Prunus domestica (Common names)

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Names in common use

• English: plum, European plum; damson¹
• German: Pflaume; Kriechenpflaume, Krieche, Zwetschge, Zwetsche, Quetsche (Rhine area)¹
• Dutch: pruim; kriekpruim, kroosjespruim, kriek, kwets¹
• Swedish: plommon, sviskon; krikon¹
• Danish: blomme
• Norwegian: plomme, ploma, plomma, plome
• Icelandic:
  

• French: prunier / prune; créquier/ crèque (regional)¹; quetsche¹
• Italian: susino / susina, prugna
• Spanish: ciruelo / ciruela
• Catalan: prunera / pruna
• Portuguese: ameixieira / ameixa
• Romanian: prun / prună
  

• Russian: слива домашняя - sliva domašnjaja
• Polish: śliwa domowa, śliwa węgierka; damaszka, lubaszka¹
• Czech: slivoň švestka, švestka domácí / švestka
• Slovak:
• Bulgarian: слива
• Croatian: šljiva
• Serb: шљива; трношљива
• Slovenian: sliva, češplja
• Macedonian:
  

• Latvian: mājas plūme
• Lithuanian: slyva
• Albanian: kumbullë (kumbulla with the article)
• Greek: δαμασκηνιά / δαμάσκηνο - dhamaskinia / dhamaskino
• Turkish: erik (eriği in composition)
• Maltese: pruna
• Hungarian: szilva
• Finnish: luumu, luumupuu; kriikuna¹
• Estonian: ploomipuu
  

Sources and commentaries

1) Designates subsp. insititia.

• French: créquier designates semi-wild forms of subsp. insititia.
• Dutch: kwets is the general name in Flanders.
• Slovenian: Naše sadje, 1975. Ljubljana, ČZP Kmečki Glas. 188 p.