barberry

See also: Barberry

English

Berberis thunbergii shoot with fruit

Common barberry, Berberis vulgaris

Etymology

From Middle English berberie, from Medieval Latin berberis (on which see Arabic بَرْبَارِيس (barbārīs)), influenced by berie (“berry”). Doublet of berberis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑɹbɛɹi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

barberry (plural barberries)

1. Any of the thorny shrubs of genus Berberis, which bear yellow flowers and red or blue-black berries.

   Synonym: berberis

   • 1583, Philip Barrough [i.e., Philip Barrow], “Of Making Bolus”, in The Methode of Phisicke, Conteyning the Causes, Signes, and Cures of Inward Diseases in Mans Body from the Head to the Foote. […], London: […] Thomas Vautroullier […], →OCLC, book VI, page 288:

     BOlvs in Engliſh is called a morſell. It is a medicine laxatiue, in forme & faſhion it is meanely whole, & it is ſwallowed by litle gobbets. […] ℞. medulla caſiæ fiſtulæ newly drawen. ℥. j. or ʒ. x. the graines (that is the kernelles) of barbaries. ℈. ß. and with ſugar roſet [sugar compounded with rose petals] make a bole.

2. The edible fruit of these shrubs.

Derived terms

• California barberry
• creeping barberry
• holly barberry
• holly-leaved barberry
• Magellan barberry

 

Translations

Berberis

• Abkhaz: акаҵахәыр (akʼacʼaxʷər)
• Adyghe: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: بَرْبَارِيس m (barbārīs), زِرِشْك m (zirišk)

  Gulf Arabic: زرشك m (zirišk)

• Armenian: կծոխուր (hy) (kcoxur), ծոր (hy) (cor), զրիշկ (hy) (zrišk)
• Azerbaijani: zirinc (az), zirişk
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: барбари́с m (barbarís)
• Catalan: coralet m
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小檗 (xiǎobò)

• Dutch: zuurbes (nl) c
• Esperanto: berberiso
• Finnish: happomarja (fi)
• French: épine-vinette (fr) f
• Galician: please add this translation if you can
• Georgian: კოწახური (ḳoc̣axuri)
• German: Berberitze (de) f, Sauerdorn (de) m, Essigbeere f
• Hungarian: borbolya (hu)
• Icelandic: broddur (is) m
• Ido: berberiso (io)
• Irish: barbróg f
• Italian: crespino (it) m
• Japanese: メギ (megi)
• Kabardian: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: бөріқарақат (börıqaraqat)
• Korean: 매자나무 (maejanamu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: زِریشک (zirîşk)

• Latin: berberis, -is f, oxyacanthus, -ī f, oxyacantha, -ae f, spīna acida f (all Medieval Latin and New Latin)
• Laz: კაწახური (ǩaǯaxuri)
• Lithuanian: raugerškis m
• Macedonian: жолтика f (žoltika)
• Mazanderani: please add this translation if you can
• Mingrelian: კორწოხული (ḳorc̣oxuli)
• Navajo: shashdą́ą́ʼ
• Norman: èpinne-vinnette f (Jersey)
• Ottoman Turkish: قادین طوزلغی (kadın tuzluğu)
• Persian: زرشک (fa) (zerešk)
• Polish: berberys (pl) m, kwaśnica (pl) f
• Portuguese: bérberis f, uva-espim (pt) f
• Punjabi: زِرِشْک m (ziriśk)
• Romanian: dracilă (ro) f
• Russian: барбари́с (ru) m (barbarís)
• Scots: guil-tree
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жу̀тика f, чѐсмина

  Latin: žùtika (sh) f, čèsmina (sh)

• Slovak: dráč m
• Slovene: česmína f, česmȋn m
• Spanish: agracejo (es) m (the European type species), alarguez (es) m (archaic, dialectal), michay (es) m (Chile, Argentine, the respective species), calafate (es) m (Chile, Argentine, the respective species)
• Svan: გოწხირ (goc̣xir), გვაწხირ (gvac̣xir)
• Swedish: berberis (sv) c, surtorn n
• Tocharian B: śkwaśko
• Turkish: sarıçalı (tr), kadıntuzluğu
• Ukrainian: барбари́с (uk) m (barbarýs)
• Urdu: زِرِشْک m (ziriśk)
• Welsh: eurddraenen f

Further reading

• Berberis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Berberis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Berberis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Berberis at USDA Plants database