avocado

See also: Avocado

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EnglishEdit

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An avocado

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ævəˈkɑːdəʊ/
• (US) enPR: ăvəkäʹdō, IPA^(key): /ɑvəˈkɑdoʊ/, /ævəˈkɑdoʊ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɑːdəʊ

NounEdit

avocado ‎(plural avocados or avocadoes or avocadi)

1. The large, usually yellowish-green or black, pulpy fruit of the avocado tree.
2. The avocado tree, Persea americana, of the laurel family.
3. A dull yellowish-green colour, the colour of the meat of an avocado.

   avocado colour:

SynonymsEdit

• (fruit): alligator pear, avocado pear, butter pear

Derived termsEdit

• avocado pear
• Hass avocado

TranslationsEdit

fruit

• Arabic: أَفُوكَادُو m ‎(ʾafukādū)

  Egyptian Arabic: افوكاتو m pl ‎(avokato)

• Asturian: aguacate m
• Breton: avoukez (br) pl
• 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
• 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)

• Korean: 아보카도 (ko) ‎(abokado)
• Lao: ໝາກອາໂວກາໂດ (lo) ‎(māk 'ā wō kā dō)
• Latvian: avokado (lv) m
• Macedonian: авока́до n ‎(avokádo)
• Malagasy: mpisolovava (mg)
• Malay: avokado
• Malayalam: ആത്തച്ചക്ക ‎(āttaccakka)
• Maltese: avokado m
• Maori: awhekātō
• Nahuatl:

  Classical: āhuacatl

• Navajo: chʼil akʼahí
• Polish: awokado (pl) n
• Portuguese: abacate (pt) m
• Romansch: avocado m
• Russian: авока́до (ru) n ‎(avokádo) (indeclinable)
• Serbo-Croatian: avokado (sh)
• 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)
• Tamil: வெண்ணைப் பழம் (ta) ‎(veṇṇaip paḻam)
• Thai: อาโวคาโด ‎(aawohkhaadoh)
• Tongan: 'âvoka
• Turkish: avokado (tr)
• Tz'utujil: ooj
• Urdu: مگر ناشپاتی m ‎(magar nashpati)
• Yucatec Maya: oon

tree

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

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Translations to be checked

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

AdjectiveEdit

avocado ‎(not comparable)

1. Of a dull yellowish-green colour.

TranslationsEdit

Avocado-coloured

• French: avocat (fr) m
• Ido: avokadea
• Malay: avokado

• Swedish: avokadofärgad

See alsoEdit

• California roll
• guacamole
• Appendix:Colors

External linksEdit

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

ReferencesEdit

• "Avocado" in Michael Quinion, Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds, 2004.

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DanishEdit

Wikipedia ^da

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

Inflection of avocado

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

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ItalianEdit

Wikipedia ^it

PronunciationEdit

• Rhymes: -ado

NounEdit

avocado m ‎(invariable)

1. avocado