu: చెట్టు (te) (ceṭṭu), వృక్షము (te) (vr̥kṣamu)
Ternate: hate
Tetum: ai
Thai: ต้นไม้ (th) (dtôn-máai), เฌอ (th) (chəə), พฤกษา (th) (prʉ́k-sǎa)
Tibetan: ཤིང (shing)
Tigrinya: ኦም (ti) (ʾom)
Tiwi: please add this translation if you can
Tocharian B: stām
Tok Pisin: diwai (tpi)
Tundra Nenets: пя (pya)
Tupinambá: ybyrá
Turkish: ağaç (tr)
Turkmen: agaç (tk)
Tuvan: ыяш (ıyaş)
Tzotzil: te'
Udi: ход (ꭓod)
Udmurt: пу (pu), писпу (pispu)
Ugaritic: 𐎓𐎕 (ʿṣ)
Ukrainian: де́рево (uk) n (dérevo)
Umbundu: uti
Urdu: پیڑ m (peṛ), دَرَخْت m (daraxt)
Uyghur: دەرەخ (ug) (derex)
Uzbek: daraxt (uz)
Venetan: alber m, àlbaro (vec) m
Vietnamese: cây (vi)
Vilamovian: baojm m
Vili: nti
Volapük: bim (vo), bimil (vo) (diminutive)
Võro: puu
Votic: puu
Walloon: åbe (wa) m
Warlpiri: watiya
Welsh: coeden (cy), pren (cy), colfen (colloquial)
West Frisian: beam (fy)
Western Yugur: jihaš, terek
White Hmong: ntoo
Wolof: garab (wo)
Xhosa: umthi class 3/4
Yagara: bagooroo
Yagnobi: дирахт (diraxt)
Yakut: мас (mas)
Yámana: Sopeya, pouS, šopeya
Yapese: gak'iy
Yiddish: בוים m (boym)
Yir-Yoront: please add this translation if you can
Yoruba: igi
Yucatec Maya: cheʼ
Yug: atče
Zazaki: dar (diq)
Zealandic: boôm m
Zhuang: faex
Zulu: umuthi (zu) class 3/4, isihlahla (zu) class 7/8
ǃXóõ: ʻʘnàje :
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#### See also

* Thesaurus:tree
* Category:Trees
* arboreal

### Verb

tree (third-person singular simple present trees, present participle treeing, simple past and past participle treed)
* (transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
    The dog treed the cat.
** 1897, Henry Howard et al., editors, Encyclopaedia of Sport‎, volume I, London: Lawrence & Bullen, page 599:When hunted it [the jaguar] takes refuge in trees, and this habit is well known to hunters, who pursue it with dogs and pot it when treed.
** 2008, Monte Dwyer, Red In The Centre: The Australian Bush Through Urban Eyes, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 146:"And our dogs used to tree the cats on our property here, and we'd dispatch them."
* (transitive) To place in a tree.
    Black bears can tree their cubs for protection, but grizzly bears cannot.
* (transitive) To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree.
    to tree a boot
** 1930, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 14, in The Maltese Falcon‎, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 165:Two suits and an overcoat hung in the closet over three pairs of carefully treed shoes.
* (intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.

#### Translations
### References

* Tree (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* reet, rete, teer

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch tree, syncopic form of trede, from Middle Dutch trede. Equivalent to a deverbal from treden.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /trɪə̯/

### Noun

tree (plural treë)
* step (single act of placing the foot when walking)
* yard (unit of length)

## Dutch
### Alternative forms

* trede

### Etymology

From syncope of trede, from Middle Dutch trede. Equivalent to a deverbal from treden.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /treː/, [treː], [treɪ̯]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: tree
* Rhymes: -eː

### Noun

tree m (plural treden or treeën or trees, diminutive treetje n)
* step (of a staircase), stair
* (archaic) step (distance of one step when walking)
* (archaic, also tred) a unit of length of about 2 to 3 feet, roughly equivalent to a yard

#### Derived terms

* traptree

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: tree

### Anagrams

* eert, eter, reet, teer, tere

## Manx
### Alternative forms

* three

### Etymology

From Old Irish trí, from Proto-Celtic *trīs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /t̪riː/

### Numeral

tree
* three

### References

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Middle English
### Noun

tree
* Alternative form of tre

## North Frisian
### Etymology

From Old Frisian thrē.

### Numeral

tree
* (Heligoland) three

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtʲrʲe.e]

### Pronoun

tree
* third-person singular feminine accusative of tri: through her/it sg
** c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 2$^c$4
    Cain ro·noíbad Abracham tri hiris? In tree ǽm didiu fa nacc?Hasn’t Abraham been sanctified through faith? Through it then indeed or not?