English
Wikispecies
Etymology
Probably of North Germanic origin (Danish bøllebær), from Old Norse bolli (Proto-Germanic *bullǭ) + ber.
Pronunciation
Noun
bilberry (plural bilberries)
- Vaccinium myrtillus, the wild European blueberry of the cowberry family.
- Synonyms: blaeberry, fraughan, whort, whortle, whortleberry, whimberry
- The shrub of the above-mentioned plant.
Derived terms
Translations
Also see the translations of blueberry
type of blueberry from the cowberry family
— see also blueberry
- Albanian: kulumri f, thrashegër (sq) f, boronicë (sq) f, belush (sq) m, qershigël (sq) f,
- Bulgarian: черна боровинка (černa borovinka)
- Catalan: nabiu (ca) m
- Czech: borůvka (cs) f
- Danish: blåbær (da)
- Dutch: bosbes (nl) c
- Estonian: mustikas, harilik mustikas
- Faroese: bláber n
- Finnish: mustikka (fi)
- French: myrtille (fr) f
- Galician: arando (gl) m
- German: Heidelbeere (de)
- Alemannic German: Buderi pl
- Greek: μύρτιλο (el) n (mýrtilo)
- Hungarian: fekete áfonya (hu)
- Icelandic: aðalbláber (is) n
- Irish: fraochán
- Italian: mirtillo (it) m
- Ladin: gialvëija f
- Latin: vaccīnium n
- Latvian: mellene (lv) f
- Lithuanian: mėlynė (lt) f
- Malay: bilberi
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: blåbær n
- Nynorsk: blåbær n
- Old English: hǣþberiġe f
- Polish: borówka (pl) f, czarna jagoda (pl) f
- Portuguese: arando (pt) m
- Romanian: afin (ro)
- Russian: черни́ка (ru) f (černíka) (evergreen bilberry, Vaccinium myrtillus), голуби́ка (ru) f (golubíka) (bog bilberry, whortleberry, Vaccinium uliginosum)
- Scottish Gaelic: dearc-fhraoich f, dearcag-mhonaidh f, dearcag-fhraoich f
- Serbo-Croatian: borovnica (sh) f
- Slovak: čučoriedka (sk) f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: carnica f
- Spanish: arándano (es) m, mirtilo m
- Swedish: blåbär (sv)
- Turkish: yaban mersini (tr), keçi yemişi (tr), çobanüzümü (tr)
- Ukrainian: чорни́ця f (čornýcja)
- Vietnamese: cây nham lê
- Walloon: caclindje (wa) m, frambåjhe (wa) m
- Welsh: llusen f
- Zazaki: boronc du or n du
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- Icelandic: (please verify) bláber (is)
- Japanese: (please verify) ビルベリー (ja) (biruberī)
- Persian: (please verify) بیل بری (bil beri)
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