linden

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• /ˈlɪn.dən/
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From Middle English linden, from Old English linden (“linden”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *lindīnaz, from Proto-Germanic *lindō (“linden tree”), equivalent to lind + -en. Cognate with Middle Low German linden (“linden”, adjective), German Low German Linnenboom (“linden-tree”), West Frisian linenbeam (“linden-tree”), German linden (“linden”, adjective). The English noun developed from the adjective.

* As a Dutch, German and Jewish surname, plural form of Linde. * As a Dutch and West Flemish surname, from several placenames called Linden or Lienden. Also shortened from Vanderlinden. * As a Swedish surname, from lind (“lime tree”). Compare Lindeen. * As an English surname, variant of Lindon. * As an Irish surname, shortened from McLinden, itself a variant of McClinton.

122 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: аҭәа (atwa) — tree
• Albanian: bli — tree
• Arabic: زَيْزَفُون (zayzafūn) — tree
• Armenian: լորենի (loreni) — tree
• Aromanian: tilju — tree
• Aromanian: tiljiu — tree
• Azerbaijani: cökə — tree
• Bashkir: йүкә (yükə) — tree
• Basque: ezki — tree
• Bats: ცაცხო̂ (cacxô) — tree
• Bulgarian: липа́ (lipá) — tree
• Catalan: tell — tree
• Catalan: til·ler — tree
• Chechen: хьех (ḥrex) — tree
• Cherokee: ᎢᏕᎭ (ideha) — tree
• Chinese Mandarin: 椴 (duàn) — tree
• Chuvash: ҫӑка (śăk̬a) — tree
• Corsican: tigliolu — tree
• Czech: lípa — tree
• Danish: lind — tree
• Dutch: linde — tree
• Dutch: lindeboom — tree
• Esperanto: tilio — tree
• Estonian: pärn — tree
• Estonian: pärnapuu — tree
• Finnish: lehmus — tree
• French: tilleul — tree
• Friulian: tei — tree
• Galician: tilleira — tree
• Georgian: ცაცხვი (cacxvi) — tree
• German: Linde — tree
• German: Lindenbaum — tree
• Greek: φλαμουριά (flamouriá) — tree
• Greek: φιλύρα (filýra) — tree
• Ancient Greek: φιλύρα (philúra) — tree
• Hebrew: תִּרְזָה (tirzá) — tree
• Hungarian: hársfa — tree
• Hungarian: hárs — tree
• Icelandic: lind — tree
• Icelandic: linditré — tree
• Ido: tilio — tree
• Ingrian: niini — tree
• Ingrian: niinipuu — tree
• Ingrian: pärnä — tree
• Irish: teile — tree
• Italian: tiglio — tree
• Japanese: 科の木 (shinanoki) — tree
• Kaitag: хи́ра (ꭓíra) — tree
• Kazakh: жөке (jöke) — tree
• Latgalian: līpa — tree
• Latin: tilia — tree
• Latvian: liepa — tree
• Laz: დუცხუ (duʒxu) — tree
• Lithuanian: liepa — tree
• Low German: linn — tree
• Luxembourgish: Lann — tree
• Macedonian: липа (lipa) — tree
• Eastern Mari: писте (piste) — tree
• Mingrelian: ცხაცხუ (cxacxu) — tree
• Norman: tilleul — tree
• Norwegian Bokmål: lind — tree
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lind — tree
• Occitan: telh — tree
• Old English: lind — tree
• Persian: نرمدار (narmdār) — tree
• Persian: کدر (kodor) — tree
• Persian: کیو (kiv) — tree
• Persian: پالاد (pālād) — tree
• Persian: اخلامور (axlāmur) — tree
• Persian: زیزفون (zizofun) — tree
• Polish: lipa — tree
• Portuguese: tília — tree
• Romanian: tei — tree
• Russian: ли́па (lípa) — tree
• Sardinian: tílliu — tree
• Sardinian: tíja — tree
• Serbo-Croatian: ли̏па — tree
• Serbo-Croatian: lȉpa — tree
• Sicilian: tigghiu — tree
• Sicilian: tigliu — tree
• Slovene: lípa — tree
• Lower Sorbian: lipa — tree
• Spanish: tilo — tree
• Svan: ზა̈სხუ̂ (zäsxû) — tree
• Svan: ცა̈ცხუ̂ (cäcxû) — tree
• Swedish: lind — tree
• Tatar: юкә (yükä) — tree
• Turkish: ıhlamur — tree
• Ottoman Turkish: فلامور (fılamur) — tree
• Ottoman Turkish: افلامور (ıflamur) — tree
• Ottoman Turkish: اخلامور (ıhlamur) — tree
• Ottoman Turkish: اوغلامور (uğlamur) — tree
• Ottoman Turkish: اولامور (ulamur) — tree
• Udmurt: беризь (beriź) — tree
• Ukrainian: ли́па (lýpa) — tree
• Venetan: tìlio — tree
• Venetan: teàr — tree
• Venetan: tiér — tree
• Venetan: tajér — tree
• Venetan: tajàro — tree
• Vietnamese: đoạn — tree
• Vilamovian: łynd — tree
• Volapük: tiliad — tree
• Volapük: tiliadabim — tree
• Welsh: llwyfanen fanw — tree
• Chinese Mandarin: 椴木 — wood from such tree
• Dutch: lindehout — wood from such tree
• Estonian: pärnapuit — wood from such tree
• Finnish: lehmus — wood from such tree
• German: Linde — wood from such tree
• Greek: φλαμούρι (flamoúri) — wood from such tree
• Hungarian: hársfa — wood from such tree
• Hungarian: hárs — wood from such tree
• Ingrian: niini — wood from such tree
• Latgalian: līpa — wood from such tree
• Latvian: liepkoks — wood from such tree
• Polish: lipa — wood from such tree
• Portuguese: tília — wood from such tree
• Russian: ли́па (lípa) — wood from such tree
• Serbo-Croatian: липoвина — wood from such tree
• Serbo-Croatian: lipovina — wood from such tree
• Volapük: tiliadaboad — wood from such tree