rambutan

See also: rambután

English

rambutan fruit

Alternative forms

• ramboostan, rambootan, rambostan, rambotan, ramboteen, ramboutan, rambustan, rambustine, rampostan (all obsolete)

Etymology

From Malay rambutan, from rambut (“hair”) + -an (“forming nouns”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ɹamˈbjʉːtən]

• Audio (US):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹæmˈbutən/, /ɹæmˈb(j)utæn/, /ɹɑmˈb(j)utɑn/

Noun

rambutan (plural rambutans)

1. A tree of species Nephelium lappaceum, of Southeast Asia.
2. The edible fruit of this tree. [1707]
   • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 116:

     The Mangosteen, Lansat, Rambutan, Jack, Jambou, and Blimbing, are all abundant; but most abundant and most esteemed is the Durian, a fruit about which very little is known in England, but which both by natives and Europeans in the Malay Archipelago is reckoned superior to all others.

   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 115:

     Old women crouched over bags of Siamese rice, skeps of red and green peppers, purple egg-plants, bristly rambutans, pineapples, durians.

Translations

fruit

• Arabic: رَامْبُوتَان m (rambutān)
• Bengali: রামবুটান (rambuṭan)
• Burmese: ကြက်မောက် (my) (krakmauk), ကြက်မောက်သီး (my) (krakmauksi:)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 紅毛丹 / 红毛丹 (hung⁴ mou⁴ daan¹)

  Mandarin: 韶子 (zh) (sháozi), 紅毛丹 / 红毛丹 (zh) (hóngmáodān)

• Danish: rambutan c
• Dusun:

  Central Dusun: rangalau

• Dutch: ramboetan (nl) m
• Estonian: rambutan (et)
• Finnish: rambutani
• French: ramboutan (fr) m, litchi chevelu (fr) m
• German: Rambutan (de) m
• Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: רמבוטן (he)
• Hindi: रम्बूटान (rambūṭān)
• Indonesian: rambutan (id)
• Irish: rambútan m
• Italian: rambutan m
• Japanese: ランブータン (ranbūtan)
• Khmer: សាវម៉ាវ (km) (saav maav)
• Korean: 람부탄 (rambutan)
• Lao: ໝາກເງາະ (māk ngǫ), ເງາະ (ngǫ)
• Latvian: rambutāns m
• Lithuanian: rambutanas m
• Malay: rambutan (ms)

  Brunei Malay: rambutan

  Kedah Malay: moktan

  Negeri Sembilan Malay: moktan

• Melanau:

  Central Melanau: ramutan

• Murut:

  Tagal Murut: rangalau

• Navajo: chʼil ditsʼozíłchííʼ
• Polish: rambutan (pl) m
• Portuguese: rambutã (pt) m
• Russian: рамбута́н (ru) m (rambután)
• Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: rambután m, mamón chino m
• Swedish: rambutan (sv) c
• Tagalog: rambutan
• Thai: เงาะ (th) (ngɔ́)
• Turkish: rambutan
• Ukrainian: рамбута́н m (rambután)
• Vietnamese: chôm chôm (vi)
• Yakan: usew

tree

• Indonesian: pohon rambutan
• Irish: rambútan m
• Polish: rambutan (pl) m

Anagrams

• antumbra

Brunei Malay

Etymology

rambut +‎ -an (compare Malay rambutan)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ram.bu.tan/
• (Kedayan) IPA^(key): /am.bu.tan/

Noun

rambutan

1. rambutan, fruit of the tropical tree Nephelium lappaceum

See also

• maritam

Cebuano

Etymology

From Malay rambutan.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ram‧bu‧tan
• IPA^(key): /ɾamˈbutan/ [ɾɐmˈbuː.t̪an̪]

Noun

rambutan

1. rambutan tree (Nephelium lappaceum)
2. fruit of this tree

Danish

Etymology

From Malay rambutan.

Noun

rambutan c (singular definite rambutanen, plural indefinite rambutaner)

1. rambutan (fruit)

Declension

Declension of rambutan

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	rambutan	rambutanen	rambutaner	rambutanerne
genitive	rambutans	rambutanens	rambutaners	rambutanernes

See also

• litchi

References

• “rambutan” in Den Danske Ordbog

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay rambutan or rambut +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ramˈbutan/ [ramˈbu.t̪an]
• Rhymes: -utan
• Syllabification: ram‧bu‧tan

Noun

rambutan (plural rambutan-rambutan)

1. rambutan (fruit)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay rambutan.

Noun

rambutan m

1. rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum)

Malay

Etymology

From rambut (“hair”) +‎ -an (“forming nouns”).

Pronunciation

• (Literary Standard) IPA^(key): /ramˈbutan/ [ramˈbu.t̪an]

  • Audio (Malaysia):

    (file)

  • Rhymes: -utan
• (Southern Peninsular Malaysia Standard)
  • IPA^(key): /ramˈbutan/ [ramˈbu.t̪an]
  • IPA^(key): /ramˈbotan/ [ramˈbo.t̪an]
  • Rhymes: -utan, -otan
• Hyphenation: ram‧bu‧tan

Noun

rambutan (Jawi spelling رمبوتن or رامبوتن, plural rambutan-rambutan)

1. rambutan (fruit)

Descendants

• → Chinese: 紅毛丹 / 红毛丹 (hóngmáodān)
• → Dhivehi: ރަންބުސްތާނު (ran̊bustānu)
• → English: rambutan
• → Sinhalese: රඹුටන් (raᵐbuṭan)

See also

• lotong, pulasan, redan

Further reading

• "rambutan" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
  (also see "rambutan" at PRPM first version)

Southern Catanduanes Bikol

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay rambutan.

Noun

rambután

1. rambutan (fruit)

Swedish

rambutan

Noun

rambutan c

1. rambutan (fruit)

   Rambutan påminner om håriga ögon

   Rambutan reminds me of hairy eyeballs

Declension

Declension of rambutan

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	rambutan	rambutans
	definite	rambutanen	rambutanens
plural	indefinite	rambutaner	rambutaners
	definite	rambutanerna	rambutanernas

See also

• litchi (“lychee”)

References

• “rambutan”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)

Tagalog

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Malayic *rambut

Malay rambut

Proto-Austronesian *-an

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *-an

Proto-Malayic *-an

Malay -an

Malay rambutanbor.

Tagalog rambutan

Borrowed from Malay rambutan, from rambut + -an.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɾambuˈtan/ [ɾɐm.bʊˈt̪an̪]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: ram‧bu‧tan

Noun

rambután (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜋ᜔ᜊᜓᜆᜈ᜔)

1. rambutan (tree and fruit)

   Synonym: (obsolete) alpay

Further reading

• “rambutan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018