poplar

See also: Poplar

English

Etymology

From Middle English popler, from Anglo-Norman popler and Old French poplier (compare French peuplier), from Latin pōpulus, with a suffix later added.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒp.lə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑ.plɚ/

  • Audio (US):

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Noun

poplar (countable and uncountable, plural poplars)

1. Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Populus.
   • 2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 285:

     They are gathered under the low-hanging branches of a poplar, its gold and green leaves glittering on the breeze like tinsel.

2. (uncountable) Wood from the poplar tree.

Derived terms

• American poplar (Populus tremuloides; Liriodendron tulipifera)
• aspen poplar (Populus tremuloides)
• balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera; Populus sect. Tacamahaca)
• bay poplar (Nyssa aquatica)
• black Italian poplar (Populus serotina)
• black poplar (Populus nigra)
• blue poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)
• Carolina poplar (Populus deltoides, Populus balsamifera, etc.)
• downy poplar (Populus heterophylla)
• Eugene poplar (Populus canadensis eugenei)
• Euphrates poplar (Populus euphratica)
• grey poplar, grey poplar (Populus canescens)
• hickory poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)
• Italian poplar (Populus nigra italica)
• Japanese poplar, Korean poplar (Populus suaveolens)
• Lombardy poplar (Populus nigra italica)
• Mongolian poplar (Populus suaveolens)
• necklace poplar (Populus deltoides)
• pink poplar (Euroschinus falcatus)
• Plains poplar (Populus sargentii)
• Poplar Bluff
• poplar borer
• Poplarism
• river poplar (Populus balsamifera
• silver-leaved poplar, silver leaved poplar, silver poplar (Populus alba)
• soft poplar (Populus grandidentata)
• swamp poplar (Populus heterophylla)
• trembling poplar (Populus tremula, Populus tremuloides)
• tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)
• water poplar (Populus deltoides, Populus nigra, etc.)
• western balsam poplar (Populus trichocarpa)
• white poplar (Populus alba)
• willow poplar (Populus nigra)
• yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)

Translations

any of various deciduous trees of the genus Populus

• Abkhaz: аӷш (ağŝ), аҵлаш (acʼlaŝ), аҷандар (ačʼandar)
• Afrikaans: populier
• Albanian: plep (sq) m, shpel m
• Arabic: حَوْر m (ḥawr)
• Armenian: բարդի (hy) (bardi)

  Old Armenian: ոփի (opʻi)

• Aromanian: plop m, plup m
• Azerbaijani: qovaq (az), ağqoval
• Bashkir: тирәк (tirək)
• Basque: makal
• Belarusian: тапо́ля f (tapólja)
• Bulgarian: топола (bg) f (topola)
• Catalan: pollancre (ca) m, (white poplar) àlber m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 楊樹 / 杨树 (zh) (yángshù)

• Chuvash: тирек (tirek)
• Cornish: edhlen
• Czech: topol (cs) m
• Danish: poppel c, poppeltræ n
• Dogrib: tʼooh
• Dutch: populier (nl) m
• Esperanto: poplo (eo)
• Estonian: pappel
• Faroese: øsp f
• Finnish: poppeli (fi)
• French: peuplier (fr) m
• Friulian: pôl m
• Gagauz: kavak
• Galician: lamigueiro (gl) m, choupo (gl) m
• Georgian: ალვა (alva), ჩინარი (činari), ჭანდარი (ka) (č̣andari), ალვის ხე (alvis xe)
• German: Pappel (de) f
• Greek: λεύκα (el) f (léfka)

  Ancient: αἴγειρος f (aígeiros) (black poplar), λεύκη f (leúkē) (white poplar)

• Hebrew: צפצפה (he) f (tzaftzafáh)
• Hindi: चिनार (hi) m (cinār)
• Hungarian: nyár (hu), nyárfa (hu)
• Ido: poplo (io)
• Ingrian: toppoli
• Irish: poibleog f
• Italian: pioppo (it) m
• Japanese: ポプラ (ja) (popura)
• Kalmyk: уласн (ulasn)
• Karachay-Balkar: акътерек (aqterek)
• Karakalpak: terek
• Kazakh: терек (terek)
• Khakas: тирек (tirek)
• Korean: 포플러 (ko) (popeulleo)
• Kumyk: акътал (aqtal)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: چنار (ckb) (çnar)

• Kyrgyz: терек (ky) (terek)
• Latgalian: topuļs m
• Latin: pōpulus (la) f
• Latvian: papele f
• Lezgi: къавах (q̄avaꭓ)
• Lithuanian: tuopa f
• Macedonian: топола f (topola)
• Manchu: ᡶᡠᠯᡥᠠ (fulha)
• Manx: pobbyl m, billey pobbyl m
• Maori: pāpara
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: ошко (oško)

  Western Mari: ошкы (ošky)

• Mongolian: улиангар (mn) (uliangar)
• Nogai: терек (terek)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: poppel m

  Nynorsk: poppel m

• Occitan: píbol (oc) m
• Persian: سپیدار (fa) (sepidâr), قواخ (qavâx), صنوبر (fa) (senowbar)
• Polish: topola (pl) f
• Portuguese: choupo (pt) m
• Romanian: plop (ro) m
• Russian: то́поль (ru) m (tópolʹ)
• Rutul: къавах (q:avaꭓ)
• Scottish Gaelic: critheann m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: топола f, јаблан m

  Roman: topola (sh) f, jablan (sh) m

• Shor: терек (terek)
• Sicilian: àrbanu (scn) m
• Slovak: topoľ m
• Slovene: topol (sl) m
• Southern Altai: терек (terek)
• Spanish: álamo (es) m, chopo (es) m
• Swahili: mpopla, mlibua
• Swedish: poppel (sv) c
• Tagalog: alamo
• Tajik: сафедор (safedor)
• Tatar: tiräk, tupıl
• Turkish: kavak (tr)
• Turkmen: derek
• Tuvan: терек (terek)
• Udi: къувангъ (q̇uvanɣ)
• Ukrainian: топо́ля (uk) f (topólja)
• Upper Sorbian: topoł m
• Uzbek: terak (uz)
• Vietnamese: dương (vi)
• Vilamovian: pōpuł m
• Welsh: poplys f pl
• Yakut: тирэх (tireq)

Further reading

• poplar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

poplar m pl

1. indefinite plural of poppel

Turkish

Noun

poplar

1. nominative plural of pop