Lemon in Different Languages
Discover 'Lemon' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Lemon
Afrikaans suurlemoen | ||
Albanian limon | ||
Amharic ሎሚ | ||
Arabic ليمون | ||
Armenian կիտրոն | ||
Assamese নেমু | ||
Aymara limón satawa | ||
Azerbaijani limon | ||
Bambara limoni | ||
Basque limoia | ||
Belarusian цытрына | ||
Bengali লেবু | ||
Bhojpuri नींबू के बा | ||
Bosnian limun | ||
Bulgarian лимон | ||
Catalan llimona | ||
Cebuano lemon | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 柠檬 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 檸檬 | ||
Corsican limone | ||
Croatian limun | ||
Czech citrón | ||
Danish citron | ||
Dhivehi ލުނބޯ އެވެ | ||
Dogri नींबू दा | ||
Dutch citroen | ||
English lemon | ||
Esperanto citrono | ||
Estonian sidrun | ||
Ewe lime | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) limon | ||
Finnish sitruuna | ||
French citron | ||
Frisian sitroen | ||
Galician limón | ||
Georgian ლიმონი | ||
German zitrone | ||
Greek λεμόνι | ||
Guarani limón rehegua | ||
Gujarati લીંબુ | ||
Haitian Creole sitwon | ||
Hausa lemun tsami | ||
Hawaiian lemona | ||
Hebrew לימון | ||
Hindi नींबू | ||
Hmong txiv qaub | ||
Hungarian citrom | ||
Icelandic sítrónu | ||
Igbo oroma nkịrịsị | ||
Ilocano lemon | ||
Indonesian lemon | ||
Irish líomóid | ||
Italian limone | ||
Japanese レモン | ||
Javanese jeruk nipis | ||
Kannada ನಿಂಬೆ | ||
Kazakh лимон | ||
Khmer ក្រូចឆ្មា | ||
Kinyarwanda indimu | ||
Konkani लिंबू | ||
Korean 레몬 | ||
Krio lɛmon | ||
Kurdish leymûn | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) لیمۆ | ||
Kyrgyz лимон | ||
Lao ໝາກ ນາວ | ||
Latin citrea | ||
Latvian citrona | ||
Lingala citron | ||
Lithuanian citrina | ||
Luganda enniimu | ||
Luxembourgish zitroun | ||
Macedonian лимон | ||
Maithili नींबू | ||
Malagasy voasary makirana | ||
Malay limau | ||
Malayalam ചെറുനാരങ്ങ | ||
Maltese lumi | ||
Maori rēmana | ||
Marathi लिंबू | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯂꯦꯃꯟ꯫ | ||
Mizo lemon a ni | ||
Mongolian лимон | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) သံပယိုသီး | ||
Nepali कागती | ||
Norwegian sitron | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) mandimu | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଲେମ୍ବୁ | | ||
Oromo loomii | ||
Pashto ليمو | ||
Persian لیمو | ||
Polish cytrynowy | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) limão | ||
Punjabi ਨਿੰਬੂ | ||
Quechua limón | ||
Romanian lămâie | ||
Russian лимон | ||
Samoan tipolo | ||
Sanskrit निम्बूकः | ||
Scots Gaelic lemon | ||
Sepedi lemone | ||
Serbian лимун | ||
Sesotho sirilamunu | ||
Shona ndimu | ||
Sindhi ليمون | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) දෙහි | ||
Slovak citrón | ||
Slovenian limona | ||
Somali liin dhanaan | ||
Spanish limón | ||
Sundanese lémon | ||
Swahili limau | ||
Swedish citron- | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) limon | ||
Tajik лимӯ | ||
Tamil எலுமிச்சை | ||
Tatar лимон | ||
Telugu నిమ్మకాయ | ||
Thai มะนาว | ||
Tigrinya ለሚን ምዃኑ’ዩ። | ||
Tsonga lamula | ||
Turkish limon | ||
Turkmen limon | ||
Twi (Akan) lemon | ||
Ukrainian лимон | ||
Urdu لیموں | ||
Uyghur لىمون | ||
Uzbek limon | ||
Vietnamese chanh | ||
Welsh lemwn | ||
Xhosa ilamuni | ||
Yiddish לימענע | ||
Yoruba lẹmọnu | ||
Zulu ilamuna |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Derived from Dutch "suur" (sour) and "citroen" or "limoen" (lemon), via Middle Dutch "sûrlemūn". |
| Albanian | In Albanian, "limon" can also refer to a type of citrus fruit similar to a grapefruit. |
| Amharic | The Amharic word "ሎሚ" has been suggested to be borrowed from Arabic and Turkish words for "citron" or "lime". |
| Arabic | The word "ليمون" (lemon) in Arabic also refers to a yellow or light green citrus fruit with a sour taste. |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "կիտրոն" ultimately derives from the Greek word "κιτρίον," meaning "citron" or "citrus tree." |
| Azerbaijani | The Azerbaijani word "limon" is also a slang term for "beautiful woman" related to the phrase "limon kimi sarı" (yellow like a lemon). |
| Basque | "Limoia" is derived from Persian "limu" and Arabic "laymun", both meaning "lemon". |
| Belarusian | "Цытрына" is derived from the Greek word "kitron", which referred to a citron, a type of citrus fruit. |
| Bengali | In Sanskrit, the word "Nimbu" derives from the Dravidian word "Nin-bu" meaning "king of lemons". |
| Bosnian | The Bosnian word "limun" comes from the Arabic word "laymūn", which in turn comes from the Persian word "līmū". |
| Bulgarian | "Лимоните" в българска народна песен са не цитрусите, а момиче със жълта рокля, откъдето и поговорката, че "мома си е мома и пременена в лимон". |
| Catalan | The word “llimona” is a cognate of the Spanish “limón” and comes from the Arabic “lima”, which is also the root of the word “lime” |
| Cebuano | Lemon, in Cebuano, also refers to something of poor or undesirable quality, as in the expression "it's a lemon." |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "柠檬"在古代中医被称为“益母草”，又名“酸石脂”，是一种酸性水果，富含维生素C。 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The Chinese word for "lemon," 檸檬, is derived from the Sanskrit word "nimbu," meaning "lime". |
| Corsican | "Limone" (lemon) comes from the Arabic "laymun", which also refers to other citrus fruits. |
| Croatian | The word "limun" in Croatian is of Arabic origin, meaning "citron" or "sweet lemon". |
| Czech | "Citrón" is also the name for the citron, a citrus fruit similar to a lemon but larger and without any juice. |
| Danish | In Danish, "citron" originally meant "citrus fruit" and later specifically "lemon". |
| Dutch | In Dutch, "citroen" also means "citric acid" and "citrus fruit". |
| Esperanto | Citrono is derived from the Latin word "citrus", meaning "a kind of tree" or "a citrus fruit". |
| Estonian | The word "sidrun" is derived from the Arabic "zaytūn" through the French "cedre" and the German "Zitrone". The Estonian word "sidrun" can also refer to the citron, a similar citrus fruit with a thick, bumpy rind. |
| Finnish | The Finnish word "sitruuna" comes from the German "Zitrone", which in turn derives from the Arabic "al-utrunj". The word "utrunj" originally referred to the citron, a large, citrus fruit similar to a lemon. |
| French | In Old French, the word "citron" originally meant a green-fleshed pumpkin or melon. |
| Frisian | "Sietroen", meaning "lemon" in West Frisian, shares its root "citr-" with "citrus" in English, reflecting its shared origin in the Greek "kedros" (citrus plant). |
| Galician | In Galician, the word 'limón' can also refer to the citrus fruit known as 'lime' in English. |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "ლიმონი" derives from the Persian word "līmū" (lime), which also gives us the English word "lemon." |
| German | The word 'Zitrone' is derived from the Arabic word 'zaytūn', which originally referred to olives, but was later extended to lemons. |
| Greek | The word "λεμόνι" is derived from the Persian word "limu", meaning "citrus fruit". |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "લીંબુ" not only refers to the lemon fruit, but also to the color yellow and to a sour or acidic taste. |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "sitwon" is borrowed from the French word "citron", which comes from the Arabic word "limun" or the Persian word "limun", both of which mean "citrus fruit." |
| Hausa | The word "lemun tsami" is a compound word in Hausa, derived from the words "lemun" (a type of grapefruit) and "tsami" (sour). |
| Hawaiian | In Hawaiian, "lemona" is also the name of a fruit similar to the guava. |
| Hebrew | The word "לימון" is derived from the Persian word "limu", which also means "lime". |
| Hindi | The word 'नींबू' is also used to refer to a person with a sour disposition. |
| Hmong | This word could also mean lime. |
| Hungarian | In Hungarian, "citrom" derives from the Latin word "citrus" meaning "citron tree". It also means "sour". |
| Icelandic | The word "sítrónu" in Icelandic means "lemon," but is also related to the words for "citron" and "citrus," and is ultimately derived from the Persian word "limun." |
| Igbo | The Igbo word 'oroma nkịrịsị' also means 'a person who is very beautiful and attractive'. |
| Indonesian | In Indonesian, "lemon" also refers to a type of traditional cake or pastry. |
| Italian | The Italian word for "lemon" originally referred to "citrus fruit" in general but gradually shifted to mean specifically the yellow fruit known as a lemon in English. |
| Japanese | 雷門 (らいもん) refers to the famous gate of Senso-ji in Asakusa, Tokyo. |
| Javanese | In Javanese, "jeruk nipis" can also refer to the bergamot lime or the kaffir lime. |
| Kannada | The term "ನಿಂಬೆ" comes from the Persian word "limbu", meaning "citrus fruit". |
| Kazakh | In Kazakh, "лимон" can also refer to "billion" (10^9), derived from the Russian "миллиард". |
| Khmer | "ក្រូចឆ្មា" is the Khmer term for "lemon". It is also used to refer to a type of Cambodian soup made with tamarind and lemongrass. |
| Korean | 레몬 (Lemon) is a word borrowed from English that refers to a citrus fruit, as well as to a pale yellow color. |
| Kurdish | The word "leymûn" in Kurdish, like its English counterpart "lemon," has an alternate meaning of "worthless" or "useless." |
| Kyrgyz | In Kyrgyz, “лимон” can also refer to a type of citrus fruit similar to the lemon, known as a limequat. |
| Lao | "ໝາກ ນາວ" is a Lao word that does not literally mean "lemon", but rather is a type of tropical fruit related to the grapefruit. |
| Latin | "Citrea" (lemon) comes from the Latin word "citrus," which also means "tree of the gods." |
| Latvian | The word "citrona" likely originates from the Old Prussian word "*citra" meaning "sour," but could also derive from the Greek word "kitrion" meaning "tree with sour fruit." |
| Lithuanian | The word "citrina" for "lemon" in Lithuanian is derived from the name of the city of Citrum in Italy, where lemons were once cultivated. |
| Luxembourgish | Zitroun is derived from the French word "citron" and is also used to refer to oranges in Luxembourgish. |
| Macedonian | In Macedonian, "лимон" not only means "lemon", but also "a million". |
| Malay | The word "limau" in Malay is derived from the Tamil word "elimi", which also means "lemon". |
| Maltese | The word "lumi" may have originated from the word "lum" meaning "sour" or "bitterness". |
| Maori | In Maori mythology, the rēmana or lemon is said to have been brought to New Zealand by the ancestor Māui |
| Marathi | The word "लिंबू" is a Marathi equivalent of "lemon". In Sanskrit, it also means "a kind of sour fruit". |
| Mongolian | The word |
| Nepali | The Nepali word "कागती" (lemon) derives from the Sanskrit word "कार्कटी" (karkoṭī), also meaning lemon. |
| Norwegian | "Sitron" is also the Norwegian word for "citron," a type of citrus fruit similar to the lemon, but larger and less sour. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The Nyanja word “mandimu” has other meanings including “a fruit tree” and “the fruit of the mandimu tree.” |
| Pashto | In Pashto, "ليمو" can also refer to a citrus fruit similar to but distinct from a lemon, known as a "lime". |
| Persian | In Persian, "لیمو" is also called "ترنج" meaning "bitter orange" due to their similar appearance and sour taste. |
| Polish | "Cytrynowy" in Polish also means "citric". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, the word "limão" can also refer to a large, sour lime, known as a Key lime in English. |
| Romanian | The word 'lămâie' comes from the Persian word 'lîmûn', which also means 'lime' |
| Russian | "Лимонада" по-испански - это "лимонный напиток". В русском языке "лимонадом" стали называть газированную воду со вкусом лимона. |
| Samoan | In Samoan, "tipolo" has roots in the Proto-Polynesian word "tipolo" and can also refer to other citrus fruits like "lime" or "grapefruit" |
| Scots Gaelic | In Scots Gaelic, the word "lemon" also means "sweetheart" or "darling." |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "лимун" (lemon) is derived from the Persian word "limun", which is in turn derived from the Arabic word "laymūn". |
| Sesotho | "Sirilamunu" is derived from the Proto-Bantu word "*ciləmɔŋu" meaning "sour fruit". |
| Shona | The Shona word 'ndimu' is thought to be derived from Portuguese 'limão', which in turn comes from Persian 'līmūn' and ultimately from Sanskrit 'nimbū'. |
| Sindhi | The Sindhi word "ليمون" can also mean "lime" or "citron". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "දෙහි" can also refer to the citrus fruit called "lime". |
| Slovak | In Slovak, "citrón" also denotes the color yellow as well as "citrus" in general, not just the lemon fruit. |
| Slovenian | The Slovenian word "limona" also refers to the fruit of the lime tree (Citrus × aurantiifolia). |
| Somali | The word “liin dhanaan” is most likely derived from the Arabic word “laymūn,” which ultimately derives from the Persian word “līmu”. |
| Spanish | Spanish "limón" originates from Persian "lîmûn", meaning "citrus fruits" in general and not solely lemons. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "Lémon" originally referred to the fruit of the "jeruk nipis" (lime) tree, and only later came to be associated with the "jeruk lemon" (lemon). |
| Swahili | In Swahili, "limau" can also refer to a type of sour fruit similar to a lime. |
| Swedish | In Swedish, "citron" can also refer to a "zest," the outermost part of a citrus peel. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | In Tagalog, the word "limon" specifically refers to the 'sweet lime', a small citrus fruit distinct from the sour 'lemon' found in English. |
| Tajik | In Tajik, "лимӯ" (limon) can also refer to citrus fruits such as oranges and grapefruits, not just specifically lemons. |
| Telugu | The word "నిమ్మకాయ" originally meant "what is like lime" and was used to refer to both lemons and limes. |
| Thai | "มะนาว" (lemon) derives from the Mon language, where it means "sour-tasting fruit". |
| Turkish | In Turkish, “limon” means “lemon,” but it also means “lime" and can be used to refer to both fruits. |
| Ukrainian | The word "лимон" (lemon) in Ukrainian also refers to a million hryvnias, the currency of Ukraine. |
| Urdu | "ليموں" also means "an unpleasant or disappointing thing" in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The word «limon» in Uzbek can occasionally also mean «lime». |
| Vietnamese | Chanh is also a Vietnamese word for |
| Welsh | In Welsh, the word "lemwn" not only means "lemon," but also can refer to "lime" or "citron." |
| Xhosa | While "ilamuni" means "lemon" in Xhosa, it also refers to a sour expression on a person's face. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word לייםען may derive from Middle High German līmōne and refer to the fruit, but is more often used for its fruit beverage meaning. |
| Yoruba | The word "lẹmọnu" is a combination of the Yoruba words "lẹ" (to taste) and "ọmọnu" (child), and can also refer to other sour things like lime or tamarind. |
| Zulu | The word "ilamuna" likely originates from the Arabic word "laymūn", meaning "lemon". |
| English | The word "lemon" can also refer to a person or thing that is worthless or undesirable. |