name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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Standard Lemma guide
thistle
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/θɪsl̩/
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rhymes with -ɪsəl
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CMU ARPABET: TH IH1 S AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Any of several perennial composite plants, especially of genera Cirsium, Carduus, Cynara, or Onopordum, having prickly leaves and showy flower heads with prickly bracts.
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noun
Meaning 3
This plant seen as the national emblem of Scotland.
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noun
Meaning 4
An image of this plant used as a charge.
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Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics
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noun
Meaning 5
The Order of the Thistle, or membership thereof.
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noun
Meaning 6
any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves
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Broader terms: weed
Narrower terms: welted thistle, Carduus crispus, musk thistle, nodding thistle, Carduus nutans, carline thistle, plume thistle, plumed thistle, field thistle, Cirsium discolor, melancholy thistle, Cirsium heterophylum, Cirsium helenioides, blessed thistle, sweet sultan, Cnicus benedictus, cotton thistle, woolly thistle, Scotch thistle, Onopordum acanthium, Onopordon acanthium, golden thistle
History
Etymology
English surname from the noun thistle. Anglicized sources include German Distel and Norwegian Tistel (see tistel).
From Middle English thistel, from Old English þistel, from Proto-West Germanic *þistil, from Proto-Germanic *þistilaz. *þīh- from *teyg-, which is a variant of Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to prick”); from this same Proto-Indo-European root comes English stick. Cognates include Scots thrissel, German Distel, Dutch distel, and Old Norse and Icelandic þistill.
Across languages
Translations
82 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: gjembaç — plant
- Albanian: rrëfeshk — plant
- Albanian: ferreckë — plant
- Albanian: gjemb gomari — plant
- Arabic: شوك (šūk) — plant
- Armenian: տատասկափուշ (tataskapʻuš) — plant
- Armenian: ուղտափուշ (uġtapʻuš) — plant
- Armenian: տատասկ (tatask) — plant
- Azerbaijani: qanqal — plant
- Basque: kardu — plant
- Belarusian: чартапало́х (čartapalóx) — plant
- Bulgarian: магарешки бодил (magareški bodil) — plant
- Catalan: card — plant
- Chinese Mandarin: 薊 /蓟 (jì) — plant
- Cornish: askal — plant
- Cornish: askallen — plant
- Czech: bodlák — plant
- Danish: tidsel — plant
- Dutch: distel — plant
- Erzya: чудожов (čudožov) — plant
- Esperanto: kardo — plant
- Estonian: ohakas — plant
- Estonian: takjas — plant
- Finnish: ohdake — plant
- Finnish: takiainen — plant
- French: chardon — plant
- Galician: cardo — plant
- Galician: cardio — plant
- Galician: toba — plant
- Galician: arzola — plant
- Galician: melardo — plant
- German: Distel — plant
- Greek: γαϊδουράγκαθο (gaïdourágkatho) — plant
- Ancient Greek: βαρακίνη (barakínē) — plant
- Hebrew: קוֹץ (qotz) — plant
- Hungarian: bogáncs — plant
- Ido: kardono — plant
- Ingrian: ohtajain — plant
- Irish: feochadán — plant
- Irish: cluarán — plant
- Italian: cardo — plant
- Japanese: 薊 (azami) — plant
- Japanese: アザミ (azami) — plant
- Korean: 엉겅퀴 (eonggeongkwi) — plant
- Latgalian: usne — plant
- Latin: carduus — plant
- Latvian: usne — plant
- Lithuanian: usnis — plant
- Luxembourgish: Dëschtel — plant
- Manx: onnane — plant
- Norwegian Bokmål: tistel — plant
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tistel — plant
- Old Church Slavonic: влъчьць (vlŭčĭcĭ) — plant
- Pennsylvania German: Dischdel — plant
- Persian: کنگر (kangar) — plant
- Plautdietsch: Distel — plant
- Polish: oset — plant
- Polish: bodiak — plant
- Portuguese: cardo — plant
- Romanian: scaiete — plant
- Romanian: ciulin — plant
- Russian: чертополо́х (čertopolóx) — plant
- Scots: thrissel — plant
- Scottish Gaelic: cluaran — plant
- Scottish Gaelic: fòghnan — plant
- Sicilian: cardu — plant
- Sicilian: carduni — plant
- Slovak: bodliak — plant
- Lower Sorbian: wóset — plant
- Lower Sorbian: badak — plant
- Spanish: cardo — plant
- Swedish: tistel — plant
- Tagalog: pamingkit — plant
- Turkish: devedikeni — plant
- Ukrainian: осо́т (osót) — plant
- Ukrainian: чортополо́х (čortopolóx) — plant
- Vilamovian: döstuł — plant
- Walloon: tcherdon — plant
- Welsh: ysgall — plant
- Woiwurrung: brugl-brugl — plant
- Xhosa: ikhakhakhaka — plant
- Yurok: munipɹni — plant
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