avocado

See also: Avocado

English

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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”).

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 (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, abacate

2. The avocado tree, Persea americana, of the laurel family.
3. A dark chartreuse colour, like the colour of the meat of an avocado.

   avocado colour:  

Synonyms

(avocado fruit):

• avocado pear
• alligator pear
• butter fruit
• butter pear

Derived terms

• avocado pear
• Hass avocado

Descendants

• → Irish: abhacád

Translations

fruit

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

  Egyptian Arabic: افوكاتو‎ m pl (avokato)

  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

• Classical Nahuatl: āhuacatl
• 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, avokad (id)
• Irish: abhacád m, piorra abhcóide m
• Isthmus Zapotec: yaxhu
• Italian: avocado (it) m
• Japanese: アボカド (ja) (abokado), 鰐梨 (わになし, waninashi)
• K'iche': oj
• Kabuverdianu: abakati
• Kazakh: авокадо (avokado)
• Khmer: អាវ៉ូកាត៍ (km) (’aavookaa)
• Kikuyu: ikorobia class 5
• Korean: 아보카도 (ko) (abokado)
• Kurdish: avokado (ku)
• Kyrgyz: авокадо (ky) (avokado)
• Lao: ໝາກອາໂວກາໂດ (lo) (māk ’ā 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 Huasteca: auakatl

  Classical: ahuacatl, āhuacatl

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

  Bokmål: avokado (no) m

• Persian: آووکادو‎ (fa) (âvokâdo)
• Pipil: āwakat
• Polish: awokado (pl) n
• Portuguese: abacate (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਮੱਖਣ ਫਲ (makhṇ phl)
• 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, Uruguay), cura (es) f (Colombia, dated), avocado (es) m
• Swahili: Mparachichi
• Swedish: avokado (sv)
• Tagalog: abokado (tl)
• Tajik: авокадо (avokado)
• Tamil: வெண்ணைப் பழம் (ta) (veṇṇaip paḻam)
• Tatar: авокадо (awoqado)
• Thai: อาโวคาโด (aa-woo-kaa-dôo)
• Tigrinya: ኣቮካዶ (ʾavokado)
• 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
• Kikuyu: mũkorobia class 3
• Latvian: avokado (lv) m

• Macedonian: авока́до n (avokádo)
• Malay: pokok avokado
• Nahuatl: ahuacatl (nah)
• 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, ^{(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

References

• “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.

Further reading

• avocado on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Persea americana on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Persea americana on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• avocado at USDA Plants database
• cookbook:avocado on Wikibooks.Wikibooks

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Danish

Alternative forms

• avokado

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /avokaːdo/, [avoˈkʰæːd̥o]

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

  (file)

• 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

Etymology

From aguacate, possibly influenced by a Caribbean language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aboˈkado/, [aβoˈkaðo]
• Homophone: abocado

Noun

avocado m (plural avocados)

1. (Philippines) avocado

   Synonym: aguacate

Descendants

• → Danish: avocado, avokado
• → English: avocado
  • → Irish: abhacád
• → Faroese: avokado
• → French: avocat (see there for further descendants)
• → German: Avocado
• → Serbo-Croatian: avokádo
• → Turkish: avokado

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.