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 is Citrus grandi, meaning "great citrus [fruit]." 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) Finnish: greippipuu (fi), greippi (fi) Icelandic: greipaldin (is) n., greipaldintré (is) n.

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) (pútáo yóu) Min Nan: 柚仔樹 (iū-á-chhiu), 葡萄柚 (phû-tô-iū) Croatian: grèjpfrut (hr) m., limùnika (hr) f. 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. Hebrew: אֶשְׁכּוֹלִית (he) (eshkolít) f. Hindi: मौसमी (mausamī), छोटा चकोतरा (chōṭā cakōtarā) Icelandic: greipaldin (is) n., greip (is) f., tröllaldin (is) n. Ido: pompelmuso (io) Ilocano: lukban

Indonesian: jeruk bali Italian: pompelmo m. (tree & fruit) Japanese: グレープフルーツ (gurēpu-furūtsu) Lojban: branimre Macedonian: грејпфрут (mk) (gréjpfrut) m., цитрон (mk) (citrón) m. Maltese: lumi-larinġ 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. 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

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

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Noun

grapefruit m. (plural grapefruits, ^??? please provide the diminutive!)

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