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The kernel of a walnut with the shell in the background.
Etymology
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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
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walnut (countable and uncountable, plural walnuts)
- A hardwood tree of the genus Juglans.
- A nut of the walnut tree.
- Wood of the walnut tree.
- Dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.
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Translations
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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 (ôkhôroṭô)
- Polish: orzech (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)
- Venetian: nósa
- Vietnamese: óc chó (vi)
- Walloon: djaeyî (wa) m, gaeyî (wa) m
- Welsh: collen Ffrengig f
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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 f
- Ido: nuciero (io)
- Irish: cnó francach m, cnó gallda m, gallchnó m
- Italian: noce (it) f
- Japanese: クルミ (ja) (kurumi)
- 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
- Persian: گردو (fa) (gerdu), گوز (fa) (gowz)
- Plautdietsch: Waulnät f
- Polish: orzech (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)
- 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)
- Vietnamese: óc chó (vi)
- Walloon: djaeye (wa) f, gaeye (wa) f
- Welsh: cneuen Ffrengig f
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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
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Adjective
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walnut (not comparable)
- Having a dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.
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