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, published 2013, page 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, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 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
• Cerma: bɔluɔŋgu
• Dii: ɗùɗùg, gágam
• Dutch: kapokboom (nl) m, kankantri (nl) m (Suriname)
• Dyula: banayiri
• Edo: ọkha
• Ewe: ʋuti, wudese
• Finnish: amazoninkapokkipuu
• French: fromager (fr) m
• Fula: bantineewi
• German: Kapokbaum m
• Gourmanchéma: púgúnbu
• Japanese: パンヤノキ (pan'ya-no-ki), カポック (kapokku), インドキワタ (indo-kiwata)
• Kasem: guŋu
• Malayalam: പഞ്ഞിമരം (ml) (paññimaraṁ), ഇലവ് (ml) (ilavŭ)
• Mamara Senoufo: sheŋɛ
• Moore: gʋnga
• Nawdm: gumb
• Soninke: bantinŋe
• Sranan Tongo: kankantri
• Swedish: kapok (sv) c
• Vietnamese: bông gòn, gòn (vi)
• Yoruba: ẹ̀gungun, àràbà, egigun

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)

Bombax costatum

• Cerma: tiriiŋgu
• Dyula: bumu
• Gourmanchéma: fùòbu
• Kasem: kafʋrʋ
• Moore: voaaka, vaaka
• Nawdm: voog̈b
• Tal: kɨɨy
• Vame: bəlgam

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 (bn) (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)
• Odia: 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 (es) 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