Tamarindus indica
A bowl of Penang asam laksa, a noodle dish of Peranakan origin flavoured with asam or tamarind
From Late Middle English thamarynde, from Old French tamarinde, from Medieval Latin tamarindus, from Arabic تَمْر هِنْدِيّ (tamr hindiyy, literally “Indian date”).
tamarind (countable and uncountable, plural tamarinds)
- (botany) A tropical tree, Tamarindus indica.
- (cooking) The fruit of this tree; the pulp is used as spice in Asian cooking and in Worcestershire sauce.
2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 253:He began to crack tamarinds, pulling out the pod flesh, adding sugar and black pepper from his palms.
- Other similar species:
- Diploglottis australis, native tamarind, a rainforest tree of Eastern Australia.
- Garcinia gummi-gutta, Malabar tamarind, native to Indonesia.
- A velvet tamarind (Dialium spp.).
- A dark brown colour, like that of tamarind pulp (also called tamarind brown).
tamarind:
tropical tree
- Albanian: brukë (sq) f
- Arabic: تَمْر هِنْدِيّ (tamr hindiyy)
- Assamese: তেঁতেলী গছ (tẽteli gos)
- Bengali: তেঁতুল (bn) (tẽtul), তিন্তিড়ী (bn) (tintiṛi), বৃক্ষাম্ল (brikkhamlo)
- Burmese: မန်ကျည်း (my) (mankyany:)
- Catalan: tamerinde m
- Cebuano: sambag
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 羅望子／罗望子 (zh) (luówàngzǐ)
- Dutch: tamarinde (nl)
- Esperanto: tamarindarbo, tamarindujo
- Finnish: tamarindi (fi)
- French: tamarinier (fr) m
- Fula: jaɓɓehi
- German: Tamarinde (de) f
- Gujarati: આમલી f (āmalī)
- Hawaiian: wī ʻawaʻawa
- Hiligaynon: sambag
- Hindi: इमली (hi) (imlī)
- Hungarian: tamarindusz (hu)
- Ilocano: salomagi
- Indonesian: asam jawa (id)
- Irish: tamarain f, tor tamaraine
- Italian: tamarindo (it) m
- Jamaican Creole: tambrin
- Japanese: タマリンド (tamarindo)
- Kabuverdianu: tanbarina
- Kannada: ಹುಣಸೆ (kn) (huṇase)
- Kapampangan: sampaluk
- Khmer: ដើមអម្ពិល (daeumʼâmpĭl)
- Kinaray-a: samalagi
- Lao: ຂາມ (khām)
- Malay: asam jawa (ms)
- Malayalam: പുളി (ml) (puḷi), വാളൻപുളി (vāḷaṉpuḷi)
- Maléku Jaíka: tonh
- Maranao: sambag
- Marathi: चिंच (ciñca)
- Ngazidja Comorian: mhadju class 3/4
- Pangasinan: salomage
- Persian: تمر هندی (tamr-e hendi), خرمای هندی (xormây-e hendi), خنجه (xanja), جنجه (janja)
- Portuguese: tamarindeiro m, tamarindeira f, tamarindo (pt) m, tamarineiro m, tamarinheiro m
- Romanian: tamarin (ro) m
- Russian: тамари́нд (ru) m (tamarínd)
- Sanskrit: तिन्त्रिणी (tintriṇī)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: индијска хурма f
- Roman: indijska hurma f
- Sinhalese: සියඹලා (siyaᵐbalā)
- Spanish: tamarindo (es) m
- Swahili: mkwaju (sw)
- Swedish: tamarind c
- Tagalog: sampalok (tl), punong sampalok
- Tamil: புளி (ta) (puḷi)
- Telugu: చింతచెట్టు (te) (cintaceṭṭu)
- Thai: มะขาม (th) (má-kǎam)
- Turkish: demirhindi, Hint hurması (tr)
- Vietnamese: cây me
- Volapük: tamarin (vo)
- Yiddish: טאַמאַרינד m (tamarind)
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fruit
- Assamese: তেঁতেলী (tẽteli)
- Bengali: তেঁতুল (bn) (tẽtul), তিন্তিড়ী (bn) (tintiṛi)
- Burmese: မန်ကျည်းသီး (my) (mankyany:si:)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 酸荳／酸豆 (zh) (suāndòu)
- Esperanto: tamarindo (eo)
- Finnish: tamarindi (fi)
- French: tamarin (fr) m
- German: Tamarinde (de) f
- Greek: οξυφοίνικα (oxyfoínika)
- Gujarati: આમલી f (āmalī)
- Hawaiian: wī ʻawaʻawa
- Hindi: इमली (hi) (imlī)
- Hungarian: tamarind (hu)
- Indonesian: asam jawa (id)
- Irish: tamarain f
- Isan: please add this translation if you can
- Italian: tamarindo (it) m
- Jamaican Creole: tambrin
- Japanese: タマリンド (tamarindo)
- Javanese: asem jawa
- Kabuverdianu: tanbarina
- Kannada: ಹುಣಸೆ (kn) (huṇase)
- Khmer: អម្ពិល (km) (ʼɑmpɨl), អំពិល (km) (ʼɑmpɨl)
- Lao: ໝາກຂາມ (lo) (māk khām)
- Latvian: tamarinds m
- Lü: please add this translation if you can
- Malagasy: kily (mg)
- Malay: asam jawa (ms)
- Malayalam: പുളി (ml) (puḷi), വാളൻപുളി (vāḷaṉpuḷi)
- Maranao: sambag, banto'on
- Marathi: चिंच (ciñca)
- Middle English: thamarynde
- Odia: ତେନ୍ତୁଳି (tentuḷi)
- Persian: تمر هندی (tamr-e hendi), خرمای هندی (xormây-e hendi), خنجه (xanja), جنجه (janja)
- Portuguese: tamarindo (pt) m, tamarinho m
- Punjabi: ਇਮਲੀ (pa) (imalī)
- Russian: тамари́нд (ru) m (tamarínd)
- Sanskrit: अम्लिका (sa) f (amlikā)
- Santali: ᱡᱚᱡᱚ ᱡᱚ (jôjô jô)
- Shan: please add this translation if you can
- Sinhalese: සියඹලා (siyaᵐbalā)
- Spanish: tamarindo (es) m
- Swahili: ukwaju
- Swedish: tamarind c
- Sylheti: ꠔꠦꠔꠂ (tetoi)
- Tagalog: sampalok (tl)
- Tamil: புளி (ta) (puḷi)
- Tausug: asam
- Telugu: చింతపండు (te) (cintapaṇḍu)
- Thai: มะขาม (th) (má-kǎam)
- Tulu: ಪುಳಿಂಕಟೆ (puḷiṅkaṭe)
- Turkish: demirhindi, Hint hurması (tr)
- Vietnamese: me (vi), trái me
- Volapük: tamarinafluk (vo)
- White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
- Yiddish: טאַמאַרינד m (tamarind)
- Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
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tamarind c
- (botany) tamarind
- (cooking) tamarind
tamarind on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Tamarindus indica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Tamarindus indica on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons 
