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Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English pinappel (“pinecone”, literally “pine-apple/pine-fruit”), equivalent to pine + apple. Later applied to the fruit of the pineapple plant due to its resemblance to a pinecone. Compare the post-Classical Latin pomum pini, the Old French pume de pin, the Middle French and French pomme de pin, the Middle Dutch and Dutch pijnappel, the Middle Low German pinappel, the Old High German pīnapful, the Middle High German pīnaphel, and the early Modern German pinapfel — all in the sense of “pine cone”.
pineapple (plural pineapples)
- A tropical plant, Ananas comosus, native to South America, having thirty or more long, spined and pointed leaves surrounding a thick stem.
- The ovoid fruit of the pineapple plant, which has very sweet white or yellow flesh, a tough, spiky shell and a tough, fibrous core.
- (uncountable) The flesh of a pineapple fruit used as a food item.
- (slang) An Australian fifty dollar note.
- A web burrfish (Chilomycterus antillarum, syn. Chilomycterus geometricus)
- A light yellow colour, like that of pineapple flesh (also called pineapple yellow).
pineapple colour:
- (obsolete) A pinecone.
- A decorative carving of a pineapple fruit used as a symbol of hospitality.
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plant
- Arabic: أَنَانَاس (ar) m (ʾanānās)
- Armenian: անանաս (hy) (ananas), արքայախնձոր (hy) (arkʿayaxnjor)
- Asturian: piña f
- Belarusian: анана́с m (ananás)
- Bulgarian: анана́с (bg) m (ananás)
- Burmese: နာနတ် (my) (nanat)
- Catalan: ananàs m
- Central Melanau: piseng
- Chamicuro: mawuli
- Chechen: ананас (ananas)
- Cherokee: ᏃᏥᎢyᎤᏍᏗᏒᎦᏔ (notsiiyusdisvgata)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 菠蘿, 菠萝 (bo1 lo4), 鳳梨, 凤梨 (fung6 lei4-2) (from Taiwan)
- Hakka: 黃梨, 黄梨 (vòng-lì)
- Mandarin: 菠蘿 (zh), 菠萝 (zh) (bōluó) (mainland China), 鳳梨 (zh), 凤梨 (zh) (fènglí) (Taiwan), 黃梨 (zh), 黄梨 (zh) (huánglí) (Singapore, Malaysia)
- Min Nan: 王梨 (zh-min-nan) (ông-lâi)
- Czech: ananasovník (cs) m
- Danish: ananas (da) c
- Dutch: ananas (nl) m
- Esperanto: ananaso, ananasujo
- Estonian: ananass (et)
- Ewe: abable, atɔtɔ
- Faroese: ananas n
- Finnish: ananas (fi), ananaskasvi (fi)
- French: ananas (fr) m
- Galician: piñeiro (gl) m, ananás (gl) m
- Georgian: ანანასი (ananasi)
- German: Ananas (de) f
- Greek: ανανάς (el) m (ananás)
- Greenlandic: ananassi
- Hawaiian: hala kahiki
- Hebrew: אָנָנָס (he) m (ananás)
- Hindi: अनानास m (anānās), अनन्नास (hi) m (anannās)
- Hungarian: ananász (hu)
- Icelandic: ananas (is) m
- Indonesian: nanas (id)
- Italian: ananas (it) m, ananasso m
- Japanese: パイナップル (ja) (painappuru)
- Javanese: ꦏꦤꦱ꧀ (kanas)
- Kannada: ಅನಾನಸ್ (kn) (anānas)
- Kaqchikel: ch’op
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fruit
- Afrikaans: pynappel (af)
- Albanian: ananas (sq) m
- Amharic: አናናስ (ʾänanas)
- Arabic: أَنَانَاس (ar) m (ʾanānās)
- Armenian: անանաս (hy) (ananas), արքայախնձոր (hy) (arkʿayaxnjor)
- Asturian: piña f
- Aymara: achupaya, achupalla
- Azerbaijani: ananas (az)
- Banjarese: kanas
- Banyumasan: ꦤꦤꦱ꧀ (nanas)
- Basque: anana
- Belarusian: анана́с m (ananás)
- Bengali: আনারস (bn) (anarôs)
- Brunei Malay: nanas
- Bulgarian: анана́с (bg) m (ananás)
- Burmese: နာနတ် (my) (nanat)
- Catalan: pinya (ca) f
- Cebuano: pinya
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵏⴰⵏⴰⵚ (ananaṣ)
- Central Dusun: tintingabai
- Chamicuro: mawuli
- Chechen: ананас (ananas)
- Cheyenne: šéstotó'emeno
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 菠蘿, 菠萝 (bo1 lo4), 鳳梨, 凤梨 (fung6 lei4-2) (from Taiwan)
- Dungan: фынли (fɨnli), бәлуә (bəluə)
- Hakka: 黄梨, 黃梨 (vòng-lì)
- Mandarin: 菠蘿 (zh), 菠萝 (zh) (bōluó) (mainland China), 鳳梨 (zh), 凤梨 (zh) (fènglí) (Taiwan), 黃梨 (zh), 黄梨 (zh) (huánglí) (Singapore, Malaysia)
- Min Bei: 菠蘿蜜, 菠萝蜜 (bó̤-lô̤-mĭ)
- Min Dong: 王梨 (uòng-lì), 黃梨 (uòng-lì)
- Min Nan: 王梨 (zh-min-nan) (ông-lâi)
- Wu: 菠蘿蜜, 菠萝蜜 (pu lu miq)
- Classical Nahuatl: matzahtli, matzatli
- Cornish: pinaval m
- Czech: ananas (cs) m
- Danish: ananas (da)
- Dhivehi: އަލަނާސި (alanāsi)
- Dutch: ananas (nl) m
- Erzya: пичеумарь (pičeumarʹ)
- Ese: hainihoa
- Esperanto: ananaso
- Estonian: ananass (et)
- Ewe: abable, atɔtɔ
- Faroese: ananas n
- Fiji Hindi: painap (hif)
- Finnish: ananas (fi)
- French: ananas (fr) m
- Galician: piña (gl) f, ananás (gl) m
- Georgian: ანანასი (ananasi)
- German: Ananas (de) f
- Greek: ανανάς (el) m (ananás)
- Greenlandic: ananassi
- Gujarati: અનનાસ (ananās), અનાનસ (anānas)
- Haitian Creole: zannanna
- Hausa: abarba f
- Hawaiian: hala kahiki, hala kea
- Hebrew: אָנָנָס (he) m (ananás)
- Hindi: अनानास m (anānās), अनन्नास (hi) m (anannās)
- Hungarian: ananász (hu)
- Icelandic: ananas (is) m, (rare) granaldin n
- Ido: ananaso (io)
- Indonesian: nanas (id), nenas (id), ananas (id)
- Irish: anann m
- Italian: ananas (it) m
- Japanese: パイナップル (ja) (painappuru), 鳳梨 (ja) (ほうり, hōri)
- Javanese: ꦏꦤꦱ꧀ (kanas)
- Kannada: ಅನಾನಸ್ (kn) (anānas)
- Kaqchikel: ch’op
- Kazakh: ананас (ananas)
- Khmer: ម្នាស់ (km) (mnŏəh)
- Kongo: nanasi
- Korean: 파인애플 (ko) (painaepeul)
- Kyrgyz: ананас (ky) (ananas)
- Lao: ຫມາກນັດ (māk nat)
- Latvian: ananass (lv) m
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- Lingala: ananási
- Lithuanian: ananasas (lt) m
- Luxembourgish: Ananas m
- Lü: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: ананас m (ananas)
- Malagasy: mananasy (mg)
- Malay: nanas
- Malayalam: കൈതച്ചക്ക (ml) (kaitaccakka)
- Manx: annane
- Maranao: nanas (nɔm ənat)
- Marathi: अननस m (annas)
- Mongolian: хан боргоцой (han borgotsoj)
- Nahuatl: matzahtli (nah)
- Navajo: bilasáana diwozhí, hosh łikaní
- Neapolitan: ananassas
- Nepali: भुइँ कटहर (bhuĩ kaṭahara)
- Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ananas (no) m
- Nynorsk: ananas m
- Occitan: ananàs (oc) m
- Ojibwe: zhingwaako-mishiimin
- Pali: kharattaca m, madhuketakī f, bahunettaphala n
- Persian: آناناس (fa) (ânânâs)
- Polish: ananas (pl) m
- Portuguese: ananás (pt) m (Portugal), abacaxi (pt) m (Brazil)
- Quechua: chirimaway
- Romanian: ananas (ro) m
- Romansch: ananas f
- Russian: анана́с (ru) m (ananás)
- Rusyn: анана́с m (ananás)
- Samoan: pineapu
- Sanskrit: अनास (sa) m or n (anāsa)
- Scottish Gaelic: ubhal-ghiuthais m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: а̏нанас m
- Roman: ȁnanas (sh) m
- Shan: please add this translation if you can
- Sindhi: अनानास (anānās), अनास (anās)
- Sinhalese: අන්නාසි (si) (annāsi)
- Slovak: ananás (sk) m
- Slovene: ananas (sl) m
- Southern Thai: ยานัด
- Spanish: piña (es) f, ananás (es) m
- Sundanese: ᮌᮔᮞ᮪ (ganas), ᮓᮔᮞ᮪ (danas)
- Swahili: nanasi (sw)
- Swedish: ananas (sv)
- Tagalog: pinya
- Tahitian: painapo
- Tajik: ананас (tg) (ananas)
- Tamil: அன்னாசி (ta) (aṉṉāci)
- Telugu: పైనాపిల్ (paināpil)
- Tetum: ai-nanás, ananás
- Thai: สับปะรด (th) (sàp-bpà-rót)
- Tibetan: ཐང་འབྲས (thang 'bras)
- Tigrinya: ኣናናስ (ʾananas)
- Tok Pisin: painap, ananas
- Tongan: fainā
- Tsonga: xihenge
- Tumbuka: chinanazi
- Turkish: ananas (tr)
- Turkmen: ananas (tk)
- Ukrainian: анана́с (uk) m (ananás)
- Urdu: اناناس (anānās)
- Uyghur: ئاناناس (ananas)
- Uzbek: ananas (uz)
- Vietnamese: (trái) dứa (vi), (quả) thơm (vi), khóm (vi), huyền nương
- Waray-Waray: pinya
- Welsh: pinafal (cy) m
- West Frisian: ananas
- Wolof: sanaanaa
- Yami: pinapo
- Yiddish: אַנאַנאַס (ananas)
- Zhuang: bohloz
- Zulu: uphayinaphu (zu) class 1a/2a
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Etymology 2[edit]
A pineapple-style hand grenade
From the shape of a pineapple (the fruit)
pineapple (plural pineapples)
- (slang) A hand grenade.
- A hairstyle consisting of a ponytail worn on top of the head, imitating the leaves of a pineapple.
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