rambutan
See also: rambután
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay rambutan, English usage first attested 1707.
Pronunciation
Noun
rambutan (plural rambutans)
- A tree, Nephelium lappaceum, of Southeast Asia.
- 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
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Anagrams
Brunei Malay
Etymology
rambut + -an (compare Malay rambutan)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ram.bu.tan/
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Noun
rambutan
- rambutan, fruit of the tropical tree Nephelium lappaceum
See also
Cebuano
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ram‧bu‧tan
Noun
rambutan
- the rambutan tree (Nephelium lappaceum)
- the fruit of this tree
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay rambutan or rambut + -an.
Noun
rambutan (first-person possessive rambutanku, second-person possessive rambutanmu, third-person possessive rambutannya)
- rambutan (fruit)
Malay
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
rambutan (Jawi spelling رامبوتن, plural rambutan-rambutan)
- rambutan (fruit)
Tagalog
Etymology
Noun
rambutan
- rambutan (fruit)
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