grapefruit

See also Grapefruit

English

A grapefruit (tree) in Enampore, Senegal

Grapefruit (fruit), one sliced in half

Etymology

From grape +‎ fruit, an allusion to the grapelike clusters of fruit on the tree. Ciardi proposes another theory. The pummelo's botanical name was Citrus grandis, meaning "great citrus [fruit]", due to the large size of the fruits. It would be natural to call the new pummelo variety a "greatfruit". By saying that name a few times, with its consonant cluster, it sounds like "grapefruit", and it would easily have morphed to that form. This second suggestion is completely speculative, without attestation, but seems much more reasonable than the equally speculative "grape cluster" theory. Actually, pummelo fruits do not not grow in grapelike clusters.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈɡɹeɪp.fɹuːt/

  (as grape + fruit, with stress on grape)

• Audio (US)

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Noun

grapefruit (plural grapefruits or grapefruit)

1. The tree of the species Citrus paradisi.
2. The large spherical tart fruit produced by this tree.

Synonyms

• (tree): grapefruit tree
• (fruit): pomelo, shaddock

Derived terms

• Chinese grapefruit
• grapefruitlike
• grapefruit juice
• grapefruity

Translations

tree

• Basque: arabisagar arbola (eu)
• Catalan: aranger (ca) m
• Finnish: greippipuu (fi), greippi (fi)
• Icelandic: greipaldin (is) n, greipaldintré (is) n

• Italian: pompelmo (it) m
• Spanish: árbol de toronja (es)
• Swahili: mbalungi (sw)
• Turkish: greyfurt (tr)

a large, round tart fruit

• Alabama: yalàaha kaskaha
• Basque: arabisagar (eu)
• Catalan: aranja (ca) f
• Chechen: грейпфрукт
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 柚子 (cmn) (yòuzi), 葡萄柚 (cmn) (pútáoyòu)

  • Min Nan: 柚仔樹 (nan) (iū-á-chhiu), 葡萄柚 (nan) (phû-tô-iū)
• Danish: grapefrugt (da), grape (da)
• Dutch: grapefruit (nl) m
• Esperanto: grapfrukto (eo)
• Finnish: greippi (fi)
• French: pamplemousse (fr) m, pomélo (fr) m
• German: Grapefruit (de) f, Pampelmuse (de) f
• Haitian Creole: chadèk
• Hebrew: אֶשְׁכּוֹלִית (he) (eshkolít) f
• Hindi: मौसमी (mausamī), छोटा चकोतरा (chōṭā cakōtarā)
• Hungarian: grépfrút (hu)
• Icelandic: greipaldin (is) n, greip (is) f, tröllaldin (is) n
• Ido: pompelmuso (io)
• Ilocano: lukban
• Indonesian: jeruk bali
• Italian: pompelmo (it) m

• Japanese: グレープフルーツ (gurēpu-furūtsu)
• Javanese: jeruk bali (jv)
• Lojban: branimre
• Macedonian: грејпфрут (mk) (gréjpfrut) m, цитрон (mk) (citrón) m
• Maltese: lumi-larinġ
• Mongolian: бэрсүүт жүрж (mn) (bersüüt žürž)
• Navajo: chʼil łitsxooí ntsxaaígíí
• Pashto: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: گریپ فروت (fa)
• Polish: grejpfrut (pl) m
• Portuguese: toranja (pt) f, toronja (pt) f
• Russian: грейпфрут (ru) (gr'ejpfrút) m 
• Serbo-Croatian: grèjpfrut (sh) m, limùnika (sh) f
• Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
• Slovene: grenivka (sl) f
• Spanish: toronja (es) f, pomelo (es) m
• Swahili: balungi (sw)
• Swedish: grape (sv) c, grapefrukt (sv) c
• Tagalog: suha'
• Tausug: suwa' gadja
• Turkish: greyfurt (tr)

External links

• Grapefruit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Citrus paradisi on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Citrus paradisi
• Category:Citrus paradisi on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons: Category:Citrus paradisi
• Category:Grapefruits on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons: Category:Grapefruits

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Dutch

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Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

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Noun

grapefruit m (plural grapefruits, diminutive grapefruitje)

1. grapefruit: the tree of the species Citrus paradisi
2. grapefruit: the fruit produced by the tree of the species Citrus paradisi

See also

• pompelmoes