heather

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɛðə/
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• General-American: /ˈhɛðɚ/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈheðə/
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• Scotland: /ˈhɛðəɾ/
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• obsolete: /ˈhiːðəɹ/
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• rhymes with -ɛðə(ɹ)
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• /ˈhiːðə/ Leicestershire
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• CMU ARPABET: HH EH1 DH ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English hather, hathir, from Old English *hǣddre and hǣþ (“heather”), cognate with Scots hedder, hadder, heddir (“heather”), Saterland Frisian Heede (“heather”), West Frisian heide (“heather”), Dutch heide (“heather”), German Low German Heide, Heid (“heather”), German Heide (“heather”).

From heather; the given name is one of the plant names taken up in the 19th century. The surname is habitational, also meaning someone living on a heath.

109 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: هِيذِر (hiḏer) — female given name
• Bulgarian: Хедър (Hedǎr) — female given name
• Chinese Mandarin: 希瑟 (Xīsè) — female given name
• Esperanto: Ĥizer — female given name
• Japanese: ヘザー (Hezā) — female given name
• Korean: 헤더 (Hedeo) — female given name
• Marathi: हेदर (hedar) — female given name
• Russian: Хи́зер (Xízer) — female given name
• Ukrainian: Хі́зер (Xízer) — female given name
• Welsh: Grug — female given name
• Albanian: shqopë — plant
• Arabic: خَلَنْج (ḵalanj) — plant
• Asturian: urcia — plant
• Asturian: ucia — plant
• Asturian: uza — plant
• Asturian: uz — plant
• Asturian: bericiu — plant
• Breton: brug — plant
• Catalan: bruc — plant
• Catalan: bruguerola — plant
• Catalan: bruguera — plant
• Chinese Mandarin: 帚石楠 (zhǒushínán) — plant
• Cornish: grug — plant
• Czech: vřes — plant
• Danish: hedelyng — plant
• Danish: lyng — plant
• Dutch: heide — plant
• Esperanto: eriko — plant
• Faroese: lyngur — plant
• Finnish: kanerva — plant
• French: bruyère — plant
• French: callune — plant
• Galician: breixo — plant
• Galician: uz — plant
• Galician: queiroa — plant
• German: Besenheide — plant
• German: Heidekraut — plant
• Greek: ρείκι (reíki) — plant
• Greek: ερείκη (ereíki) — plant
• Ancient Greek: ἐρείκη (ereíkē) — plant
• Hungarian: hanga — plant
• Hungarian: csarab — plant
• Icelandic: lyng — plant
• Ingrian: kanerva — plant
• Irish: fraoch — plant
• Italian: erica — plant
• Italian: brugo — plant
• Japanese: ギリュウモドキ (giryūmodoki) — plant
• Lithuanian: viržis — plant
• Macedonian: врес (vres) — plant
• Norman: brüethe — plant
• Norwegian: røsslyng — plant
• Occitan: bruga — plant
• Persian: خلنگ (xalang) — plant
• Polish: wrzos — plant
• Portuguese: urze — plant
• Romanian: iarbă neagră — plant
• Russian: ве́реск (véresk) — plant
• Inari-Sami: hiävuštooŋâs — plant
• Inari-Sami: riddopáinu — plant
• Kildin-Sami: нуҏҏт (nur̥r̥t) — plant
• Kildin-Sami: нуаҏҏт (nuar̥r̥t) — plant
• Kildin-Sami: кэцкас (keckas) — plant
• Northern Sami: heavušdaŋas — plant
• Northern Sami: livdnju — plant
• Skolt-Sami: liiunj — plant
• Scottish Gaelic: fraoch — plant
• Serbo-Croatian: vrijes — plant
• Serbo-Croatian: vresak — plant
• Serbo-Croatian: vres — plant
• Serbo-Croatian: vrijesak — plant
• Spanish: brezo — plant
• Spanish: urce — plant
• Swedish: ljung — plant
• Veps: kanabrʹ — plant
• Volapük: brüyär — plant
• Võro: kanarik — plant
• Welsh: grug — plant
• Catalan: bruc — various species of the genus Erica
• Chinese Mandarin: 歐石楠 /欧石楠 (ōushínán) — various species of the genus Erica
• Czech: vřesovec — various species of the genus Erica
• Finnish: kanerva — various species of the genus Erica
• French: éricacée — various species of the genus Erica
• Galician: uz — various species of the genus Erica
• Galician: breixo — various species of the genus Erica
• Galician: queiroa — various species of the genus Erica
• German: Heide — various species of the genus Erica
• German: Erika — various species of the genus Erica
• German: Brüüsch — various species of the genus Erica
• Ancient Greek: ἐρείκη (ereíkē) — various species of the genus Erica
• Italian: brugo — various species of the genus Erica
• Italian: erica — various species of the genus Erica
• Portuguese: urze — various species of the genus Erica
• Scottish Gaelic: fraoch — various species of the genus Erica
• Serbo-Croatian: vres — various species of the genus Erica
• Serbo-Croatian: vrijes — various species of the genus Erica
• Serbo-Croatian: vresak — various species of the genus Erica
• Serbo-Croatian: vrijesak — various species of the genus Erica
• Swedish: ljung — various species of the genus Erica
• Swedish: klockljung — various species of the genus Erica
• Turkish: süpürge otu — various species of the genus Erica
• Turkish: süpürge çalısı — various species of the genus Erica
• French: bruyère — colour
• French: lilas — colour
• Serbo-Croatian: boja vrijesa — colour
• Serbo-Croatian: boja vresa — colour
• Serbo-Croatian: boja vrijeska — colour
• Serbo-Croatian: boja vreska — colour
• Welsh: ehöeg — colour