English
Etymology
From Swedish lingon (“cowberry, lingonberry”) + berry.
Pronunciation
Noun
lingonberry (plural lingonberries)
- A berry-bearing shrub, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, native to the cool temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere.
- Synonyms: lowbush cranberry, mountain bilberry, cowberry, foxberry, partridgeberry, red whortleberry, csejka berry
- The berry of this shrub.
- Synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, partridgeberry
- Coordinate terms: blueberry, cranberry
1998, The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by Nihilist (Peter Stormare):Ze lingonberry pancake!
Translations
berry
- Catalan: mirtil roij m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 越橘 (zh) (yuèjú)
- Danish: tyttebær n
- Esperanto: ruĝa vakcinio
- Estonian: pohl (et)
- Faroese: vínbláber n
- Finnish: puolukka (fi)
- French: airelle rouge (fr) m, airelle vigne d'Ida f
- Galician: arando vermello (gl) m
- German: Preiselbeere (de) f
- Alemannic German: Grübli n
- Greenlandic: kimmernaq
- Hungarian: vörös áfonya (hu)
- Icelandic: týtuber n
- Ingrian: poola
- Italian: mirtillo rosso m
- Japanese: 苔桃 (ja) (コケモモ, kokemomo)
- Kazakh: қызылжидек (qyzyljidek)
- Kyrgyz: кызылгат (ky) (kızılgat)
- Ladin: granëta f
- Latin: myrtillus rubeus m
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: bruknė f, bruknės uoga f
- Northern Sami: jokŋa
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tyttebær (no) n
- Nynorsk: tytebær (nn) n
- Polish: borówka brusznica (pl) f, borówka czerwona f
- Portuguese: arando-vermelho m
- Romanian: merișor (ro) n
- Russian: брусни́ка (ru) f (brusníka)
- Sami:
- Lule Sami: jågŋå
- Southern Sami: jogknoeh
- Scottish Gaelic: dearc-fhraoich f, dearcag-fhraoich f
- Slovene: brusnica (sl) f
- Spanish: lingonberry f, cowberry f, lingonberi f, cauberi f, arándano silvestre m, arándano ártico m, foxberry f, foxberi f
- Swedish: lingon (sv) n
- Turkish: kekreyemiş (tr)
- Ukrainian: брусни́ця (uk) f (brusnýcja)
- Welsh: llusaeronen y mynydd f
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