Fruit in Different Languages
Discover 'Fruit' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Fruit
Afrikaans vrugte | ||
Albanian fruta | ||
Amharic ፍራፍሬ | ||
Arabic فاكهة | ||
Armenian մրգեր | ||
Assamese ফল | ||
Aymara muxsa achu | ||
Azerbaijani meyvə | ||
Bambara yiriden | ||
Basque fruta | ||
Belarusian садавіна | ||
Bengali ফল | ||
Bhojpuri फल | ||
Bosnian voće | ||
Bulgarian плодове | ||
Catalan fruita | ||
Cebuano prutas | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 水果 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 水果 | ||
Corsican fruttu | ||
Croatian voće | ||
Czech ovoce | ||
Danish frugt | ||
Dhivehi މޭވާ | ||
Dogri फल | ||
Dutch fruit | ||
English fruit | ||
Esperanto frukto | ||
Estonian puu | ||
Ewe atikutsetse | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) prutas | ||
Finnish hedelmiä | ||
French fruit | ||
Frisian fruit | ||
Galician froita | ||
Georgian ხილი | ||
German obst | ||
Greek καρπός | ||
Guarani yva'a | ||
Gujarati ફળ | ||
Haitian Creole fwi | ||
Hausa 'ya'yan itace | ||
Hawaiian huaʻai | ||
Hebrew פרי | ||
Hindi फल | ||
Hmong txiv ntoo | ||
Hungarian gyümölcs | ||
Icelandic ávexti | ||
Igbo mkpụrụ osisi | ||
Ilocano prutas | ||
Indonesian buah | ||
Irish torthaí | ||
Italian frutta | ||
Japanese フルーツ | ||
Javanese buah | ||
Kannada ಹಣ್ಣು | ||
Kazakh жеміс | ||
Khmer ផ្លែឈើ | ||
Kinyarwanda imbuto | ||
Konkani फळ | ||
Korean 과일 | ||
Krio frut | ||
Kurdish mêwe | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) میوە | ||
Kyrgyz жемиш | ||
Lao ຫມາກໄມ້ | ||
Latin fructus | ||
Latvian augļi | ||
Lingala mbuma | ||
Lithuanian vaisius | ||
Luganda ekibala | ||
Luxembourgish uebst | ||
Macedonian овошје | ||
Maithili फल | ||
Malagasy voankazo | ||
Malay buah | ||
Malayalam ഫലം | ||
Maltese frott | ||
Maori hua | ||
Marathi फळ | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯎꯍꯩ | ||
Mizo thei | ||
Mongolian жимс | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) သစ်သီး | ||
Nepali फल | ||
Norwegian frukt | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) zipatso | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଫଳ | ||
Oromo muduraa | ||
Pashto میوه | ||
Persian میوه | ||
Polish owoc | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) fruta | ||
Punjabi ਫਲ | ||
Quechua miski ruru | ||
Romanian fructe | ||
Russian фрукты | ||
Samoan fualaʻau | ||
Sanskrit फलं | ||
Scots Gaelic measan | ||
Sepedi seenywa | ||
Serbian воће | ||
Sesotho litholoana | ||
Shona michero | ||
Sindhi ميوا | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පලතුරු | ||
Slovak ovocie | ||
Slovenian sadje | ||
Somali miro | ||
Spanish fruta | ||
Sundanese buah | ||
Swahili matunda | ||
Swedish frukt | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) prutas | ||
Tajik мева | ||
Tamil பழம் | ||
Tatar җимеш | ||
Telugu పండు | ||
Thai ผลไม้ | ||
Tigrinya ፍረ | ||
Tsonga mihandzu | ||
Turkish meyve | ||
Turkmen miwesi | ||
Twi (Akan) aduaba | ||
Ukrainian фрукти | ||
Urdu پھل | ||
Uyghur مېۋە | ||
Uzbek meva | ||
Vietnamese trái cây | ||
Welsh ffrwyth | ||
Xhosa isiqhamo | ||
Yiddish פרוכט | ||
Yoruba eso | ||
Zulu izithelo |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "vrugte" is derived from the Dutch word "vrucht", which means "fruit", and is also related to the German word "Frucht" and the English word "fruit". In addition to its primary meaning of "fruit", "vrugte" can also refer to "the fruit of a person's labor" or "the result of an action". |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "fruta" is derived from the Latin "fructus" and also refers to produce, vegetables, and crops. |
| Amharic | The word "ፍራፍሬ" can also mean "results" or "consequences". |
| Arabic | The word "فاكهة" (fruit) shares its root with "فك" (to open), suggesting its connection to the process of revealing the fruit from its outer covering. |
| Armenian | In Armenian, the word "մրգեր" ("mrger") also denotes "vegetables" and is derived from the Persian word "میوه" ("miveh") meaning "fruit." |
| Azerbaijani | "Meyvə" can also mean "benefit" in Azerbaijani. |
| Basque | Fruta shares an etymology with the Latin word "fructus," meaning "that which is enjoyed," highlighting the Basque language's rich connection to its Indo-European roots. |
| Belarusian | "Садавіна" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *sadъ, meaning "garden," and is also related to the English word "salad." |
| Bengali | The Bengali word "ফল" (fruit) can also refer to the result of an action or the outcome of a situation. |
| Bosnian | "Voće" is a word for "fruit" in Bosnian that comes from the Proto-Slavic word "ovocie" meaning "produce" |
| Bulgarian | Bulgarian "плодове" also means "products" or "results". |
| Catalan | In Catalan, "fruita" also refers to a type of dessert similar to a fruit salad. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 水果, an umbrella term for fruit, derives from the Chinese term “果实,” which was later shortened to “果” and then to the modern term “水果”. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The term "水果" can also refer to flowers or seeds in some contexts. |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "fruttu" can also refer to the female reproductive organs, while in Italian the word "frutto" refers to the male reproductive organs. |
| Croatian | The Croatian word "voće" can also refer to various plants in agriculture, especially trees used for fruit production. |
| Czech | "Ovoce" comes from the Proto-Slavic word "ovocь", which also means "testicle", reflecting the fact that many fruit have a similar shape. |
| Danish | The Danish word "frugt" also refers to the sweet part of a nut. |
| Dutch | In Dutch, "fruit" can refer to fruits, vegetables, or nuts. |
| Esperanto | In Esperanto it can be used in compounds, such as "fruktosuko" (fruit juice) or "fruktoplano" (fruit growing). |
| Estonian | In Estonian, "puu" (fruit) also denotes "tree" and "wood". |
| Finnish | The Finnish word "hedelmät" derives from the Proto-Finnic root "*hedelm" and relates to the word "helmet" (skirt). |
| French | En ancien français, le terme "fruit" pouvait également désigner le résultat d'une action ou l'effet produit par une cause. |
| Frisian | The Frisian word |
| Galician | "Froita" shares its origin with the Latin word "fructus", meaning "enjoyment" or "income", hence the alternate meaning of "profit" or "fruit of labor" in Galician. |
| Georgian | The word 'ხილი' can also refer to vegetables in Georgian. |
| German | Obst derives from Old High German "obaz," meaning "what grows," and can refer to fruit in general as well as specific edible produce, including fruits and vegetables. |
| Greek | The Greek word "καρπός" can also mean "profit" or "income", and it is related to the Latin word "corpus", meaning "body". |
| Gujarati | ફળ is derived from the Sanskrit word "phala", which also means "result" or "reward". |
| Haitian Creole | The word "fwi" in Haitian Creole derives from the French word "fruit" and shares the same meaning in both languages. |
| Hausa | The word 'ya'yan itace' in Hausa is also used to refer to the seeds of a fruit, and is cognate with the word 'ya'ya' in other Chadic languages, which means 'child'. |
| Hawaiian | The term "huaʻai" was formerly applied to all cultivated plants, including both food and non-food products. |
| Hebrew | The word "פרי" also refers to offspring or produce in the context of plants or animals. |
| Hindi | The word "फल" can also refer to the result or outcome of an action or situation. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word for fruit, "txiv ntoo," literally means "tree seed." |
| Hungarian | "Gyümölcs" is a Hungarian word derived from the Turkic word "meyve," but it can also refer to vegetables like tomatoes and cucumbers. |
| Icelandic | Cognate with other Germanic cognates such as Gothic akran, Old English æcer, and German Acker, all derived from Proto-Germanic *akraz, meaning "field, arable land" |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "mkpụrụ osisi" can also refer to the source of a plant, such as a seed or bulb. |
| Indonesian | The word "buah" in Indonesian also refers to the non-sweet results of plants such as cucumbers, beans, and nuts. |
| Irish | "Torthaí" is also the Irish word for "cake" or "tart" and is related to the English word "tart". |
| Italian | In Italian, the word 'frutta' originally referred to all kinds of produce, including vegetables and nuts. |
| Japanese | "フルーツ" is an adopted loanword from English that specifically refers to fresh and edible fruits. |
| Javanese | In Javanese, |
| Kannada | The word "ಹಣ್ಣು" (fruit) in Kannada is also used to refer to the "result" or "outcome" of an action or event. |
| Kazakh | The word |
| Khmer | The Khmer word "ផ្លែឈើ" (fruit) also means "fruit of the tree" or "fruit of the vine". |
| Korean | "과일" is a compound word that literally translates to "sweet object". |
| Kurdish | The word "mêwe" comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *meh₂-, which also gave rise to the English word "meat". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "жемиш" also means "year". This could be a reference to the annual cycle of fruit production. |
| Lao | The Lao word "ຫມາກໄມ້" can also refer to medicinal plants and spices, as well as to fruits eaten with sticky rice. |
| Latin | Fructus can also refer to the income or produce of land, as well as the result of one's labor or efforts |
| Latvian | The word "augļi" in Latvian is derived from the Indo-European root "*weg-", meaning "to grow". It is related to the Latin word "veho", meaning "to carry", and the English word "waggon". In addition to its primary meaning of "fruit", "augļi" can also refer to the "yield" of a crop or to the "offspring" of an animal. |
| Lithuanian | The word "vaisius" in Lithuanian also refers to a child's inheritance or legacy. |
| Luxembourgish | "Uebst" is probably derived from the Old High German word "obiz" for "fruit", "harvest" or "produce". |
| Macedonian | The word "овошје" in Macedonian can also refer to certain vegetables, such as tomatoes and cucumbers. |
| Malagasy | The word "voankazo" also means "child" in Malagasy, reflecting the importance of children in Malagasy culture. |
| Malay | The word "buah" is derived from Proto-Austronesian "buaq", which means "tree" or "fruit". |
| Malayalam | "ഫലം" also means "result" or "reward" in Malayalam, just like the English word "fruit" can refer to the result of someone's efforts. |
| Maltese | The word "frott" comes from the Sicilian word "fruttu" meaning "fruit" and is also used to refer to the edible part of a plant or the result of a plant's growth. |
| Maori | "'Hua' can also refer to people as descendants or offspring, as well as to the result of an action. |
| Marathi | फळ means "fruit" in Marathi and is also used to refer to the results or outcomes of one's actions. |
| Mongolian | The word "жимс" in Mongolian is cognate with the word "жэм" in Kyrgyz and means "berry" in both languages. |
| Nepali | The word “फल” in Sanskrit primarily meant the result or the consequence of some action, which became 'reward' or 'fruit' over time. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "frukt" is cognate with the German "Frucht," which can also refer to the result or offspring of an action. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Zipatso" can also mean "children", as a fruit is the result of birth, just like a child. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "میوه" also has the alternate meaning of "harvest". |
| Persian | "میوه" originally referred to any gift from a supernatural entity, later being restricted to the produce of trees. |
| Polish | In Polish, "owoc" can also mean "result" or "consequence". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Fruta" derives from the Latin "fructus," meaning "enjoyment," which also gave us "frustration" and "fruition." |
| Punjabi | "ਫਲ" also refers to the outcome or consequence of an action in the broader sense in some contexts of the Punjabi language |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "fructe" is derived from a Slavic root meaning "gathered" and originally referred to tree nuts and grains. |
| Russian | The Russian word "фрукты" (fruit) derives from the Proto-Slavic word "pl̥dъ," also meaning "child" or "offspring". |
| Samoan | The word "fualaʻau" is also used to refer to vegetables or edible shoots in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "measan" is also used to refer to berries or nuts, and is derived from the Old Irish word "mes" meaning "fruit". |
| Serbian | The word 'воће' in Serbian is derived from the Proto-Slavic word 'olьšьe' meaning 'forest' or 'wild fruit'. It has alternate meanings 'apples' or 'pears'. |
| Sesotho | The word "litholoana" can also refer to the seed of a fruit or the stone of a fruit. |
| Shona | The Shona word "michero" also refers to the edible part of any plant, including grains, seeds, and tubers. |
| Sindhi | The word "ميوا" is also used to refer to a type of sweet dessert made from fruits and nuts. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "පලතුරු" is also used in some contexts to refer to nuts and seeds. |
| Slovak | In Slovak, 'ovocie' also refers to the fruit of a plant in the sense of the botanical fruit rather than the edible fruit. |
| Slovenian | In Slovenian, "sadje" also refers to the fruit used in making jams or preserves. |
| Somali | Besides 'fruit', 'miro' can also mean 'crop'. |
| Spanish | "Fruta" in Spanish is derived from Latin "fructus", referring to the edible part of plants, and can also colloquially denote a "snack" or "refreshment". |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word 'buah' is commonly used in the sense of "fruit" but can also refer to a "child," a "testicle," or the "result or product" of an activity. |
| Swahili | In Swahili, "matunda" also refers to nuts, fruits, and anything produced by a plant that contains seeds. |
| Swedish | In Swedish, 'frukt' originally only referred to 'seeds,' but over the centuries it also came to mean both 'fruit' in the botanical sense and 'vegetable'. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word "prutas" in Tagalog comes from the Malay-Indonesian word "buah", meaning "fruit" or "seed." |
| Tajik | The word «мева» has Turkic origin and its initial meaning is nuts. |
| Tamil | The word 'பழம்' can also mean 'old' or 'ancient', reflecting the connection between age and wisdom in Tamil culture. |
| Telugu | "పండు" is also used to denote a young or small person. |
| Thai | "ผลไม้" can also mean "consequence" or "result" in Thai. |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "meyve" may also refer to a tree's nut-bearing fruit like pistachios and walnuts. |
| Ukrainian | "Фрукти" (fruit) is cognate to English "fruity" and French "fruité" and ultimately comes from Latin "fructus" meaning "fruit" and "enjoyment". |
| Urdu | The Urdu word "پھل" (fruit) originates from the Sanskrit word "फल" (fruit), which also denotes 'result', 'product', or 'gain'. |
| Uzbek | The word "meva" in Uzbek also refers to nuts, seeds, and some vegetables. |
| Vietnamese | "Trái cây" literally means "hanging things" and refers to fruits that grow on trees or vines. |
| Welsh | The word "ffrwyth" also means "product" or "result" in Welsh, highlighting its broader sense of yield or outcome. |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word "isiqhamo" is derived from the Zulu word "isigamu", meaning "half", and refers to the often halved shape of fruits. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word פרוכט can also refer to the produce of the womb, or a child. |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "eso" can also refer to an organ or a part of something. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "izithelo" can also refer to a "result" or "benefit" of an action. |
| English | The word "fruit" derives from the Latin word "fructus," which means "enjoyment" or "use." |