mangosteen

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch mangosteen (“mangosteen”), from Malay manggustan, variant of manggis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæŋɡəstiːn/

Noun

mangosteen (plural mangosteens)

1. A tropical fruit of the tree genus Garcinia.
   1. (more specifically) A tropical fruit of the tree Garcinia mangostana.
2. The tree on which the fruit grows.

Derived terms

• wild mangosteen

Translations

fruit

• Arabic: مَانْغُوسْتِين m (manḡustīn), مَانْجُوسْتِين m (mangustīn), جَوْز جَنْدَم m (jawz jandam)
• Bengali: ম্যাঙ্গোস্টিন (mêṅgōsṭin)
• Bouyei: please add this translation if you can
• Burmese: မင်းကွတ် (my) (mang:kwat)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 山竹 (yue) (saan¹ zuk¹), 山竹果 (saan¹ zuk¹ gwo²)

  Hokkien: please add this translation if you can

  Mandarin: 山竹 (zh) (shānzhú), 山竹果 (shānzhúguǒ), 莽吉柿 (zh) (mǎngjíshì)

• Czech: mangostana lahodná f, mangostan m
• Danish: mangostan c
• Dhivehi: މަބުސްތާން (mabustān̊)
• Dutch: mangistan (nl) m
• Esperanto: mangostano
• Finnish: mangostani (fi)
• French: mangoustan (fr), mangouste (fr), brindone (fr) m
• German: Mangostane (de) f
• Hindi: मेन्गोस्टीन (mengosṭīn)
• Hungarian: mangosztán (hu)
• Indonesian: manggis (id)
• Isan: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: mangostano (it) m
• Japanese: マンゴスチン (mangosuchin)
• Javanese: manngis, manggis (jv)
• Kannada: ಮುರುಗಲ ಹಣ್ಣು (murugala haṇṇu), ಕೋಕಂ (kōkaṃ), ಪುನರ್ಪುಳಿ (punarpuḷi) (Havyaka Kannada)
• Khmer: មង្ឃុត (km) (mŭəngkhut)
• Khmu: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 망고스틴 (manggoseutin)
• Lao: ມັງຄຸດ (mang khut), ໝາກມັງຄຸດ (māk mang khut)
• Lü: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: manggis (ms), manggustan
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: хадны дорго (xadny dorgo)
• Occitan: mangosta (oc) f, mangostan m
• Persian: گوز گندم (gowz-e gandom) (archaic)
• Polish: mangostan (pl) m
• Portuguese: mangostão m, mangostim m
• Romanian: mangustan m
• Russian: мангоста́н (ru) m (mangostán), мангуста́н (ru) m (mangustán)
• Sinhalese: මැංගුස් (si) (mæṁgus), මැන්ගුස් (mængus), පළතුර (si) (paḷatura)
• Spanish: mangostán (es) m, mangostino (es) m
• Sundanese: manggu (su)
• Swedish: mangostan (sv)
• Tagalog: manggustan
• Tamil: மாங்கிஸ் (māṅkis), மங்குசுத்தான் (maṅkucuttāṉ)
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: มังคุด (th) (mang-kút)
• Tulu: ಪುನರ್ಪುಳಿ (punarpuḷi)
• Ukrainian: мангоста́н m (manhostán), мангоста́на f (manhostána), мангуста́н m (manhustán)
• Vietnamese: măng cụt (vi)
• White Hmong: txiv nplai qij
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• mangosteen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• megatonnes, nematogens