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Alteration (under the influence of French abricot) of apricock, itself an alteration (under influence of Latin apricum 'sunny place') of abrecock, from dialectal Catalan abrecoc, abercoc, variant of standard albercoc, from Arabic البرقوق (al-barqūq) 'plums', from Byzantine Greek βερικοκκία (berikókkia) (pl.), from Late Greek πραικὄκιον (praikókion), from Late Latin (persica) præcocia (pl.), (mālum) præcoquum, neuter of Latin (persicum) præcox, literally 'over-ripe peach'.
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apricot (plural apricots)
- A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside.
- The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.
- A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.
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fruit
- Afrikaans: appelkoos (af)
- Albanian: kajsi (sq) f.
- Arabic: مشمش (ar) (mišmiš) m., (singulative) مشمشة (ar) (mišmíša) f.
- Aragonese: alberje (an)
- Armenian: ծիրան (hy) (çiran)
- Old Armenian: ծիրան (ciran)
- Asturian: albaricoca (ast) f.
- Azeri: ərik (az)
- Belarusian: абрыкос (be) (abrykós) m.
- Breton: abriko (br)
- Bulgarian: кайсия (bg) (kájsija) f.
- Catalan: albercoc, m.
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 杏 (cmn) (xìng), 杏子 (cmn) (xìngzi)
- Min Nan: 杏 (hēng)
- Cornish: brykethen (kw)
- Corsican: baracucca (co) f.
- Czech: meruňka (cs) f.
- Danish: abrikos (da) c.
- Dutch: abrikoos (nl) f.
- Esperanto: abrikoto (eo)
- Estonian: aprikoos (et)
- Faroese: abrikos (fo)
- Finnish: aprikoosi (fi)
- French: abricot (fr) m.
- Georgian: ჭერამი (ka) (čerami)
- German: Aprikose (de) f., Marille (de) f. (Austria)
- Greek: βερίκοκο (el) (veríkoko) n.
- Haitian Creole: abiko
- Hebrew: משמש (he) (mishmesh) m.
- Hindi: ख़ूबानी (hi) (xūbānī) f.
- Hungarian: sárgabarack (hu), kajszibarack (hu)
- Irish: aibreog (ga) f.
- Italian: albicocca (it) f.
- Japanese: 杏子 (ja) (あんず, anzu)
- Kazakh: өрік (kk) (örîk)
- Korean: 살구 (ko) (salgu)
- Kurdish: mijmij (ku) f., qeysî f., zerdelî f., hêrûg f., قهیسی
- Latin: armeniacum (la) n.
- Latvian: aprikoze (lv) f.
- Lithuanian: abrikosas (lt) m.
- Macedonian: кајсија (mk) (kájsija) f.
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- Maltese: berquqa f.
- Manx: apricoc (gv) m.
- Mongolian: чангаанз (mn) (çangaanz)
- Navajo: dzidzétsoh díkʼǫ́ǫzhii
- Northern Sami: aprikosa
- Northern Sotho: apolêkôsê
- Norwegian: aprikos (no) m.
- Novial: abrikote
- O'odham: wil-gohgih
- Ossetian:
- Digor: къерами (k”erami)
- Iron: чъерами (č”erami)
- Persian: زردآلو (fa) (zardâlu)
- Polish: morela (pl) f.
- Portuguese: damasco m. (Brazil), abricó
- Romanian: caisă (ro) f.
- Romansch: apricosa (rm) f.
- Russian: абрикос (ru) (abrikós) m.
- Scottish Gaelic: apragod (gd) m.
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: кајсија (sh) f., зерделица (sh) f., марелица (sh) f.
- Roman: kajsija (sh) f., zerdelica (sh) f., marelica (sh) f.
- Sicilian: varcocu (scn) m.
- Slovak: marhuľa (sk) f.
- Slovene: marelica (sl) f.
- Somali: safiican (so)
- Sotho: apolokose (st)
- Spanish: albaricoque (es) m., chabacano (es) m. (Mexico), damasco (es) m. (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay)
- Swedish: aprikos (sv) c.
- Tajik: зардолу (tg) (zardolu)
- Thai: แอพริคอต (th) (aepáríkôt)
- Turkish: kayısı (tr), zerdali (tr)
- Ukrainian: абрикос (uk) (abrykós) m.
- Urdu: خوبانی (ur) (xūbānī) f.
- Venetian: armełin m.
- Vietnamese: mơ (vi), quả mơ (vi)
- Volapük: brikod (vo)
- Walloon: åbricot (wa) m.
- Welsh: bricyllen (cy) f., bricyll (cy) pl.
- West Frisian: abrikoas (fy)
- Yiddish: אַפּריקאָס (yi) (aprikos) m.
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[edit] Adjective
apricot (comparative more apricot, superlative most apricot)
- of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.
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