quince

See also: Quince

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English quince, coince, a variant of coins, coin (“quince”), from Old French cooing (modern coing), from Late Latin cotōneum, from Latin mālum cotōneum, a variant of mālum Cydonium (“Cydonian apple”), translating Ancient Greek μηλοκυδώνιον (mēlokudṓnion).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwɪns/

• Audio (Berkshire, England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪns

Noun

quince (plural quinces)

1. The pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, Cydonia oblonga.
2. The deciduous tree bearing such fruit, native to Asia.
3. A soft yellow colour, like that of a quince.

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Derived terms

• Japan quince
• quince curculio

Translations

fruit

• Afrikaans: kweeper
• Akkadian: 𒄑𒄒𒆳𒊏 (supurgillu)
• Albanian: ftua (sq) m
• Arabic: سَفَرْجَل‎ (safarjal)

  Moroccan Arabic: سفرجل‎ (sfarjal)

• Aramaic: ܐܣܦܪܓܠܐ‎ m (ʾespargəlā), ܣܦܪܓܠܐ‎ m (spargəlā)
• Armenian: սերկեւիլ (serkewil)
• Aromanian: gutunji f, gutunje f, gãtunji f
• Azerbaijani: heyva (az)
• Basque: irasagar
• Belarusian: айва́ f (ajvá)
• Bulgarian: дю́ля (bg) f (djúlja)
• Catalan: codony (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 榲桲 (zh), 榅桲 (zh) (wēnpo, yùnbó)

• Czech: kdoule (cs) f
• Danish: kvæde
• Dutch: kweepeer (nl)
• Esperanto: cidonio
• Estonian: küdoonia
• Faroese: kveði f
• Finnish: kvitteni (fi)
• French: coing (fr)
• Friulian: codogn
• Galician: marmelo (gl) m
• Georgian: კომში (ka) (ḳomši), ბია (bia)
• German: Quitte (de) f
• Greek: κυδώνι (el) n (kydóni)

  Ancient: κυδώνιον n (kudṓnion), μῆλον στρουθίον n (mêlon strouthíon)

• Hebrew: חַבּוּשׁ‎ (he) m (chabúsh)
• Hindi: वीही f (vīhī), बिही (hi) f (bihī)
• Hungarian: birs (hu), birsalma (hu), birskörte (hu)
• Hunsrik: Marmell f
• Icelandic: roðarunnaepli n
• Irish: cainche f
• Italian: mela cotogna f, cotogna f
• Japanese: マルメロ (marumero)
• Kazakh: айва (aiva)
• Korean: 마르멜로 (mareumello)
• Kumyk: гьайва (haywa)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بەھێ‎ (behê), بەی‎ (bey), بێ‎ (ku) (bê)

  Northern Kurdish: bih (ku), bî (ku), bîhok (ku), biyok (ku)

• Ladino: bimbriyo, bembriyo
• Latin: cotonium n
• Low German: Quitt f
• Luxembourgish: Quitt f
• Macedonian: дуња f (dunja)
• Malay: safarjal
• Maltese: sfarġel m
• Maori: kuini, kuinihi
• Middle Persian: [script needed] (byh /bēh/)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kvede

• Occitan: codonh (oc)
• Ossetian: къомси (k’omsi)
• Persian: به‎ (fa) (beh), بهی‎ (fa) (behi)
• Polish: pigwa (pl) f
• Portuguese: marmelo (pt) m
• Romanian: gutuie (ro) f
• Romansch: cudogn m
• Russian: айва́ (ru) f (ajvá)
• Scottish Gaelic: cuinnse f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дуња f

  Roman: dunja (sh) f

• Sindhi: بھي‎ (bihī)
• Slovak: dula (sk) f
• Slovene: kutina (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: dula f, kwitula f, kwjada f

• Sotho: kwepere
• Spanish: membrillo (es) m
• Swedish: kvitten (sv)
• Tajik: биҳӣ (tg) (bihī), беҳ (tg) (beh)
• Thai: ควินซ์ (kwíns)
• Tigrinya: ኮቶኛ (kotoña)
• Turkish: ayva (tr)
• Ukrainian: айва́ (uk) f (ajvá)
• Uzbek: behi (uz)
• Venetian: codogno m
• Vietnamese: mộc qua
• Volapük: kvit (vo)
• Welsh: afal cwins m, cwinsen f, cwinsyn m, clesinen f (literary use)
• Zazaki: bey

tree

• Afrikaans: kweeper, kweeperboom
• Albanian: ftua (sq) m
• Armenian: սերկեւիլենի (serkewileni)
• Aromanian: gutunjiu m, gutunj m, gutunju m, gãtunjiu, gãtunj
• Basque: irasagarrondo
• Bulgarian: дюля (bg) f (djulja)
• Catalan: codonyer (ca) m
• Czech: kdouloň f
• Dutch: kweepeer (nl), kwee (nl)
• Esperanto: cidoniarbo
• Finnish: kvitteni (fi)
• French: cognassier (fr) m
• Friulian: codognâr m
• Galician: marmeleiro (gl) m
• Georgian: კომში (ka) (ḳomši), ბია (bia)
• German: Quitte (de) f, Quittenbaum m
• Greek: κυδωνιά (el) f (kydoniá)
• Hindi: वीही f (vīhī), बिही (hi) f (bihī)
• Hungarian: birsalmafa (hu)
• Hunsrik: Marmellebaam m
• Irish: crann cainche m
• Italian: melocotogno m, cotogno m
• Kumyk: гьайва (haywa), гьайва терек (haywa terek)
• Macedonian: ду́ња f (dúnja)

• Middle Persian: [script needed] (byh /bēh/)
• Norman: bouais d'coing m
• Occitan: codonhièr (oc) m
• Persian: به‎ (fa) (beh), بهی‎ (fa) (behi)
• Polish: pigwa (pl) f
• Portuguese: marmelo (pt) m, marmeleiro (pt) m
• Romanian: gutui (ro) m
• Russian: айва́ (ru) f (ajvá)
• Sardinian: chidonza f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дуња f, дуњeвина f

  Roman: dunja (sh) f, dunjevina f

• Slovene: kutina (sl) f
• Sotho: kwepere
• Spanish: membrillo (es) m, membrillero m
• Swedish: kvitten (sv)
• Tajik: биҳӣ (tg) (bihī), беҳ (tg) (beh)
• Turkish: ayva (tr)
• Venetian: codogno
• Volapük: kvitep (vo), kvitabim (vo)
• Welsh: coeden gwins f, cwinswydden f
• Zazaki: bey

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiːnseɪ/, /ˈkɪnseɪ/

Noun

quince (plural quinces)

1. (informal) Short for quinceañera.

   quince dress

Anagrams

• Cinque, cinque

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Asturian

Asturian cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : quince     Ordinal : decimoquintu

Etymology

From Latin quīndecim.

Numeral

quince (indeclinable)

1. fifteen

Derived terms

• quincenu

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Galician

Galician cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : quince     Ordinal : décimo quinto

Etymology

From Old Portuguese quinze, from Latin quīndecim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kinθɪ/

• Audio

  (file)

Numeral

quince (indeclinable)

1. fifteen

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Middle English

Noun

quince

1. Alternative form of quynce (“quince”)

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Spanish

Spanish numbers ^(edit)

←  14	15	16  →
Cardinal: quince     Ordinal: decimoquinto     Fractional: quinceavo

Alternative forms

• quinze (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Spanish quinze, quindze, from Latin quīndecim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈkinθe/, [ˈkĩn̟.θe]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈkinse/, [ˈkĩn.se]

• Audio (Colombia)

  (file)

Numeral

quince

1. fifteen

Derived terms

• del quince
• quinceaños
• quinceavo
• quincena
• quincenario
• quinceno

 

Related terms

• cinco
• diez

Descendants

• → Cebuano: kinse
• → Tagalog: kinse

Further reading

• “quince”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014