blackberry
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old English blæcberġe
Middle English blakberie
English blackberry
From Middle English blakberie, blakeberie (“brambleberry”), from Old English blacu berġe, blæcberġe (attested in plural blaca berġan, equivalent to black + berry.
Compound parts: black
berry
Inflected forms:
form: blackberries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blackberries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blackberrying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blackberried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blackberried
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fruit-bearing shrub of the aggregate species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.
pos: noun
gloss: The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.
pos: noun
examples: Here at the creek, a ways off from the trail, we have blackberries for now, not as fat and sweet as they get, but I like them tart, with that little bit of red still at their tops, or if they’re just a little hard and not so soft they come off when you pull at them and leave your fingers stained.
gloss: Any Rubus berry that is black or blackish; the plant that produces it.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
informal
gloss: The blackcurrant.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dialectal
gloss: To gather or forage for blackberries.
pos: verb
examples: She had gone up into the tower alone and left them blackberrying in the sun
My mother and Cordelia were blackberrying along the woods edge of a nearby meadow.
Thereafter we blackberried unceasingly and returned with a large basketful, together with some maggoty windfall apples found neglected in the wet grass on the edge of an orchard and Mrs Clare duly stewed these for us.
My wife and children were blackberrying at the end of the garden and I was simply reading.
Another instance of someone who is blackberrying and sees fairies can be found at Kingheriot Farm (South-West Wales: Pembrokeshire): maybe gathering berries puts the percipient into a relaxed or dissociated frame of mind, more conducive to being able to see things that one would perhaps not normally be able to see.
Derived words: Armenian blackberry
blackberrita
blackberryade
blackberrylike
blackberry lily
blackberrytini
blackberry winter
California blackberry
Chehalem blackberry
Enslen's blackberry
Himalayan blackberry
knee-high blackberry
Pacific blackberry
plenty as blackberries
sand blackberry
Translations:
lang: Abenaki
word: pezagwdamenakwam
lang: Arabic
word: عُلَّيْق
roman: ʕullayq
lang: Arabic
word: بَاطُس
roman: bāṭus
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܗܲܠܘܲܙܢܵܐ
roman: hālwāzna
lang: Aramaic
word: ܣܢܝܐ
roman: sanyā
lang: Aramaic
word: ܣܢܝܐ
roman: sanyā
lang: Aramaic
word: 𐡎𐡍𐡉𐡀
roman: snyʾ
lang: Aramaic
word: סַנְיָא
roman: sanyā
lang: Armenian
word: մոշենի
roman: mošeni
lang: Asturian
word: artu
lang: Bashkir
word: бөрлөгән
roman: börlögən
lang: Bashkir
word: ҡара бөрлөгән
roman: qara börlögən
lang: Basque
word: masustondo
lang: Basque
word: lapar
lang: Belarusian
word: ажы́на
roman: ažýna
lang: Bulgarian
word: къпина
roman: kǎpina
lang: Catalan
word: esbarzer
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎧᏄᎦᎸ
roman: kanugalv
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 黑莓
roman: hēiméi
lang: Coptic
word: ⲃⲁⲧⲟⲥ
roman: batos
lang: Cree
word: ᑲᐢᑭᑌᒥᓈᐦᑎᐠ
roman: kaskiteminaahtik
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: büldürgen
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: bürlegen
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: búldúrgen
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: búrlegen
lang: Czech
word: ostružiník
lang: Danish
word: brombær
lang: Dutch
word: braamstruik
lang: Dutch
word: braam
lang: Esperanto
word: rubuso
lang: Esperanto
word: rubusujo
lang: Estonian
word: põldmurakas
lang: Faroese
word: rossaber
lang: Faroese
word: reyðber
lang: Finnish
word: karhunvatukka
lang: Finnish
word: vatukka
lang: French
word: ronce
lang: French
word: roncier
lang: French
word: mûrier
lang: Galician
word: silva
lang: Galician
word: silveira
lang: Galician
word: xibarda
lang: Galician
word: rubo
lang: Ge'ez
word: ባጦስ
roman: baṭos
lang: Ge'ez
word: ጳጦስ
roman: p̣aṭos
lang: Ge'ez
word: ጰጦስ
roman: p̣äṭos
lang: Georgian
word: მაყვალი
roman: maq̇vali
lang: German
word: Brombeerstrauch
lang: Greek
word: βατομουριά
roman: vatomouriá
lang: Ancient Greek
word: βάτος
roman: bátos
lang: Ancient Greek
word: μόρον
roman: móron
lang: Hungarian
word: szeder
lang: Hungarian
word: földi szeder
lang: Icelandic
word: brómber
lang: Icelandic
word: bjarnarber
lang: Italian
word: rovo
lang: Kikuyu
word: mũtare
lang: Kikuyu
word: ndare
lang: Korean
word: 검은딸기
roman: geomeunttalgi
lang: Kumyk
word: бюлдюрген
roman: büldürgen
lang: Kumyk
word: бюрюлген
roman: bürülgen
lang: Kumyk
word: бюрлюген
roman: bürlügen
lang: Latin
word: rubus
lang: Latin
word: batus
lang: Latvian
word: kazene
lang: Macedonian
word: капина
roman: kapina
lang: Māori
word: parakipere
lang: Middle English
word: blakberie
lang: Middle English
word: brembel
lang: Nogai
word: буьлдирген
roman: büldirgen
lang: Nogai
word: боьлдирген
roman: böldirgen
lang: Norman
word: ronche
lang: Norwegian
word: bjørnebær
lang: Ojibwe
word: odatagaagominagaawanzh
lang: Old English
word: brǣmel
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: чернїца
roman: černjica
lang: Pennsylvania German
word: Blaeckbeer
lang: Polish
word: jeżyna
lang: Polish
word: ożyna
lang: Polish
word: ostrężyna
lang: Portuguese
word: amoreira
lang: Portuguese
word: sarça
lang: Quapaw
word: waxéka hi
lang: Romanian
word: mur
lang: Russian
word: ежеви́ка
roman: ježevíka
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: dris
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: купина
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kupina
lang: Sicilian
word: ruvettu
lang: Slovene
word: robída
lang: Spanish
word: zarza
lang: Spanish
word: zarzamora
lang: Spanish
word: mora
lang: Swedish
word: björnbär
lang: Tagalog
word: sapinit
lang: Tagalog
word: sarsamora
lang: Tatar
word: кара бөрлегән
roman: qara börlegän
lang: Tatar
word: qara börlegän
lang: Turkish
word: böğürtlen
lang: Ukrainian
word: ожи́на
roman: ožýna
lang: Unami
word: mhuwinkwsakw
lang: Welsh
word: mieri