kiwi

See also: Kiwi

English

A brown kiwi (Apteryx australis).

Kiwi fruit.

Etymology

Borrowing 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

• (kiwi fruit): Chinese gooseberry (dated), kiwi fruit

Translations

bird

• Arabic: كِيوِي m ‎(kiwī)

  Egyptian Arabic: كيوي m ‎(kiwi)

• Azeri: 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: κίουι ‎(kíoui), κίβι ‎(kívi)

• 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: tsídii biyęęzhtsohígíí
• 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)

kiwi fruit — see kiwi fruit

Related terms

• Kiwi

External links

• kiwi (bird) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• kiwi fruit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:kiwi fruit

Anagrams

• wiki

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Czech

Noun

kiwi n

1. kiwi, kiwi fruit

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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

Inflection of kiwi

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

Synonyms

• (kiwi fruit): kiwifrugt

External links

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

Anagrams

• wiki

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Dutch

Wikipedia ^nl

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

Wikipedia ^fr

Des kiwis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ki.wi/

• Audio (Montreal, Canada)

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Noun

kiwi m ‎(plural kiwis)

1. kiwi; kiwi fruit

Anagrams

• wiki

External links

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

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Galician

Noun

kiwi m ‎(plural kiwis)

1. kiwi fruit

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Noun

kiwi m ‎(invariable)

1. kiwi fruit
2. kiwi

Derived terms

• kiwi australe
• kiwi bruno

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Maori

Etymology

An onomatopœia of the birds' 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

Wikipedia ^es

Etymology

From English kiwi, from Maori kiwi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiwi/

Noun

kiwi m ‎(plural kiwis)

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