peanut

See also: pea nut and pea-nut

English

peanuts

Alternative forms

• pea nut, pea-nut (obsolete)

Etymology

From pea +‎ nut, perhaps a folk etymology of pinda, pinder (still found in Southern US dialects).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pē'nŭt", IPA^(key): /ˈpiːnʌt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpiˌnʌt/

• Audio (GA)

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• Hyphenation: pea‧nut

Noun

peanut (plural peanuts)

1. A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea, native to South America.
2. (US) A very small clam.
3. (in the plural) See peanuts (“very small amount”).

Synonyms

• goober (Southern US slang), goober pea (dated Southern US), monkey nut (UK), pinder (Southern US)

Hypernyms

• earthnut, groundnut

Derived terms

• circus peanut
• cocktail peanut
• hog peanut (Amphicarpaea bracteata)
• if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
• packing peanut
• peanut ball
• peanut brittle
• peanut bunker
• peanut butter
• peanut butter and jelly
• peanut butter cup
• peanut gallery
• peanut-headed lanternfly (Fulgora laternaria)
• peanutlike
• peanut marzipan
• peanut milk
• peanut paste
• peanut tree (Sterculia quadrifida)
• peanut tube
• peanutty
• peanut whistle
• peanut worm (Sipuncula spp.)
• Peanut yellow mosaic virus

 

Translations

a legume resembling a nut

• Afrikaans: grondboontjie
• Alabama: hayaɬi
• Albanian: kikirik (sq) m
• Amharic: ኦቾሎኒ (ʾočoloni)
• Amuzgo:

  Guerrero: ta̱ti

  San Pedro Amuzgos: tëtyi

• Arabic: فُول سُودَانِيّ m (fūl sūdāniyy)

  Egyptian Arabic: فول سوداني m pl (fūl sūdānī), سوداني m pl (sūdānī)

  Moroccan Arabic: كاوكاو (kāwkāw)

  North Levantine Arabic: فستق (festoʔ)

  South Levantine Arabic: فستق (fustoʔ)

• Armenian: գետնանուշ (hy) (getnanuš)
• Asturian: cacagüés (ast) m, cacagüesa (ast) f
• Aymara: chuqupa
• Basque: kakahuete
• Belarusian: ара́хіс m (aráxis)
• Bengali: চিনাবাদাম (cinabadam), চীনাবাদাম (bn) (cinabadam)
• Brunei Malay: kacang tanah
• Bulgarian: фъстъ́к (bg) m (fǎstǎ́k)
• Burmese: မြေပဲ (my) (mrepai:)
• Catalan: cacauet (ca) m
• Cebuano: mani
• Cerma: kaakoeŋo
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 花生 (faa¹ sang¹), 落花生 (lok⁶ faa¹ sang¹)

  Hakka: 番豆 (fân-theu)

  Hokkien: 塗豆／涂豆 (zh-min-nan) (thô͘-tāu)

  Mandarin: 花生 (zh) (huāshēng), 落花生 (zh) (luòhuāshēng), 長生果／长生果 (zh) (chángshēngguǒ), 土豆 (zh) (tǔdòu) (Taiwan)

• Cornish: knowen dhor f
• Czech: arašíd (cs) m, burský oříšek m
• Danish: jordnød c, peanut (da) c
• Dutch: aardnoot (nl) f, pinda (nl) m, apennoot (nl) f, arachidenoot f, grondnoot (nl) f, olienoot (nl) f
• Erzya: модапеште (modapešťe)
• Esperanto: arakido, ternukso
• Estonian: maapähkel (et), arahhis, arahhispähkel, hiina pähkel
• Faroese: jarðnøt f
• Finnish: maapähkinä (fi)
• French: arachide (fr) f, cacahuète (fr) m; pinotte (fr) f (Quebec, informal)
• Galician: cacahuete (gl) m
• Georgian: არაქისი (arakisi), მიწის თხილი (mic̣is txili)
• German: Erdnuss (de) f
• Greek: φυστίκι (el) n (fystíki)
• Greenlandic: jordnøddi
• Guaraní: manduvi (gn)
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hawaiian: pineki
• Hebrew: בוֹטֵן m (boten), אגוז אדמה (he) (egoz adama)
• Higaonon: mani
• Hindi: मूँगफली (hi) f (mūṅgaphlī), चिनियाबदाम (hi) m (ciniyābdām)
• Hungarian: földimogyoró (hu), amerikaimogyoró (hu)
• Icelandic: jarðhneta (is) f
• Ido: arakido (io)
• Indonesian: kacang tanah (id)
• Ingrian: maapäähkänä
• Irish: pis talún
• Isan: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: arachide (it) f, bagigio (it) m
• Japanese: ピーナツ (ja) (pīnatsu), 落花生 (ja) (らっかせい, rakkasei)
• Kannada: ಕಡಲೇಕಾಯಿ (kn) (kaḍalēkāyi)
• Kari'na: akunepy
• Kazakh: жержаңғақ (jerjañğaq)
• Khmer: សណ្ដែកដី (sɑndaek dəy)
• Kongo: nguba, mpinda
• Korean: 땅콩 (ko) (ttangkong)
• Kyrgyz: жержаңгак (jerjaŋgak)
• Ladino: fustuk m
• Lao: ຖົ່ວດິນ (thūa din)
• Latin: (New Latin) arachis m
• Latvian: zemesrieksts m
• Lithuanian: valgomasis arachis
• Low German: Eerdnööt f, Ültje m
• Lü: ᦷᦏᧈᦡᦲᧃ (ṫho¹ḋiin)
• Luhya: chimaito
• Luxembourgish: Kakuett, Afennoss f
• Macanese: façám
• Macedonian: кикири́тка f (kikirítka), кикири́ка f (kikiríka)
• Malay: kacang tanah (ms)
• Malayalam: കപ്പലണ്ടി (ml) (kappalaṇṭi), നിലക്കടല (nilakkaṭala)
• Maltese: karawett m
• Manx: cro thallooin m
• Maori: pīnati
• Marathi: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: хуасан (mn) (xuasan)
• Nahuatl: cacáhuatl, tlalcacahuatl (nah)
• Navajo: neeshchʼííłbáhí
• Ngazidja Comorian: ndjugu class 9/10
• Northern Sami: eananniehtti
• Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: peanøtt f, jordnøtt f
• Occitan: cacauèt (oc) m
• Odia: please add this translation if you can
• Old English: eorþhnutu f
• Oromo: ocholoonii
• Ottoman Turkish: یر فستغی (yer fıstığı)
• Papiamentu: pinda
• Persian: بادام کوهی (bâdâm kuhi), بادام زمینی (bâdâm zamini)
• Plautdietsch: Ieednät f, Pienat f
• Polish: arachid (pl) m, fistaszek (pl) m, orzech arachidowy m, orzech ziemny (pl) m, orzeszek ziemny m, żydek (pl) m (colloquial)
• Portuguese: amendoim (pt) m; ginguba (Angola)
• Punjabi: ਮੁੰਗਫਲੀ f (muṅgphalī)
• Quechua: inchik
• Romanian: arahidă (ro), alună de pământ (ro) f, alună americană (ro) f
• Romansch: spagnoletta f
• Russian: ара́хис (ru) m (aráxis), земляно́й оре́х (ru) m (zemljanój oréx), кита́йский оре́х m (kitájskij oréx)
• Scottish Gaelic: cnò-thalmhainn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: kikirìki (sh) m

• Slovak: arašid (sk) m
• Slovene: arašíd (sl) m, kikirikí (sl), kikirikí (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: zemski wórješk m

  Upper Sorbian: zemski worjech m, zemski worješk m

• Sotho: letokomane
• Southern Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: maní (es) m (Latin America), cacahuate (es) (Mexico), cacahuete (es) m (Spain)
• Swahili: njugu (sw), karanga (soft), njugunyasa (soft), njugumawe (hard)
• Swedish: jordnöt (sv) c
• Tagalog: mani
• Tamil: நிலக்கடலை (ta) (nilakkaṭalai), கச்சான் (ta) (kaccāṉ)
• Telugu: ("standard") వేరుసెనగ (te) (vērusenaga), వేరుసెనగకాయ (vērusenagakāya) (unshelled), (northern Telangana) పల్లీ (pallī), పల్లీకాయ (pallīkāya) (unshelled), (Mahabubnagar, Nalgonda) ఇలాతికాయ (ilātikāya) (unshelled), (Mahabubnagar, Kurnool) బుడ్డ (te) (buḍḍa), (Coastal Andhra) గుత్తిసెనగ (guttisenaga), (Rayalaseema) సెనక్కాయ (senakkāya)
• Thai: ถั่วลิสง, ลิสง (lí-sǒng)
• Tibetan: སྦ་ཏམ (sba tam)
• Tongan: pīnati
• Turkish: yer fıstığı (tr)
• Uab Meto: fukasê
• Ukrainian: ара́хіс (uk) m (aráxis), земляни́й горі́х m (zemljanýj horíx)
• Urdu: مونگفلی f (mungfali)
• Venetian: bajijo m pl, bagigio (vec) m
• Vietnamese: đậu phộng (vi), đậu phụng (vi), lạc (vi)
• Volapük: raagid (vo)
• Wayana: ahnep, pinta
• Welsh: cneuen ddaear (cy) f sg, cnau daear (cy) f pl, pysgnau (cy) f pl
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Wolof: gerte (wo), areen
• Yiddish: פֿיסטאַשקע f (fistashke), סטאַשקע f (stashke), רבי־ניסל n (rebe-nisl), משה־רבינו־ניסל n (Moyshe-Rabeynu-nisl)
• Zaghawa: mandawa
• Zhuang: duhdoem, duhnamh

See also

• beer nut

Verb

peanut (third-person singular simple present peanuts, present participle peanutting, simple past and past participle peanutted)

1. (transitive) To pull on somebody's tie as a prank, causing the knot to tighten.

Further reading

• Arachis hypogaea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• peanut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• peanut at USDA Plants database
• peanut at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

Anagrams

• ante up, ante-up, untape

Danish

Etymology

From English peanut.

Noun

peanut c (singular definite peanutten, plural indefinite peanuts)

1. peanut

Inflection

Declension of peanut

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	peanut	peanutten	peanuts	peanuttene
genitive	peanuts	peanuttens	peanuts'	peanuttenes

Synonyms

• jordnød

Further reading

• “peanut” in Den Danske Ordbog