holly

Etymology
From, , , a shortened variation of , (> English dialectal , ), from , , from , possibly from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬,, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 "holly" < Germanic, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Any of various shrubs or (mostly) small trees, of the genus, either evergreen or deciduous, used as decoration especially at Christmas.
 * 2) The wood from this tree.
 * 3)  Any of several not closely related plant species likened to  because of their prickly, evergreen foliage and/or round, bright-red berries
 * 1)  Any of several not closely related plant species likened to  because of their prickly, evergreen foliage and/or round, bright-red berries

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: بَهَشِيَّة, إِيلِكْس
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: acebu
 * Azerbaijani: şümşə, pirkal
 * Basque: gorosti
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: джел, бодлива зеленика
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎤᏍᏓᏍᏗ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: kelynnen, kelyn
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kristtorn
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ilekso
 * Estonian: iileks, astelpõõsas
 * Finnish:
 * Franco-Provençal: agriblon
 * French:
 * Friulian: rafacon
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: ბაძგი, ჭყორი
 * German:, Hulse, Hulst, , Stechhülse, Hülsdorn,
 * Greek: ίλεξ
 * Ancient: κήλαστρος
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: cuileann, crann cuilinn
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 西洋柊, 犬黄楊, 黐の木
 * Latin: acrifolium
 * Lithuanian: bugienis
 * Mingrelian: ბარცხინი, ბარცხელი, ბაძგი
 * Navajo: didzéłchííʼ
 * Norman: housse
 * Norwegian: kristtorn
 * Occitan:, , ,
 * Old English: holen
 * Ottoman Turkish: پرنال
 * Persian: کولخاس
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: wayusa, asiwu
 * Romanian: ilice,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sardinian: alase, golosti, olosti, bolostru
 * Scottish Gaelic: cuileann, crann-cuilinn, craobh-chuilinn
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: божи́ковина
 * Latin:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: bodíka
 * Spanish:
 * Svan: ბა̈რცხილ
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: asebo
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: па́дуб
 * Venetian: agrifoi, spergol
 * Welsh: celynen, celyn

Etymology
From, from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) holy