ivy

See also: Ivy and -ivý

English

Ivy growing near and climbing up trees.

Etymology

From Middle English ivi, from Old English īfiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *ibig, *ibag, *ibah, from Proto-Germanic *ibahs (compare West Flemish iefte, Low German Eiloov, Ieloof, German Efeu), from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)ebʰ- (compare Welsh efwr (“black elder”), Ancient Greek ἴφυον (íphuon, “spike-lavender, Lavandula Spica”)).

Pronunciation

enPR: īʹvē, IPA^(key): /ˈaɪvi/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -aɪvi

Noun

ivy (countable and uncountable, plural ivies)

Any of several woody, climbing, or trailing evergreen plants of the genus Hedera.
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(by extension) Any similar plant of any genus.

Hypernyms

climber, creeper, liana

Hyponyms

(plants in Hedera): See Hedera.

Coordinate terms

kudzu
vine

Derived terms

Terms derived from ivy

Translations

plant of the genus Hedera

Albanian: dredhkë (sq) f, hurdhe f
Arabic: لَبْلَاب m (lablāb)
Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: բաղեղ (hy) (baġeġ)
Aromanian: eadirã f, eadiri f, iadirã f
Asturian: hedra f
Azerbaijani: sarmaşıq (az)
Basque: huntz, xira
Breton: iliavenn (br) f
Bulgarian: бръшлян m (brǎšljan)
Catalan: heura (ca) f, hedra (ca) f
Chechen: хутал-буц (xutal-buc)
Cherokee: ᎤᎸᏗ (ulvdi)
Cornish: idhyow f pl
Corsican: eddera f, ellera f, eddara f, ellara f, lellera f, lellara f, lillura f
Czech: břečťan (cs) m
Dacian: arpropria
Danish: efeu c, vedbend
Dutch: klimop (nl) m or n, eiloof (nl) n
Emilian: please add this translation if you can
Esperanto: hedero
Estonian: luuderohi (et)
Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
Faroese: viðbenda f, viðbendil m
Finnish: muratti (fi)
Franco-Provençal: please add this translation if you can
French: lierre (fr) m
Friulian: jêre f
Galician: hedra f, hedreira f, malvela f, areira f, ireira f
Gallo: please add this translation if you can
Georgian: სურო (suro)
German: Efeu (de) m or n
Greek: κισσός (el) m (kissós)
Ancient: κισσός m (kissós)
Hebrew: קיסוס m (kissós)
Hungarian: borostyán (hu)
Icelandic: bergflétta (is) f
Ido: hedero (io)
Irish: eidhneachán m, eidhneán m, eidheann m
Istriot: please add this translation if you can
Istro-Romanian: please add this translation if you can
Italian: edera (it) f
Kashubian: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 담쟁이 (ko) (damjaeng'i)
Ladin: please add this translation if you can
Latin: hedera f
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Leonese: please add this translation if you can
Ligurian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: gebenė f
Lombard: please add this translation if you can
Low German: Ieloof n
Luxembourgish: Eefeu m, Wantergréng m or n
Macedonian: бршлен (mk) m (bršlen)
Mandarin: 常春藤 (zh) (chángchūnténg)
Manx: hibbin
Megleno-Romanian: please add this translation if you can
Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
Neapolitan: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian: eføy (no) m
Occitan: èdra (oc) f
Old English: īfiġ n
Persian: عشقه (fa) ('ašaqe), پاپیتال (fa) (pâpitâl), سن (fa) (san), بلوه (fa) (balve)
Piedmontese: ardité f
Polish: bluszcz (pl) m
Portuguese: hera (pt) f
Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: iederă (ro) f
Romansch: fegliadella f, edra f
Russian: плющ (ru) m (pljušč)
Sardinian: edora f, edola, edera
Scottish Gaelic: eidheann f, eidheannach f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бршљан m

Roman: bršljan (sh) m
Sicilian: èdira (scn) f, èddira (scn), ètira (scn), èddara (scn), arrèddira (scn) f, lèddira (scn) f
Slovak: brečtan m
Slovene: bršljan m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: blušć m

Upper Sorbian: blušć m
Spanish: hiedra (es) f, yedra f
Swahili: mwefeu, lablabu
Swedish: murgröna (sv)
Tarantino: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: sarmaşık (tr)
Ukrainian: плющ m (pljušč)
Venetan: èłera, ènera, èrena, èrna, èroła f
Vietnamese: thường xuân
Volapük: hed (vo)
Welsh: iorwg m, eiddew m
Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

similar plant

Finnish: köynnös (fi)
Japanese: 蔦 (ja) (tsuta)

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Slovak: ^{(please verify)} brečtan m
Welsh: ^{(please verify)} eiddew, ^{(please verify)} iorwg

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