English
Etymology
From Middle English popler, from Anglo-Norman popler and Old French poplier (compare French peuplier), from Latin pōpulus, with a suffix later added.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɒp.lə(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈpɑ.plɚ/
Noun
poplar (countable and uncountable, plural poplars)
- Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Populus.
2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 285:They are gathered under the low-hanging branches of a poplar, its gold and green leaves glittering on the breeze like tinsel.
- (uncountable) Wood from the poplar tree.
Derived terms
- American poplar (Populus tremuloides; Liriodendron tulipifera)
- aspen poplar (Populus tremuloides)
- balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera; Populus sect. Tacamahaca)
- bay poplar (Nyssa aquatica)
- black Italian poplar (Populus serotina)
- black poplar (Populus nigra)
- blue poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)
- Carolina poplar (Populus deltoides, Populus balsamifera, etc.)
- downy poplar (Populus heterophylla)
- Eugene poplar (Populus canadensis eugenei)
- Euphrates poplar (Populus euphratica)
- grey poplar, grey poplar (Populus canescens)
- hickory poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)
- Italian poplar (Populus nigra italica)
- Japanese poplar, Korean poplar (Populus suaveolens)
- Lombardy poplar (Populus nigra italica)
- Mongolian poplar (Populus suaveolens)
- necklace poplar (Populus deltoides)
- pink poplar (Euroschinus falcatus)
- Plains poplar (Populus sargentii)
- poplar admiral (Limenitis populi)
- poplar and willow borer (Sternochetus lapathi)
- poplar birch (Betula populifolia, Betula alba)
- Poplar Bluff
- poplar borer (Saperda calcarata)
- poplar box (Eucalyptus polyanthemos)
- poplar canker (Dothichiza populea)
- poplar goat moth (Acossus centerensis)
- poplar grey (Acronicta megacephala)
- poplar hawkmoth (Laothoe populi)
- Poplarism
- poplar kitten (Furcula bifida)
- poplar leaf fig (Ficus laevigata)
- poplar-leaved birch (Betula populifolia)
- poplarlike
- poplar vagabond aphid (Mordwilkoja vagabundus)
- Poplar Valley
- poplar worm (Acronicta lepusculina)
- river poplar (Populus balsamifera
- silver-leaved poplar, silver leaved poplar, silver poplar (Populus alba)
- soft poplar (Populus grandidentata)
- swamp poplar (Populus heterophylla)
- trembling poplar (Populus tremula, Populus tremuloides)
- tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)
- water poplar (Populus deltoides, Populus nigra, etc.)
- western balsam poplar (Populus trichocarpa)
- white poplar (Populus alba)
- willow poplar (Populus nigra)
- yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)
Translations
any of various deciduous trees of the genus Populus
- Abkhaz: аӷш (ağŝ), аҵлаш (acʼlaŝ), аҷандар (ačʼandar)
- Afrikaans: populier
- Albanian: plep (sq) m, shpel m
- Altai:
- Southern Altai: терек (terek)
- Arabic: حَوْر m (ḥawr)
- Armenian: բարդի (hy) (bardi)
- Old Armenian: ոփի (opʻi)
- Aromanian: plop m, plup m
- Azerbaijani: qovaq (az), ağqoval, ağqovaq
- Bashkir: тирәк (tirək)
- Basque: makal
- Belarusian: тапо́ля f (tapólja)
- Bulgarian: топола (bg) f (topola)
- Catalan: pollancre (ca) m, (white poplar) àlber m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 楊樹 / 杨树 (zh) (yángshù)
- Chuvash: тирек (tirek)
- Cornish: edhlen
- Czech: topol (cs) m
- Danish: poppel c, poppeltræ n
- Dogrib: tʼooh
- Dutch: populier (nl) m
- Esperanto: poplo (eo)
- Estonian: pappel
- Faroese: øsp f
- Finnish: poppeli (fi)
- French: peuplier (fr) m
- Friulian: pôl m
- Gagauz: kavak
- Galician: lamigueiro (gl) m, choupo (gl) m
- Georgian: ალვა (alva), ჩინარი (činari), ჭანდარი (ka) (č̣andari), ალვის ხე (alvis xe)
- German: Pappel (de) f
- Greek: λεύκα (el) f (léfka)
- Ancient Greek: αἴγειρος f (aígeiros) (black poplar), λεύκη f (leúkē) (white poplar)
- Hebrew: צפצפה (he) f (tzaftzafáh)
- Hindi: चिनार (hi) m (cinār)
- Hungarian: nyár (hu), nyárfa (hu)
- Ido: poplo (io)
- Ingrian: toppoli
- Irish: poibleog f
- Italian: pioppo (it) m
- Japanese: ポプラ (ja) (popura)
- Kaitag: ахтирекк (aꭓtirekk)
- Kalmyk: уласн (ulasn)
- Karachay-Balkar: акътерек (aqterek)
- Karakalpak: terek
- Kazakh: терек (terek)
- Khakas: тирек (tirek)
- Korean: 포플러 (ko) (popeulleo)
- Kumyk: акътал (aqtal)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: چنار (ckb) (çnar)
- Kyrgyz: терек (ky) (terek)
- Latgalian: topuļs m
- Latin: pōpulus (la) f
- Latvian: papele f
- Lezgi: къавах (q̄avaꭓ)
- Lithuanian: tuopa f
- Macedonian: топола f (topola)
- Manchu: ᡶᡠᠯᡥᠠ (fulha)
- Manx: pobbyl m, billey pobbyl m
- Māori: pāpara
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: ошко (oško)
- Western Mari: ошкы (ošky)
- Mongolian: улиангар (mn) (uliangar)
- Nivkh: мускыр̌ (muskəř)
- Nogai: терек (terek)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: poppel m
- Nynorsk: poppel m
- Occitan: píbol (oc) m
- Persian: سپیدار (fa) (sepidâr), قواخ (qavâx), صنوبر (fa) (senowbar)
- Polish: topola (pl) f
- Portuguese: choupo (pt) m
- Romanian: plop (ro) m
- Russian: то́поль (ru) m (tópolʹ)
- Rutul: къавах (q:avaꭓ)
- Scottish Gaelic: critheann m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: топола f, јаблан m
- Latin: topola (sh) f, jablan (sh) m
- Shor: терек (terek)
- Sicilian: àrbanu (scn) m
- Slovak: topoľ m
- Slovene: topol (sl) m
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: topoł m
- Spanish: álamo (es) m, chopo (es) m
- Swahili: mpopla, mlibua
- Swedish: poppel (sv) c
- Tagalog: alamo
- Tajik: сафедор (safedor)
- Tatar: tiräk, tupıl
- Turkish: kavak (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: قواق (kavak)
- Turkmen: derek
- Tuvan: терек (terek)
- Udi: къувангъ (q̇uvanɣ)
- Ukrainian: топо́ля (uk) f (topólja)
- Uzbek: terak (uz)
- Vietnamese: dương (vi)
- Vilamovian: pōpuł m
- Welsh: poplys f pl
- Yakut: тирэх (tireq)
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Further reading
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
poplar m pl
- indefinite plural of poppel
Turkish
Noun
poplar
- nominative plural of pop