willow

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• UK: /ˈwɪl.əʊ/
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• US: /ˈwɪloʊ/
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From willow.

From Middle English wilwe, welew, variant of wilghe, from Old English welig, from Proto-West Germanic *wilig, from Proto-Germanic *wiligaz, from Proto-Indo-European *welik- (compare (Arcadian) Ancient Greek ἑλίκη (helíkē), Hittite 𒌑𒂖𒆪 (welku, “grass”)), from *wel- (“twist, turn”).

238 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: аԥслыш (apsləŝ) — tree
• Afrikaans: wilg — tree
• Afrikaans: wilger — tree
• Afrikaans: wilgerboom — tree
• Ainu: スス (susu) — tree
• Akkadian: 𒄑𒁍 — tree
• Akkadian: 𒄑𒊮𒆗 — tree
• Alabama: ittokoowisa — tree
• Albanian: shelg — tree
• Southern Altai: тал (tal) — tree
• Amharic: አኻያ (ʾäxaya) — tree
• Arabic: صَفْصَاف (ṣafṣāf) — tree
• Arabic: غَرَب (ḡarab) — tree
• Arabic: خِلَاف (ḵilāf) — tree
• Arabic: صفصاف (ṣafṣāf) — tree
• Aramaic: ܥܱܪܒܬ݂ܴܐ (ʿarbṯā) — tree
• Aramaic: ܗܶܠܴܦܴܐ (ḥellāp̄ā) — tree
• Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: עַרְבְּתָא (ʿarbṯā) — tree
• Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: חִילָּפָא (ḥellāp̄ā) — tree
• Aramaic: ערבְתא (/⁠*ʿarəbṯā⁠/) — tree
• Arapaho: yookox — tree
• Armenian: ուռենի (uṙeni) — tree
• Armenian: ուռի (uṙi) — tree
• Aromanian: saltsi — tree
• Aromanian: saltse — tree
• Asturian: salce — tree
• Asturian: salgueru — tree
• Azerbaijani: söyüd — tree
• Bashkir: тал (tal) — tree
• Basque: sahats — tree
• Belarusian: вярба (vjarba) — tree
• Bouyei: waixlux — tree
• Breton: haleg — tree
• Bulgarian: върба (vǎrba) — tree
• Burmese: မိုးမခ (mui:ma.hka.) — tree
• Cahuilla: sáxat — tree
• Catalan: salze — tree
• Chechen: дак (dak) — tree
• Cherokee: ᏕᎴᎦᎵᏍ (delegalis) — tree
• Cherokee: ᏗᎵᎦᎵᏍᎩ (diligalisgi) — tree
• Cheyenne: ménó'ke — tree
• Chickasaw: shukchi im iti — tree
• Chinese Cantonese: 柳 (lau5) — tree
• Chinese Cantonese: 柳樹 /柳树 (lau5 syu6) — tree
• Chinese: 柳 (liú) — tree
• Chinese Mandarin: 柳 (liǔ) — tree
• Chinese Mandarin: 柳樹 /柳树 (liǔshù) — tree
• Wu Chinese: 柳 — tree
• West Circassian: пцелы (pcelə) — tree
• Cornish: helygen — tree
• Cree: ᓃᐱᓰᕀ (niipisiiy) — tree
• Creek: akwahnv — tree
• Crimean Tatar: tal — tree
• Czech: vrba — tree
• Dakota: chąthúhu — tree
• Danish: pil — tree
• Danish: piletræ — tree
• Dutch: wilg — tree
• Egyptian: T:r-t-M1 (ṯrt) — tree
• Erzya: каль (kaľ) — tree
• Esperanto: saliko — tree
• Estonian: paju — tree
• Estonian: remmelgas — tree
• Even: хят (hẹt) — tree
• Faroese: pílur — tree
• Faroese: pílatræ — tree
• Finnish: paju — tree
• Franco-Provençal: sôge — tree
• French: saule — tree
• West-Frisian: wylch — tree
• West-Frisian: wylgebeam — tree
• Friulian: venčhâr — tree
• Friulian: molec — tree
• Friulian: vencjâr — tree
• Galician: salgueiro — tree
• Galician: xalce — tree
• Galician: vimieiro — tree
• Galician: vimbieiro — tree
• Galician: sarga — tree
• Galician: trogalleiro — tree
• Georgian: ტირიფი (ṭiripi) — tree
• German: Weide — tree
• German: Weidenbaum — tree
• Bavarian German: Felbern — tree
• Greek: ιτιά (itiá) — tree
• Ancient Greek: ἰτέα (itéa) — tree
• Ancient Greek: ἑλίκη (helíkē) — tree
• Mycenaean Greek: 𐀁𐀪𐀏 (e-ri-ka) — tree
• Hawaiian: wīlou — tree
• Hebrew: עֲרָבָה (ʿaravá) — tree
• Hopi: qahavi — tree
• Hungarian: fűzfa — tree
• Hungarian: fűz — tree
• Icelandic: víðir — tree
• Ido: saliko — tree
• Indonesian: dedalu — tree
• Ingrian: paju — tree
• Interlingua: salice — tree
• Inupiaq: uqpik — tree
• Irish: saileach — tree
• Irish: sail — tree
• Irish: saileog — tree
• Italian: salice — tree
• Italian: salcio — tree
• Japanese: 柳 (yanagi) — tree
• Kaitag: жя́ра (žə́ra) — tree
• Karachay-Balkar: тал (tal) — tree
• Karelian: paju — tree
• Kashmiri: ویٖر (vīr) — tree
• Kazakh: тал (tal) — tree
• Khakas: тал (tal) — tree
• Khmer: ដើមសូល (daəm sool) — tree
• Kiliwa: ijáau — tree
• Klamath-Modoc: yaas — tree
• Koasati: osi — tree
• Komi-Permyak: бадь (baď) — tree
• Komi-Zyrian: бадь (baď) — tree
• Korean: 버들 (beodeul) — tree
• Korean: 버드나무 (beodeunamu) — tree
• Kumyk: тал (tal) — tree
• Central Kurdish: بی (bî) — tree
• Northern Kurdish: bî — tree
• Kyrgyz: тал (tal) — tree
• Lak: щавщи (š:awš:i) — tree
• Latgalian: veituls — tree
• Latin: salix — tree
• Latvian: vītols — tree
• Lezgi: цӏвелин ттар (c̣velin t̄ar) — tree
• Ligurian: sàrxo — tree
• Lithuanian: gluosnis — tree
• Lower Tanana: k'wy' — tree
• Low German: Wied — tree
• Luxembourgish: Weid — tree
• Macedonian: врба (vrba) — tree
• Manchu: ᡶᠣᡩᠣᡥᠣ (fodoho) — tree
• Manx: shellagh — tree
• Māori: whiro — tree
• Māori: wirou — tree
• Marathi: वाळुंज (vāḷuñja) — tree
• Eastern Mari: уа (ua) — tree
• Mazanderani: فک (fek) — tree
• Middle English: salow — tree
• Middle English: wylow — tree
• Moksha: каль (kaľ) — tree
• Moksha: иса (isa) — tree
• Mongolian: уд мод (ud mod) — tree
• Mongolian: бургас мод (burgas mod) — tree
• Nahuatl: huexotl — tree
• Nahuatl: wexotl — tree
• Nahuatl: uexotl — tree
• Central Huasteca Nahuatl: uexotl — tree
• Classical Nahuatl: huexotl — tree
• Western Huasteca Nahuatl: uexotl — tree
• Navajo: kʼaiʼ — tree
• Neapolitan: salece — tree
• Norwegian: vier — tree
• Norwegian: vierslekt — tree
• Norwegian: viere — tree
• Occitan: sause — tree
• Occitan: salze — tree
• Occitan: sauce — tree
• Occitan: assaleç — tree
• Ojibwe: oziisigobiminzh — tree
• Old Church Slavonic: врьбиѥ (vrĭbije) — tree
• Old Church Slavonic: връба (vrŭba) — tree
• Old English: wīþiġ — tree
• Old Prussian: apīwitwa — tree
• Omaha-Ponca: thíxe — tree
• Ossetian: хӕрис (xæris) — tree
• Mezquital-Otomi: xits'o — tree
• Pashto: وله (wala) — tree
• Persian: بید (bid) — tree
• Polabian: varbă — tree
• Polish: wierzba — tree
• Portuguese: salgueiro — tree
• Purepecha: tarhemu — tree
• Quechua: sawsi — tree
• Quechua: wayaw — tree
• Romanian: salcie — tree
• Russian: и́ва (íva) — tree
• Russian: ве́рба (vérba) — tree
• Inari-Sami: sieđgâ — tree
• Lule-Sami: siergga — tree
• Northern Sami: sieđga — tree
• Southern Sami: sïerke — tree
• Sardinian: sabixi — tree
• Sardinian: saighi — tree
• Sardinian: sagili — tree
• Sardinian: saliche — tree
• Scottish Gaelic: seileach — tree
• Serbo-Croatian: врба — tree
• Serbo-Croatian: vrba — tree
• Seri: paaij — tree
• Sicilian: sàlici — tree
• Silesian: wiyrba — tree
• Slovak: vŕba — tree
• Slovene: vrba — tree
• Lower Sorbian: wjerba — tree
• Upper Sorbian: wjerba — tree
• Spanish: sauce — tree
• Spanish: mimbrera — tree
• Spanish: sauz — tree
• Sumerian: 𒄑𒊮𒆗 — tree
• Swahili: mwerebi — tree
• Swahili: mierebi — tree
• Swedish: pil — tree
• Swedish: vide — tree
• Tagalog: sawse — tree
• Taos: íałoną — tree
• Tatar: тал (tal) — tree
• Telugu: ఒక విధమైన చెట్టు (oka vidhamaina ceṭṭu) — tree
• Tewa: yán — tree
• Thai: หลิว (lǐu) — tree
• Tibetan: ལྕང་མ (lcang ma) — tree
• Tübatulabal: ha·l — tree
• Turkish: söğüt — tree
• Turkmen: söwüt — tree
• Tuvan: тал (tal) — tree
• Udi: соьйуьд (söjüd) — tree
• Udmurt: бадь (baď) — tree
• Udmurt: бадьпу (baďpu) — tree
• Ukrainian: верба́ (verbá) — tree
• Uzbek: tol — tree
• Venetan: salgaro — tree
• Veps: raid — tree
• Vietnamese: liễu — tree
• Vilamovian: wajd — tree
• Volapük: salig — tree
• Walloon: så — tree
• Welsh: helygen — tree
• West Flemish: wulge — tree
• Xhosa: umngcunube — tree
• Yakut: үөт (üöt) — tree
• Yakut: талах (talaq) — tree
• Yiddish: ווערבע (verbe) — tree
• Yurok: pahkwoˀ — tree
• Zazaki: viyale (diq) — tree
• Zhuang: goliux — tree