See Judas tree in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for Judas tree meaning in English (8.3kB)
{
"etymology_text": "From a European folk belief that Judas Iscariot hanged himself on a tree of this species (the account in the Christian scriptures says he hanged himself, but gives no details).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Judas trees",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Judas tree (plural Judas trees)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Cherokee terms with redundant script codes",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant script codes",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Hebrew terms with redundant script codes",
"parents": [
"Terms with redundant script codes",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "lifeform",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Caesalpinia subfamily plants",
"orig": "en:Caesalpinia subfamily plants",
"parents": [
"Legumes",
"Fabales order plants",
"Shrubs",
"Trees",
"Plants",
"Lifeforms",
"All topics",
"Life",
"Fundamental",
"Nature"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1762 June, “The compendious System of Natural History”, in The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, volume 30, page 297",
"text": "The Spaniards and Portuguese title the siliquastrum the lovely tree, or tree of love; and we call it Judas tree, from a tradition, that it was the tree Judas hanged himself upon.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1858, Adelaide Anne Procter, “The Wayside Inn”, in Legends and Lyrics, New York: D. Appleton, page 119",
"text": "[…] children, drawing water,\nLooked up and paused to see,\nAmid the apple branches,\nA purple Judas tree.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1926, Vita Sackville-West, Passenger to Teheran, London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf, Chapter V, II",
"text": "[The garden] is a tangle of briars and grey sage, and here and there a judas tree in full flower stains the whiteness of the tall planes with its incredible magenta.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A small deciduous tree, Cercis siliquastrum, noted for its prolific display of deep-pink flowers in spring."
],
"id": "en-Judas_tree-en-noun-mm3Vwf1g",
"links": [
[
"deciduous",
"deciduous"
],
[
"Cercis siliquastrum",
"Cercis siliquastrum#Translingual"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "European redbud"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʔurjuwān",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "أُرْجُوَان"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "zamzarīq",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "زَمْزَرِيق"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "šazrīq",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "شَزْرِيق"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḵazrīq",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "خَزْرِيق"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "hudayacaṙ",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"word": "հուդայածառ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "arčvan",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"word": "արճվան"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "lsntori",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"word": "լսնտորի"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "lusnaterewi",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"word": "լուսնատերևի"
},
{
"code": "axm",
"lang": "Middle Armenian",
"roman": "arčuan",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"word": "արճուան"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "div rožkov",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "див рожков"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "arbre de l'amor"
},
{
"code": "chr",
"lang": "Cherokee",
"roman": "nodatsi",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"word": "ᏃᏓᏥ"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"word": "arbre de Judas"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"word": "arbre de Judée"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Judasbaum"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "koutsoupiá",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "κουτσουπιά"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "sēmúda",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "σημύδα"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "kǝlīl ha-ḣṓreš",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"word": "כְּלִיל הַחֹרֶשׂ"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "aragvān",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "अरगवान"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "yureopbaktaeginamu",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"word": "유럽박태기나무"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "erxewan"
},
{
"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "siġra ta’ Ġuda"
},
{
"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ħarrub ta’ Ġuda"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "arğavân",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"word": "ارغوان"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "judaszowiec południowy"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "judaszowiec wschodni"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "olaia"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "árvore-de-judas"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "iúdino dérevo",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "иу́дино де́рево"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bagrjánnik",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "багря́нник"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bagrjánnik jevropéjskij",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "багря́нник европе́йский"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "cercis jevropéjskij",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "церцис европе́йский"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"neuter"
],
"word": "Јудино дрво"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ју̀дић"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"Latin",
"neuter"
],
"word": "Judino drvo"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"Latin",
"masculine"
],
"word": "jùdić"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "arjorán"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ciclamor"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "árbol del amor"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "algarrobo loco"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "árbol de Judas"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"word": "deliboynuz"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"word": "erguvan"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "iúdyne dérevo",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "іу́дине де́рево"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "bahrjányk",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "багря́ник"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "bahrjányk jevropéjsʹkyj",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "багря́ник європе́йський"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "cercys jevropéjsʹkyj",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "церцис європе́йський"
}
]
}
],
"word": "Judas tree"
}
{
"etymology_text": "From a European folk belief that Judas Iscariot hanged himself on a tree of this species (the account in the Christian scriptures says he hanged himself, but gives no details).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "Judas trees",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Judas tree (plural Judas trees)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Cherokee terms with redundant script codes",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English eponyms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"Hebrew terms with redundant script codes",
"en:Caesalpinia subfamily plants"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1762 June, “The compendious System of Natural History”, in The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, volume 30, page 297",
"text": "The Spaniards and Portuguese title the siliquastrum the lovely tree, or tree of love; and we call it Judas tree, from a tradition, that it was the tree Judas hanged himself upon.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1858, Adelaide Anne Procter, “The Wayside Inn”, in Legends and Lyrics, New York: D. Appleton, page 119",
"text": "[…] children, drawing water,\nLooked up and paused to see,\nAmid the apple branches,\nA purple Judas tree.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1926, Vita Sackville-West, Passenger to Teheran, London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf, Chapter V, II",
"text": "[The garden] is a tangle of briars and grey sage, and here and there a judas tree in full flower stains the whiteness of the tall planes with its incredible magenta.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A small deciduous tree, Cercis siliquastrum, noted for its prolific display of deep-pink flowers in spring."
],
"links": [
[
"deciduous",
"deciduous"
],
[
"Cercis siliquastrum",
"Cercis siliquastrum#Translingual"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "European redbud"
}
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʔurjuwān",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "أُرْجُوَان"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "zamzarīq",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "زَمْزَرِيق"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "šazrīq",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "شَزْرِيق"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḵazrīq",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "خَزْرِيق"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "hudayacaṙ",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"word": "հուդայածառ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "arčvan",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"word": "արճվան"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "lsntori",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"word": "լսնտորի"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "lusnaterewi",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"word": "լուսնատերևի"
},
{
"code": "axm",
"lang": "Middle Armenian",
"roman": "arčuan",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"word": "արճուան"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "div rožkov",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "див рожков"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "arbre de l'amor"
},
{
"code": "chr",
"lang": "Cherokee",
"roman": "nodatsi",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"word": "ᏃᏓᏥ"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"word": "arbre de Judas"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"word": "arbre de Judée"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Judasbaum"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "koutsoupiá",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "κουτσουπιά"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "sēmúda",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "σημύδα"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "kǝlīl ha-ḣṓreš",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"word": "כְּלִיל הַחֹרֶשׂ"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "aragvān",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "अरगवान"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "yureopbaktaeginamu",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"word": "유럽박태기나무"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "erxewan"
},
{
"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "siġra ta’ Ġuda"
},
{
"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ħarrub ta’ Ġuda"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "arğavân",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"word": "ارغوان"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "judaszowiec południowy"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "judaszowiec wschodni"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "olaia"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "árvore-de-judas"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "iúdino dérevo",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "иу́дино де́рево"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bagrjánnik",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "багря́нник"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bagrjánnik jevropéjskij",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "багря́нник европе́йский"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "cercis jevropéjskij",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "церцис европе́йский"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"neuter"
],
"word": "Јудино дрво"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ју̀дић"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"Latin",
"neuter"
],
"word": "Judino drvo"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"Latin",
"masculine"
],
"word": "jùdić"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "arjorán"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ciclamor"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "árbol del amor"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "algarrobo loco"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "árbol de Judas"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"word": "deliboynuz"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"word": "erguvan"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "iúdyne dérevo",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "іу́дине де́рево"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "bahrjányk",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "багря́ник"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "bahrjányk jevropéjsʹkyj",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "багря́ник європе́йський"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "cercys jevropéjsʹkyj",
"sense": "Cercis siliquastrum",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "церцис європе́йський"
}
],
"word": "Judas tree"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.