peach

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Autumn Red peaches (noun sense 2)

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: pēch, IPA: /piːʧ/, SAMPA: /pi:tS/

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• Rhymes: -iːtʃ

Etymology 1

Middle English peche, from Old French pesche (French: pêche) from Medieval Latin pesca, from Vulgar Latin pessica from Classical Latin persica, from malum persicum (“Persian apple”), from Ancient Greek μῆλον περσικόν. See Perse.

Noun

Wikipedia peach (plural peaches)

1. A tree (Prunus persica), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
2. ​The soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.
3. A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.

   peach colour:

4. (informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
5. The large, edible berry of the Sarcocephalus esculentus, a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa.

Translations

tree

Afrikaans: perskeboom (af) Armenian: դեղձենի (hy) Asturian: pescal (ast) f. Bosnian: breskva (bs) f. Bulgarian: праскова (bg) m. Catalan: presseguer (ca) m. Chinese: 桃樹 (cmn), 桃树 (cmn) (táoshù) Croatian: breskva (hr) f. Czech: broskvoň (cs) f., broskev (cs) f. (informal) Danish: ferskentræ (da) n. Dutch: perzikboom (nl) m. Finnish: persikka (fi) French: pêcher (fr) m. German: Pfirsichbaum (de) m. Hebrew: אפרסק (he) (afarsek) Hungarian: őszibarackfa (hu) Indonesian: persik (id), kesemek (id) Italian: pesco (it) m., persico (it) Japanese: 桃 (ja) (もも, momo)

Kurdish: xox (ku) f., şeftalî (ku), قۆخ (ku) Latin: persicus (la) m. Luxembourgish: Pijebam (lb) m. Macedonian: праска (mk) f. Neapolitan: piérzeco m. Persian: هلو (fa) (holō), شفتالو (fa) (šaftâlō) Polish: brzoskwinia (pl) f. Portuguese: pessegueiro (pt) m. Romanian: piersic (ro) Russian: персик (ru) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: бресква (sr) f. Roman: breskva (sr) f. Spanish: duraznero (es) m., durazno (es) m., melocotonero (es) m., melocotón (es) m. Swedish: persika (sv) c., persikoträd (sv) n. Turkish: şeftali (tr) Volapük: pärsigabim (vo), pärsigep (vo) Zulu: umpetshisi (zu) (nc 3)

fruit

Afrikaans: perske (af) Alabama: takkola Albanian: pjeshkë (sq) Amharic: ኮክ (kok) Arabic: خوخ (xawx) f. pl. (collective) Armenian: դեղձ (hy) (deġj) Asturian: piescu (ast) m. Azeri: şaftalı (az), hulu (az) Bosnian: breskva (bs) f. Bulgarian: праскова (bg) (praskova) m. Catalan: préssec (ca) m. Cherokee: ᏆᏅ (chr) (quanv) Chickasaw: takolo Chinese: Mandarin: 桃 (cmn) (táo), 桃子 (cmn) (táozi) Croatian: breskva (hr) f. Czech: broskev (cs) f. Danish: fersken (da) c. Dutch: perzik (nl) m. Esperanto: persiko (eo) Estonian: virsik (et) Finnish: persikka (fi) French: pêche (fr) f. Galician: pexego (gl) m. Georgian: ატამი (ka) (atami) German: Pfirsich (de) m. Greek: ροδάκινο (el) (rodákino) n. Hebrew: אפרסק (he) Hindi: आड (hi) (āḍū), शफतालु (hi) (śaphatālu), आड़ू (hi) (āṛū) Hungarian: őszibarack (hu)

Icelandic: ferskja (is) f. Indonesian: persik (id), kesemek (id) Italian: pesca (it) f. Japanese: 桃 (もも, momo) Korean: 복숭아 (ko) (boksung-a) Kurdish: xox (ku) f., şeftalî (ku) Latin: persicum (la) n. Luxembourgish: Piisch (lb) f., Pijen (lb) pl. Macedonian: праска (mk) (práska) f. Navajo: didzétsoh Neapolitan: pèrzeca, percòca, piérzeco Norwegian: fersken (no) m. Persian: هلو (fa) (holu,hulu), شفتالو (fa) (šaftâlō) Polish: brzoskwinia (pl) f. Portuguese: pêssego (pt) m. Romanian: piersică (ro) Romansch: persic (rm) m. Russian: персик (ru) (pérsik) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: бресква (sr) f. Roman: breskva (sr) f. Slovene: breskev (sl) f. Spanish: durazno (es) m. (Mexico), melocotón (es) m. (Colombia, Spain) Swedish: persika (sv) Taos: phò’ína Turkish: şeftali (tr) Volapük: pärsig (vo) Zulu: ipentshisi (zu)

colour

Catalan: préssec (ca) m. Finnish: persikka (fi) French: pêche (fr) f. Italian: color pesca (it) Japanese: 桃色 (ja) (ももいろ, momoiro)

Macedonian: праска (mk) (práska) f. Norwegian: fersken (no) m. Portuguese: cor pêssego (pt) f. Volapük: pärsigaköl (vo) West Frisian: pjisk (fy) n., perzik (fy) c.

pleasing person/thing

Japanese: すてきな人/もの (sutekina hito/mono)

Persian: هلو (fa) (holō)

berry

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Breton: pechez (br) collective noun pechezenn (br) f. sg. Galician: pexegueiro (gl) m. (1), pexego (gl) m. (2)

Adjective

peach

1. (colour) Of the color peach.
2. Particularly pleasing or agreeable.

Synonyms

• agreeable, fair, orange, paragon, rosy

Antonyms

• disagreeable, foul, ugly, unpleasant

Derived terms

Indian peach lesser peach tree borer open peach peaches and cream

Peach Melba peach palm peachy

pickle peach plum peach press peach

See also

• laetrile
• nectarine
• Appendix:Colors

Etymology 2

From Middle English pechen, from apechen (“to accuse”) and empechen (“to accuse”), possibly from Anglo-Norman anpecher, from Late Latin impedicō (“entangle”). See impeach.

Verb

peach (third-person singular simple present peaches, present participle peaching, simple past and past participle peached)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To inform on someone; turn informer.
   • 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, 21)

     And his father had told him if he ever wanted anything to write home to him and, whatever he did, never to peach on a fellow.

   • 1913, Rex Stout, Her Forbidden Knight, 1997 Carroll & Graf edition, ISBN 0786704446, page 123:

     "Do you think we want to peach? No, thank you. We may be none too good, but we won't hang a guy up, no matter who he is. […] "

2. (transitive, obsolete) To inform against.

Synonyms

• (intransitive): sing, squeal, tattle

Antonyms

• hide
• keep secret

Anagrams

• chape
• cheap