pine nut

See also: pinenut, pine-nut, and Pine Nut

English

Pine nuts.

Alternative forms

• pinenut, pine-nut

Etymology

From Middle English pinnote, pynote, from Old English pīnhnutu (“pinenut”), equivalent to pine +‎ nut. Cognate with Swedish pinjenöt (“pinenut”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪn ˌnʌt/

Noun

pine nut (countable and uncountable, plural pine nuts)

1. The edible seed of any of several species of evergreen pine, especially Pinus pinea, Pinus cembra, and Pinus cembroides.

   Synonyms: neoza, pine kernel, pignoli

2. (South Africa, uncountable) The flavor that results from mixing pineapple and coconut.

   pine nut soda

Translations

edible seeds of evergreen pine

• Albanian: farë́ pishë́ f
• Arabic: حَبّ صَنَوْبَر m (ḥabb ṣanawbar)
• Armenian: ֆստըխ (fstəx) (dialectal)
• Cahuilla: tevat
• Catalan: pinyó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 松子 (cung⁴ zi²)

  Mandarin: 松子 (zh) (sōngzǐ)

• Crimean Tatar: çam fıstığı
• Czech: piniový ořech
• Danish: pinjekerne c
• Dutch: pijnboompit m
• Estonian: piiniapähkel, piiniaseeme
• Finnish: pinjansiemen
• French: pignon (fr) m, pignon de pin m, pigne (fr) f
• Galician: piño m, piñón m
• German: Pinienkern (de) m
• Hebrew: צנובר (he) m
• Hindi: चिलगोजा (hi) m (cilgojā)
• Hungarian: fenyőmag (hu)
• Irish: cnó péine m
• Italian: pinolo (it) m
• Kaingang: fág
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 잣 (ko) (jat)
• Kyrgyz: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: пињо́ла f (pinjóla)
• Maori: painati
• Navajo: neeshchʼííʼ
• Panamint: tüpa
• Pashto: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: دانه کاج (dâne kâj)
• Polish: orzeszek piniowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: pinhão (pt) m
• Romanian: sămânță de pin f, coconari m pl, coconară f (rare)
• Russian: кедро́вый оре́х m (kedróvyj oréx)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пѝњо̄л m

  Latin: pìnjōl (sh) m

• Spanish: piñón (es) m
• Swahili: njugu ya msonobari
• Swedish: pinjenöt (sv) c, pinjekärna c
• Tagalog: pinyon
• Turkish: çam fıstığı
• Uzbek: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} cneuen binwydd f

Further reading

• pine nut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• nut pine