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 (kim-tsó), 金桔仔 (kim-kiat-á), 桔仔 (kiat-á), 金柑 (kim-kam) Czech: please add this translation if you can 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) 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: please add this translation if you can 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) 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. inv.

1. kumquat

Synonyms

• mandarino cinese

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Spanish

Noun

kumquat m. (plural kumquats)

1. kumquat