papaya

English

Wikipedia

Unripe papaya fruits

Etymology

From Spanish, originally from Arawak papáia

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: amita 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 (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: please add this translation if you can 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. Malay: betik (ms) Malayalam: പപ്പായ (ml) (pappāya) Marathi: please add this translation if you can Navajo: hashkʼaan dootłʼizhí Persian: پاپایه (fa) (pâpâye) Polish: melonowiec właściwy Portuguese: mamão (Brazil) Romanian: papaia (ro) f. Russian: папайя (ru) (papájja) f. Sinhala: papol', guslabu (literally "tree melon") Spanish: papaya f., fruta bomba (Cuban standard usage - Eastern Cuba : papaya), lechosa f. (Dominican Republic, Eastern Central Colombia and Llanos, Venezuela - Colombia standard usage : papaya), mamón (Argentina, Paraguay) Swahili: papai, papayu 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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Translations to be checked

Dhivehi: fa'lho Efik: pawpaw

Gujarati: pappayu Ibibio: pawpaw

See also

• papain

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Spanish

Wikipedia ^es

Noun

papaya f. (plural papayas)

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

Related terms

• papayo