kapok tree

kapok tree

English

Etymology

The kapok tree (Bombax ceiba; sense 2).

From kapok + tree.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪpɒk tɹiː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪˌpɑk tɹi/
• (Singapore) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːpəʊk tɹiː/, [ˈkɑːpəʊʔ-]
• Hyphenation: ka‧pok tree

Noun

kapok tree (plural kapok trees)

1. Ceiba pentandra, a tree of the tropical Americas and west-central Africa, with white flowers, cultivated in south-east Asia for its seed fibre.

   Synonym: kapok

   • 1998, Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible, Faber and Faber 2013, p. 123:

     Right smack in the middle of the village is a huge kapok tree, which is where they get together and have their market every fifth day.

2. The silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba), an Asian tree with red flowers.

   Synonym: kapok

   • 2015, Labodalih Sembiring, translating Eka Kurniawan, Man Tiger, Verso 2015, p. 111:

     The coastal morning glory was left to creep up a bamboo pole that leaned against the kapok tree.

3. Two trees with yellow flowers native to northern Australia and Papua New Guinea.
   1. Cochlospermum gillivraei
   2. Cochlospermum fraseri

Translations

Ceiba pentandra

Bambara: bana Basaa: jǒm Catalan: capoquer Dyula: banayiri Edo: ọkha Ewe: ʋuti, wudese Finnish: amazoninkapokkipuu French: fromager (fr) m Fula: bantineewi German: Kapokbaum m Japanese: パンヤノキ (pan'ya-no-ki), カポック (kapokku), インドキワタ (indo-kiwata) Malayalam: പഞ്ഞിമരം (ml) (paññimaraṃ), ഇലവ് (ml) (ilavŭ) Mamara Senoufo: sheŋɛ Moore: gʋnga Soninke: bantinŋe Swedish: kapok (sv) c Vietnamese: bông gòn, gòn (vi)

Bombax ceiba

Finnish: valkokapokkio German: asiatischer Kapokbaum m, indischer Kapokbaum m, roter Seidenwollbaum m Japanese: インドワタノキ (indo-wata-no-ki), キワタ (kiwata), キワタノキ (kiwata-no-ki) Soninke: bunquŋe Swedish: indiskt dunträd (sv) n Turka: bluɔgu Vietnamese: gạo (vi)

Cochlospermum gillivraei

Cochlospermum fraseri

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked‌: "'tropical tree' from the article 'silk-cotton tree'"

Assamese: শিমলু (ximolu) Bengali: শিমুল (śimul), লাল শিমুল (lal śimul) Bikol Central: kayo (bcl) Braj: सेमर (semar) Burmese: လက်ပံ (my) (lakpam) Catalan: arbre del cotó Cebuano: taglinaw, duldol, durol, kapok (rare) Chinese: Mandarin: 木棉 (zh) (mùmián) Classical Nahuatl: pōchōtl Finnish: kapokkio (fi), kapokkipuu (fi) French: fromager (fr) m, kapokier (fr) m Hindi: सेमल (hi) (semal) Kannada: ಬೂರಗ (kn) (būraga) Malayalam: ഇലവ് (ml) (ilavŭ), പൂള (ml) (pūḷa), മുള്ളിലവ് (ml) (muḷḷilavŭ) Manipuri: ꯇꯦꯔꯥ (terā) Marathi: सांवर (sāuvar), काटेसांवर (kāṭesāuvar) Nepali: सिमल (simal) Oriya: ଶିମୁଳି (or) (śimuḷi) Portuguese: paineira f Punjabi: ਸਿੰਬਲ (pa) (simbal) Sanskrit: शल्मलि (sa) (śalmali), शिम्बल (sa) (śimbala) Santali: ᱥᱤᱢᱲᱤ (simṛi) Sinhalese: ඉඹුල් (iᵐbul) Spanish: ceiba (es) f, kapok m, capoc m, pochote m (Mexico), bonga f (Colombia), lupuna f (Peruvian Amazon) Sylheti: ꠢꠤꠝꠟ (himol) Tagalog: buboy Tamil: கோங்கு (ta) (kōṅku), முள்ளிலவு (ta) (muḷḷilavu), இலவு (ta) (ilavu) Telugu: బూరుగ (te) (būruga) Thai: งิ้ว (th) (ngíu) Vietnamese: gạo (vi)

Further reading

• kapok tree (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia