Prunus avium (Common names)

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Names in common use

• English: cherry, sweet cherry; gean, merry, mazzard¹; heart cherry²: Bigarreau cherry³
• German: Kirschbaum / Kirsche; Vogel-Kirsche¹; Herzkirsche, weiche Kirsche²; Knorpelkirsche³
• Dutch: kers, zoete kers; kriek¹; vleeskers, knapkers³
• Swedish: körsbär
• Danish: kirsebær; fuglekirsebær¹
• Norwegian: søtkirsebær, fuglekirsebær, morell
• Icelandic:
  

• French: cerisier / cerise, cerise douce; merisier / merise¹; guigne²; bigarreautier / bigarreau³
• Italian: ciliegio / ciliegia; ciliegia tenerina²; ciliegia durone³
• Spanish: cerezo / cereza; cereza gordal, cereza garrafal³
• Catalan: cirerer, cirer / cirera
• Portuguese: cerejeira / cereja; cereja garrafal³
• Romanian: cireş / cireaşă (pl. cireşi); cireaşă pietroasă³
  

• Russian: черешня - čerešnja
• Polish: czereśnia; trześnia²
• Czech: třešeň / třešně; srdcovka²; chrupka³
• Slovak:
• Bulgarian: череша - čereša
• Croatian: trešnja
• Serb: трешња
• Slovenian: češnja
• Macedonian: цреша - creša
  

• Latvian: ķirsi
• Lithuanian: trešnė
• Albanian: qershi (qershia with the article)
• Greek: κερασιά / κεράσι (pl. κεράσια) - kerasia / kerasi; κεράσι τράγανο - kerasi traghano³
• Turkish: kiraz
• Maltese: ċirasa
• Hungarian: cseresznye; vadcseresznye, madárcseresznye¹
• Finnish: imeläkirsikka, linnunkirsikkapuu
• Estonian: kirsipuu / kirss
  

Sources and commentaries

1) Designates the wild form, also cultivated for timber.

2) Designates the Juliana Group, with soft flesh.

3) Designates the Duracina Group, with hard flesh.

• Dutch: kriek is the wild cherry in northern Netherland, and the sour cherry in southern Netherland.
• Czech: Třešně rozdělujeme na chrupky, srdcovky a polochrupky [We classify cherries into Bigarreau, heart and half-Bigarreau]. Dlouhá Jana et al., 1995. Ovoce. Praha, Aventinum. 224 p.