rambutan

See also: rambután

English

rambutan fruit

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay rambutan, English usage first attested 1707.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): [ɹæmˈbuːtən]

Noun

rambutan (plural rambutans)

1. A tree of species Nephelium lappaceum, of Southeast Asia.
2. The fruit of this tree.
   • 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)
• Brunei Malay: rambutan
• Burmese: ကြက်မောက် (my) (krakmauk), ကြက်မောက်သီး (my) (krakmauksi:)
• Central Dusun: rangalau
• Central Melanau: ramutan
• Chinese:

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

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

• 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)
• Navajo: chʼil ditsʼozíłchííʼ
• Polish: rambutan (pl) m
• Portuguese: rambutã m
• Russian: рамбута́н (ru) m (rambután)
• Spanish: rambután m, mamón chino m
• Swedish: rambutan (sv) c
• Tagal Murut: rangalau
• Tagalog: rambutan
• Thai: เงาะ (th) (ngɔ́)
• Ukrainian: рамбута́н m (rambután)
• Vietnamese: chôm chôm (vi)
• Yakan: usew

tree

• Irish: rambútan m
• Indonesian: pohon rambutan
• 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/ [ɾ̪ɐmˈbu.t̪ɐn̪]

Noun

rambutan

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

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

rambut (“hair”) +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

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

  • Audio (Malaysia):

    (file)

  • Rhymes: -utan
• (Johor-Riau)
  • 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)

See also

• lotong, pulasan, redan

Further reading

• “rambutan” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Southern Catanduanes Bicolano

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 (SO)

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay rambutan, from rambut (“hair”) +‎ -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, Manila, 2018