kumquat

English

kumquat fruits

Alternative forms

• cumquat

Etymology

From Cantonese 柑橘 (gam1 gwat1) or 金橘 (“golden tangerine”). Related to loquat – same second character.

Noun

kumquat (plural kumquats)

1. A small, orange citrus-like fruit which is native to Asia.

Derived terms

• citrangequat
• limequat
• orangequat

Related terms

• loquat

Translations

small orange fruit

• Arabic: برتقال ذهبي (ar) (burtuqaal dhahabiy) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 柑橘 (gam1 gwat1)

  Mandarin: 金桔 (cmn) (jīnjú), 金橘 (cmn) (jīnjú) (alternative and traditional characters)

  Min Nan: 金棗 (nan) (kim-tsó), 金桔仔 (nan) (kim-kiat-á), 桔仔 (nan) (kiat-á), 金柑 (nan) (kim-kam)

• Czech: kumquat (cs) m, kumkvat (cs) m
• Dutch: kumquat (nl) m
• Finnish: kumkvatti (fi)
• French: kumquat (fr) m
• German: Kumquat (de) m
• Greek: κουμ κουάτ, κουμ-κουάτ, κουμκουάτ (koumkouát)
• Hebrew: קומקוט (kumkuat)
• Hungarian: kumkvat (hu), törpemandarin (hu)
• Irish: cumcuat (ga) m
• Italian: kumquat (it) m, mandarino cinese (it) m

• Japanese: 金柑 (ja), キンカン (ja) (kinkan)
• Korean: 금귤 (geumgyul) (金橘)
• Polish: kumkwat (pl) m
• Portuguese: kumquat (pt) m
• Romanian: kumquat (ro) n
• Russian: кумкват (ru) (kumkvát) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кумкват (sh) m

  Latin: kumkvat (sh) m

• Spanish: kumquat (es) m, quinoto (es) m
• Swedish: kumquat (sv) c
• Thai: ส้มจี๊ด (th) (somchíd)
• Turkish: kamkat (tr), altın portakal (tr), çin portakalı (tr), kamkuat (tr)
• Vietnamese: cẩm quất (vi) (derived from the Cantonese) or, less commonly, (quả) kim quất (vi) (if transliterated from the characters 金橘 into Sino-Vietnamese; quả (vi) (果) is the Sino-Vietnamese prefix for "fruit")

See also

• Kumquat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Italian

Noun

kumquat m (invariable)

1. kumquat

Synonyms

• mandarino cinese

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Spanish

Noun

kumquat m (plural kumquats)

1. kumquat

Synonyms

• naranjo chino
• naranjo enano
• quinoto