lingonberry

English

Etymology

From Swedish lingon (“cowberry, lingonberry”) +‎ berry.

Noun

lingonberry (plural lingonberries)

1. 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

2. 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

shrub

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 越橘 (zh) (yuèjú)

• Danish: tyttebær c
• Dutch: rode bosbes f, vossenbes (nl) f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: vínbláber n
• Finnish: puolukka (fi)
• Galician: arandeira vermella (gl) f
• German: Preiselbeere (de) f

  Alemannic German: Grübli

• Hungarian: vörös áfonya (hu)
• Ingrian: poola
• Kazakh: қызылжидек (qyzyljidek)
• Latgalian: bryukline f
• Latvian: brūklene (lv) f
• Lithuanian: bruknė f
• Norwegian: tyttebærlyng m
• Polish: borówka brusznica (pl) f, brusznica (pl) f
• Portuguese: arando-vermelho m
• Romanian: merișor (ro) m
• Russian: брусни́ка (ru) f (brusníka)
• Sami:

  Inari Sami: juŋŋâ

  Kildin Sami: ёӈӈ (joŋŋ)

  Lule Sami: jågŋå

  Northern Sami: jokŋa

  Pite Sami: jågŋå

  Skolt Sami: joŋŋ

  Southern Sami: joknge

  Ter Sami: joŋŋ

  Ume Sami: jågˈŋa

• Slovene: brusnica (sl) f
• Swedish: lingon (sv) n
• Ukrainian: брусни́ця (uk) f (brusnýcja)

berry

• 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
• Japanese: 苔桃 (コケモモ, kokemomo)
• Kazakh: қызылжидек (qyzyljidek)
• Kyrgyz: кызылгат (ky) (kızılgat)
• Ladin: granëta f
• 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

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} belush (sq) m
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} vaccinium n
• Northern Sami: ^{(please verify)} jokŋa
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} бру̀сница f

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} brùsnica (sh) f

Further reading

• vaccinium vitis-idaea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vaccinium vitis-idaea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies