berry

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• homophone: bury
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• homophone: Barry
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• homophone: beary (Mary–marry–merry merger)
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Variant of Bury and (in dialects with Mary-marry-merry merger) Barry. The given name is also a pet form of names beginning with Ber-.

From berry; also a pet form of Beryl, Berenice, or Berinthia.

From French Berry.

From Middle English berye, from Old English berġe, from Proto-West Germanic *baʀi, from Proto-Germanic *bazją. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bäie, West Flemish beier, German Beere, Icelandic ber, Danish bær. The slang sense "police car" may come from the lights on the vehicles' roofs.

From Middle English berȝe, berghe, from Old English beorġe, dative form of beorg (“mountain, hill, mound, barrow”), from Proto-West Germanic *berg, from Proto-Germanic *bergaz (“mountain, hill”). More at barrow. Cognates Cognate with Scots burrow (“mound, tumulus, barrow”), North Frisian Bārig, beerch, beeri, beerj, berag, berig, berri, bärj (“mountain”), Saterland Frisian Bierich, Bíerig, Bäirch (“mountain”), West Frisian berch (“mountain”), Cimbrian pèrge (“mountain”), Dutch berg (“mountain”), German Berg (“mountain”), German Low German Barg (“mountain”), Limburgish berg, Bärrech (“hill, mountain”), Luxembourgish Bierg (“mountain”), Mòcheno pèrg (“mountain”), Yiddish באַרג (barg, “mountain”), Danish bjerg (“mountain”), Faroese berg, bjarg (“cliff”), bjørg (“cliffs”), Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish berg (“mountain”); also Northern Luri برگ (berg, “mountain”), Polish brzeg (“bank, shore”), Russian бе́рег (béreg, “bank, shore”).

From Middle English bery (“a burrow”). More at burrow.

From Middle English beryen, berien, from Old English *berian (found only in past participle ġebered (“crushed, kneaded, harassed, oppressed, vexed”)), from Proto-West Germanic *barjan, from Proto-Germanic *barjaną (“to beat, hit”), from Proto-Indo-European *bherH- (“to rip, cut, split, grate”). Cognate with Scots berry, barry (“to thresh, thrash”), German beren (“to beat, knead”), Icelandic berja (“to beat”), Latin feriō (“strike, hit”, verb).

170 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: bessie — small succulent fruit
• Ainu: エマウリ (emawri) — small succulent fruit
• Albanian: kokërr — small succulent fruit
• Southern Altai: јиилек (ǰiilek) — small succulent fruit
• Southern Altai: јилек (ǰilek) — small succulent fruit
• Alutor: ывынʔын (əvənʔən) — small succulent fruit
• Arabic: تُوت (tūt) — small succulent fruit
• Arabic: حَبَّة (ḥabba) — small succulent fruit
• Arabic: توتة (tūta) — small succulent fruit
• Arabic: توت (tūt) — small succulent fruit
• Arabic: توت (tūt) — small succulent fruit
• Arabic: توت (tūt) — small succulent fruit
• Arabic: عليق (ʕeléʔ) — small succulent fruit
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܘܼܬܵܐ (tuta) — small succulent fruit
• Armenian: հատապտուղ (hataptuġ) — small succulent fruit
• Azerbaijani: giləmeyvə — small succulent fruit
• Azerbaijani: meyvə — small succulent fruit
• Azerbaijani: gilə — small succulent fruit
• Bashkir: еләк (yelək) — small succulent fruit
• Belarusian: я́гада (jáhada) — small succulent fruit
• Bengali: বেরি (beri) — small succulent fruit
• Breton: hugenn — small succulent fruit
• Bulgarian: зръ́нце (zrǎ́nce) — small succulent fruit
• Burmese: ဗယ်ရီသီး (bairisi:) — small succulent fruit
• Burmese: အသီးကလေး (a.si:ka.le:) — small succulent fruit
• Buryat: жэмэс (žemes) — small succulent fruit
• Catalan: baia — small succulent fruit
• Chechen: цӏазам (cʼazam) — small succulent fruit
• Cherokee: ᎤᏓᏔᏅᎯ (udatanvhi) — small succulent fruit
• Chinese Cantonese: 漿果 /浆果 (zoeng1 gwo2) — small succulent fruit
• Chinese Mandarin: 漿果 /浆果 (jiāngguǒ) — small succulent fruit
• Chinese Mandarin: 莓 (méi) — small succulent fruit
• Chinook Jargon: ulali — small succulent fruit
• Chukchi: оонъыԓгын (oonʺyḷgyn) — small succulent fruit
• Chukchi: уунъэт (uunʺėt) — small succulent fruit
• Chuvash: ҫырла (śyrla) — small succulent fruit
• Cornish: moren — small succulent fruit
• Czech: bobule — small succulent fruit
• Danish: bær — small succulent fruit
• Dutch: bes — small succulent fruit
• Esperanto: bero — small succulent fruit
• Estonian: mari — small succulent fruit
• Evenki: диктэ (ʒiktə) — small succulent fruit
• Faroese: ber — small succulent fruit
• Finnish: marja — small succulent fruit
• French: baie — small succulent fruit
• Galician: baga — small succulent fruit
• Georgian: კენკრა (ḳenḳra) — small succulent fruit
• German: Beere — small succulent fruit
• German: Berri — small succulent fruit
• Greek: μούρο (moúro) — small succulent fruit
• Ancient Greek: ῥάξ (rháx) — small succulent fruit
• Hebrew: פֵּרוֹת יַעַר (perót yá'ar) — small succulent fruit
• Hindi: बेरी (berī) — small succulent fruit
• Hungarian: bogyó — small succulent fruit
• Icelandic: ber — small succulent fruit
• Ido: bero — small succulent fruit
• Indonesian: beri — small succulent fruit
• Ingrian: marja — small succulent fruit
• Interlingua: baca — small succulent fruit
• Irish: caor — small succulent fruit
• Italian: bacca — small succulent fruit
• Italian: coccola — small succulent fruit
• Japanese: 漿果 (shōka) — small succulent fruit
• Japanese: ベリー (berī) — small succulent fruit
• Japanese: 木の実 (ki no mi) — small succulent fruit
• Japanese: 果実 (kajitsu) — small succulent fruit
• Japanese: 木の実 (konomi) — small succulent fruit
• Kalmyk: земш (zemş) — small succulent fruit
• Kazakh: жидек (jidek) — small succulent fruit
• Khakas: чистек (çistek) — small succulent fruit
• Khmer: ប៊ឺរី (bɨɨrii) — small succulent fruit
• Korean: 장과 (janggwa) — small succulent fruit
• Kumyk: авлакъ емиш (awlaq yemiş) — small succulent fruit
• Kyrgyz: жемиш (jemiş) — small succulent fruit
• Kyrgyz: жер жемиш (jer jemiş) — small succulent fruit
• Lao: ຫມາກໄມ້ (māk mai) — small succulent fruit
• Lao: ຫມາກໄມ້ນ້ອຍ (māk mai nǭi) — small succulent fruit
• Latin: bāca — small succulent fruit
• Latin: acinus — small succulent fruit
• Latvian: oga — small succulent fruit
• Lithuanian: uoga — small succulent fruit
• Lushootseed: sq'wəlałəd — small succulent fruit
• Lutuv: athyi — small succulent fruit
• Luxembourgish: Bier — small succulent fruit
• Macedonian: бобинка (bobinka) — small succulent fruit
• Malay: beri — small succulent fruit
• Māori: kakano — small succulent fruit
• Māori: patatini — small succulent fruit
• Eastern Mari: емыж (jemyž) — small succulent fruit
• Mòcheno: per — small succulent fruit
• Mongolian: жимс (žims) — small succulent fruit
• Navajo: didzé — small succulent fruit
• Norwegian Bokmål: bær — small succulent fruit
• Occitan: baia — small succulent fruit
• Old East Slavic: ꙗгода (jagoda) — small succulent fruit
• Old English: berġe — small succulent fruit
• Ossetian: гагадыргъ (gagadyrǧ) — small succulent fruit
• Iranian Persian: سَتِّه (satte) — small succulent fruit
• Polish: jagoda — small succulent fruit
• Portuguese: baga — small succulent fruit
• Portuguese: frutinha — small succulent fruit
• Romanian: bacă — small succulent fruit
• Russian: я́года (jágoda) — small succulent fruit
• Scottish Gaelic: dearc — small succulent fruit
• Scottish Gaelic: sùbh — small succulent fruit
• Serbo-Croatian: бо̀бица — small succulent fruit
• Serbo-Croatian: bòbica — small succulent fruit
• Shor: честек (çestek) — small succulent fruit
• Sicilian: cocciu — small succulent fruit
• Slovak: bobuľa — small succulent fruit
• Slovene: jagoda — small succulent fruit
• Lower Sorbian: jagoda — small succulent fruit
• Spanish: baya — small succulent fruit
• Sudovian: vōga — small succulent fruit
• Swedish: bär — small succulent fruit
• Tagalog: baya — small succulent fruit
• Tagalog: bitungol — small succulent fruit
• Tajik: буттамева (buttameva) — small succulent fruit
• Tatar: җиләк (ciläk) — small succulent fruit
• Thai: เบอร์รี (bəə-rîi) — small succulent fruit
• Thai: เบอรี่ (bəə-rîi) — small succulent fruit
• Tibetan: བསེའུ (bse'u) — small succulent fruit
• Tibetan: སེ་འབྲུ (se 'bru) — small succulent fruit
• Tibetan: ལུམ་འབྲས — small succulent fruit
• Turkish: meyve — small succulent fruit
• Turkish: yemiş — small succulent fruit
• Turkmen: iýmiş — small succulent fruit
• Tuvan: кат (kat) — small succulent fruit
• Ukrainian: я́года (jáhoda) — small succulent fruit
• Urdu: بیری (berī) — small succulent fruit
• Urdu: تُوت (tūt) — small succulent fruit
• Uyghur: مېۋە (mëwe) — small succulent fruit
• Uzbek: meva — small succulent fruit
• Uzbek: reza meva — small succulent fruit
• Vietnamese: quả mọng — small succulent fruit
• Vietnamese: quả — small succulent fruit
• Vilamovian: bier — small succulent fruit
• Volapük: bäl — small succulent fruit
• Welsh: maconen — small succulent fruit
• Welsh: aeronen — small succulent fruit
• Welsh: mwyaren — small succulent fruit
• West Flemish: beier — small succulent fruit
• Yakut: отон (oton) — small succulent fruit
• Yiddish: יאַגדע (yagde) — small succulent fruit
• Yiddish: יאַגעדע (yagede) — small succulent fruit
• Zulu: uhlamvu class 11/10 — small succulent fruit
• Belarusian: я́гада (jáhada) — botany: soft fruit developing from a superior ovary and containing seeds not encased in pits
• Chinese Mandarin: 漿果 /浆果 (jiāngguǒ) — botany: soft fruit developing from a superior ovary and containing seeds not encased in pits
• French: baie — botany: soft fruit developing from a superior ovary and containing seeds not encased in pits
• Georgian: კენკრა (ḳenḳra) — botany: soft fruit developing from a superior ovary and containing seeds not encased in pits
• German: Beere — botany: soft fruit developing from a superior ovary and containing seeds not encased in pits
• Hebrew: עֲנָבָה ('anavá) — botany: soft fruit developing from a superior ovary and containing seeds not encased in pits
• Hungarian: bogyótermés — botany: soft fruit developing from a superior ovary and containing seeds not encased in pits
• Hungarian: bogyógyümölcs — botany: soft fruit developing from a superior ovary and containing seeds not encased in pits
• Hungarian: bogyós gyümölcs — botany: soft fruit developing from a superior ovary and containing seeds not encased in pits
• Hungarian: bogyóféle — botany: soft fruit developing from a superior ovary and containing seeds not encased in pits
• Irish: caor — botany: soft fruit developing from a superior ovary and containing seeds not encased in pits
• Japanese: 漿果 (shōka) — botany: soft fruit developing from a superior ovary and containing seeds not encased in pits
• Korean: 장과 (janggwa) — botany: soft fruit developing from a superior ovary and containing seeds not encased in pits
• Polish: jagoda — botany: soft fruit developing from a superior ovary and containing seeds not encased in pits
• Russian: я́года (jágoda) — botany: soft fruit developing from a superior ovary and containing seeds not encased in pits
• Scottish Gaelic: dearc — botany: soft fruit developing from a superior ovary and containing seeds not encased in pits
• Scottish Gaelic: sùbh — botany: soft fruit developing from a superior ovary and containing seeds not encased in pits
• Lower Sorbian: jagoda — botany: soft fruit developing from a superior ovary and containing seeds not encased in pits
• Tagalog: tagtasbunga — botany: soft fruit developing from a superior ovary and containing seeds not encased in pits
• Ukrainian: я́года (jáhoda) — botany: soft fruit developing from a superior ovary and containing seeds not encased in pits
• Welsh: macon — botany: soft fruit developing from a superior ovary and containing seeds not encased in pits
• Welsh: mwyar — botany: soft fruit developing from a superior ovary and containing seeds not encased in pits
• Welsh: aeron — botany: soft fruit developing from a superior ovary and containing seeds not encased in pits