avocado

See also: Avocado

English

An avocado

Etymology

Borrowed from American Spanish avocado, altered—by folk-etymological association with abogado (“lawyer”)—from the earlier aguacate, which comes from Classical Nahuatl āhuacatl (“avocado”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) Doublet of abacate.

The first mention can be found in the 1696 catalogue of Jamaican plants.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ævəˈkɑːdəʊ/
• (General American) enPR: ăvəkäʹdō, IPA^(key): /ɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/, [ɑvəˈkɑɾoʊ], /ævəˈkɑdoʊ/, [ævəˈkɑɾoʊ]

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ

Noun

avocado (countable and uncountable, plural avocados or avocadoes)

1. The large, usually yellowish-green or black, pulpy fruit of the avocado tree.

   Synonyms: alligator pear, avocado pear, butter pear, butter fruit, abacate

2. The avocado tree, Persea americana, of the laurel family.
3. (color, chiefly uncountable) A dark chartreuse colour, like the colour of the skin of an avocado.

   avocado:  

Derived terms

• avocado pear
• Hass avocado

Descendants

• → Irish: abhacád

Translations

fruit

• Afrikaans: avokado (af)
• Albanian: avokado
• Amharic: አቮካዶ (ʾävokado)
• Arabic: أَفُوكَادُو‎ m (ʾafukādū)

  Egyptian Arabic: افوكاتو‎ m pl (avokato)

  Hijazi Arabic: أڤُكادو‎ m (avukādu)

  Moroccan Arabic: أفوكا‎ (ʔavuka)

• Assamese: মাখন ফল (makhon phol)
• Asturian: aguacate (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: avokado (az)
• Belarusian: авака́да n (avakáda)
• Bengali: এভোক্যাডো (ebhokjaḍo), মাখন ফল (makhôn phôl)
• Breton: avoukez (br) pl
• Bulgarian: авока́до (bg) n (avokádo)
• Burmese: ထောပတ်သီး (my) (htau:patsi:)
• Catalan: alvocat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 牛油果 (ngau⁴ jau⁴ gwo²)

  Mandarin: 鱷梨 (zh), 鳄梨 (zh) (èlí), 酪梨 (zh) (làolí, luòlí)

  Min Nan: a-bu-kha-lo

• Chol: oñ
• Cornish: avokado m
• Czech: avokádo (cs) n
• Danish: avocado (da) c, avokado c
• Dutch: avocado (nl) m
• Esperanto: avokado
• Estonian: avokaado (et)
• Faroese: avokado n
• Finnish: avokado (fi)
• French: avocat (fr) m
• Galician: aguacate (gl) m
• Georgian: ავოკადო (avoḳado)
• German: Avocado (de) f
• Greek: αβοκάντο (el) n (avokánto)
• Gujarati: માખણફળ (mākhaṇphaḷ)
• Hawaiian: pea
• Hebrew: אָבוֹקָדוֹ‎ (he) m (avokado)
• Hindi: रुचिरा (hi) (rucirā), अवोकाडो m (avokāḍo), मक्खनफल (makkhanphal)
• Hungarian: avokádó (hu)
• Icelandic: lárpera f, avókadó (is) n
• Ido: avokado (io)
• Indonesian: alpukat (id), avokad (id)
• Irish: abhacád m, piorra abhcóide m
• Isthmus Zapotec: yaxhu
• Italian: avocado (it) m
• Jamaican Creole: pear
• Japanese: アボカド (ja) (abokado), 鰐梨 (わになし, waninashi)
• K'iche': oj
• Kabuverdianu: abakati, abakate
• Kazakh: авокадо (avokado)
• Khmer: អាវ៉ូកាត៍ (km) (’aavookaa)
• Kikuyu: ikorobia 5
• Korean: 아보카도 (ko) (abokado)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: avokado (ku)

• Kyrgyz: авокадо (ky) (avokado)
• Lao: ໝາກອາໂວກາໂດ (lo) (māk ʼā wō kā dō)
• Latvian: avokado (lv) m

• Lithuanian: avokadas m
• Macedonian: авока́до n (avokádo)
• Malagasy: mpisolovava (mg)
• Malay: avokado
• Malayalam: ആത്തച്ചക്ക (āttaccakka)
• Maltese: avokado m
• Maori: awhekātō, rahopūru (On account of its appearance)
• Mongolian: авокадо (avokado)
• Nahuatl:

  Central : ahuacatl (Amecameca), ahuacatli (Cholula), auakatl (Tlaxcala)

  Central Huasteca: auakatl

  Eastern Huasteca: awakatl (Tantoyuca), ahuacatl

  Classical: ahuacatl, āhuacatl

  Orizaba: awakatl

  Western Huasteca: auakatl

• Navajo: chʼil akʼahí
• Northern Sami: avokádo
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avokado (no) m

• Occitan: avocat (oc) m
• Persian: آووکادو‎ (fa) (âvokâdo)
• Pipil: āwakat
• Polish: awokado (pl) n
• Portuguese: abacate (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਮੱਖਣ ਫਲ (makkhaṇ phal)
• Purepecha: kupanda
• Quechua: palta
• Romansch: avocado m
• Russian: авока́до (ru) n (avokádo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: авокадо

  Roman: avokado (sh) n

• Slovak: avokádo n
• Slovene: avokado (sl) n
• Somali: canbaruudda
• Spanish: aguacate (es) m, palta (es) f (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Perú, Uruguay), cura (es) f (Colombia, dated), avocado (es) m
• Swahili: Mparachichi
• Swedish: avokado (sv) c
• Tagalog: abokado (tl)
• Tajik: авокадо (avokado)
• Tamil: வெண்ணைப் பழம் (ta) (veṇṇaip paḻam)
• Tatar: авокадо (awoqado)
• Thai: อาโวคาโด (aa-woo-kaa-dôo)
• Tigrinya: ኣቮካዶ (ʾavokado)
• Tok Pisin: bata prut
• Tongan: 'âvoka
• Tsonga: ovhakhadi
• Turkish: avokado (tr)
• Turkmen: awokado
• Tz'utujil: ooj
• Ukrainian: авока́до (uk) n (avokádo)
• Urdu: مگر ناشپاتی‎ m (magar naśpati)
• Uzbek: avokado (uz)
• Vietnamese: bơ (vi)
• Welsh: afocado (cy) m
• Yucatec Maya: oon

tree

• Asturian: aguacate (ast) m
• Catalan: alvocater m
• Classical Nahuatl: āhuacacuahuitl
• Dutch: avocadoboom (nl) m
• Esperanto: avokadarbo, avokadujo
• Finnish: avokado (fi), avokadopuu
• French: avocatier (fr) m
• Galician: aguacate (gl) m
• German: Avocado (de) f, Avocadobaum m
• Greek: αβοκάντο (el) n (avokánto)
• Ido: avokadiero (io)
• Irish: abhacád m, crann abhacád m
• Italian: avocado (it) m
• Jamaican Creole: pear
• Kikuyu: mũkorobia 3
• Latvian: avokado (lv) m
• Macedonian: авока́до n (avokádo)
• Malay: pokok avokado

• Nahuatl:

  Central : ahuacacuahuitl (Amecameca, Cholula)

  Central Huasteca: auakakoauitl (Yahualica), auakakuauitl (Huejutla, Xochiatipan)

  Classical : ahuacacuahuitl

  Eastern Huasteca: awakakuawitl (Tantoyuca)

  Orizaba: awakakuawitl

• Norman: avocatchi m (Jersey)
• Polish: awokado (pl) n
• Portuguese: abacateiro (pt) m
• Romanian: avocado (ro) n
• Serbo-Croatian: avokado (sh)
• Spanish: aguacate (es) m, palto (es) m
• Swahili: mparachichi
• Swedish: avokadoträd n
• Tamil: வெண்ணைப் பழ மரம் (veṇṇaip paḻa maram)
• Tongan: 'âvoka
• Welsh: afocado (cy) m

colour

• French: avocat (fr) m
• Irish: abhacád m, dath an abhacáid

• Malay: avokado
• Welsh: afocado (cy), lliw afocado

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} apokat, ^{(please verify)} alpukat (id), ^{(please verify)} alpokat (id)

Adjective

avocado (not comparable)

1. Of a dull yellowish-green colour.

Translations

Avocado-coloured

• French: avocat (fr)
• Ido: avokadea

• Malay: avokado
• Swedish: avokadofärgad

See also

• guacamole
• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• avocado on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Persea americana on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Persea americana on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• avocado at USDA Plants database
• “Avocado” in Michael Quinion, Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, 2004, →ISBN.
• cookbook:avocado on Wikibooks.Wikibooks

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Danish

Alternative forms

• avokado

Etymology

From Spanish aguacate, from Nahuatl āhuacatl (“avocado”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aʋoˈkʰæːd̥o]

Noun

avocado c (singular definite avocadoen, plural indefinite avocadoer)

1. avocado

Inflection

Declension of avocado

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	avocado	avocadoen	avocadoer	avocadoerne
genitive	avocados	avocadoens	avocadoers	avocadoernes

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish avocado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌaː.voːˈkaː.doː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: avo‧ca‧do

Noun

avocado m (plural avocado's)

1. avocado, alligator pear

Derived terms

• avocadoboom

Descendants

• → Indonesian: avokad
• → Sranan Tongo: afkati

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ado

Noun

avocado m (invariable)

1. avocado

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aboˈkado/, [a.β̝o.ˈka.ð̝o]
• Homophone: abocado

Etymology 1

From aguacate, possibly influenced by a Caribbean language.

Noun

avocado m (plural avocados)

1. (Philippines) avocado

   Synonym: aguacate

Descendants

• → Danish: avocado, avokado
• → English: avocado
  • → Irish: abhacád
• → Faroese: avokado
• → French: avocat
• → German: Avocado
• → Serbo-Croatian: avokádo
• → Turkish: avokado

Etymology 2

Verb

avocado m (feminine singular avocada, masculine plural avocados, feminine plural avocadas)

1. Masculine singular past participle of avocar.

Further reading

• “avocado” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.