guava

English

Wikipedia

guavas (fruit)

Etymology

Recorded since 1555, from Spanish guaya, a variant of guayaba, from Arawakan guayabo (“guava tree”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈɡwɑvə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːvə

Noun

guava (plural guavas)

1. A tropical tree or shrub of the myrtle family, psidium guajava.
2. Its yellowish tropical fruit, 1¼ to 2 inches, globular or pear-shaped with thin, yellow, green or brown skin, is often made into jams and jellies. The meat is yellowish or pale green to pink in color.

Translations

tree or shrub

Burmese: မာလကာပင် (my) (mà-là-kà-pin) Dutch: guave (nl), guaveboom (nl), guavestruik (nl) Finnish: guava (fi) French: goyavier (fr) m. Polish: guawa (pl) f.

Portuguese: goiabeira (pt) f. Spanish: guayabo (es) Swahili: mpera (sw) Turkish: guava (tr)

fruit

Albanian: gujava (sq) f. Arabic: غوافة (ar) (ġuwāfa) f. Armenian: գուավա (hy) (guava) Bengali: পেয়ারা (bn) (peyara) Burmese: မာလကာသီး (my) (mà-la-kà-thí) Chinese: Mandarin: 番石榴 (cmn) (fānshíliu) Min Nan: 林菝仔 (ná-pua̍t-á, ná-pa̍t-á), 菝仔 (pua̍t-á, pa̍t-á) Czech: guava (cs) Danish: guava (da) Dutch: guave (nl) Finnish: guava (fi) French: goyave (fr) f. German: Guave (de) f. Greek: γκουάβα (el) (guáva) f. Hebrew: גויאבה (he) (guyava) f. Hindi: अमरूद (hi) (amrūd) Hungarian: gujávafa (hu) Indonesian: jambu batu (id) Italian: guava (it) f.

Japanese: グアバ (ja) (guaba), グアヴァ (ja) (guava) Korean: 구아바 (ko) (guaba) f. Lao: ໝາກສີດາ (lo) Malay: jambu batu (ms) Marathi: पेरू (mr) (perū) Nahuatl: xālxocotl (nah) Norwegian: guava (no) Persian: گواوا (fa) (gvâvâ), امرود (fa) (amrud) Polish: gujawa (pl) f., guawa (pl) f. Portuguese: goiaba (pt) f. Quechua: sawintu (qu) Russian: гуава (ru) (guáva) f. Spanish: guayaba (es) f. Swahili: pera (sw) Thai: ฝรั่ง (th) (farang) Tonga: kuava Turkish: guava (tr) Ukrainian: гуаява (uk) (huajáva) f., гуава (uk) (huáva) f. Urdu: امرود (ur) (amrūd) Vietnamese: ổi (vi), trái ổi (vi) Yonaguni: バンシル (baŋshiru)

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Indonesian: jambu Telugu: జామ (te) (jaama) Tamil: (goyya)

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Finnish

Noun

guava

1. guava

Declension

Declension of guava (type koira) singular plural nominative guava guavat genitive guavan guavien guavain1 partitive guavaa guavia accusative guava guavan guavat inessive guavassa guavissa elative guavasta guavista illative guavaan guaviin adessive guavalla guavilla ablative guavalta guavilta allative guavalle guaville essive guavana guavina translative guavaksi guaviksi instructive – guavin abessive guavatta guavitta comitative – guavineen 1) Rare.