tomato

See also: tomàto and tōmato

English

A tomato

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tomate, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *tomatl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /təˈmɑː.toʊ/
  • (US) IPA^(key): [tʰə̥ˈmɑɾoʊ]
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [tʰə̥ˈmɑːtʰəʊ]

    • Audio (UK)

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  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): [tʰə̥ˈmɐːtʰɐʉ]

    • Audio (AU)

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• IPA^(key): /təˈmeɪ.toʊ/
  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): [tʰə̥ˈmeɪɾoʊ], [tʰə̥ˈmeɪɾə]

    • Audio (US)

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• IPA^(key): /toʊˈmɑː.toʊ/, /toʊˈmeɪ.toʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːtəʊ, -eɪtəʊ

Noun

tomato (countable and uncountable, plural tomatoes)

1. (botany) A widely cultivated plant, Solanum lycopersicum, having edible fruit.
2. (cooking) The savory fruit of this plant, red when ripe, treated as a vegetable in horticulture and cooking.

   Synonyms: (informal) love apple, (obsolete) wolf's peach

   Meronym: lycopene

   • 1990, JSG Trading Corp. v. Tray-Wrap, Inc., 917 F.2d 75 (2d Cir. 1990)

     In common parlance tomatoes are vegetables, as the Supreme Court observed long ago [see Nix v. Hedden 149 U.S. 304, 307, 13 S.Ct. 881, 882, 37 L.Ed. 745 (1893)], although botanically speaking they are actually a fruit. [26 Encyclopedia Americana 832 (Int'l. ed. 1981)]. Regardless of classification, people have been enjoying tomatoes for centuries; even Mr. Pickwick, as Dickens relates, ate his chops in "tomata" sauce.

3. A shade of red, the colour of a ripe tomato.

   tomato:  

4. (slang) A desirable-looking woman.

   Lookit the legs on that hot tomato!

5. (slang) A stupid act or person.

Derived terms

• beefsteak tomato (US)
• beef tomato (UK)
• canned tomatoes
• cherry tomato
• diced tomatoes
• grape tomato
• heirloom tomato
• italian plum tomato
• italian tomato
• plum tomato
• puréed tomatoes
• roma tomato
• strained tomatoes
• tomato can
• tomato juice
• tomato paste
• tomato purée
• tomato sauce
• tomato soup
• tomayto, tomahto

 

Related terms

• tomatillo

Translations

tomato plant

• Afrikaans: tamatie
• Arabic: طماطم f (ṭamatim), بندورة f (banadura)

  Egyptian Arabic: طماطم f (ṭamaṭem)

• Asturian: tomate (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: pamidor
• Bashkir: помидор (pomidor)
• Catalan: tomaquera f
• Crimean Tatar: pamidor
• Czech: rajče (cs) n
• Danish: tomat (da)
• Dutch: tomaat (nl) f, tomatenplant f
• Esperanto: tomato (eo), tomatujo
• Finnish: tomaattikasvi, tomaatti (fi)
• French: tomate (fr) f
• Galician: tomateira (gl) f
• German: Tomate (de) f, Tomatenpflanze f
• Greek: ντοματιά (el) f (ntomatiá)
• Hindi: टमाटर (hi) m (ṭamāṭar), विलायती (hi) (vilāytī)
• Hungarian: paradicsom (hu)
• Icelandic: tómatjurt f
• Ido: tomatiero (io)
• Irish: tráta (ga) m
• Italian: pomodoro (it) m
• Japanese: トマト (ja) (tomato)
• Latvian: tomāts (lv) m
• Ligurian: tumata f, tomata f
• Lithuanian: pomidoras m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Navajo: chʼil łichxíʼí
• Norman: tonmate f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tomatplante m or f, tomat (no) m

  Nynorsk: tomatplante m or f, tomat m

• Persian: گوجه فرنگی (fa) (goje farangi)
• Polish: pomidor (pl) m anim
• Portuguese: tomateiro (pt) m, tomate (pt) m
• Romanian: tomată (ro) f
• Romansch: tomata f
• Russian: помидо́р (ru) m (pomidór)
• Scottish Gaelic: tomàto m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: парадајз m (Bosnian, Serbian), рајчица f (Croatian)

  Roman: paradajz (sh) m (Bosnian, Serbian), rajčica (sh) f (Croatian)

• Slovak: rajčiak m
• Slovene: paradižnik (sl) m
• Sotho: tamati
• Spanish: tomate (es) m
• Swahili: mnyanya
• Swedish: tomat (sv) c
• Tagalog: kamatis, butinggan
• Turkish: domates (tr)
• Uyghur: پەمىدۇر (pemidur)
• Vietnamese: cà chua (vi)
• Zazaki: şamık f

fruit

• Abkhaz: апаҭырџьан (apʼatərdžan)
• Adyghe: цугу (cʷugʷu)
• Afrikaans: tamatie
• Albanian: domate (sq), mollatartë (sq)
• Amharic: ቲማቲም (timatim)
• Arabic: بَنْدُورَة f (bandūra), طَمَاطِم m (ṭamāṭim)

  Egyptian Arabic: قوطة f (ʾūṭa) (collective), قوطاية f (ʾuṭāya) (singulative); طماطم m (ṭamāṭem) (collective), طمطماية f (ṭamaṭmāya) (singulative)

  Moroccan Arabic: ماطيشة f (maṭīša)

• Armenian: լոլիկ (hy) (lolik), պոմիդոր (hy) (pomidor)
• Assamese: বিলাহী (bilahi)
• Asturian: tomate (ast) m, tomate (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: pomidor (az)
• Banjarese: balinjan, bulinjan
• Bashkir: помидор (pomidor)
• Belarusian: памідо́р m (pamidór), тама́т m (tamát)
• Bengali: টমেটো (ṭomeṭō)
• Bouyei: legridt
• Breton: tomatez (collective) tomatezenn (br) f
• Bulgarian: дома́т (bg) m (domát)
• Burmese: ခရမ်းချင်သီး (hka.ram:hkyangsi:), ခရမ်းချဉ် (my) (hka.ram:hkyany), မြေပုံသီး (my) (mrepumsi:)
• Catalan: tomàquet (ca) m
• Central Dusun: tamatus
• Chechen: помидор (pomidor)
• Cherokee: ᏔᎹᏟ (tamatli)
• Chichewa: phwetekere, matimati, tomato
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 番茄 (faan¹ ke^4-2)

  Dungan: сызы (sɨzɨ), памдар (pamdar)

  Hakka: 番茄 (fân-khiò)

  Mandarin: 西紅柿／西红柿 (zh) (xīhóngshì), 西红柿 (zh) (xīhóngshì), 番茄 (zh) (fānqié), 柿子 (zh) (shìzi) (dialectal)

  Min Dong: 番柿 (huăng-kê)

  Min Nan: 柑仔蜜 (zh-min-nan) (kam-á-bi̍t), 柑仔得 (kam-á-tit, kam-á-te), 臭柿仔 (chhàu-khī-á), 番茄 (hoan-kiô), tho͘-má-to͘h

  Wu: 番茄 (fe ga)

• Chuvash: please add this translation if you can
• Cornish: aval kerensa m
• Crimean Tatar: domatis, pamidor
• Czech: rajče (cs) n, rajské jablíčko n
• Danish: tomat (da) c
• Dutch: tomaat (nl) f
• Elfdalian: tomat m
• Esperanto: tomato (eo)
• Estonian: tomat (et)
• Faroese: tomat f
• Finnish: tomaatti (fi)
• French: tomate (fr) f
• Gagauz: tomat
• Galician: tomate (gl) m
• Georgian: პამიდორი (ṗamidori), ტომატი (ṭomaṭi), პომიდორი (ka) (ṗomidori)
• German: Tomate (de) f, Paradeiser (de) m (Austria)
• Greek: ντομάτα (el) f (ntomáta)
• Greenlandic: tomati
• Guaraní: tomate
• Gujarati: ટમેટું (ṭameṭuṃ)
• Hebrew: עַגְבָנִיָּה (he) f (agvaniyá)
• Hindi: टमाटर (hi) m (ṭamāṭar), विलायती (hi) m (vilāytī)
• Hungarian: paradicsom (hu)
• Hunsrik: Tomatt f
• Icelandic: tómatur (is) m, tómati (is) m (rare)
• Ido: tomato (io)
• Indonesian: tomat (id)
• Ingush: фомдар (fomdar)
• Interlingua: tomate
• Irish: tráta (ga) m
• Isthmus Zapotec: bichooxhe
• Italian: pomodoro (it) m
• Japanese: トマト (ja) (tomato)
• K'iche': pix
• Kabardian: бэдрэжан (bɛdrɛžan)
• Kalenjin: ny'aany'eet
• Kalmyk: адамч (adamç), помадур (pomadur)
• Kannada: ಟೊಮಾಟೋ (ṭomāṭō)
• Karachay-Balkar: please add this translation if you can
• Karakalpak: pomidor
• Kazakh: помидор (kk) (pomidor), қызанақ (qyzanaq), томат (tomat)
• Khmer: ប៉េងប៉ោះ (km) (peeng pɑh)
• Korean: 토마토 (ko) (tomato)
• Kumyk: please add this translation if you can
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: bacanê sor (ku) f, firingî (ku) f, tomate (ku) f, pamîdor (ku) f

  Sorani:

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• Kyrgyz: помидор (ky) (pomidor)
• Ladino: tomat m
• Lak: помидор (pomidor)
• Lakota: uŋžíŋžiŋtka
• Lao: ໝາກເດັ່ນ (lo) (māk den), ເຂືອສົ້ມ (khư̄a som)
• Latvian: tomāts (lv) m
• Ligurian: tumata f, tomata f
• Limburgish: temmaod (li) m, temmaot (li) m
• Lithuanian: pomidoras m
• Low German: Tomaat f
• Lü: ᦖᦱᧅᦵᦃᦲᦉᦳᧄᧉ (ṁaakẋoeṡum²)
• Macedonian: домат m (domat), патлиџан m (patlidžan)
• Malagasy: voatabia (mg)
• Malay: tomat, tomato
• Malayalam: തക്കാളി (ml) (takkāḷi)
• Maltese: tadam (mt) m
• Maori: tōmato
• Marathi: टोमॅटो (mr) (ṭomĕṭo)
• Mari:

  Western Mari: помидор (pomidor)

• Mirandese: tomate, tomato
• Mongolian: улаан лооль (ulaan loolʹ)
• Nahuatl: xitomātl
• Navajo: chʼil łichxíʼí
• Neapolitan: pummarola f
• Norman: tonmate f (Jersey)
• Northern Sami: tomáhtta
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tomat (no) m

  Nynorsk: tomat m

• Occitan: tomata (oc) f
• Ossetian: пъамидор (p’amidor)
• Pashto: رومي m (rūmí), بانجان m (bānǰān)
• Persian: گوجه فرنگی (fa) (goje farangi), گوجه (fa) (goje) (slang), تمات (tomât) (rare) سرخ بادمجان (sorx bâdemjân) (Dari, Afghan Persian)
• Pipil: tumat
• Polish: pomidor (pl) m anim
• Portuguese: tomate (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਟਮਾਟਰ m (ṭamāṭar)
• Quechua: chilltu
• Romanian: roșie (ro) f, tomată (ro) f
• Romansch: tomata f
• Russian: помидо́р (ru) m (pomidór), тома́т (ru) m (tomát) (usually processed)
• Samogitian: puomidors m
• Scottish Gaelic: tomàto m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пара̀дајз m (Bosnian, Serbian), ра̀јчица f (Croatian)

  Roman: paràdajz (sh) m (Bosnian, Serbian), ràjčica (sh) f (Croatian)

• Shor: please add this translation if you can
• Sicilian: pumadoru (scn) m, pummaroru (scn) m
• Sinhalese: තක්‍කාලි (takkāli)
• Slovak: paradajka (sk) f, rajčina f
• Slovene: paradižnik (sl) m
• Sotho: tamati
• Spanish: tomate (es) m
• Sranan Tongo: tomati
• Swahili: nyanya (sw)
• Swedish: tomat (sv) c
• Tagalog: kamatis, butinggan
• Tajik: помидор (tg) (pomidor)
• Tamil: தக்காளி (ta) (takkāḷi)
• Taos: tumą̀ti’ína
• Tatar: помидор (pomidor), томат (tomat)
• Telugu: మొలక్కాయ (molakkāya), టమోటా (ṭamōṭā), తక్కాలి పండు (takkāli paṇḍu)
• Thai: มะเขือเทศ (th) (má-kʉ̌ʉa-têet)
• Tok Pisin: tomato
• Tumbuka: mpwetekele
• Turkish: domates (tr), pamidor (tr), domat (tr) (colloquial), banadura (tr), kızanak
• Turkmen: pomidor
• Tuvan: please add this translation if you can
• Uab Meto: kauliman, kamati
• Ukrainian: помідо́р (uk) m (pomidór), тома́т m (tomát) (usually processed)
• Urdu: ٹماٹر (ṭamāṭar)
• Uyghur: پەمىدۇر (pemidur), شوخلا (shoxla)
• Uzbek: pomidor (uz), pomidorlar pl
• Vietnamese: cà chua (vi)
• Welsh: tomato (cy) m or f
• West Frisian: tomaat c
• Wolof: tamaate (wo)
• Xhosa: itumata class 9/10
• Yakut: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: פּאָמידאָר m (pomidor)
• Zhuang: makyungz, fanhgez
• Zulu: utamatisi (zu) class 1a/2a

Verb

tomato (third-person singular simple present tomatoes, present participle tomatoing, simple past and past participle tomatoed)

1. (transitive) to pelt with tomatoes
2. (transitive) to add tomatoes to (a dish)
3. tomatos

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Amis

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese トマト (tomato), from English tomato.

Noun

tomato

1. tomato

References

• “Entry #”, in 阿美語中部方言辭典 [Dictionary of the Central Dialect of Amis]‎^[1] (in Chinese), Taiwan: Council of Indigenous Peoples, 2021

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Chichewa

Etymology

Borrowed from English tomato.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toˈmá.to/

Noun

1. tomato

Synonyms

• phwetekere
• matimati

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Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from English tomato and French tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• IPA^(key): [toˈmato]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: to‧ma‧to

Noun

tomato (accusative singular tomaton, plural tomatoj, accusative plural tomatojn)

1. tomato (fruit)
2. tomato plant (Solanum lycopersicum)

Derived terms

• tomata (“made of or related to tomatoes”, adjective)

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Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toˈmato/

Noun

tomato (plural tomati)

1. tomato

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Japanese

Romanization

tomato

1. Rōmaji transcription of トマト

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English tomato.

Noun

tomato

1. tomato
   • 1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics‎^[2], →ISBN, page 433:

     Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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