walnut

See also: Walnut

English

Walnuts for sale.

The kernel of a walnut with the shell in the background.

Etymology

From Middle English walnote, walnutte, walnotte, from Old English wealhhnutu (“walnut”, literally “foreign nut”), from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreigner”) + *hnuts (“nut”). Cognate with Dutch walnoot, German Walnuss, Swedish valnöt, Icelandic valhneta. Compare more recent term Welsh onion, which also uses Welsh to mean “foreign”.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔːlnʌt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔlnət/, /ˈwɔlˌnʌt/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈwɑlnət/, /ˈwɑlˌnʌt/

• Audio (General American):

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• Hyphenation: wal‧nut

Noun

walnut (countable and uncountable, plural walnuts)

1. A hardwood tree of the genus Juglans.
3. A nut of the walnut tree.
4. Wood of the walnut tree.
5. Dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.

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Derived terms

• Arizona black walnut, Arizona walnut (Juglans major)
• ash-leaved walnut (Juglans fraxinifolia)
• black walnut (Juglans nigra)
• common walnut, English walnut, European walnut, Carpathian walnut, Madeira walnut, Persian walnut (Juglans regia)
• Queensland walnut (Endiandra palmerstonii)
• royal walnut moth (Citheronia regalis)
• satin walnut (Liquidambar styraciflua)
• sea walnut (Mnemiopsis)
• Walnut Ridge
• walnutty, walnuty
• white walnut (Juglans cinerea)

 

Related terms

• walshnut

Translations

tree

Adyghe: дэ (dɛ) Afrikaans: okkerneutboom Albanian: arrë (sq) Armenian: ընկուզենի (hy) (ənkuzeni) Aromanian: nuc m Asturian: nozal (ast) m or f Breton: kraoñenn (br) f, gwezenn-graoñ f Bulgarian: орех (bg) m (oreh) Catalan: noguera (ca) f, noguer (ca) m Cherokee: ᏎᏗ (sedi) Cheyenne: otaesémenôtse Chinese: Mandarin: 核桃树 (hétáoshù) Crimean Tatar: ceviz Czech: ořešák (cs) m Dalmatian: nochiera f Danish: valnøddetræ n, valnød (da) c Dutch: walnotenboom (nl) m Esperanto: juglandujo, juglandarbo Estonian: kreeka pähklipuu Finnish: pähkinäpuu (fi) Fox: mahkwipakâni French: noyer (fr) m Galician: nogueira (gl) f, concheiro (gl) m Georgian: კაკალი (ḳaḳali) German: Walnuss (de) f, Walnussbaum (de) m, Nussbaum (de) m Gilaki: آغوز دار Greek: καρυδιά (el) f (karydiá) Hebrew: אֱגוֹז (he) m (egóz) Hungarian: diófa (hu) Ido: nuco (io) Irish: crann gallchnó m Italian: noce (it) m Japanese: クルミの木 (kurumi no ki) Korean: 호두나무 (ko) (hodunamu) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: gûz (ku) f, dargûz f Lakota: cansapa Latin: iūglāns f Lombard: nos (lmo) f Low German: Wallnööt, Wallnöötboom Macedonian: орев m (orev) Malay: walnat, pokok walnat, jauzah Manx: billey galchro Mazanderani: آغوز دار Mohegan-Pequot: wusqat Norman: nouoyi m Norwegian: Bokmål: valnøtt m or f, valnøttre n, valnøtt-tre n Nynorsk: valnøtt f, valnòttre n, valnøttre n, valnøtt-tre n Occitan: noguièr (oc) Odia: ଅଖରୋଟ (akharoṭa) Polish: orzech włoski (pl) m Portuguese: nogueira (pt) f Quechua: tuqti Romani: akhorin Romanian: nuc (ro) m Russian: оре́х (ru) m (oréx) Sardinian: nughe f Scottish Gaelic: crann ghall-chnò m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: орах m Roman: òrah (sh) m Slovene: oreh (sl) m Spanish: nogal (es) m, noguera (es) f Swahili: mjozi Swedish: valnötsträd (sv) n, valnöt (sv) c Tagalog: nogales Tibetan: སྟར་སྡོང (star sdong), སྟར་ཤིང (star shing), སྟར་ཁའི་ཤིང (star kha'i shing) Turkish: ceviz (tr) Ukrainian: воло́ський горі́х m (volósʹkyj horíx), гре́цький горі́х m (hrécʹkyj horíx), горі́х (uk) m (horíx) Unami: tùkwimënshi (black walnut tree) Venetan: nogara (vec) f Vietnamese: óc chó (vi) Walloon: djaeyî (wa) m, gaeyî (wa) m Welsh: collen Ffrengig f

nut

Abenaki: pagimen Adyghe: дэ (dɛ) Albanian: arrë (sq) Arabic: (collective) جَوْز (jawz) Egyptian Arabic: جوز m (gōz) (collective), جوزة f (gōza) (singulative) Hijazi Arabic: جوز m (jōz) (collective) Moroccan Arabic: ڭرڭاع m (gargāʕ) (collective), ڭرڭاعة f (gargāʕa) (singulative) Armenian: պոպոկ (hy) (popok), ընկույզ (hy) (ənkuyz) Aromanian: nucã f Asturian: nuez (ast) f Basque: intxaur (eu) Bengali: আখরোট (bn) (akhorōṭ) Bulgarian: орех (bg) m (oreh) Catalan: nou (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 合桃 (hap6 tou4) Mandarin: 核桃 (zh) (hétao) Crimean Tatar: ceviz Czech: vlašský ořech m Danish: valnød (da) c Dutch: walnoot (nl) m, okkernoot (nl) f Esperanto: juglando (eo), juglandonukso Estonian: kreeka pähkel Faroese: valnøt f Finnish: saksanpähkinä (fi) French: noix (fr) f Galician: noz (gl) f, concho (gl) m Georgian: ნიგოზი (ka) (nigozi), კაკალი (ḳaḳali) German: Walnuss (de) f Gilaki: آغوز Greek: καρύδι (el) n (karýdi) Greenlandic: valnødi Hawaiian: walanuka Hebrew: אגוז מלך (he) m (egóz mélekh) Hindi: अखरोट (hi) m (akhroṭ) Hungarian: dió (hu) Icelandic: valhneta (is) f Ido: nuciero (io) Irish: cnó francach m, cnó gallda m, gallchnó m Italian: noce (it) f Japanese: クルミ (ja) (kurumi) Kalasha: bribó Khowar: بیرموغ (birmóġ) Korean: 호두 (hodu) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: گوێز (gwêz) Northern Kurdish: gûz (ku) f Kyrgyz: жаңгак (ky) (jaŋgak) Ladin: cucia f Latin: iūglāns f Ligurian: nôxe f Lombard: nos (lmo) f Low German: Wallnööt f Malay: jauzah, walnat, akrot (archaic), kacang otak Maltese: ġewż (collective) Manx: cro frangagh, galchro Maori: wōnati Mazanderani: اغوز (ağuz) Mingrelian: ნეძი (neʒi), ნეზი (nezi) Mohegan-Pequot: wusqatôm Mongolian: грек самар (grek samar) Moroccan Amazigh: ⴷⴷⵓⵊ m (dduj) Navajo: haʼałtsédii Nogai: коз (koz) Norman: nouoyi m Northern Sami: valniehtti Norwegian: Bokmål: valnøtt m or f Nynorsk: valnøtt f Occitan: notz (oc) f, noga (oc) f Old English: wealhhnutu f Ossetian: ӕнгуз (ænguz) Pashto: اکوړ (ps) m (akóṛ) Persian: گردو (fa) (gerdu), گوز (fa) (gowz) Plautdietsch: Waulnät f Polish: orzech włoski (pl) m Portuguese: noz (pt) f Romagnol: nôșa f, nôș m Romani: akhor m Romanian: nucă (ro) f Romansch: nusch f Russian: гре́цкий оре́х (ru) m (gréckij oréx), оре́х (ru) m (oréx) Sanskrit: अक्षोट (sa) m (akṣoṭa) Sardinian: nughe f, cocolo m Scottish Gaelic: cnò Fhrangach f, gall-chnò f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: орах m Roman: òrah (sh) m Spanish: nuez (es) f Swahili: jozi Swedish: valnöt (sv) c Tagalog: nogales Tamil: அக்கரோட்டு (ta) (akkarōṭṭu) Tibetan: སྟར་ཀ (star ka), སྟར་ཁ (star kha) Torwali: آݜو (aṣō) Turkish: ceviz (tr) Ukrainian: воло́ський горі́х m (volósʹkyj horíx), гре́цький горі́х m (hrécʹkyj horíx), горі́х (uk) m (horíx) Unami: tùkwim (black walnut) Urdu: اخروٹ m (axroṭ) Venetan: noxa (vec) f, coca f Vietnamese: óc chó (vi) Walloon: djaeye (wa) f, gaeye (wa) f Welsh: cneuen Ffrengig f

wood

Albanian: arrishtë (sq) Bulgarian: орех (bg) (oreh) Czech: vlašský ořech m Danish: valnøddetræ n Dutch: walnotenhout (nl) n Estonian: pähklipuu Finnish: pähkinäpuu (fi) French: noyer (fr) m Galician: nogueira (gl) f German: Walnussholz (de) n, Nussbaumholz (de) n Greek: καρυδιά (el) f (karydiá) Hungarian: diófa (hu) Irish: adhmad gallchnó m Italian: noce (it) m Japanese: クルミ材 (kurumizai) Norwegian: Bokmål: valnøtt m or f, valnøttre n, valnøtt-tre n Nynorsk: valnøtt f, valnòttre n, valnøttre n, valnøtt-tre n Polish: orzech (pl) m Portuguese: nogueira (pt) f Romanian: nuc (ro) m Russian: оре́х (ru) m (oréx) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: орах m Roman: òrah (sh) m, òrahovina (sh) f Spanish: nogal (es) m Swedish: valnötsträ n, valnöt (sv) c Tibetan: སྟར་ཤིང (star shing), སྟར་ཁའི་ཤིང (star kha'i shing) Ukrainian: горі́х (uk) m (horíx) Walloon: djaeyî (wa) m, gaeyî (wa) m Welsh: pren collen Ffrengig m, coed collen Ffrengig f

colour

Bulgarian: орех (bg) m (oreh) German: dunkelbraune Farbe f Greek: καρυδί (karydí) Hungarian: diófaszín (hu) Japanese: くるみ色 (kurumiiro) Manx: daah galchro Persian: گردویی Polish: orzech (pl) m Romanian: nuciu (regional) Walloon: nwè (wa) m

Adjective

walnut (not comparable)

1. Having a dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.

Translations

colour

Bulgarian: орехов (orehov) Hungarian: diófaszínű Ido: nucea Italian: noce (it) Japanese: くるみ色の (kurumiiro no) Polish: orzechowy (pl) Russian: оре́ховый (ru) (oréxovyj) Spanish: nogal (es)

See also

• butternut
• hickory
• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

Wikibooks has more about this subject:

Walnut

Wikibooks

• “walnut”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• walnut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Juglans on Wikispecies.Wikispecies