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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkjuːˌkʌmbəɹ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkjuːˌkʌmbə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkaʊˌkʌmbəɹ/

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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

• 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)

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

• Armenian: վարունգ (hy) (varung)
• Asturian: pepinu m
• Azerbaijani: xiyar (az)
• Bashkir: ҡыяр (qıyar)
• 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／黄瓜 (zh) (huángguā), 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:
• Italian: cetriolo (it) m
• Japanese: 胡瓜 (ja) (きゅうり, kyūri), キュウリ (ja) (kyūri)
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• 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 (tiôh)
• Asturian: pepinu m
• Azerbaijani: xiyar (az)
• Bashkir: ҡыяр (qıyar)
• Belarusian: агуро́к (be) m (ahurók)
• Bengali: শসা (bn) (śośa)
• 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)

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

  Min Nan: 刺瓜 (zh-min-nan) (chhì-koe), 黃瓜／黄瓜 (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:
• 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 (ağurtsg)
• Karakalpak: qıyar
• Kazakh: қияр (qiär), бәдірен (bädıren)
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• 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:

  Sorani: ئاروو (arû), خەیار (xeyar)

• Kyrgyz: бадыраң (ky) (badıraŋ)
• 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 xemx), огурцы (ogurcy)
• 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: 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
• Yakut: огурсу (ogursu)
• Yiddish: אוגערקע f (ugerke)
• ǃXóõ: ʘna̰e

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Translations to be checked

• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} kurk
• Kyrgyz: ^{(please verify)} бадыраң (ky) (badıraŋ)
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• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} agurkas m
• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} ħjara f

See also

• courgette
• gherkin
• marrow

• pickle
• squash
• zucchini