apricot

English

Apricot fruits

Wikispecies

Etymology

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Alteration of apricock (with influence from French abricot), itself an alteration of abrecock (with influence from Latin apricum (“sunny place”)), from dialectal Catalan abrecoc, abercoc, variants of standard albercoc, from Arabic الْبَرْقُوق (al-barqūq, “plums”), from Byzantine Greek βερικοκκίᾱ (berikokkíā, “apricot tree”), from Ancient Greek πραικόκιον (praikókion), from Late Latin (persica) praecocia (literally “(peaches) which ripen early”), (mālum) praecoquum (literally “(apple) which ripens early”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.pɹɪ.kɒt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.pɹɪ.kɒt/, /ˈæ.pɹɪ.kɒt/
• IPA^(key): /æepɹɪˈkɒt/, /æepɹɪˈkɔt/

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• Hyphenation: apri‧cot

Noun

apricot (plural apricots)

1. A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside.
2. The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca
3. A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.

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4. A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
5. (sniper slang) the junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.
6. (slang, Australia, dated, usually in the plural) A testicle.

Translations

fruit

• Abkhaz: аҷарам (ačʼaram)
• Adyghe: абрикос (abrikʷos)
• Afrikaans: appelkoos (af)
• Albanian: kajsi (sq) f
• Alviri-Vidari:

  Vidari: شیلان (šilān)

• Amharic: ኮክ መሳይ የፍራፍሬ አይነት (kok mäsay yäfrafre ʾäynät)
• Arabic: مِشْمِش m (mišmiš), مِشْمِشَة f (mišmiša) (singulative)

  Egyptian Arabic: مشمشة f (mešmeša), مشمش m pl (mešmeš)

  Hijazi Arabic: مِشْمِشَة f (mišmiša), مِشْمِش m pl (mišmiš)

• Aragonese: alberje
• Armenian: ծիրանի (hy) (cirani)

  Old Armenian: ծիրան (ciran)

• Asturian: albaricoque m, albaricoca f
• Azerbaijani: ərik (az)
• Bashkir: өрөк (örök)
• Basque: arbeletxeko, abrikot
• Belarusian: абрыко́с m (abrykós)
• Breton: abriko
• Bulgarian: ка́йсия f (kájsija)
• Catalan: albercoc (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 杏桃 (hang⁶ tou⁴, hang⁶ tou^4-2), 黃梅／黄梅 (wong⁴ mui⁴), 黄梅 (wong⁴ mui⁴, wong⁴ mui^4-2)

  Mandarin: 杏 (zh) (xìng), 杏子 (zh) (xìngzi), 杏實／杏实 (zh), 杏实 (zh) (xìngshí)

  Min Nan: 杏 (hēng)

• Cornish: brykethen
• Corsican: baracucca f
• Czech: meruňka (cs) f
• Danish: abrikos (da) c
• Dongxiang: orou
• Dutch: abrikoos (nl) f
• Egyptian: ^{(please verify)} (dpḥ n ꜣrmꜥynꜣ)
• Esperanto: abrikoto (eo)
• Estonian: aprikoos (et)
• Faroese: aprikosa
• Finnish: aprikoosi (fi)
• French: abricot (fr) m
• Galician: albaricoque (gl) m
• Gallurese: barracoccu
• Georgian: გარგარი (gargari), ჭერამი (č̣erami)
• German: Aprikose (de) f, Marille (de) f (Austria)
• Greek: βερίκοκο (el) n (veríkoko)

  Ancient: πραικόκιον n (praikókion), ἀρμενιακόν n (armeniakón)

• Haitian Creole: abiko
• Hebrew: משמש (he) m (mishmesh)
• Hindi: ख़ूबानी f (xūbānī), खुबानी (hi) f (khubānī), जर्दालू (hi) m (jardālū), जरदालू (hi) m (jardālū)
• Hungarian: sárgabarack (hu), kajszibarack (hu), kajszi (hu) (informal)
• Icelandic: apríkósa (is) f
• Indonesian: aprikot (id)
• Interlingue:
• Irish: aibreog f
• Italian: albicocca (it) f
• Japanese: 杏子 (ja) (あんず, anzu)
• Kazakh: өрік (kk) (örık)
• Korean: 살구 (ko) (salgu)
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• Kurdish: , , ,

  Sorani:

• Lao: ໝາກຄາຍ (lo) (māk khāi)
• Latin: armeniacum n
• Latvian: aprikoze (lv) f
• Lithuanian: abrikosas (lt) m
• Lü: ᦖᦱᧅᦚᦳᧂ (ṁaakḟung)
• Macedonian: ка́јсија f (kájsija)
• Malagasy: aprikaoty (mg)
• Malay: aprikot, buah aprikot
• Maltese: berquqa (mt) f
• Manx: apricoc m
• Mongolian: чангаанз (mn) (čangaanz)
• Navajo: dzidzétsoh díkʼǫ́ǫzhii, didzétsoh yázhí
• Northern Sami: aprikosa
• Northern Sotho: apolêkôsê
• Norwegian: aprikos (no) m
• Novial:
• O'odham: wil-gohgih
• Occitan: albricòt (oc) m
• Ossetian:

  Digor: къерами (k’erami)

  Iron: чъерами (ḱ’erami)

• Persian: زردآلو (fa) (zardâlu)
• Polish: morela (pl) f
• Portuguese: damasco (pt) m (Brazil), abricó (pt), alperce (pt) m, alperche (pt) m
• Romanian: caisă (ro) f
• Romansch: apricosa f
• Russian: абрико́с (ru) m (abrikós)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: piricoccu

  Logudorese: barracocco

• Sassarese: barracoc
• Scottish Gaelic: apragod m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кајсија f, зерделица f, марелица f

  Roman: kajsija (sh) f, zerdelica f, marelica (sh) f

• Sicilian: varcocu (scn) m
• Slovak: marhuľa (sk) f
• Slovene: marelica (sl) f
• Somali: safiican
• Sotho: apolokose (st)
• Spanish: albaricoque (es) m, chabacano (es) m (Mexico), damasco (es) m (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay)
• Swedish: aprikos (sv) c
• Tagalog: albarikoke
• Tajik: зардолу (tg) (zardolu)
• Thai: แอพริคอต (aepáríkôt)
• Turkish: kayısı (tr), zerdali (tr)
• Ukrainian: абрико́с (uk) m (abrykós)
• Urdu: خوبانی f (xūbānī)
• Venetian: armełin m
• Vietnamese: mơ tây, quả mơ
• Volapük: brikod (vo)
• Walloon: åbricot (wa) m
• Welsh: bricyllen (cy) f, bricyll (cy) pl
• West Frisian: abrikoas
• Yiddish: אַפּריקאָס m (aprikos)
• Zazaki: berga

tree

• Armenian: ծիրանենի (hy) (ciraneni)
• Asturian: albaricocal m
• Bashkir: өрөк (örök)
• Belarusian: абрыко́с m (abrykós)
• Bulgarian: ка́йсия f (kájsija)
• Catalan: albercoquer (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 杏樹／杏树 (zh), 杏树 (zh) (xìngshù)

• Czech: meruňka (cs) f
• Danish: abrikostræ (da) n
• Dongxiang: orou mutun
• Esperanto: abrikotujo, abrikotarbo
• Finnish: aprikoosipuu
• French: abricotier (fr) m
• Galician: albaricoqueiro (gl) m
• Gallurese: barracoc
• Georgian: ჭერამი (č̣erami), გარგარი (gargari)
• German: Aprikose (de) f, Marille (de) f (Austria), Aprikosenbaum (de) m
• Greek: βερικοκιά (el) f (verikokiá)
• Hindi: ख़ूबानी f (xūbānī), खुबानी (hi) f (khubānī), जर्दालू (hi) m (jardālū), जरदालू (hi) m (jardālū)
• Hungarian: sárgabarackfa (hu), kajszibarackfa
• Interlingue:
• Italian: albicocco (it) m
• Korean: 살구나무 (ko) (salgunamu)
• Lao: ກຄາຍ (ka khāi)
• Latin: armeniaca f
• Latvian: aprikoze (lv) f
• Macedonian: ка́јсија f (kájsija)
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• Maltese: siġra tal-berquq
• Manx: billey apricoc m
• Norwegian: aprikostre n
• Novial:
• Persian: درخت زردآلو (derakht-e zardâlu)
• Polish: morela (pl) f
• Portuguese: damasqueiro (pt) m
• Romanian: cais (ro) m
• Russian: абрико́с (ru) m (abrikós)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: piricoccu

  Logudorese: barracocco

• Sassarese: barracoc
• Scottish Gaelic: apragod m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кајсија f, зерделица f, марелица f

  Roman: kajsija (sh) f, zerdelica f, marelica (sh) f

• Spanish: albaricoquero (es) m
• Swedish: aprikosträd n
• Turkish: kayısı (tr)
• Ukrainian: абрико́с (uk) m (abrykós)
• Vietnamese: cây mơ
• Volapük: brikodabim (vo), brikodep (vo)
• Walloon: åbricotî m

colour

• Armenian: ծիրանի (hy) (cirani)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 杏色 (xìngsè)

• Danish: abrikos (da)farve c
• French: abricot (fr) m
• German: aprikosenfarben (de)
• Greek: κιτρινορόδινο n (kitrinoródino), βερικοκί n (verikokí)
• Japanese: 杏子色 (あんずいろ, anzuiro)
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• Korean: 살구색 (ko) (salgusaek)
• Latvian: dzeltenoranža krāsa f
• Maltese: lewn il-berquq
• Polish: morelowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: damasco (pt) m
• Russian: абрико́совый (ru) (abrikósovyj)
• Spanish: damasco (es)
• Volapük: brikodaköl

Adjective

apricot (comparative more apricot, superlative most apricot)

1. Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.

Translations

colour

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 杏色的 (xìng sè de)

• Czech: meruňkový (cs)
• Danish: abrikosfarvet
• French: abricot (fr)
• German: apricot (de), aprikosenfarben (de)
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• Japanese: 杏子色の (あんずいろの, anzuiro)
• Polish: morelowy (pl)
• Portuguese: damasco (pt)
• Swedish: aprikosfärgad
• Volapük: brikodakölik

See also

• lekvar
• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• aprotic, parotic, patrico

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German

Adjective

apricot (not comparable)

1. (uncommon) apricot-coloured

Synonyms

• aprikosenfarben