holly

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɒli/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈhɔlɪj/
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• US: /ˈhɑli/
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• Scotland: /ˈhɔle/
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• Scotland: /-lɪ/
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• Scotland: /-li/
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• rhymes with -ɒli
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• CMU ARPABET: HH AA1 L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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* As an Irish surname, calque of mac cuilinn (“holly”) (see McCullen) and sometimes McQuillan. * As an English surname, variant of Holley. * As a Czech and Slovak surname, variant of Holý, Holy. * Also as a locational English surname, from Old English hol leah (“wood, clearing, meadow”), compare Hollywood. * Also as an English surname, short form of Holiday. * Also as an English surname, after the holly tree. * As a feminine given name popularized by Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's (especially the 1961 film adaptation starring Audrey Hepburn).

From Middle English holly, holi, holie, a shortened variation of holin, holyn (> English dialectal hollen, holm), from Old English holeġn, holen (“holly; prince, protector”), from Proto-West Germanic *hulis (“holly”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kelh2- (“to beat, break”). Cognates Cognate with Scots holin, hollin, holyn (“holly”), Dutch hulst (“holly”), German Hulst (“holly”), French houx ("holly" < Germanic), Danish hylver (“holly”), Welsh celyn (“holly”), Russian ко́лос (kólos, “ear of wheat”), Albanian kalli (“straw, chaff”), Latin culmus (“stalk, stem”), Sanskrit कटम्ब (kaṭamba, “arrow”), Old Church Slavonic класъ (klasŭ, “ear of grain”).

92 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: ashe — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Arabic: بَهَشِيَّة (bahašiyya) — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Arabic: إِيلِكْس (ʔīliks) — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Armenian: փշարմավ (pʻšarmav) — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Asturian: acebu — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Azerbaijani: şümşə — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Azerbaijani: pirkal — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Basque: gorosti — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Breton: kelenn — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Bulgarian: джел (džel) — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Bulgarian: бодлива зеленика (bodliva zelenika) — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Catalan: grèvol — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Cherokee: ᎤᏍᏓᏍᏗ (usdasdi) — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Chinese Mandarin: 冬青 (dōngqīng) — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Cornish: kelynnen — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Cornish: kelyn — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Czech: cesmína — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Danish: kristtorn — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Dutch: hulst — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Esperanto: ilekso — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Estonian: iileks — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Estonian: astelpõõsas — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Finnish: orjanlaakeri — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Franco-Provençal: agriblon — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• French: houx — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Friulian: rafacon — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Galician: acivro — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Galician: xardón — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Georgian: ბაძგი (baʒgi) — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Georgian: ჭყორი (č̣q̇ori) — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• German: Stechpalme — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• German: Hulse — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• German: Hulst — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• German: Hülse — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• German: Stechhülse — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• German: Hülsdorn — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• German: Ilex — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Greek: ίλεξ (ílex) — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Ancient Greek: κήλαστρος (kḗlastros) — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Hungarian: magyal — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Ido: ilexo — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Irish: cuileann — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Irish: crann cuilinn — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Italian: agrifoglio — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Japanese: 西洋柊 (seiyōhiiragi) — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Japanese: 犬黄楊 (inutsuge) — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Japanese: 黐の木 (mochinoki) — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Latin: acrifolium — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Lithuanian: bugienis — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Mingrelian: ბარცხინი (barcxini) — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Mingrelian: ბარცხელი (barcxeli) — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Mingrelian: ბაძგი (baʒgi) — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Navajo: didzéłchííʼ — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Norman: housse — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Norwegian: kristtorn — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Occitan: grefuèlh — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Occitan: agrèvol — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Occitan: agreu — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Occitan: grifol — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Old English: holen — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Persian: خاس (xâs) — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Polish: ostrokrzew — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Portuguese: azevinho — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Quechua: wayusa — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Quechua: asiwu — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Romanian: ilice — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Romanian: laur — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Russian: па́дуб (pádub) — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Russian: остроли́ст (ostrolíst) — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Sardinian: alase — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Sardinian: golosti — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Sardinian: olosti — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Sardinian: bolostru — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Scottish Gaelic: cuileann — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Scottish Gaelic: crann-cuilinn — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Scottish Gaelic: craobh-chuilinn — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Serbo-Croatian: божи́ковина — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Serbo-Croatian: božíkovina — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Sicilian: addaurufogghiu — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Slovak: cezmína — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Slovene: bodíka — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Spanish: acebo — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Svan: ბა̈რცხილ (bärcxil) — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Swedish: järnek — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Tagalog: asebo — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Turkish: çobanpüskülü — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Ottoman Turkish: پرنال (pırnal) — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Ukrainian: па́дуб (pádub) — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Venetan: agrifoi — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Venetan: spergol — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Welsh: celynen — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex
• Welsh: celyn — any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Ilex