persimmon

English

persimmons

Alternative forms

putchamin [17th–18th c.]

Etymology

From Powhatan pichamins, pushemins, pasimenan (“dried fruit”), from the same Proto-Algonquian root *-imin (“fruit, berry”) as Unami ximin. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /pɜːˈsɪmən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /pəɹˈsɪmən/
(General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜːsəmən/
Hyphenation: per‧sim‧mon
Rhymes: -ɪmən

Noun

persimmon (plural persimmons)

A type of fruit, of orange colour, very sweet, quite astringent when immature.
Synonyms: date plum, kaki, Sharon fruit
- 1998, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 94:
  I warned them not to eat the persimmons until they were soft to the touch.
The tree this fruit grows on, generally one of two species of ebony: Diospyros kaki (Asian) or Diospyros virginiana (North American).

Derived terms

Translations

fruit

Albanian: hurmë (sq) f
Arabic: بِرْسِيمُون m (birsimūn), كَاكَا f (kākā)
Armenian: խուրմա (hy) (xurma), (Japanese persimmon) արքայանարինջ (hy) (arkʻayanarinǰ)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܘܼܪܡܵܠܵܐ m (ḥurmālā)
Azerbaijani: xurma (az), xırnik (az)
Banjarese: tasmak
Basque: kaki
Belarusian: хурма́ f (xurmá)
Bulgarian: фурма́ f (furmá), япо́нска я́бълка f (japónska jábǎlka)
Burmese: တည် (my) (tany)
Catalan: caqui (ca) m
Cherokee: ᏌᎵ (sali)
Chickasaw: onkof
Chinese:
Cantonese: 腍柿 (nam⁴ ci²)

Eastern Min: 柿 (kei)

Hokkien: 柿仔 (khī-á)

Mandarin: 柿子 (zh) (shìzi)
Czech: tomel m
Danish: kaki
Dutch: kaki (nl) c
Esperanto: persimono
Estonian: hurmaa
Finnish: kaki (fi), persimoni (fi), sharon (fi), taateliluumu
Fox: pyâkimini
French: kaki (fr) m
Georgian: ხურმა (xurma)
German: Persimone f, Kaki (de) m or f, Lotuspflaume f
Greek: λωτός (el) m (lotós)
Hebrew: אֲפַרְסְמוֹן (he) m (afarsemón)
Hindi: ख़ुरमा (xurmā)
Hungarian: datolyaszilva (hu)
Hunsrik: Kacki m
Ido: hurmo
Indonesian: kesemek (id)
Irish: dátphluma m
Italian: cachi (it) m, diospiro (it) m, caco (it) m
Japanese: 柿 (ja) (kaki), パーシモン (pāshimon)
Kavalan: amus
Kazakh: құрма (qūrma), хурма (xurma)
Korean: 감 (ko) (gam), 퍼시몬 (peosimon)
Kyrgyz: курма (ky) (kurma)
Ladino: afarsemón m, hurmá f
Lao: ໝາກກາກີ (lo) (māk kā kī)
Latvian: hurma f
Lithuanian: persimonas m
Macedonian: ра́јско ја́болко n (rájsko jábolko), ја́понско ја́болко n (jáponsko jábolko)
Malagasy: hazoarina, hazoary
Malay: kesmak, buah samak, pisang kaki (ms)
Maori: āporo makimaki
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: илжгэн чих (ilžgen čix) (Mongolia), модон шавтал (modon šavtal), шавтал (mn) (šavtal), хурма (mn) (xurma) (Mongolia)
Norwegian: kaki, kakiplomme (no), kakifrukt, persimon
Occitan: caqui (oc) m
Pashto: املوک (ps) (amlúk)
Persian: خرمالو (fa) (xormâlu)
Polish: kaki (pl) n, persymona (pl) f, szaron m, hurma (pl) f
Portuguese: caqui (pt) m, dióspiro m
Punjabi: ਪਰਸਿੰਮਨ (parsimman)
Romanian: kaki (ro) m
Russian: хурма́ (ru) f (xurmá)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: персимон m, каки m, хурма f

Roman: persimon m, kaki (sh) m, hurma (sh) f
Sicilian: lotu m, cacu m
Slovak: kaki (sk) n, hurma f, churma f, hurmikaki n
Slovene: kaki (sl) m
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: kaki (hsb) f
Southern Altai: хурма (hurma)
Spanish: caqui (es) m
Swedish: persimon (sv) c, kaki (sv) c, sharonfrukt c
Tajik: хурмо (tg) (xurmo)
Tatar: хөрмә (tt) (xörmä)
Thai: พลับ (th) (pláp)
Tigrinya: ፐርሲሞን (pärsimon), ካኪ (kaki)
Turkish: Trabzon hurması (tr), Japon hurması (tr), hurma (tr)
Ukrainian: хурма́ f (xurmá)
Unami: ximin
Urdu: جاپانی پھل m (jāpānī phal), خرما (xurmā)
Uyghur: شىزا (shiza), ئەبنۇس (ebnus), хорма (xorma) (Kazakhstan)
Uzbek: xurmo (uz), persimon
Vietnamese: quả hồng vàng, hồng (vi)
Volapük: plakminepafluk

tree

Basque: kakiondo
Catalan: caquier, persimó, banús (ca)
Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎷᎢ (tsalalui), ᏣᎵ (tsali)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 柿樹／柿树 (shì shù)
Czech: tomel m
Esperanto: persimono, diospiro
Estonian: hurmaa, kakiploom, kaki (et)
Finnish: kaki (fi)
French: plaqueminier (fr) m
Georgian: კარალიოკი (ḳaralioḳi), ხურმა (xurma)
German: Persimonenbaum m
Greek: λωτός (el) (lotós)
Hebrew: אֲפַרְסְמוֹן (he) m (afarsemón)
Hungarian: datolyaszilva (hu)
Hunsrik: Kackibaam m
Icelandic: döðluplóma, persimónía
Irish: crann dátphlumaí m
Italian: cachi (it) m
Ivatan: vatinglaw
Japanese: 柿の木 (kakinoki)
Khmer: ទន្លាប់ (km) (tŭənlŏəp)
Korean: 감나무 (gamnamu)
Macedonian: ра́јска јабо́лкница f (rájska jabólknica), ја́понска јабо́лкница f (jáponska jabólknica)
Nahuatl: tliltzapotl
Occitan: caqui (oc) m
Polish: hebanowiec m, hurma (pl) f, kaki (pl) n, persymona (pl) f, szaron m
Portuguese: caquizeiro m, diospireiro m
Russian: хурма́ (ru) f (xurmá)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: персимон m, каки m

Roman: persimon m, kaki (sh) m
Sicilian: macchia dû lotu m, macchia dû cacu m
Slovak: kaki (sk) n, ebenovník rajčiakový (sk) m
Spanish: caqui (es) m
Swedish: persimonträd n, kakiträd n
Tagalog: kamagong (tl), mabolo (tl)
Thai: พลับ (th) (pláp)
Turkish: Trabzon hurması (tr), Japon hurması (tr)
Unami: ximinunshi (North American)
Vietnamese: hồng (vi)
Volapük: plakminep