cranberry
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Adapted in the 1640s from Dutch Low Saxon or German Low German Kraanbeere, from Kraan m (which means and is cognate with crane) + Beere f (which means and is cognate with berry). Equivalent to cran- + berry.
Via PIE cognate with Polish żurawina, Ukrainian журавли́на (žuravlýna) (akin to жураве́ль (žuravélʹ, “crane”)); Latvian dzērvene < dzērve (“crane”).
Base: berry
Affixes: cran-
Inflected forms:
form: cranberries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shrub belonging to the section Vaccinium sect. Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The edible red berry of that shrub.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
gloss: An intense red colour, like that of a cranberry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Of the intense red colour of a cranberry.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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 […]
Derived words: plants
American cranberry
Chilean cranberry
common cranberry
cranberry heath
highbush cranberry
large cranberry
lowbush cranberry
mountain cranberry
native cranberry
New Zealand cranberry
northern cranberry
small cranberry
southern mountain cranberry
other
craisin
cranapple
cranberried
cranberrita
cranberryade
cranberry bush
cranberry glass
cranberrying
cranberry juice
cranberrylike
cranberry morpheme
Cranberry Portage
cranberry word
crangrape
Cranmoor
crantini
Translations:
lang: Northern Altai
word: торвос
roman: torvos
lang: Southern Altai
word: сас јиилеги
roman: sas ǰiilegi
lang: Armenian
word: լոռամրգի
roman: loṙamrgi
lang: Bulgarian
word: червена боровинка
roman: červena borovinka
lang: Bulgarian
word: клю́ква
roman: kljúkva
lang: Catalan
word: nabiu de grua
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 蔓越橘
roman: mànyuèjú
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 蔓越桔
roman: mànyuèjú
lang: Chukchi
word: кԓёкаԓгын
roman: kḷjokaḷgyn
lang: Chukchi
word: кԓюкэт
roman: kḷjukėt
lang: Czech
word: brusinka
lang: Danish
word: tranebær
lang: Esperanto
word: oksikoko
lang: Finnish
word: karpalo
lang: French
word: canneberge
lang: Georgian
word: შტოში
roman: šṭoši
lang: German
word: Moosbeere
lang: German
word: Kronsbeere
lang: German
word: Kranbeere
lang: German
word: Cranberry
lang: Hungarian
word: tőzegáfonya
lang: Ingrian
word: karpalo
lang: Irish
word: mónóg
lang: Irish
word: tom mónóg
lang: Latgalian
word: dzērvine
lang: Latvian
word: dzērvene
lang: Low German
word: Kroonsbeer
lang: Macedonian
word: брусница
roman: brusnica
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: tranebær
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: tranebær
lang: Ojibwe
word: mashkiigiminaganzh
lang: Ojibwe
word: mashkiigiminagaawanzh
lang: Polish
word: żurawina
lang: Portuguese
word: oxicoco
lang: Russian
word: клю́ква
roman: kljúkva
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: muileag
lang: Shor
word: торбас честеги
roman: torbas čestegi
lang: Spanish
word: arándano rojo
lang: Spanish
word: mortiño rojo
lang: Spanish
word: anavia roja
lang: Swahili
word: mkranberi
lang: Turkish
word: turna yemişi
lang: Ukrainian
word: журавли́на
roman: žuravlýna
lang: Winnebago
word: hoocąkehu