avocado

See also: Avocado

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EnglishEdit

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An avocado

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Spanish avocado, earlier aguacate, folk-etymologized as abogado (“lawyer”). Ultimately from Classical Nahuatl āhuacatl (“testicle”).

PronunciationEdit

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

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ

NounEdit

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:  

SynonymsEdit

(avocado fruit):

• avocado pear
• alligator pear

Derived termsEdit

• avocado pear
• Hass avocado

DescendantsEdit

• → Irish: abhacád

TranslationsEdit

fruit

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

  Egyptian Arabic: افوكاتو‎‎ m pl (avokato)

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

• Czech: avokádo (cs) n
• Danish: avocado (da) c, avokado c
• Dutch: avocado (nl) m
• Esperanto: avokado
• Estonian: avokaado
• 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)
• Hebrew: אָבוֹקָדוֹ‎‎ (he) m (avokado)
• Hindi: रुचिरा (hi) (rucirā), अवोकाडो m (avokāḍo)
• 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)
• 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
• Mongolian: авокадо (avokado)
• Nahuatl:

  Classical: āhuacatl

• Navajo: chʼil akʼahí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avokado (no) m

• Persian: آووکادو‎‎ (fa) (âvokâdo)
• Pipil: āwakat
• Polish: awokado (pl) n
• Portuguese: abacate (pt) m
• Quechua: pallta
• 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
• 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)
• Yucatec Maya: oon

tree

• Asturian: aguacate m
• Catalan: alvocater m
• Dutch: avocadoboom (nl) m
• 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

colour

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

• Malay: avokado

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)

AdjectiveEdit

avocado (not comparable)

1. Of a dull yellowish-green colour.

TranslationsEdit

Avocado-coloured

• French: avocat (fr)
• Ido: avokadea

• Malay: avokado
• Swedish: avokadofärgad

See alsoEdit

• guacamole
• Appendix:Colors

ReferencesEdit

• “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 readingEdit

• 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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DanishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• avokado

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

avocado c (singular definite avocadoen, plural indefinite avocadoer)

1. avocado

InflectionEdit

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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DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Spanish avocado.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˌaː.voːˈkaː.doː/
• Hyphenation: avo‧ca‧do

NounEdit

avocado m (plural avocado's)

1. avocado, alligator pear

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ItalianEdit

PronunciationEdit

• Rhymes: -ado

NounEdit

avocado m (invariable)

1. avocado

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SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From aguacate, possibly influenced by a Caribbean language.

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

avocado m (plural avocados)

1. (Philippines) avocado

   Synonym: aguacate

DescendantsEdit

• → Danish: avocado, avokado
• → English: avocado
  • → Irish: abhacád
• → Faroese: avokado
• → French: avocat
  • → Khmer: អាវ៉ូកាត៍ (ʾaavoukaa)
• → German: Avocado
• → Serbo-Croatian: avokado
• → Turkish: avokado

Further readingEdit

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