gorse

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• General-American: gôrs
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• General-American: /ɡɔɹs/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɡɔːs/
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From Middle English gorst, gors, from Old English gors, gorst, from Proto-West Germanic *gorst, from Proto-Germanic *gurstaz or Proto-West Germanic *gerstu (“barley”). Akin to German Gerste (“barley”) and Latin hordeum (“barley”). Also compare Proto-Indo-European *ǵher- (“to bristle”), whence Proto-Celtic *garwos.

50 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: جَوْلَق (jawlaq) — evergreen shrub
• Asturian: toxu — evergreen shrub
• Asturian: argaña — evergreen shrub
• Basque: ote — evergreen shrub
• Bulgarian: пре́щип (préštip) — evergreen shrub
• Catalan: gatosa — evergreen shrub
• Chinese Mandarin: 荊豆 /荆豆 (jīngdòu) — evergreen shrub
• Cornish: eythinen — evergreen shrub
• Cornish: eythin — evergreen shrub
• Czech: hlodáš — evergreen shrub
• Danish: tornblad — evergreen shrub
• Dutch: gaspeldoorn — evergreen shrub
• Esperanto: ulekso — evergreen shrub
• Faroese: tornblað — evergreen shrub
• Finnish: piikkiherne — evergreen shrub
• French: ajonc — evergreen shrub
• Galician: toxo — evergreen shrub
• Galician: árgoma — evergreen shrub
• Galician: broxón — evergreen shrub
• Galician: arxe — evergreen shrub
• German: Ginster — evergreen shrub
• German: Stechginster — evergreen shrub
• Greek: σπάρτος (spártos) — evergreen shrub
• Hebrew: אולקס (aulex) — evergreen shrub
• Hungarian: sünzanót — evergreen shrub
• Hungarian: töviszanót — evergreen shrub
• Hungarian: sülbige — evergreen shrub
• Icelandic: hvinviður — evergreen shrub
• Irish: aiteann — evergreen shrub
• Irish: aiteannach — evergreen shrub
• Italian: ginestrone — evergreen shrub
• Italian: ginestra spinosa — evergreen shrub
• Manx: conney — evergreen shrub
• Manx: aittin — evergreen shrub
• Manx: aadjin — evergreen shrub
• Māori: kōti — evergreen shrub
• Māori: kōhi — evergreen shrub
• Portuguese: tojeira — evergreen shrub
• Portuguese: tojo — evergreen shrub
• Russian: дро́к (drók) — evergreen shrub
• Russian: утёсник (utjósnik) — evergreen shrub
• Scottish Gaelic: conasg — evergreen shrub
• Serbo-Croatian: штипавац — evergreen shrub
• Serbo-Croatian: štipavac — evergreen shrub
• Spanish: tojo — evergreen shrub
• Spanish: aulaga — evergreen shrub
• Spanish: retamo espinoso — evergreen shrub
• Swedish: ärttörne — evergreen shrub
• Welsh: eithinen — evergreen shrub
• Welsh: eithin — evergreen shrub