kiwi

See also: Kiwi

English

A brown kiwi (Apteryx australis).

Kiwi fruit.

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori kiwi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiːwi/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -iːwi

Noun

kiwi (plural kiwi or 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. (informal) A New Zealand dollar.
4. A kiwi fruit.
5. A green-yellow colour, like that of kiwi flesh (also called kiwi green).

   kiwi:  

6. (military, slang) A member of the air force who does not fly.
   • 1953, Air Force: Official Service Journal of the U.S. Army Air Forces

     And as its role grew in importance, ground commanders, or kiwis as they were called, made many mistakes in judgment […]

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

• Afrikaans: kiwi
• Arabic: كِيوِي‎ m (kiwī)

  Egyptian Arabic: كيوي‎ m (kiwi)

  Moroccan Arabic: كيوي‎ (kiwi)

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܝܼܘܝܼ‎ m (kīwī)
• Azerbaijani: kivi (az)
• Basque: kiwi (eu)
• Bulgarian: киви (kivi)
• Catalan: kiwi (ca) 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) (jīwéiniǎo), 奇異鳥, 奇异鸟 (qíyìniǎo), 奇威鳥, 奇威鸟 (qíwēiniǎo)

• 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)
• Hindi: कीवी m (kīvī)
• Hungarian: kivifélék
• Irish: cíobhaí m

• Italian: kiwi (it) m
• Japanese: キーウィ (ja) (kīwi)
• Kazakh: киви (kïvï)
• Korean: 키위 (ko) (kiwi)
• Kriol: kiwi
• Lithuanian: kivis
• Lombard: perodegh (western Lombard)
• Macedonian: киви n (kivi)
• Maltese: kiwi
• Maori: kiwi
• Navajo: łeesdísí
• Norwegian: kivi

  Nynorsk: kivi

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

kiwi fruit — see kiwi fruit

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Wiki, wiki

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Etymology

From English kiwi, from Maori kiwi.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ki‧wi

Noun

kiwi

1. a kiwi fruit
2. a kiwi; a flightless bird of the genus Apteryx

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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

Etymology

Borrowed from English kiwi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈki.ʋi/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ki‧wi

Noun

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

1. kiwi (bird of the genus Apteryx)
2. kiwi fruit, kiwi

Anagrams

• wiki

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French

Des kiwis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ki.wi/

• Audio (Montreal, Canada)

  (file)

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

kiwi m (plural kiwis)

1. kiwi; kiwi fruit

Further reading

• “kiwi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• wiki

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Galician

Noun

kiwi m (plural kiwis)

1. kiwi fruit

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈki.wi/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iwi
• Hyphenation: kì‧wi

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

From Proto-Polynesian *kiu, from Proto-Oceanic *kiuk, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kiuk (“cheep, peep”).

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

Etymology

Borrowed from English kiwi, from Maori kiwi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈki.vi/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ivi
• Syllabification: ki‧wi

Noun

kiwi m anim (indeclinable)

1. kiwi (bird)

Noun

kiwi n (indeclinable)

1. kiwi fruit

Further reading

• kiwi in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kiwi in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Noun

kiwi m (plural kiwis)

1. Alternative form of quivi

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Romanian

Etymology

From French kiwi

Noun

kiwi f (plural kiwi)

1. kiwi

Declension

Declension of kiwi

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) kiwi	kiwiul	(niște) kiwi	kiwile
genitive/dative	(unei) kiwi	kiwii	(unor) kiwi	kiwilor
vocative	—		—

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Spanish

Etymology

From English kiwi, from Maori kiwi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiwi/, [ˈki.wi]

Noun

kiwi m (plural kiwis)

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

Further reading

• “kiwi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014