pineapple

§English

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A split pineapple.

§Etymology

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”.

§Pronunciation

• enPR: pīʹnăpəl, IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪnæpəl/

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§Noun

pineapple (plural pineapples)

1. A tropical plant, Ananas comosus, native to South America, having thirty or more long, spined and pointed leaves surrounding a thick stem.
2. The ovoid fruit of the pineapple plant, which has very sweet white or yellow flesh, a tough, spiky shell and a tough, fibrous core.
3. (slang) A hand grenade.
4. (slang) An Australian fifty dollar note.
5. A hairstyle consisting of a ponytail worn on top of the head, imitating the leaves of a pineapple.

§Synonyms

• (plant): ananas, pineapple plant
• (fruit): ananas
• (hand grenade): grenade, hand grenade

§Derived terms

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Pineapple Island pineapple jelly pineapple juice pineapple kernel pineapple mint pineapple nut pineapple plant pineapple potato Pineapple Primary pineapple rum

pineapple sage pineapple seed pineapple shawl pineapple strawberry pineapple test pineapple tree pineapple verbena pineapple weed pineapple wine twisted pineapple

§Related terms

• apple
• pine

§Translations

plant

• Arabic: أناناس (ar) m (’ananās)
• Armenian: անանաս (ananas), արքայախնձոր (arkʿayaxnjor)
• Asturian: piña f
• Belarusian: анана́с m (ananás)
• Bulgarian: ананас (bg) m (ananas)
• Burmese: နာနတ်ပင် (nanatpang)
• Catalan: ananàs m
• Chamicuro: mawuli
• Chechen: ананас (ananas)
• Cherokee: ᏃᏥᎢyᎤᏍᏗᏒᎦᏔ (notsiiyusdisvgata)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 菠蘿, 菠萝 (bo¹ lo⁴), 鳳梨, 凤梨 (fung⁶ lei⁴)

  Hakka: 黃梨, 黄梨 (vòng-lì)

  Mandarin: 菠蘿, 菠萝 (zh) (bōluó) (mainland China), 鳳梨, 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 m
• Danish: ananas (da) c
• Dutch: ananas (nl) m
• Estonian: ananass
• Ewe: abable, atɔtɔ
• Faroese: ananas n
• Finnish: ananas (fi)
• French: ananas (fr) m
• Galician: piñeiro (gl) m, ananás (gl) m
• Georgian: ანანასი (ananasi)
• German: Ananas (de) f
• Greek: ανανάς (el) (ananás)
• Hawaiian: hala kahiki
• Hebrew: אננס (he) (ananás)
• Hindi: अनानास (anānās)
• Hungarian: ananász (hu)
• Indonesian: nanas (id)
• Italian: ananas (it) m, ananasso m

• Japanese: パイナップル (ja) (painappuru)
• Kannada: ಅನಾನಸ್ (kn) (anānas)
• Khmer: ម្នាស់ (km) (mnoah)
• Korean: 파인애플 (ko) (painaepeul)
• Lithuanian: ananasas (lt) m
• Luhya: please add this translation if you can
• Luxembourgish: Ananas m
• Macedonian: ананас m (ananas)
• Malay: nanas
• Nahuatl: matzahtli (nah)
• Navajo: bilasáana diwozhí, hosh łikaní
• Norwegian: ananas (no) m
• Ojibwe: zhingwaako-mishiimin
• Persian: آناناس (fa) (ânânâs)
• Polish: ananas (pl) m
• Portuguese: ananás (pt) m (Portugal), abacaxi (pt) m (Brazil)
• Romanian: ananas (ro) m
• Russian: анана́с (ru) m (ananás)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̏нанас m

  Roman: ȁnanas m

• Slovak: ananás m
• Spanish: piña (es) f, ananás (es) m
• Swahili: mnanasi
• Swedish: ananas (sv) c
• Tagalog: piña (tl)
• Tamil: அன்னாசிப் பழம் (ta) (aṉṉācip paḻam)
• Telugu: అనాస పండు (anāsa paṃḍu)
• Thai: สับปะรด (sapbparoht)
• Turkish: ananas (tr)
• Ukrainian: анана́с (uk) m (ananás)
• Vietnamese: (cây) dứa (vi), (cây) thơm (vi)
• Welsh: pîn-afal (cy) m, afal pîn (cy) m

fruit

• Afrikaans: pynappel (af)
• Amharic: አናናስ (ʾänanas)
• Arabic: أناناس (ar) (’ananās)

  Egyptian Arabic: أناناس m (ʔananas)

• Armenian: անանաս (ananas), արքայախնձոր (arkʿayaxnjor)
• Asturian: piña f
• Aymara: achupaya, achupalla
• Banjarese: kanas
• Banyumasan: nanas
• Basque: anana
• Burmese: နာနတ်သီး (my) (nanatsi:)
• Catalan: pinya (ca) f
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵏⴰⵏⴰⵚ (ananaṣ)
• Chamicuro: mawuli
• Chechen: ананас (ananas)
• Cheyenne: šéstotó'emeno
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 菠蘿, 菠萝 (bo¹ lo⁴), 鳳梨, 凤梨 (fung⁶ lei⁴)

  Hakka: 黄梨, 黃梨 (vòng-lì)

  Mandarin: 菠蘿, 菠萝 (zh) (bōluó) (mainland China), 鳳梨, 凤梨 (zh) (fènglí) (Taiwan), 黃梨, 黄梨 (huánglí) (Singapore, Malaysia)

  Min Dong: 王梨 (uòng-lì), 黃梨 (uòng-lì)

  Min Nan: 王梨 (zh-min-nan) (ông-lâi)

• Classical Nahuatl: matzahtli, matzatli
• Czech: ananas (cs) m
• Danish: ananas (da)
• Dhivehi: އަލަނާސި (alanāsi)
• Dutch: ananas (nl) m
• Erzya: пичеумарь (pičeumarʹ)
• Esperanto: ananaso
• Estonian: ananass
• Ewe: abable, atɔtɔ
• Faroese: ananas n
• Fiji Hindi: painap
• Finnish: ananas (fi)
• French: ananas (fr) m
• Galician: piña (gl) f, ananás (gl) m
• Georgian: ანანასი (ananasi)
• German: Ananas (de) f
• Greek: ανανάς (el) (ananás)
• Gujarati: અનનાસ (ananās), અનાનસ (anānas)
• Haitian Creole: zannanna
• Hausa: àbàrbáá
• Hawaiian: hala kahiki, hala kea
• Hebrew: אננס (he) m (ananás)
• Hindi: अनानास (anānās), अनन्नास (hi) (anannās)
• Hungarian: ananász (hu)
• Icelandic: ananas (is) m, (rare) granaldin n
• 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 (ほうり, hōri)
• Javanese: ꦏꦤꦱ꧀ (jv) (kanas)
• Kannada: ಅನಾನಸ್ (kn) (anānas)
• Khmer: ម្នាស់ (km) (mnoah)
• Kongo: nanasi
• Korean: 파인애플 (ko) (painaepeul)
• Lingala: ananási
• Lithuanian: ananasas (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Ananas m
• Macedonian: ананас m (ananas)
• Malagasy: mananasy (mg)
• Malay: nanas
• Malayalam: കൈതച്ചക്ക (ml) (kaitaccakka)
• Maranao: nanas (nɔm ənat)
• Marathi: अननस (ananas)
• Mongolian: хан боргоцой (han borgotsoj)
• Nahuatl: matzahtli (nah)
• Navajo: bilasáana diwozhí, hosh łikaní
• Neapolitan: ananassas
• Nepali: भुइँ कटहर (bhuĩ kaṭahar)
• Norwegian: ananas (no) m
• Ojibwe: zhingwaako-mishiimin
• Persian: آناناس (fa) (ânânâs)
• Polish: ananas (pl) m
• Portuguese: ananás (pt) m (Portugal), abacaxi (pt) m (Brazil)
• Quechua: chirimaway
• Romanian: ananas (ro) m
• Russian: анана́с (ru) m (ananás)
• Samoan: pineapu
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̏нанас m

  Roman: ȁnanas m

• Sindhi: अनानास (anānās), अनास (anās)
• Sinhalese: අන්නාසි (si) (annāsi)
• Slovak: ananás m
• Slovene: ananas (sl) m
• Spanish: piña (es) f, ananás (es) m
• Sundanese: ᮌᮔᮞ᮪ (ganas), ᮓᮔᮞ᮪ (danas)
• Swahili: nanasi (sw)
• Swedish: ananas (sv)
• Tagalog: pinya
• Telugu: పైనాపిల్ (paināpil)
• Tetum: ai-nanás, ananás
• Thai: สับปะรด (sapbparoht)
• Tok Pisin: painap, ananas
• Tongan: fainā
• Tumbuka: chinanazi
• Turkish: ananas (tr)
• Urdu: اناناس (anānās)
• Vietnamese: (trái) dứa (vi), (quả) thơm (vi), khóm (vi)
• Waray-Waray: pinya
• Welsh: pinafal m
• West Frisian: ananas

slang: hand grenade

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 菠蘿手榴彈, 菠萝手榴弹 (bo¹ lo⁴ sau² lau⁴ daan⁶⁻²)

  Mandarin: 菠蘿手榴彈, 菠萝手榴弹 (bōluó shǒuliúdàn)

• Japanese: パイナップル (ja) (painappuru)
• Portuguese: abacaxi (pt) m (Brazil)

• Russian: лимо́нка (ru) f (limónka)

slang: hairstyle

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grorudpalme (no) m