kiwi

See also: Kiwi

English

A brown kiwi (Apteryx australis).

Kiwi fruit.

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori kiwi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiːwi/

Noun

kiwi (plural kiwis)

1. A flightless bird of the genus Apteryx native to New Zealand.
2. Alternative letter-case form of Kiwi (person from New Zealand).
3. A New Zealand dollar.
4. A kiwi fruit.

Usage notes

• When used to describe people, Kiwi is usually capitalised.
• The plural is usually kiwis; sometimes, kiwi is found as an (invariant) plural form.

Synonyms

• (flightless bird): apteryx
• (kiwi fruit): Chinese gooseberry (dated), kiwi fruit

Related terms

• Kiwi

Translations

bird

• Arabic: كِيوِي‎‎ m (kiwī)

  Egyptian Arabic: كيوي‎‎ m (kiwi)

• Azerbaijani: kivi (az)
• Basque: kiwi (eu)
• Bulgarian: киви (kivi)
• Catalan: kiwi m
• Cherokee: ᎩᏫ-ᏥᏍᏆ (giwi-tsisqua)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無翼鳥 (zh), 无翼鸟 (zh) (wúyìniǎo), 鷸鴕, 鹬鸵 (yùtuó), 幾維鳥 (zh), 几维鸟 (zh) (jī wéi niǎo)

• Czech: kivi (cs) n
• Danish: kiwi
• Dutch: kiwi (nl) m
• Esperanto: apterigedo
• Finnish: kiivi (fi)
• French: kiwi (fr) m
• Georgian: კივი (ḳivi), კივისნაირნი (ḳivisnairni)
• German: Kiwi (de) m
• Greek: απτέρυξ (el) m (aptéryx)
• Hungarian: kivifélék
• Irish: cíobhaí m

• Italian: kiwi (it) m
• Japanese: キーウィ (ja) (kiiwi)
• Korean: 키위 (ko) (kiwi)
• Lithuanian: kivis
• Macedonian: киви n (kívi)
• Maori: kiwi
• Navajo: łeesdísí
• Norwegian: kivi

  Nynorsk: kivi

• Polish: kiwi (pl)
• Portuguese: quivi (pt) m, kiwi (pt) m
• Quechua: kiwi p'isqu
• Romanian: kiwi (ro) m
• Russian: ки́ви (ru) f (kívi)
• Slovak: kivi (sk) m
• Spanish: kiwi (es) m
• Swedish: kivi (sv) c
• Turkish: kivi (tr)
• Uyghur: كىۋى‎‎ (kiwi)
• Welsh: ciwi m, ciwïod m pl

kiwi fruit — see kiwi fruit

Further reading

• kiwi (bird) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• kiwifruit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Wiki, wiki

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɪvɪ/

Noun

kiwi n

1. kiwi, kiwi fruit

Indeclinable.

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Danish

Etymology

From Maori kiwi. The fruit is named after the bird.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kiːvi/, [ˈkʰiːvi]

Noun

kiwi c (singular definite kiwien, plural indefinite kiwier)

1. kiwi (bird)
2. kiwi, kiwi fruit

Inflection

Declension of kiwi

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	kiwi	kiwien	kiwier	kiwierne
genitive	kiwis	kiwiens	kiwiers	kiwiernes

Synonyms

• (kiwi fruit): kiwifrugt

Further reading

• kiwi on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Kiwier on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Kiwi (frugt) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Anagrams

• wiki

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

kiwi m (plural kiwi's, diminutive kiwietje n)

1. kiwi (bird)
2. kiwi fruit, kiwi

Anagrams

• wiki

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French

Des kiwis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ki.wi/

• Audio (Montreal, Canada)

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Noun

kiwi m (plural kiwis)

1. kiwi; kiwi fruit

Further reading

• “kiwi” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• wiki

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Galician

Noun

kiwi m (plural kiwis)

1. kiwi fruit

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Italian

Noun

kiwi m (invariable)

1. kiwi fruit
2. kiwi

Derived terms

• kiwi australe
• kiwi bruno

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Japanese

Romanization

kiwi

1. Rōmaji transcription of キウィ

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Maori

Etymology

An onomatopoeia of the bird's call.

Noun

kiwi

1. kiwi (bird)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kiːʋi/

Noun

kiwi m (definite singular kiwien, indefinite plural kiwier, definite plural kiwiene)

1. kiwi fruit

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kiːʋi/

Noun

kiwi m (definite singular kiwien, indefinite plural kiwiar, definite plural kiwiane)

1. kiwi fruit

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʲi.vʲi/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

kiwi m anim (indeclinable)

1. kiwi (bird)

Noun

kiwi n (indeclinable)

1. kiwi (fruit)

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Portuguese

Noun

kiwi m (plural kiwis)

1. (Brazil) Alternative form of quivi

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Spanish

Etymology

From English kiwi, from Maori kiwi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiwi/

Noun

kiwi m (plural kiwis)

1. kiwi (bird)
2. kiwi (fruit)