Categories: Common language, Nature, animals & plants
🇫🇷 (une, la) cerise (Prunus avium) [NF], (une, la) merise [NF], (une, la) griotte (Prunus cerasus) [NF], (un, le) bigarreau (Cerasa duracina) [NM]
Related term(s): koščica, maraska, ranica
IPA pronunciation: [sə.ʁiz],[mə.ʁiz],[ɡʁi.jɔt],[bi.ɡa.ʁo]
Grammar: [PLUR] des/les cerises, des/les merises, des/les griottes, des/les bigarreaux
Example(s) of use: « Il est venu le temps des cerises ! » France Bleu (14/06/2020)
Examples from arts & (pop)culture, etc: [Song] Le temps des cerises (1866, Jean-Baptiste Clément), chanson emblématique de la Commune de Paris (1871)
Expressions, idioms: (c’est) la cerise sur le gâteau
Literally meaning: [🇸🇮] češnja na vrhu torte; [🇬🇧] it’s the cherry on the cake: the icing on the cake
Synonyms or related terms: (une, la) guigne, (une, la) marasque
Other meanings: tomate cerise: [🇸🇮] češnjev paradižnik; [🇬🇧] cherry tomato
Pivot language: [🇬🇧] cherry, [🇬🇧] wild cherry, [🇬🇧] morello cherry, [🇬🇧] sour cherry
In other languages: cerasum [LAT]
Grammar: [PLUR] des/les cerises, des/les merises, des/les griottes, des/les bigarreaux
Example(s) of use: « Il est venu le temps des cerises ! » France Bleu (14/06/2020)
Examples from arts & (pop)culture, etc: [Song] Le temps des cerises (1866, Jean-Baptiste Clément), chanson emblématique de la Commune de Paris (1871)
Expressions, idioms: (c’est) la cerise sur le gâteau
Literally meaning: [🇸🇮] češnja na vrhu torte; [🇬🇧] it’s the cherry on the cake: the icing on the cake
Synonyms or related terms: (une, la) guigne, (une, la) marasque
Other meanings: tomate cerise: [🇸🇮] češnjev paradižnik; [🇬🇧] cherry tomato
Pivot language: [🇬🇧] cherry, [🇬🇧] wild cherry, [🇬🇧] morello cherry, [🇬🇧] sour cherry
In other languages: cerasum [LAT]