柑仔蜜

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Chinese

tangerine honey
simp. and trad.
(柑仔蜜)
柑仔
alternative forms 柑仔密
柑子蜜
甘仔蜜

Etymology 1

Phono-semantic matching of Tagalog kamatis (tomato), from Spanish tomate (tomato), from Classical Nahuatl tomatl (Zhang and Xiang, 2016).

Pronunciation


Noun

(deprecated template usage) 柑仔蜜

  1. (Hokkien, chiefly southern Taiwan) tomato [from 17th c.]
Synonyms

Etymology 2

tangerine honey
simp. and trad.
(柑仔蜜)
柑仔
alternative forms 甘子蜜

Phono-semantic matching of Malay gambir (gambier).

Pronunciation


Noun

(deprecated template usage) 柑仔蜜

  1. (Hokkien, traditional Chinese medicine) gambier (extract derived from the leaves of Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.) [from 18th c.]
Synonyms

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