cucumber

English

cucumbers

Etymology

From Middle English cucumber, from Old French cocombre, ultimately from Latin cucumis, cucumerem (possibly through an Old Occitan intermediate). Probably of Pre-Italic substrate origin.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkjuːˌkʌmbəɹ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkjuːˌkʌmbə/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˈkaʊˌkʌmbəɹ/

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Noun

cucumber (plural cucumbers)

1. A vine in the gourd family, Cucumis sativus.
   • 1767, A Lady [Hannah Glasse], The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Eaſy […] ‎^[1], page 326:

     ASPARAGUS, cauliflowers, imperial Sileſia, royal and cabbage lettuces, burnet, purſlain, cucumbers, naſturtian flowers, peaſe and beans ſown in October, artichokes, ſcarlet ſtrawberries, and kidney beans.

2. The edible fruit of this plant, having a green rind and crisp white flesh.

Synonyms

• cuke (informal)

Derived terms

• Armenian cucumber
• bitter cucumber
• cool as a cucumber
• cucumber beetle
• cucumber fish
• cucumberless
• cucumberlike
• cucumber time
• cucumber tree
• cucumbery
• exploding cucumber
• sea cucumber
• slicing cucumber
• snake cucumber
• spotted cucumber beetle
• squirting cucumber
• star cucumber
• wild cucumber

 

Related terms

• cucumiform (cucumber-shaped)

Translations

plant

• Arabic: خِيَار‎ (ar) m (ḵiyār)

  Egyptian Arabic: خيار‎ m (xeyār)

  Moroccan Arabic: خيار‎ (ḵyār), فقوس‎ (fqūs)

• Armenian: վարունգ (hy) (varung)
• Asturian: pepinu m
• Azerbaijani: xiyar (az)
• Bashkir: ҡыяр (qïyar)
• Belarusian: агуро́к (be) m (ahurók)
• Bulgarian: кра́ставица (bg) f (krástavica)
• Burmese: သခွား (my) (sa.hkwa:)
• Catalan: cogombre (ca) m, cogombrera f
• Chichewa: mnkhaka
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黃瓜 (zh), 黄瓜 (zh) (huángguā), 青瓜 (zh) (qīngguā)

• Czech: okurka (cs) f
• Danish: agurk (da) c
• Dutch: komkommer (nl) m
• Esperanto: kukumo
• Estonian: kurk
• Faroese: agurka f, gurka f, agurk f
• Finnish: kurkku (fi)
• French: concombre (fr) m
• Galician: cogombro (gl) m
• Georgian: კიტრი (ḳiṭri)
• German: Gurke (de) f
• Greek: αγγουριά (el) f (angouriá)

  Ancient Greek: σίκυος m (síkuos)^(el), σίκυς f (síkus)^(el)

  Medieval Greek: ἀγγουρέα f (angouréa)

• Hebrew: מְלָפְפוֹן‎ (he) m (m'laf'fon)
• Hindi: ककड़ी (hi) f (kakṛī)
• Hungarian: uborka (hu)
• Ido: kukombriero
• Indonesian: mentimun (id), timun (id), ketimun (id)
• Interlingue: cucumbre
• Italian: cetriolo (it) m
• Japanese: 胡瓜 (ja) (きゅうり, kyūri), キュウリ (ja) (kyūri)

• Khmer: ត្រសក់ (km) (trɑsɑk), តាសក់ (km) (tasɑk)
• Kikai: 胡瓜 (きうい, kiui)
• Korean: 오이 (ko) (oi)
• Kumyk: хыяр (xıyar)
• Lao: ໝາກແຕງ (lo) (māk tǣng)
• Latin: cucumis (la) m
• Latvian: gurķis m
• Lithuanian: agurkas m
• Low German: Gurk f
• Macedonian: краставица f (krastavica)
• Malagasy: kitsaotsao (mg)
• Maltese: ħjar m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: agurk (no) m

  Nynorsk: agurk m

• Okinawan: 胡瓜 (きーうい, kīui)
• Polish: ogórek (pl) m
• Portuguese: pepineiro (pt) m, pepino (pt) m
• Romanian: castravete (ro) m
• Russian: огуре́ц (ru) m (oguréc)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кра̏ставац m

  Roman: krȁstavac (sh) m

• Slovak: uhorka (sk) f
• Slovene: kumara (sl) f
• Somali: qajaar
• Spanish: pepino (es) m
• Swedish: gurka (sv) c
• Telugu: దోస (te) (dōsa)
• Thai: แตงกวา (dtɛɛng-gwaa)
• Turkish: hıyar (tr), salatalık (tr)
• Ukrainian: огіро́к (uk) (ohirók)
• Volapük: küg (vo)
• Welsh: cucumer (cy) m
• Yiddish: אוגערקע‎ f (ugerke)

edible fruit

• Afrikaans: komkommer
• Albanian: trangull (sq) m kastravec (sq) m
• Alekano: gamó
• Amharic: ኪያር m (kiyar)
• Arabic: خِيَار‎ (ar) m (ḵiyār)

  Egyptian Arabic: خيارة‎ f (xeyāra), خيار‎ m pl (xeyār)

• Armenian: վարունգ (hy) (varung)
• Assamese: তিয়ঁহ (tĩh)
• Asturian: pepinu m
• Azerbaijani: xiyar (az)
• Bashkir: ҡыяр (qïyar)
• Belarusian: агуро́к (be) m (ahurók)
• Bengali: শসা (bn) (śôsa)
• Brunei Malay: timun
• Bulgarian: кра́ставица (bg) f (krástavica)
• Burmese: သခွား (my) (sa.hkwa:)
• Catalan: cogombre (ca) m
• Chechen: наьрс (närs)
• Chichewa: mnkhaka
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 青瓜 (ceng¹ gwaa¹)

  Dungan: хуонгуа (huongua)

  Mandarin: 黃瓜 (zh), 黄瓜 (zh) (huángguā), 青瓜 (zh) (qīngguā)

  Min Nan: 刺瓜 (zh-min-nan) (chhì-koe), 黃瓜 (zh-min-nan), 黄瓜 (n̂g-koe)

• Chuvash: хӑяр (hăjar)
• Coptic:

  Bohairic: ϣⲱⲡⲓ m (šōpi)

  Sahidic: ϣⲱⲡⲉ m (šōpe)

• Cornish: kukomber m
• Czech: okurka (cs) f
• Danish: agurk (da) c
• Dutch: komkommer (nl) m
• Egyptian: (sšpt f), (bꜣdt f)
• Esperanto: kukumo
• Estonian: kurk
• Ewe: adzamtre
• Faroese: agurka f
• Finnish: kurkku (fi)
• French: concombre (fr) m
• Friulian: cudumar m
• Galician: cogombro (gl) m
• Georgian: კიტრი (ḳiṭri)
• German: Gurke (de) f
• Greek: αγγούρι (el) n (angoúri)

  Ancient: σίκυος m (síkuos)^(el), σικυός m (sikuós)^(el), σίκυς f (síkus)^(el), ἀγγούριον n (angoúrion)

• Greenlandic: agurki
• Hawaiian: kaʻukama
• Hebrew: מְלָפְפוֹן‎ (he) m (m'laf'fon)
• Hindi: ककड़ी (hi) f (kakṛī), खीरा (hi) m (khīrā)
• Hungarian: uborka (hu)
• Icelandic: gúrka (is) f, agúrka (is) f
• Ido: kukombro (io)
• Indonesian: mentimun (id), timun (id), ketimun (id)
• Interlingue: cucumbre
• Irish: cúcamar
• Italian: cetriolo (it) m
• Japanese: 胡瓜 (ja) (きゅうり, kyūri), キュウリ (ja) (kyūri)
• Kalmyk: хаяр (xayar), аһурцг (ahurtsg)
• Karakalpak: qıyar
• Kazakh: қияр (qïyar), бәдірен (bädiren)
• Khakas: ӱгурсӱ (ügursü)

• Khmer: ត្រសក់ (km) (trɑsɑk), តាសក់ (km) (tasɑk)
• Kikai: 胡瓜 (きうい, kiui)
• Korean: 오이 (ko) (oi)
• Kumyk: хыяр (xıyar)
• Kurdish: arû (ku)

  Sorani: ئاروو‎ (arû), خەیار‎ (xeyar)

• Kyrgyz: бадыраң (ky) (badırañ)
• Lao: ໝາກແຕງ (lo) (māk tǣng)
• Latin: cucumis (la) m
• Latvian: gurķis m
• Lithuanian: agurkas m
• Lü: ᦶᦎᧂᦌᧂᧉ (ṫaengsang²)
• Macedonian: краставица f (krastavica)
• Malay: timun
• Maltese: ħjara
• Mongolian: өргөст хэмх (örgöst hemh), огурцы (ogurtsy)
• Navajo: taʼneeskʼání áłtsʼóózígíí
• Norman: cocombre f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: agurk (no) m

  Nynorsk: agurk m

• Occitan: cogombre (oc) m
• Okinawan: 胡瓜 (きーうい, kīui)
• Old English: eorþæppel m
• Ottoman Turkish: خیار‎ (hıyâr)
• Persian: خیار‎ (fa) (xiyâr)
• Polish: ogórek (pl) m
• Portuguese: pepino (pt) m
• Romanian: castravete (ro) m
• Romansch: cucumera f
• Russian: огуре́ц (ru) m (oguréc)
• Scottish Gaelic: cularan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кра̏ставац m

  Roman: krȁstavac (sh) m

• Sinhalese: පිපිඤ්ඤා (si) (pipiññā)
• Slovak: uhorka (sk) f
• Slovene: kumara (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: górka f

• Southern Altai: огурчын (ogurčïn)
• Spanish: pepino (es) m
• Swahili: tango
• Swedish: gurka (sv) c
• Tagalog: pipino
• Tajik: бодиринг (tg) (bodiring)
• Tamil: வெள்ளரிக்காய் (ta) (veḷḷarikkāy)
• Tatar: кыяр (tt) (qıyar)
• Telugu: దోసకాయ (te) (dōsakāya)
• Thai: แตงกวา (dtɛɛng-gwaa)
• Turkish: hıyar (tr), salatalık (tr)
• Turkmen: hyýar
• Ukrainian: огіро́к (uk) (ohirók)
• Urdu: ککڑی‎ f (kakṛī), کھیرا‎ m (khīrā)
• Uzbek: bodring (uz)
• Venetian: zetriol
• Vietnamese: dưa chuột, dưa leo (vi)
• Welsh: ciwcymbr (cy) m, ciwcymer m, cucumer (cy) m, chwerwddwr m
• Yakut: огурсу (ogursu)
• Yiddish: אוגערקע‎ f (ugerke)
• Zhuang: lwgbieng
• ǃXóõ: ʘna̰e

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} kurk
• Kyrgyz: ^{(please verify)} бадыраң (ky) (badırañ)

• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} agurkas m
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} ħjara f

See also

• courgette
• gherkin
• marrow

• pickle
• squash
• zucchini