persimmon

English

Alternative forms

putchamin [17th–18th c.]

Etymology

From Powhatan pichamins, pushemins, pasimenan (“dried fruit”), from the same Proto-Algonquian root *-imin (“fruit, berry”) as Unami ximin. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /pɜːˈsɪmən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /pəɹˈsɪmən/
(General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜːsəmən/
Hyphenation: per‧sim‧mon
Rhymes: -ɪmən

Noun

persimmon (plural persimmons)

The orange fruit of any of various species of trees in the genus Diospyros, especially Diospyros kaki (the kaki or Japanese persimmon) or Diospyros virginiana (the wild American persimmon), which is sweet when ripe and astringent when immature.
Synonyms: date plum (especially Diospyros lotus), kaki (especially Diospyros kaki), Sharon fruit (Israeli Diospyros kaki), possum apple (Diospyros virginiana), simmon (US colloquial)
- 1998, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 94:
  I warned them not to eat the persimmons until they were soft to the touch.
The tree this fruit grows on, generally one of two species of ebony: Diospyros kaki (Asian) or Diospyros virginiana (North American).

Derived terms

Translations

fruit

Albanian: hurmë (sq) f
Arabic: كَاكَا f (kākā), كَاكِي f (kākī), بِرْسِيمُون m (birsimūn)
Armenian: խուրմա (hy) (xurma), (Japanese persimmon) արքայանարինջ (hy) (arkʻayanarinǰ)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܘܼܪܡܵܠܵܐ m (ḥurmālā)
Azerbaijani: xurma (az), xırnik (az)
Banjarese: tasmak
Basque: kaki
Belarusian: хурма́ f (xurmá)
Bulgarian: фурма́ f (furmá), япо́нска я́бълка f (japónska jábǎlka)
Burmese: တည် (my) (tany)
Catalan: caqui (ca) m
Cherokee: ᏌᎵ (sali)
Chickasaw: onkof
Chinese:
Cantonese: 腍柿 (nam⁴ ci²)

Eastern Min: 柿 (kei)

Hokkien: 柿仔 (khī-á)

Mandarin: 柿子 (zh) (shìzi)
Czech: kaki n, tomel m
Danish: kaki
Dutch: kaki (nl) c
Esperanto: persimono
Estonian: hurmaa
Finnish: kaki (fi), persimoni (fi), sharon (fi), taateliluumu
Fox: pyâkimini
French: kaki (fr) m
Georgian: ხურმა (xurma), კარალიოკი (ḳaralioḳi)
German: Persimone f, Kaki (de) m or f, Lotuspflaume f
Greek: λωτός (el) m (lotós)
Hebrew: אֲפַרְסְמוֹן (he) m (afarsemón)
Hindi: ख़ुरमा (xurmā)
Hungarian: datolyaszilva (hu)
Hunsrik: Kacki m
Ido: hurmo
Indonesian: kesemek (id)
Irish: dátphluma m
Italian: cachi (it) m, diospiro (it) m, caco (it) m
Japanese: 柿 (ja) (kaki), パーシモン (pāshimon)
Kavalan: amus
Kazakh: құрма (qūrma), хурма (xurma)
Korean: 감 (ko) (gam), 퍼시몬 (peosimon)
Kyrgyz: курма (ky) (kurma)
Ladino: afarsemón m, hurmá f
Lao: ໝາກກາກີ (lo) (māk kā kī)
Latvian: hurma f
Lithuanian: persimonas m
Macedonian: ра́јско ја́болко n (rájsko jábolko), ја́понско ја́болко n (jáponsko jábolko)
Malagasy: hazoarina, hazoary
Malay: kesmak, buah samak, pisang kaki (ms)
Maori: āporo makimaki
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: илжгэн чих (ilžgen čix) (Mongolia), модон шавтал (modon šavtal), шавтал (mn) (šavtal), хурма (mn) (xurma) (Mongolia)
Nepali: हलुवाबेद (haluwābed)
Norwegian: kaki, kakiplomme (no), kakifrukt, persimon
Occitan: caqui (oc) m
Pashto: املوک (ps) (amlúk)
Persian: خرمالو (fa) (xormâlu)
Polish: kaki (pl) n, persymona (pl) f, szaron m, hurma (pl) f
Portuguese: caqui (pt) m, dióspiro m
Punjabi: ਪਰਸਿੰਮਨ (parsimman)
Romanian: kaki (ro) m
Russian: хурма́ (ru) f (xurmá)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: персимон m, каки m, хурма f

Roman: persimon m, kaki (sh) m, hurma (sh) f
Sicilian: lotu m, cacu m
Slovak: kaki (sk) n, hurma f, churma f, hurmikaki n
Slovene: kaki (sl) m
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: kaki (hsb) f
Southern Altai: хурма (hurma)
Spanish: caqui (es) m, kaki (es) m, persimón m, persimonio m, pérsimo m, placaminero m
Swedish: persimon (sv) c, kaki (sv) c, sharonfrukt c
Tajik: хурмо (tg) (xurmo)
Tatar: хөрмә (tt) (xörmä)
Thai: พลับ (th) (pláp)
Tigrinya: ፐርሲሞን (pärsimon), ካኪ (kaki)
Turkish: Trabzon hurması (tr), Japon hurması (tr), hurma (tr)
Ukrainian: хурма́ f (xurmá), персимо́на f (persymóna)
Unami: ximin
Urdu: جاپانی پھل m (jāpānī phal), خرما (xurmā)
Uyghur: شىزا (shiza), ئەبنۇس (ebnus), хорма (xorma) (Kazakhstan)
Uzbek: xurmo (uz), persimon
Vietnamese: quả hồng vàng, hồng (vi)
Volapük: plakminepafluk

tree

Basque: kakiondo
Catalan: caquier, persimó, banús (ca)
Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎷᎢ (tsalalui), ᏣᎵ (tsali)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 柿樹 / 柿树 (shì shù)
Czech: tomel m
Esperanto: persimono, diospiro
Estonian: hurmaa, kakiploom, kaki (et)
Finnish: kaki (fi)
French: plaqueminier (fr) m
Georgian: კარალიოკი (ḳaralioḳi), ხურმა (xurma)
German: Persimonenbaum m
Greek: λωτός (el) m (lotós)
Hebrew: אֲפַרְסְמוֹן (he) m (afarsemón)
Hungarian: datolyaszilva (hu)
Hunsrik: Kackibaam m
Icelandic: döðluplóma, persimónía
Irish: crann dátphlumaí m
Italian: cachi (it) m
Ivatan: vatinglaw
Japanese: 柿の木 (kakinoki)
Khmer: ទន្លាប់ (km) (tŭənlŏəp)
Korean: 감나무 (gamnamu)
Macedonian: ра́јска јабо́лкница f (rájska jabólknica), ја́понска јабо́лкница f (jáponska jabólknica)
Nahuatl: tliltzapotl
Occitan: caqui (oc) m
Polish: hebanowiec m, hurma (pl) f, kaki (pl) n, persymona (pl) f, szaron m
Portuguese: caquizeiro m, diospireiro m
Russian: хурма́ (ru) f (xurmá)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: персимон m, каки m

Roman: persimon m, kaki (sh) m
Sicilian: macchia dû lotu m, macchia dû cacu m
Slovak: kaki (sk) n, ebenovník rajčiakový (sk) m
Spanish: caqui (es) m, palosanto m
Swedish: persimonträd n, kakiträd n
Tagalog: kamagong (tl), mabolo (tl)
Thai: พลับ (th) (pláp)
Turkish: Trabzon hurması (tr), Japon hurması (tr)
Unami: ximinunshi (North American)
Vietnamese: hồng (vi)
Volapük: plakminep