papaya

English

Wikipedia

Unripe papaya fruits

Etymology

From Spanish, originally from Arawak papáia

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pəˈpaɪə/, /pəˈpɑːjə/
• Rhymes: -aɪə, -ɑːjə

Noun

papaya (plural papayas)

1. A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit
2. The fruit of this tree.

Synonyms

• pawpaw (Australia), common term for papaya, but strictly speaking this refers to a different tree / fruit

Translations

tree

• Ido: papayiero (io)
• Macedonian: папаја (mk) (papája) f
• Spanish: papayo (es) m

• Telugu: బొప్పాయిచెట్టు (te) (boppayicettu)
• Turkish: papaya (tr)

fruit

• Albanian: papaja (sq) f
• Arabic: بابايا (ar) (babaaya) f
• Armenian: պապայա (hy) (papaya)
• Assamese: অমিতা (as) (amitā)
• Belarusian: папая (be) (papája) f
• Bengali: পেঁপে (bn) (peṁpe)
• Bulgarian: папая (bg) (papája) f
• Burmese: သင်္ဘောသီး (my) (thín-báw-thí)
• Chamicuro: ajpaya
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 木瓜 (cmn) (mùguā)

  Min Nan: 木瓜 (nan) (bo̍k-kue)

• Esperanto: papajo (eo)
• Ewe: aɖiba
• Fijian: weleti (fj)
• Filipino: papaya
• Finnish: papaija (fi)
• French: papaye (fr) f
• Galician: mamá (gl) f
• German: Papaya (de) f
• Gujarati: પપૈયાં (gu) (papaiyāṁ)
• Hebrew: פּפּיה (he) (papaia)
• Hindi: पपीता (hi) (papītā)
• Indonesian: pepaya (id)
• Italian: papaia (it) f
• Jamaican Creole: papaw
• Japanese: パパイヤ (ja) (papaiya)
• Javanese: kates

• Kannada: ಪರಂಗಿ ಹಣ್ಣು (kn) (paraṅgi haṇṇu)
• Khmer: ផ្លែល្ហុង (km) (plae lhong)
• Korean: 파파야 (ko) (papaya)
• Lao: ໝາກຫຸ່ງ (lo) (maak-hung)
• Macedonian: папаја (mk) (papája) f
• Malagasy: voapaza (mg)
• Malay: betik (ms)
• Malayalam: പപ്പായ (ml) (pappāya)
• Marathi: पपाया (mr) (papāyā) m
• Mongolian: папайя (mn) (papajja)
• Navajo: hashkʼaan dootłʼizhí
• Persian: پاپایه (fa) (pâpâye)
• Polish: papaja f
• Portuguese: mamão (Brazil), papaia (pt)
• Romanian: papaia (ro) f
• Russian: папайя (ru) (papájja) f
• Sinhalese: (papol, guslabu (literally "tree melon")
• Spanish: papaya (es) f, fruta bomba (es) f (Cuban standard usage - Eastern Cuba: papaya), lechosa (es) f (Dominican Republic, Eastern Central Colombia and Llanos, Venezuela - Colombia standard usage: papaya), mamón (es) m (Argentina, Paraguay)
• Swahili: papai, papayu
• Tagalog: papaya (tl)
• Tamil: பப்பாளி (ta) (pappāḷi)
• Telugu: బొప్పాయి పండు (te) (boppayi pandu)
• Thai: มะละกอ (th) (málágow)
• Turkish: papaya (tr)
• Ukrainian: папайя (uk) (papájja) f
• Urdu: پپیتا (ur) (papītā)
• Vietnamese: đu đủ (vi)

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• Dhivehi: fa'lho
• Efik: pawpaw

• Gujarati: pappayu
• Ibibio: pawpaw

See also

• papain

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Spanish

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /paˈpaʝa/

Noun

papaya f (plural papayas)

1. papaya (fruit)
2. lechoza (fruit)
3. (Cuba, slang) vagina
4. (Chile, slang) easy

Related terms

• papayo

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Turkish

Noun

papaya

1. accusative singular form of papa

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Tagalog

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Etymology

From Spanish

Noun

papaya

1. papaya