soursop

English

The soursop fruit

Etymology

sour +‎ sop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaʊəɹˌsɒp/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

Noun

soursop (plural soursops)

1. A small tropical evergreen tree, Annona muricata.
2. The tart, spiny, yellow-green fruit of this tree.
   • 2023 September 29, Molly Fitzpatrick, “He’s the Pawpaw King of Brooklyn. (What’s a Pawpaw?)”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     For a plant whose preferred growing region is the temperate zone of North America, the pawpaw is an uncannily exotic-tasting delicacy, a far-flung cousin of the tropical soursop, or guanábana.

3. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Bermuda buttercup (Oxalis pes-caprae), an edible wood sorrel native to South Africa
   1. (by extension) any wood sorrel, especially when used as food

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:soursop.

Synonyms

• (all senses): soursob
• (tree, fruit): guanabana

Hypernyms

• custard apple (“tree of the genus Annona”)

Derived terms

• mountain soursop
• wild soursop

 

Translations

tree

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刺果番荔枝 (cìguǒ fānlìzhī), 紅毛榴蓮／红毛榴莲 (zh) (hóngmáo liúlián)

• Dutch: zuurzak (nl) m, zuurzakboom (nl) m
• Esperanto: graviolo, moldorna anono
• Finnish: guanabana, oka-annoona
• French: corossolier (fr) m
• German: Guanabana f, Guanábana f, Sauersack m, Stachelannone f
• Hiligaynon: babaná
• Indonesian: pohon sirsak
• Japanese: サワーソップ (sawāsoppu)
• Nahuatl: etzapocuahuitl, ehetzapocuahuitl
• Russian: соуса́п m (sousáp), сауасе́п m (sauasép), смета́нное я́блоко n (smetánnoje jábloko), анно́на колю́чая f (annóna koljúčaja), саусе́п m (sausép)
• San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo: tsontëchcyaꞌneon
• Spanish: guanábano m, yaca f
• Swahili: mstafeli
• Swedish: taggannona c
• Tagalog: guyabano (tl), unaba
• Thai: ทุเรียนเทศ (túrian tâyt)

fruit

• Armenian: թթուաթուրմ (tʻtʻuatʻurm)
• Brunei Malay: durian salat
• Burmese: ဒူးရင်းဩဇာ (my) (du:rang:au:ja)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 刺果番荔枝 (cìguǒfānlìzhī), 羅李亮果／罗李亮果 (luōlǐliàngguǒ)

• Dutch: zuurzak (nl) m, zuurzakvrucht m or f
• Esperanto: graviolo, graviolbero
• Ewe: atɔ
• Finnish: oka-annoona, guanabana
• French: corossol (fr) m
• German: Stachelannone f
• Greek: γουανάμπανα f (gouanámpana)
• Hiligaynon: babaná
• Hindi: सीताफल (hi) (sītāphal)
• Indonesian: buah sirsak, sirsak (id)
• Italian: graviola, guanabana
• Japanese: サワーソップ (sawāsoppu)
• Kannada: ಮುಳ್ಳುರಾಮಫಲ (muḷḷurāmaphala)
• Khmer: ផ្លែទៀបបារ៉ាង (phlaetiəpbaaraang)
• Korean: 그라비올라 (geurabiolla)
• Lao: ຂຽບ (khīap)
• Malay: durian belanda
• Nahuatl: etzapotl, ehetzapotl, eheyotzapotl
• Nepali: सीताफल (sītāphal)
• Nigerian Pidgin: sawasawa
• Portuguese: graviola (pt)
• Russian: ано́на (ru) f (anóna)
• San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo: tëchcyaꞌneon
• Spanish: guanábana f
• Swahili: stafeli
• Tagalog: guyabano (tl), unaba
• Thai: ทุเรียนเทศ (túrian tâyt)
• Umbundu: onona
• Vietnamese: bình bát, nê (vi), mãng cầu Xiêm, mãng cầu gai, na Xiêm, na gai
• Wolof: duñoor, dugoor

See also

• annonaceous

Anagrams

• sporous