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”.
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.
walnut:
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: nuciero (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 (akharoṭa)
- Polish: orzech włoski (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)
- Venetan: nogara (vec) f
- 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 (is) f
- Ido: nuco (io)
- Irish: cnó francach m, cnó gallda m, gallchnó m
- Italian: noce (it) f
- Japanese: クルミ (ja) (kurumi)
- Kalasha: bribó
- Khowar: بیرموغ (birmóġ)
- 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 (akóṛ)
- Persian: گردو (fa) (gerdu), گوز (fa) (gowz)
- Plautdietsch: Waulnät f
- Polish: orzech włoski (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)
- Torwali: آݜو (aṣō)
- 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)
- Venetan: noxa (vec) f, coca f
- 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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walnut (not comparable)
- Having a dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.
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