English
Etymology
From dragon + fruit; most likely a calque or literal translation of a term in a Southeast Asian language (compare Chinese 火龍果 / 火龙果 (huǒlóngguǒ, literally “fiery dragon fruit”). Initial English texts cite Vietnamese thanh long; however, this was constructed differently, being a Sino-Vietnamese term for "Azure Dragon" (青龍) re-used to reference the green, "unripe" color of the fruit. First attributed in 1963.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɹæɡ.ən ˌfɹuːt/
Noun
dragon fruit (plural dragon fruits)
- The fruit of certain cacti of the genus (Stenocereus (syn. Hylocereus) spp.), cultivated in Southeast Asia and Central and South America, having cerise-pink- or yellow-coloured skin and a white or pink sweet fleshy interior with black seeds.
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Translations
fruit
- Afrikaans: draakvrug, pitaja
- Arabic: فَاكِهَة تِنِّين f (fākihat tinnīn)
- Bengali: পিতায়া (pitaẏa)
- Bulgarian: пита́я (bg) f (pitája)
- Burmese: နဂါးမောက် (na.ga:mauk), နဂါးမောက်သီး (na.ga:mauksi:)
- Central Huasteca Nahuatl: chacha
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 火龍果 / 火龙果 (fo2 lung4 gwo2)
- Hakka: 火龍果 / 火龙果 (fó-liùng-kó)
- Hokkien: 火龍果 / 火龙果 (hóe-liông-kó, hé-liông-kó)
- Mandarin: 火龍果 / 火龙果 (zh) (huǒlóngguǒ), 龍珠果 / 龙珠果 (zh) (lóngzhūguǒ)
- Dutch: drakenvrucht f, pitaya m
- Esperanto: drakofrukto
- Finnish: pitahaya (fi), pitaya
- French: fruit du dragon (fr) m, pitaya (fr) m or f, pitahaya (fr) m or f
- Galician: pitaia (gl) f
- German: Drachenfrucht (de) f, Pitahaya (de) f, Pitaya f
- Greek: φρούτο του δράκου n (froúto tou drákou)
- Gujarati: ડ્રેગનફ્રુટ (ḍregnaphruṭ), પિતાયા (pitāyā)
- Hungarian: pitaja
- Icelandic: drekaávöxtur m
- Indonesian: buah naga
- Irish: dragantoradh m
- Italian: frutto del drago m
- Japanese: ドラゴンフルーツ (ja) (doragonfurūtsu), ピタヤ (pitaya)
- Javanese: woh naga
- Kannada: ಡ್ರ್ಯಾಗನ್ ಹಣ್ಣು (ḍryāgan haṇṇu)
- Kazakh: питахайя (pitaxaiä)
- Khmer: ស្រការនាគ (srɑɑkaaniək), ស្រកានាគ (srɑkaa niək)
- Korean: 용과 (yonggwa), 피타야 (pitaya)
- Lak: питайя (pitayaˤ)
- Lao: ໝາກມັງກອນ (māk mang kǭn)
- Latvian: pitaija f
- Lü: ᦶᦂᧁᧉᦙᧂᦂᦸᧃ (k̇aew²mangk̇oan)
- Malay: buah naga (ms)
- Malayalam: ഡ്രാഗൺ പഴം (ḍrāgaṇ paḻaṁ)
- Mari:
- Western Mari: питайя (pitaja)
- Mongolian: луу жимс (luu žims)
- Nahuatl:
- Central Huasteca Nahuatl: chacha
- Classical Nahuatl: tzaponochtli
- Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: chacha
- Western Huasteca Nahuatl: chacha
- Polish: pitaja (pl) f, smoczy owoc (pl) m
- Portuguese: pitaia f, rainha-da-noite f, dama-da-noite (pt) f, fruta-do-dragão f
- Russian: пита́йя (ru) f (pitájja), пита́хайя (ru) f (pitáxajja), питаха́йя (ru) f (pitaxájja), драко́ний фрукт m (drakónij frukt)
- Slovene: pitaja f
- Spanish: fruta del dragón f, pitahaya (es) f, pitajaya f, pitaya f, pitayo m
- Sundanese: buah naga
- Swedish: drakfrukt (sv), pitaya, pitahaya (sv)
- Tagalog: pitaya
- Tamil: டிராகன் பழம் (ṭirākaṉ paḻam)
- Telugu: పిటాయ (piṭāya)
- Thai: แก้วมังกร (gɛ̂ɛo-mang-gɔɔn)
- Tulu: ಡ್ರ್ಯಾಗನ್ ಪರ್ಂದ್ (ḍryāganŭ parndŭ)
- Turkish: pitaya
- Udmurt: питайя (pitaja)
- Ukrainian: пітахайя f (pitaxajja), пітайя f (pitajja)
- Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: thanh long (vi)
- Wastek: tsatsaʼ
- Yucatec Maya: woob
- Zapotec:
- Isthmus Zapotec: bidxí
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