peanut

See also: pea-nut

English

peanuts

Etymology

From pea +‎ nut.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pē'nŭt", IPA^(key): /ˈpiːˌnʌt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈpinət/, /ˈpiˌnʌt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʌt

Noun

peanut (plural peanuts)

1. A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea.

Hypernyms

• earthnut, groundnut

Synonyms

• goober (Southern US slang), goober pea (dated Southern US), monkey nut (UK)

Derived terms

• if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
• packing peanut
• peanut butter
• peanut butter and jelly

• peanutlike
• peanutty

Translations

a legume resembling a nut

• Afrikaans: grondboontjie
• Albanian: kikirik (sq) m
• Amharic: ኦቾሎኒ (ʾočoloni)
• Amuzgo:

  Guerrero: ta̱ti

  San Pedro Amuzgos: tëtyi

• Arabic: فُول سُودَانِيّ m (fūl sūdāniyy)

  Egyptian Arabic: فول سوداني m pl (fūl sūdānī), سوداني m pl (sūdānī)

  Moroccan Arabic: كوكاو (kawkāw)

• Armenian: գետնանուշ (hy) (getnanuš)
• Asturian: cacagüés m, cacagüesa f
• Aymara: chuqupa
• Basque: kakahuete
• Belarusian: ара́хіс m (aráxis)
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Brunei Malay: kacang tanah
• Bulgarian: фъстък (bg) m (fǎstǎk)
• Burmese: မြေပဲ (my) (mrepai:)
• Catalan: cacauet (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 花生 (faa¹ sang¹), 落花生 (lok⁶ faa¹ sang¹)

  Hakka: 番豆 (fân-theu)

  Mandarin: 花生 (zh) (huāshēng), 落花生 (zh) (luòhuāshēng), 長生果／长生果 (zh) (chángshēngguǒ), 土豆 (zh) (tǔdòu) (Taiwan)

  Min Nan: 塗豆／涂豆 (zh-min-nan) (thô͘-tāu)

• Cornish: knowen dhor f
• Czech: arašíd (cs) m, burský oříšek m
• Danish: jordnød c, peanut (da) c
• Dutch: aardnoot (nl) f, pinda (nl) m, apennoot (nl) f, arachidenoot f, grondnoot (nl) f, olienoot (nl) f
• Erzya: модапеште (modapešťe)
• Esperanto: arakido
• Estonian: maapähkel (et), arahhis, arahhispähkel, hiina pähkel
• Faroese: jarðnøt f
• Finnish: maapähkinä (fi)
• French: arachide (fr) f, cacahuète (fr) m; pinotte (fr) f (Quebec, informal)
• Galician: cacahuete m
• Georgian: არაქისი (arakisi), მიწის თხილი (mic̣is txili)
• German: Erdnuss (de) f
• Greek: φυστίκι n (fystíki)
• Greenlandic: jordnøddi
• Guaraní: manduvi (gn)
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hawaiian: pineki
• Hebrew: בוֹטֵן m (boten), אגוז אדמה (he) (egoz adama)
• Hindi: मूँगफली (hi) f (mūṅgaphlī), चिनियाबदाम (hi) m (ciniyābdām)
• Hungarian: földimogyoró (hu), amerikaimogyoró (hu)
• Icelandic: jarðhneta (is) f
• Ido: arakido (io)
• Indonesian: kacang tanah (id)
• Irish: pis talún
• Isan: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: arachide (it) f
• Japanese: ピーナツ (pīnatsu), 落花生 (ja) (らっかせい, rakkasei)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Khmer: សណ្ដែកដី (sɑndaek dəy)
• Kongo: nguba, mpinda
• Korean: 땅콩 (ko) (ttangkong)
• Lao: ຖົ່ວດິນ (thūa din)
• Latin: arachis m
• Latvian: zemesrieksts m
• Lithuanian: valgomasis arachis
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• Low German: Eerdnööt f, Ültje m
• Luhya: chimaito
• Luxembourgish: Kakuett, Afennoss f
• Lü: ᦷᦏᧈᦡᦲᧃ (ṫho¹ḋiin)
• Macedonian: кикири́тка f (kikirítka), кикири́ка f (kikiríka)
• Malay: kacang tanah
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Maltese: karawett m
• Manx: cro thallooin m
• Maori: pīnati
• Marathi: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: хуасан (mn) (xuasan)
• Nahuatl: cacáhuatl, tlalcacahuatl (nah)
• Navajo: neeshchʼííłbáhí
• Ngazidja Comorian: ndjugu class 9/10
• Northern Sami: please add this translation if you can
• Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: peanøtt f, jordnøtt f
• Oriya: please add this translation if you can
• Papiamentu: pinda
• Persian: بادام کوهی (bâdâm kuhi), بادام زمینی (bâdâm zamini)
• Polish: orzech ziemny (pl), orzech arachidowy m, fistaszek m
• Portuguese: amendoim (pt) m; ginguba (Angola)
• Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
• Quechua: inchik
• Romanian: arahidă (ro), alună de pământ (ro) f, alună americană (ro) f
• Romansch: spagnoletta f
• Russian: ара́хис (ru) m (aráxis), земляно́й оре́х (ru) m (zemljanój oréx), кита́йский оре́х m (kitájskij oréx)
• Scottish Gaelic: cnò-thalmhainn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: kikirìki (sh) m

• Slovak: arašid (sk) m
• Slovene: arašíd (sl) m, kikirikí (sl), kikirikí (sl) m
• Sotho: letokomane
• Southern Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: maní (es) m (Latin America), cacahuate (es) (Mexico), cacahuete (es) m (Spain)
• Swahili: njugu (sw), karanga (soft), njugunyasa (soft), njugumawe (hard)
• Swedish: jordnöt (sv) c
• Tagalog: mani
• Tamil: நிலக்கடலை (ta) (nilakkaṭalai)
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: ถั่วลิสง, ลิสง (lí-sǒng)
• Tibetan: སྦ་ཏམ (sba tam)
• Tongan: pīnati
• Turkish: yer fıstığı (tr)
• Uab Meto: fukasê
• Ukrainian: ара́хіс (uk) m (aráxis)
• Upper Sorbian: zemski worjech
• Urdu: مونگفلی f (mungfali)
• Vietnamese: đậu phộng, đậu phụng, lạc (vi)
• Volapük: raagid (vo)
• Welsh: cneuen ddaear (cy)
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Wolof: gerte (wo), areen
• Yiddish: פֿיסטאַשקע f (fistashke), סטאַשקע f (stashke), רבי־ניסל n (rebe-nisl)
• Zhuang: duhdoem, duhnamh

Verb

1. (transitive) To pull on somebody's tie as a prank, causing the knot to tighten.

Further reading

• Arachis hypogaea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• peanut at USDA Plants database
• peanut at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

Anagrams

• ante up, ante-up

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Danish

Etymology

From English peanut.

Noun

peanut c (singular definite peanutten, plural indefinite peanuts)

1. peanut

Inflection

Declension of peanut

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	peanut	peanutten	peanuts	peanuttene
genitive	peanuts	peanuttens	peanuts'	peanuttenes

Synonyms

• jordnød

Further reading

• “peanut” in Den Danske Ordbog