pineapple

English

Etymology

A split pineapple.

A pineapple-style hand grenade

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 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”. Compare also the post-Classical Latin pomum pini, the Old French pume de pin, the Middle French and French pomme de pin and Spanish piña.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pīʹnăpəl, IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪnæpəl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪnəpəl/, /ˌpaɪnˈæpəl/

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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. (uncountable) The flesh of a pineapple fruit used as a food item.
4. (slang) An Australian fifty dollar note.
5. A web burrfish (Chilomycterus antillarum, syn. Chilomycterus geometricus)
6. A light yellow colour, like that of pineapple flesh (also called pineapple yellow).

   pineapple:  

7. (obsolete or dialectal) A pinecone; the cone of the fir.
8. A decorative carving of a pineapple fruit used as a symbol of hospitality.
9. (slang) A hand grenade. (From the similarity to the shape of a pineapple fruit.)

   Synonyms: grenade, hand grenade

10. A hairstyle consisting of a ponytail worn on top of the head, imitating the leaves of a pineapple.

Synonyms

• pine (archaic except South Africa, Caribbean, Guyana)
• (plant): ananas, pineapple plant
• (fruit): ananas

Hypernyms

• fruit

Derived terms

• crazy pineapple
• pineapple bomb
• pineapple bun
• pineapple cake
• pineapple chunks
• pineapple cloth
• Pineapple Express
• pineapple fiber, pineapple fibre
• pineapple finial
• pineapple flower (Eucomis)
• pineapple grenade
• pineapple guava (Acca sellowiana)
• Pineapple Island
• pineapple jelly
• pineapple juice
• pineapple kernel
• pineapple melon
• pineapple mint (Mentha suaveolens)
• pineapple plant
• Pineapple Primary
• pineapple rum
• pineapple sage (Salvia elegans)
• pineapple seed
• pineapple shawl
• pineapple strawberry Fragaria × ananassa)
• pineapple tart
• pineapple test
• pineapple tree
• pineapple verbena (Nashia inaguensis)
• pineapple weed (Matricaria discoidea)
• pineapple wine
• sea pineapple
• twisted pineapple

Related terms

• apple
• pine
• pine-apple

Descendants

• → Japanese: パイナップル
  • → Yami: pinapo

Translations

plant

• Afrikaans: pynappel (af) sg
• Akan: aborɔbɛ
• Arabic: أَنَانَاس‎ (ar) m (ʔanānās)
• Armenian: անանաս (hy) (ananas), արքայախնձոր (hy) (arkʿayaxnjor)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܵܢܵܢܵܣ‎ m (ananas)
• Assamese: মাটিকঁঠাল (matikõthal), আনাৰস (anarox)
• Asturian: piña (ast) f
• Belarusian: анана́с m (ananás)
• Bengali: আনারস (bn) (anaroś), আনানাস (bn) (ananaś)
• Bulgarian: анана́с (bg) m (ananás)
• Burmese: နာနတ် (my) (nanat)
• Catalan: pinya (ca) f, ananàs (ca) m
• Central Dusun: tintingabai
• Central Melanau: piseng
• Chamicuro: mawuli
• Chechen: ананас (ananas)
• Cherokee: ᏃᏥᎢyᎤᏍᏗᏒᎦᏔ (notsiiyusdisvgata)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 菠蘿／菠萝 (yue) (bo¹ lo⁴), 鳳梨／凤梨 (fung⁶ lei^4-2) (from Taiwan)

  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／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
• Farefare: aburbɛ
• 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
• Haitian Creole: annanna
• 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)
• Irish: anann m
• 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
• Kasem: aburbɛ
• Kazakh: ананас (ananas)
• Khmer: ម្នាស់ (km) (mnŏəh)
• Korean: 파인애플 (ko) (painaepeul)
• Lao: ຫມາກນັດ (māk nat)
• Latvian: ananass (lv) m, ananāss m
• Lithuanian: ananasas (lt) m
• Luhya: please add this translation if you can
• Luxembourgish: Ananas m
• Macedonian: ананас m (ananas)
• Malay: nanas (ms)
• Malayalam: കൈത (ml) (kaita)
• Marathi: अननस m (annas)
• Nahuatl: matzahtli (nah)
• Navajo: bilasáana diwozhí, hosh łikaní
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ananas (no) m

  Nynorsk: ananas 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)
• Romanian: ananas (ro) m
• Russian: анана́с (ru) m (ananás)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̏нанас m

  Roman: ȁnanas (sh) m

• Sicilian: ananassu (scn) m, ananàs (scn) m
• Slovak: ananás (sk) m
• Spanish: piña (es) f, ananás (es) m
• Swahili: mnanasi
• Swedish: ananas (sv) c
• Tagalog: pinya
• Tamil: அன்னாசிப் பழம் (ta) (aṉṉācip paḻam)
• Telugu: అనాస పండు (anāsa paṇḍu)
• Thai: สับปะรด (th) (sàp-bpà-rót)
• Tibetan: ཐང་འབྲས (thang 'bras)
• Turkish: ananas (tr)
• Ukrainian: анана́с (uk) m (ananás)
• Urdu: اناناس‎ m (anānās), انناس‎ (anannās)
• Vietnamese: (cây) dứa (vi), (cây) thơm (vi)
• Welsh: pîn-afal (cy) m, afal pîn (cy) m
• West Frisian: ananas c
• Yiddish: אַנאַנאַס‎ m (ananas)
• Zazaki: ananas (diq) f

fruit

• Acehnese: boh aneuh, haneuh
• Afrikaans: pynappel (af)
• Akan: aborɔbɛ
• Albanian: ananas (sq) m
• Amharic: አናናስ (ʾänanas)
• Arabic: أَنَانَاس‎ (ar) m (ʔanānās)
• Armenian: անանաս (hy) (ananas), արքայախնձոր (hy) (arkʿayaxnjor)
• Assamese: মাটিকঁঠাল (matikõthal), আনাৰস (anarox)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܵܢܵܢܵܣ‎ m (ananas)
• Asturian: piña (ast) f
• Aymara: achupaya, achupalla
• Azerbaijani: ananas (az)
• Banjarese: kanas
• Banyumasan: ꦤꦤꦱ꧀ (nanas)
• Basque: anana
• Belarusian: анана́с m (ananás)
• Bengali: আনারস (bn) (anaroś)
• 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 (yue) (bo¹ lo⁴), 鳳梨／凤梨 (fung⁶ lei^4-2) (from Taiwan)

  Dungan: фынли (fɨnli), бәлуә (bəluə)

  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／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／黄梨 (uòng-lì)

  Min Nan: 王梨 (zh-min-nan) (ông-lâi)

  Wu: 菠蘿蜜／菠萝蜜 (¹pu-lu-miq)

• Classical Nahuatl: matzahtli, matzatli
• Cornish: pinaval m
• Corsican: ananas
• Czech: ananas (cs) m
• Danish: ananas (da)
• Dhivehi: އަލަނާސި‎ (alanāsi)
• Dutch: ananas (nl) m
• Dzongkha: རྒྱ་ནག་ཀོང་ཙེ (rgya nag kong tse)
• Erzya: пичеумарь (pičeumaŕ)
• Ese: hainihoa
• Esperanto: ananaso
• Estonian: ananass (et)
• Ewe: abable, atɔtɔ
• Farefare: aburbɛ
• 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) (rare)
• Javanese: ꦏꦤꦱ꧀ (kanas)
• Kannada: ಅನಾನಸ್ (kn) (anānas)
• Kaqchikel: ch’op
• Kasem: aburbɛ
• 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
• 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 (ms)
• Malayalam: കൈതച്ചക്ക (ml) (kaitaccakka)
• Manx: annane
• Maori: paināporo
• Maranao: nanas (nɔm ənat)
• Marathi: अननस m (annas)
• Mbyá Guaraní: karaguata'i
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хан боргоцой (xan borgocoj), ананас (mn) (ananas)

  Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠩ
  ᠪᠣᠷᠭᠤᠴᠠᠢ (qaŋ borɣučai̯)

• Moore: anana
• Nahuatl: matzahtli (nah)
• Navajo: bilasáana diwozhí, hosh łikaní
• Neapolitan: ananassas
• Nepali: भुइँ कटहर (bhuĩ kaṭahar)
• 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)
• Sylheti: ꠀꠘꠣꠘꠣꠍ (ananasó), ꠀꠘꠣꠞꠡ (anarośo)
• Tagalog: pinya
• Tahitian: painapo
• Tajik: ананас (tg) (ananas)
• Tamil: அன்னாசி (ta) (aṉṉāci)
• Tatar: ананас (ananas)
• 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)
• Udmurt: ананас (ananas)
• 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)
• Zazaki: ananas (diq) f
• Zhuang: bohloz
• Zulu: uphayinaphu (zu) class 1a/2a

slang: hand grenade

• Bulgarian: ръчна граната f (rǎčna granata)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 菠蘿手榴彈／菠萝手榴弹 (bo¹ lo⁴ sau² lau⁴ daan^6-2)

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

• German: Handgranate (de) f
• 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

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