medlar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English medler, medeler, from Old French medler, meslier, from medle, mesdle (“medlar fruit”), from Latin mespilum, from Ancient Greek μέσπιλον (méspilon). Related to the rare mesple, via Proto-West Germanic *mespilā. Displaced Old English openærs (“open-arse”) (and similar names, from anatomical comparison).
Inflected forms:
form: medlars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Mespilus germanica, common medlar (now often Crataegus germanica).
pos: noun
gloss: Any tree of the genus Mespilus, now Crataegus sect. Mespilus, including many species now in other genera.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:
pos: noun
gloss: The fruit of such trees, similar to small apples
pos: noun
gloss: The fruit of such trees, similar to small apples:
pos: noun
gloss: A woman or a woman's genitalia (as the fruit's appearance resembles an "open-arse").
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: I was once before him for getting a wench with child....but I was fain to forswear it; they would else have married me to the rotten medlar.
Derived words: African medlar
common medlar
Dutch medlar
Japan medlar
Japanese medlar
Mediterranean medlar
Neapolitan medlar
red medlar
Savoy medlar
Spanish medlar (Mimusops elengi
Stern's medlar
Welsh medlar
Translations:
lang: Abkhaz
word: а-ба́цә
roman: a-bácʷ
lang: Abkhaz
word: а-мушмула
roman: a-muŝmula
lang: Albanian
word: mushmollë
lang: Arabic
word: مُشْمُلَة
roman: mušmula
lang: Arabic
word: إِسْكِدُنْيَا
roman: ʔiskidunyā
lang: Arabic
word: زُعْرُور
roman: zuʕrūr
lang: Arabic
word: مُصَع
roman: muṣaʕ
lang: Armenian
word: սգռենի
roman: sgṙeni
lang: Armenian
word: զղյարենի
roman: zġyareni
lang: Armenian
word: զկեռենի
roman: zkeṙeni
lang: Armenian
word: զկեռ
roman: zkeṙ
lang: Asturian
word: cadapanal
lang: Asturian
word: nesperal
lang: Asturian
word: niésperu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: əzgil
lang: Basque
word: mizpirondo
lang: Basque
word: mizpira
lang: Bats
word: სიმაჲრტყლი̂
roman: simayrṭq̇lî
lang: Bulgarian
word: мушмула
roman: mušmula
lang: Catalan
word: nespler
lang: Catalan
word: nesprer
lang: Chechen
word: хьамц
roman: ḥʳamc
lang: Danish
word: mispel
lang: Dutch
word: mispelboom
lang: Dutch
word: mispelaar
lang: Esperanto
word: mespilujo
lang: Esperanto
word: mespilarbo
lang: Finnish
word: mispeli
lang: French
word: néflier
lang: Friulian
word: gnespolâr
lang: Galician
word: nespereira
lang: Georgian
word: ზღმარტლი
roman: zɣmarṭli
lang: German
word: Mispel
lang: Ancient Greek
word: μέσπιλον
roman: méspilon
lang: Hungarian
word: naspolya
lang: Ingush
word: хьамиск
roman: ḥʳamisk
lang: Irish
word: meispeal Gearmánach
lang: Italian
word: nespolo
lang: Latin
word: mespilum
lang: Laz
word: ცხიმუნტური
roman: ʒximunťuri
lang: Macedonian
word: мушмула
roman: mušmula
lang: Middle English
word: medler
lang: Mingrelian
word: ცქუმუნტური
roman: ckumunṭuri
lang: Mingrelian
word: ბაცუ
roman: bacu
lang: Occitan
word: nesplièr
lang: Occitan
word: mesplièr
lang: Ossetian
word: мугӕ
roman: mugæ
lang: Ossetian
word: мантъылы
roman: mant’yly
lang: Persian
word: ازگیل
roman: azgil
lang: Polish
word: nieszpułka
lang: Portuguese
word: nespereira
lang: Romanian
word: moșmon
lang: Romanian
word: mușmul
lang: Russian
word: мушмула́
roman: mušmulá
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: мушмула
lang: Slovene
word: nešplja
lang: Spanish
word: níspero (europeo)
lang: Spanish
word: níspero
lang: Svan
word: ჟუ̄ნტუ
roman: žūnṭu
lang: Swedish
word: mispel
lang: Turkish
word: muşmula
lang: Turkish
word: muşmula ağacı
lang: Walloon
word: mesplî
lang: Welsh
word: merysbren