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From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), both ultimately from Vulgar Latin ceresia, derived from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin (the intervocalic σ suggests a pre-Greek origin for the word).[1] Doublet of cerise and kirsch.
cherry (plural cherries)
- A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
- Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
- The wood of a cherry tree.
- Cherry red.
- The fruit of the coffee plant, containing the seeds or beans.
- (slang) Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.
1955, J P Donleavy, The Ginger Man, France, published 1955 (France), page 39:
"Well, Dangerfield, in less than an hour I'm off in search of my fortune. Jesus, I'm excited, like I was going to lose my cherry. Woke up this morning with an erection that almost touched the ceiling."
1979, David Bowie, Brian Eno (lyrics and music), “Boys Keep Swinging”, in Lodger, performed by David Bowie:
Nothing stands in your way when you're a boy / Clothes always fit ya / Life is a pop of the cherry when you're a boy
1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 20:
Philips—Sergeant Gerheim's black, silver-tongued House Mouse—is telling everybody about the one thousand cherries he has busted.
1986, “Short Side (Blow Job Betty)” (track 5, 6:36–6:43 from the start), in Too Short (lyrics), Raw, Uncut and X-Rated:
So what bitch, I busted your cherry – / Hell fucking no, I don’t wanna git married
- (graph theory) A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
2004, Suleyman Cenk Sahinalp, S Muthukrishnan, Ugur Dogrusoz, Combinatorial Pattern Matching:
Non-isomorphism is detected whenever the algorithm finds a cherry …
2005, Lior Pachter, Bernd Sturmfels, Algebraic Statistics for Computational Biology:
Step 3: Output the tree T. The edge lengths of T are determined recursively: If (x,y) is a cherry connected to node z as in Step 2…
- (cricket, slang) A cricket ball.
- 2000, Woorkheri Raman, Indians adopt safety first tactics, ESPNcricinfo:
- The Indians have to get early wickets on the morrow and they will have the option of taking the new cherry.
2007, Ben Dirs, England v West Indies 1st Test[2], BBC:
Players are back out and it's Harmison to have first go with the cherry.
- 2000, Woorkheri Raman, Indians adopt safety first tactics, ESPNcricinfo:
- A round, red light of the kind that is typically mounted on top of a police car.
- Synonym: cherrytop
2009, Sandra Brown, Smash Cut, page 333:
"What do you think?" he asked as he wove through traffic, matching Sanford's speed but without the benefit of a flashing cherry on the roof of his car.
2014 February 28, Rick Mofina, In Desperation (A Jack Gannon Novel, Book 3)[3]:
“This is a cartel operation,” Hackett said as Larson activated the dash-mounted cherry
- The burning tip of a cigarette.
1991, Douglas Coupland, “Celebrities Die”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC:
I'm horrified: Dag is burning holes in the roof of the car with the cherry of his cigarette.
Cherry includes, but is not limited to, the following species, of the genus Prunus: Prunus avium (wild cherry, mazzard, sweet cherry), P. cerasus (sour cherry), Prunus mahaleb (mahaleb cherry, rock cherry), P. pensylvanica (pin cherry, bird cherry), P. pumila (sand cherry), P. serotina (black cherry), P. serrulata (Japanese flowering cherry, hill cherry), and P. virginiana (chokecherry). Prunus also includes plums, peaches, apricots, and almonds.
other types of cherry tree and fruit
- bite at the cherry
- bite of the cherry
- bowl of cherries
- Brazil cherry
- Brazilian cherry
- Cayenne cherry
- cherpumple
- cherried
- cherries jubilee
- cherryade
- cherry alder
- cherry angioma
- cherry Bakewell
- cherry blossom front
- cherry-bomb
- cherry boy
- Cherry Burton
- cherry coal
- cherry graph
- Cherry Green
- Cherry Grove
- cherry guava
- Cherry Hill
- Cherry Hinton
- cherrying
- cherry knocking
- cherryless
- cherrylike
- cherry-merry
- cherry-merry-bamboo
- cherry nose
- cherry on the cake
- cherry on top
- cherry orange
- Cherry Orchard
- cherry pick
- cherry-picker
- cherry picking
- cherry-picking
- cherry pit
- cherry-pop
- cherry-popper
- cherry-popping
- cherry-red
- cherry salmon
- cherry satinash
- cherry slug
- cherry top
- cherry topper
- cherry-tree
- Cherry Tree
- cherry tree
- cherry wood
- Chinese cherry
- dash cherry
- dog-cherry
- dog's cherry
- groundcherry
- holly-leaved cherry
- Hottentot cherry
- Japanese cherry birch
- Khoi cherry
- perfumed cherry
- pop someone's cherry
- pop the cherry
- pretty please with a cherry on top
- Queensland cherry
- Surinam cherry
- Suriname cherry
- Washington cherry tree
- Yoshino cherry
- → Bengali: চেরি (ceri)
- → Burmese: ချယ်ရီ (hkyairi)
- → Cantonese: 車厘子/车厘子 (ce1 lei4 zi2)
- → Hindi: चेरी (cerī)
- → Japanese: チェリー (cherī)
- → Kapampangan: tiéri
- → Korean: 체리 (cheri)
- → Malay: ceri
- Indonesian: ceri
- → Maori: tiere
- → Punjabi: ਚੈਰੀ f (cairī)
- → Spanish: cherry
- → Swahili: cheri
- → Urdu: چیری (cerī)
- → Thai: เชอร์รี (chəə-rîi)
fruit
- Albanian: qershi (sq), vishnjë (sq)
- Antillean Creole: siriz
- Arabic: كَرَز m (karaz) (collective), كَرَزَة f (karaza), حَبّ المُلُوك m (ḥabb al-mulūk), قَرَاسِيَا f (qarāsiyā)
- Aragonese: ziresa f
- Armenian: կեռաս (hy) (keṙas) (sweet cherry), բալ (hy) (bal) (sour cherry)
- Aromanian: cireashã f
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܩܸܪܲܣܝܵܐ m (qirrāsya), ܓܝܼܠܵܣܬܵܐ f (gīlasta) (white cherry)
- Asturian: cereza (ast) f, zreza (ast) f
- Avar: багӏли (baʻli)
- Azerbaijani: albalı (az)
- Basque: gerezi (eu)
- Belarusian: чарэ́шня f (čaréšnja) (sweet cherry), ві́шня (be) f (víšnja) (sour cherry)
- Bengali: চেরি (bn) (ceri), করজ (bn) (koroj)
- Breton: kerez (br) (collective noun), kerezenn (br) f
- Bulgarian: чере́ша (bg) f (čeréša) (sweet cherry), ви́шна (bg) f (víšna) (sour cherry)
- Burmese: ချယ်ရီ (my) (hkyairi)
- Catalan: cirera (ca) f
- Cherokee: ᎩᏔᏯ (gitaya)
- Chinese:
- Chuvash: чие ҫырли (čie ś̬yrli)
- Cornish: keresen f
- Czech: třešně (cs) f pl
- Dalmatian: cris f
- Danish: kirsebær (da) n
- Dutch: (sweet cherry) kers (nl) f, (sour cherry) morel (nl) f, kriek (nl) f (Belgium)
- Esperanto: ĉerizo, (sweet cherry) merizo, dolĉa ĉerizo, (sour cherry) grioto
- Estonian: kirss
- Faroese: kirsuber n
- Finnish: kirsikka (fi)
- French: cerise (fr) f, (sour cherry) griotte (fr) f
- Friulian: cjariese f, ceriese f
- Galician: cereixa (gl) f
- Georgian: ბალი (ka) (bali), ალუბალი (alubali)
- German: Kirsche (de) f
- Alemannic German: Chriesi n
- Greek: κεράσι (el) n (kerási)
- Ancient: κεράσιον n (kerásion)
- Haitian Creole: seriz
- Hebrew: דובדבן \ דֻּבְדְּבָן (he) m (duvd'van)
- Hindi: आलूबालू (hi) (ālūbālū), ओलची (hi) (olcī), गिलास (hi) (gilās)
- Hungarian: (sweet cherry) cseresznye (hu), (sour cherry) meggy (hu)
- Hunsrik: Kersch f
- Icelandic: kirsuber (is) n
- Ido: cerizo (io)
- Indonesian: ceri (id)
- Ingrian: mesimarja, viišnjä
- Interlingua: ceresia
- Irish: silín (ga) m
- Istriot: sareza f
- Italian: ciliegia (it) f
- Japanese: (dark cherry) チェリー (ja) (cherī), (Japanese cherry) 桜ん坊 (さくらんぼ, sakuranbo)
- Kapampangan: sarésa
- Kashmiri: پرَٛبٕدٔر m, گِلآس m (gilās)
- Kazakh: шие (şie)
- Korean: 버찌 (ko) (beojji), 체리 (ko) (cheri)
- Kumyk: жие (jiye)
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: чие (ky) (ciye), алча (ky) (alca)
- Lao: ໝາກເຊີຣິ (māk sœ̄ ri)
- Latgalian: (sour cherry) vīšne f, (sweet cherry) tresneica f
- Latin: cerasum n
- Latvian: ķirsis m
- Laz: მბული (mbuli) (sweet cherry), ვიშნე (vişne) (sour cherry)
- Ligurian: çêxa f
- Lithuanian: vyšnia f
- Lombard: sciresa (lmo) f
- Low German: Kars (nds) f
- Luxembourgish: Kiischt f
- Macedonian: цре́ша (mk) f (créša) (sweet cherry), ви́шна (mk) f (víšna) (sour cherry)
- Malay: ceri
- Maltese: ċirasa f
- Manchu: ᡳᠩᡨᠣᡵᡳ (ingtori)
- Manx: shillish
- Maori: tiere (mi)
- Middle English: cheri
- Middle Korean: 멎 (mèc)
- Mongolian: интоор (mn) (intoor)
- Navajo: didzéchííʼ
- Neapolitan: cerasa
- Nogai: аьлбел (älbel)
- Norman: chérise f (Jersey), tchoeur m (Jersey)
- Norwegian: kirsebær n, morell m (sweet cherry)
- Occitan: cerièra (oc) f
- Old English: ciris, cirse f
- Ossetian: бал (bal)
- Persian: گیلاس (fa) (gilâs)
- Plautdietsch: Kjoasch f
- Polish: (sweet cherry) czereśnia (pl) f, (sour cherry) wiśnia (pl) f
- Portuguese: cereja (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਚੈਰੀ f (cairī), ਸ਼ਾਹਦਾਣਾ m (śāhdāṇā), ਗਲਾਸ (pa) m (galās)
- Romanian: (sweet cherry) cireașă (ro) f, (sour cherry) vișină (ro) f
- Romansch: tscharescha f (Rumantsch Grischun), tscherescha (Sursilvan), tschariescha f (Sutsilvan, Surmiran), tschirescha f (Puter, Vallader)
- Russian: (sweet cherry) чере́шня (ru) f (čeréšnja), (sour cherry) ви́шня (ru) f (víšnja)
- Scottish Gaelic: sirist f, siris f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: cirasa (scn) f
- Silesian: trzyśńa
- Slovak: čerešňa (sk) f
- Slovene: (sweet cherry) češnja (sl) f, (sour cherry) višnja (sl) f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: wišnja f
- Spanish: cereza (es) f, guinda (es) f
- Svan: ჰებრა (hebra)
- Swahili: cheri
- Swedish: körsbär (sv) n, bigarrå (sv)
- Tagalog: seresa
- Tajik: гелос (gelos), олуболу (tg) (olubolu), гелос (tg) (gelos)
- Tamil: சேலாப்பழம் (ta) (cēlāppaḻam)
- Taos: ə̂bena
- Tarantino: ceráse
- Tatar: чия (tt) (çiyä)
- Thai: เชอร์รี่ (chəə-rîi)
- Tibetan: སེའུ (se'u)
- Turkish: kiraz (tr) (sweet), vişne (tr) (sour), albalı (tr)
- Ukrainian: чере́шня f (čeréšnja) (sweet cherry), ви́шня (uk) f (výšnja) (sour cherry)
- Urdu: چیری f (cerī)
- Uyghur: گىلاس (gilas)
- Uzbek: olcha (uz)
- Venetian: sareza
- Vietnamese: quả anh đào (果櫻桃)
- Vilamovian: kiysia f
- Volapük: cel (vo)
- Võro: vislamari, visnamari, vissel
- Walloon: ceréjhe (wa) f
- Welsh: ceiriosen (cy) f
- Yiddish: קאַרש f (karsh)
tree
- Antillean Creole: pyé siriz
- Armenian: կեռասենի (hy) (keṙaseni) (sweet cherry), բալենի (hy) (baleni) (sour cherry)
- Aromanian: ciresh m, tsiresh m
- Asturian: cerezal (ast) f, zrezal (ast) f
- Azerbaijani: albalı ağacı
- Basque: gerezi (eu)
- Breton: kerezenn (br) f
- Bulgarian: (sweet cherry) чере́ша (bg) f (čeréša), (sour cherry) ви́шна (bg) f (víšna), череша (bg) f (čereša), вишна (bg) f (višna)
- Catalan: cirerer (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Czech: třešeň (cs) f
- Danish: kirsebærtræ (da) n
- Dutch: kerselaar (nl) m, (sour cherry) kriekenboom f, kersenboom (nl) m
- Esperanto: ĉerizarbo, ĉerizujo
- Estonian: kirsipuu
- Faroese: kirsuberjatræ n
- Finnish: kirsikkapuu (fi)
- French: cerisier (fr) m
- Friulian: cjariesâr m, ceriesâr m
- Galician: cerdeira (gl) f, cereixeira (gl) f
- German: Kirschbaum (de) m, Kirschenbaum m
- Alemannic German: Chriesibaum m
- Greek: κερασιά (el) f (kerasiá)
- Hebrew: עץ דובדבן m ('etz duvdevan)
- Hunsrik: Kerschebaam m
- Icelandic: kirsuberjatré (is) n
- Ido: ceriziero (io)
- Indonesian: pohon ceri
- Interlingua: ceresiero
- Irish: crann silíní m
- Italian: ciliegio (it) m
- Japanese: 桜 (ja) (さくら, sakura)
- Kazakh: шие ағашы (şie ağaşy)
- Kumyk: жие (jiye)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: دار گێلاس (dar gêlas)
- Lao: ກເຊີຣິ (ka sœ̄ ri)
- Latgalian: vīšne f
- Latin: cerasus f
- Lithuanian: vyšnia f
- Lombard: sciresa (lmo) f
- Luxembourgish: Kiischtebam m
- Macedonian: цре́ша (mk) f (créša) (sweet cherry), ви́шна (mk) f (víšna) (sour cherry)
- Megleno-Romanian: cireș m
- Middle English: cheri
- Navajo: didzéchííʼ
- Ngarrindjeri: panpandi
- Nogai: аьлбели (älbeli)
- Norman: chérîsyi m (Jersey), tchoeuryi m (Jersey)
- Norwegian: kirsebærtre n
- Polish: wiśnia (pl) f
- Portuguese: cerejeira (pt) f
- Romanian: cireș (ro) m, vișin (ro) m
- Russian: ви́шня (ru) f (víšnja), чере́шня (ru) f (čeréšnja) (sweet cherry), са́кура (ru) f (sákura) (Japanese cherry)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: cirasaru m
- Slovak: čerešňa (sk) f
- Slovene: češnja (sl) f (sweet cherry), višnja (sl) f (sour cherry)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: wišnja f
- Spanish: cerezo (es) m (Prunus avium), (Prunus cerasus) guindo (es) m
- Svan: ჰებრა (hebra)
- Swahili: mcheri
- Swedish: körsbärsträd (sv), körsbär (sv)
- Tagalog: seresa
- Tajik: дарахти олуболу (daraxt-i olubolu)
- Turkish: kiraz (tr), kiraz ağacı
- Uzbek: olcha (uz)
- Vietnamese: cây anh đào (𣘃櫻桃)
- Vilamovian: kiysiabaojm m
- Volapük: celep (vo), celabim (vo)
- Võro: visnapuu, vislapuu
- Yiddish: קאַרשנבוים m (karshnboym)
wood
- Breton: kerezeg (br) f
- Bulgarian: череша (bg) f (čereša)
- Danish: kirsebærtræ (da) n
- Dutch: kersenhout n, kers (nl)
- Finnish: kirsikkapuu (fi)
- Galician: cerdeira (gl) f
- German: Kirschenholz m
- Alemannic German: Chriesiholz n
- Greek: κερασιά (el) f (kerasiá)
- Hebrew: עץ דובדבן ('etz duvdevan)
- Icelandic: kirsuberjaviður m
- Italian: ciliegio (it) m
- Macedonian: цреша (mk) f (creša)
- Norwegian: kirsebærtre n
- Polish: wiśnia (pl) n
- Portuguese: cerejeira (pt) f
- Russian: ви́шня (ru) f (víšnja)
- Swedish: körsbärsträ (sv), körsbär (sv)
- Turkish: kiraz kerestesi
- Vietnamese: gỗ anh đào (楛櫻桃)
color
- Bulgarian: черешов m (čerešov)
- Catalan: cirera (ca) f
- Czech: višňová
- Danish: kirsebærfarvet
- Finnish: kirsikanpunainen
- Galician: cereixa (gl) f
- Greek: κερασί n (kerasí), κερασένιο n (kerasénio), άλικο (el) n (áliko)
- Italian: ciliegia (it)
- Lithuanian: vyšninis m
- Norwegian: kirsebær
- Polish: wiśniowy (pl) m
- Portuguese: cereja (pt) m
- Russian: вишнёвый (ru) m (višnjóvyj)
- Spanish: guinda (es) m or f, cereza (es) m or f
- Swahili: rangi ya cheri
- Swedish: körsbärsfärgad, körsbär (sv)
- Turkish: kiraz rengi, vişne rengi
- Ukrainian: вишневий (uk) (vyšnevyj)
- Vietnamese: màu đỏ anh đào (𬜝𣠶櫻桃)
slang: virginity
graph theory: subtree consisting of two nodes
cherry (comparative cherrier or more cherry, superlative cherriest or most cherry)
- Containing or having the taste of cherries.
- Of a bright red colour; cherry red.
cherry:
- (informal, often of cars) In excellent condition; mint condition.
terms derived from cherry
flavour
- Bulgarian: черешов (čerešov), вишнев (višnev)
- Czech: třešňový (cs) m
- Dutch: met kersensmaak, kersen- (nl)
- Esperanto: ĉeriza
- Finnish: kirsikanmakuinen
- French: goût cerise
- Lithuanian: vyšninis m
- Polish: wiśniowy (pl)
- Romanian: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: вишнёвый (ru) (višnjóvyj)
- Swedish: med körsbärssmak
colour
- Czech: višňová f
- Dutch: kersen- (nl)
- Esperanto: ĉerizkolora
- Finnish: kirsikanpunainen
- Ido: cerizea (io)
- Lithuanian: vyšninis m
- Portuguese: cereja (pt)
- Romanian: (please verify) vișiniu (ro)
- Russian: вишнёвый (ru) (višnjóvyj)
- Swedish: körsbärsfärgad
- Turkish: kiraz rengi
- (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermilion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine (Category: en:Reds)
cherry m (plural cherrys or cherries)
- “cherry”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.