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English
An apple orchard.
Etymology
From Middle English orchard , orcherd , from Old English orċeard , ortġeard , a compound of *ort (probably from Proto-Germanic *urtiz , a dissimilated variant of Proto-Germanic *wurt- ( “ wort (plant) ” ) , later incorrectly associated with unrelated Latin hortus ( “ garden ” ) ) + ġeard (see hortyard and yard , which ironically is etymologically linked with hortus ). Cognate with Swedish örtagård ( “ herb garden ” ) , Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍄𐌹𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃 ( aurtigards , “ orchard ” ) , Old High German orzōn ( “ to cultivate a field ” ) . Equivalent to wort + yard . More at root .
Pronunciation
Noun
orchard (plural orchards )
A garden or an area of land for the cultivation of fruit or nut trees.
Synonyms: grove , plantation , woodlet
1907 January, Harold Bindloss , chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict , 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC : belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards ,
The trees themselves cultivated in such an area.
Hyponyms
olive grove
Note: most hyponyms are transparent combinations of + "orchard". For example, apple orchard, peach orchard, walnut orchard, etc.
Derived terms
Translations
land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees
Albanian: frutore (sq) f
Arabic: بُسْتَان (ar) m ( bustān ) , بَيَارَة f ( bayāra )
Egyptian Arabic: جنينة f ( genēna )
Aragonese: uerta f
Armenian: մրգաստան (hy) ( mrgastan ) , պտղատու այգի ( ptġatu aygi )
Asturian: güerta f
Azerbaijani: bağ (az) , bağça
Belarusian: фрукто́вы сад m ( fruktóvy sad ) , сад m ( sad )
Brunei Malay: kabun buah , dusun buah
Bulgarian: ово́щна гради́на f ( ovóštna gradína )
Burmese: ဥယျာဉ် (my) ( u.yyany )
Catalan: horta (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 果園 / 果园 (zh) ( guǒyuán )
Classical Nahuatl: xōchihcualcuauhtlah
Czech: sad (cs) m
Danish: frugthave c , frugtplantage c ( larger )
Dutch: boomgaard (nl) m , bongerd (nl) m
Egyptian: (ꜥt nt ḫt f )
Esperanto: fruktarbejo
Finnish: hedelmätarha (fi) , hedelmäpuutarha
French: verger (fr) m
Galician: horta (gl) f , pomar (gl) m , pomareira f , souto (gl) m , cortiña f , eixido m
Georgian: წალკოტი ( c̣alḳoṭi )
German: Obstgarten (de) m , Obstwiese (de) f , Obstplantage (de) f
Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍄𐌹𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃 m ( aurtigards )
Hebrew: מַטָּע (he) m ( mattá ) , בֻּסְתָּן (he) m ( bustán ) , פַּרְדֵּס (he) m ( pardés ) ( citrus orchard )
Hindi: फलौद्यान m ( phalaudyān )
Hungarian: gyümölcsös (hu) , gyümölcsöskert (hu)
Ido: fruktogardeno (io) , frukt-arboreyo (io)
Irish: úllord m
Old Irish: aball-gort m , ithlann f
Italian: frutteto (it) m
Japanese: 果樹園 (ja) ( かじゅえん, kajuen )
Khmer: ចំការ (km) ( cɑmkaa ) , ច្បារ (km) ( cbaa )
Korean: 과수원(果樹園) (ko) ( gwasuwon )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: bostan (ku) ?
Latin: pōmārium n
Latvian: augļu dārzs m
Luxembourgish: Bongert m
Macedonian: овоштарник m ( ovoštarnik )
Malay: dusun (ms)
Manx: messghart ?
Maori: oro , oro rākau
Norman: gardîn à frit m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: frukthage (no) m
Nynorsk: frukthage m
Occitan: òrta (oc) f
Ossetian: дыргъдон ( dyrǧdon )
Ottoman Turkish: باغ ( bağ )
Pannonian Rusyn: овоцнїк m ( ovocnjik )
Pashto: بڼ (ps) m ( baṇ )
Persian:
Iranian Persian: پالیز (fa) ( pâliz )
Polish: sad (pl) m
Portuguese: pomar (pt) m
Romanian: pomet (ro) n , livadă (ro) f
Russian: сад (ru) m ( sad ) , фрукто́вый сад m ( fruktóvyj sad )
Scottish Gaelic: ( apple orchard ) ubhalghort m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: во̏ћња̄к m
Roman: vȍćnjāk m
Sicilian: jardinu (scn) m
Slovak: sad (sk) m
Slovene: sadovnjak (sl) m
Spanish: huerta (es) m , vergel (es) m , huerta de arboles frutales f , chácara (es) f
Swedish: fruktträdgård (sv) c
Tagalog: lagwerta
Turkish: bostan (tr) , bağ (tr)
Ukrainian: фрукто́вий сад m ( fruktóvyj sad ) , сад (uk) m ( sad )
Vietnamese: vườn cây ăn trái , vườn cây ăn quả
Volapük: flukagad
Welsh: perllan f
Zazaki: baĝ , bostan (diq)
the trees in an orchard
Catalan: arbre fruiter m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 果樹 / 果树 (zh) ( guǒshù )
Danish: frugttræ (da) n
Finnish: hedelmäpuut (fi)
French: arbre fruitier (fr) m arbres fruitiers (fr) m pl
Galician: froiteira f
German: Obstbaum (de) m
Hungarian: gyümölcsfa (hu)
Italian: albero da frutto m
Japanese: 果樹 (ja) ( かじゅ, kaju )
Khmer: ចំការ (km) ( cɑmkaa )
Korean: 과수(果樹) (ko) ( gwasu )
Latvian: augļu dārzs m
Portuguese: árvore frutífera f
Russian: сад (ru) m ( sad ) , фрукто́вый сад m ( fruktóvyj sad ) , садо́вые дере́вья n pl ( sadóvyje derévʹja ) , фрукто́вые дере́вья m pl ( fruktóvyje derévʹja ) , плодо́вые дере́вья n pl ( plodóvyje derévʹja )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: во̏ћња̄к m
Roman: vȍćnjāk m
Sicilian: macchia (scn) f , àrburu (scn) m , -arra f , -itu m
Spanish: árbol de huerta (es) m , frutal (es) m , arbol frutal m
Swedish: fruktträd (sv) n
Volapük: flukagadabims , ( collective ) flukagadabimem
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