cucumber

English

cucumbers

Etymology

From Old French cocombre (French concombre), from Latin cucumis, cucumerem. Probably of Pre-Italic origin.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkjuːˌkʌmbəɹ/

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Noun

cucumber (plural cucumbers)

1. A vine in the gourd family, Cucumis sativus.
2. The edible fruit of this plant, having a green rind and crisp white flesh.

Synonyms

• cuke (informal)

Derived terms

Terms derived from cucumber

• 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 (xeyaar)

• Armenian: վարունգ (hy) (varung)
• Asturian: pepinu m
• Azeri: 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)
• Hebrew: מְלָפְפוֹן‏‎ (he) m (m'laf'fon)
• 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)

• Kikai: 胡瓜 (きうい, kiui)
• Kumyk: хыяр (xıyar)
• Lao: ໝາກແຕງ (lo) (māk tǣng)
• Latin: cucumis (la) m
• Latvian: gurķis m
• Lithuanian: agurkas m
• Low German: Gurk (nds) f
• Macedonian: краставица f (krastavica)
• Malagasy: kitsaotsao (mg)
• 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: краставац m

  Roman: krastavac (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: kastravec (sq) m
• Amharic: ኪያር m (kiyar)
• Arabic: خِيَار‏‎ (ar) m (ḵiyār)

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

• Armenian: վարունգ (hy) (varung)
• Asturian: pepinu m
• Azeri: xiyar (az)
• Bashkir: ҡыяр (qïyar)
• Belarusian: агуро́к (be) m (ahurók)
• Bengali: শসা (bn) (śôsa)
• 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)

  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: хăяр (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: (jšp m)
• Esperanto: kukumo
• Estonian: kurk
• Ewe: adzamtre
• Faroese: agurka f
• Finnish: kurkku (fi)
• French: concombre (fr) m
• Galician: cogombro (gl) m
• Georgian: კიტრი (ḳiṭri)
• German: Gurke (de) f
• Greek: αγγούρι (el) n (angoúri)
• Greenlandic: agurki
• 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)

• Kikai: 胡瓜 (きうい, kiui)
• Korean: 오이 (ko) (oi)
• Kumyk: хыяр (xıyar)
• Kurdish:

  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)
• Maltese: ħjara
• Mongolian: өргөст хэмх (örgöst hemh)
• Navajo: taʼneeskʼání áłtsʼóózígíí
• Norman: cocombre f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: agurk (no) m

  Nynorsk: agurk m

• Okinawan: 胡瓜 (きーうい, kiiui)
• Old English: eorðæppel m
• Ottoman Turkish: خيار‏‎ (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: краставац m

  Roman: krastavac (sh) m

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

  Lower Sorbian: górka f

• Southern Altai: огурчын (oğurçın)
• Spanish: pepino (es) m
• Swedish: gurka (sv) c
• 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)
• Vietnamese: dưa chuột
• Welsh: ciwcymbr (cy) m, ciwcymer m, cucumer (cy) m
• Yakut: огурсу (ogursu)
• Yiddish: אוגערקע‏‎ f (ugerke)
• 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
• Hindi: ^{(please verify)} खीरा m (khīrā)
• Kyrgyz: ^{(please verify)} бадыраң (badırañ)
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} agurkas m

• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} ħjara f
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} خیار‏‎ (fa)
• Urdu: ^{(please verify)} کھیرا‏‎ m (khīrā)

See also

• courgette
• gherkin
• marrow

• pickle
• squash
• zucchini