frukt

From Danish frugt, from late Old Norse fruktr, from Middle Low German vrucht, from Old Saxon fruht, from Latin fructus.

frukt f (genitive singular fruktar, plural fruktir)

1. fruit, progeny
2. fruit (apple, banana, etc.)
3. fruit, harvest

• IPA^(key): /frʉkt/

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• Rhymes: -ʉkt
• Hyphenation: frukt

frukt f or m (definite singular frukta or frukten, indefinite plural frukter, definite plural fruktene)

1. fruit (part of plant)

frukt f (definite singular frukta, indefinite plural frukter, definite plural fruktene)

1. (countable or uncountable) fruit ((edible) part of plant)
2. (chiefly uncountable) end result

• “frukt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Learned borrowing from Latin frūctus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfrukt/
• Rhymes: -ukt
• Syllabification: frukt

frukt m inan (related adjective fruktowy)

1. (obsolete) fruit (seed-bearing part of a plant; often edible, colorful, fragrant, and sweet or sour; produced from a floral ovary after fertilization)

   Synonym: owoc

2. (obsolete) fruit (any sweet or sour edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see former sense) even if it does not develop from a floral ovary)

   Synonym: owoc

3. (figurative, obsolete) fruit (positive end result or reward of labor or effort)

   Synonym: owoc

• → Russian: фрукт (frukt), фруктъ (frukt) — Pre-reform orthography (1918), хрукт (xrukt) — eye dialect
  • → Yakut: фрукт (frukt)

• frukt in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Inherited from Old Swedish frukt, from Old Norse fruktr, borrowed from Old Saxon fruht, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *fruht, a borrowimg from Latin frūctus. Cognate with German Frucht.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfrɵkt/

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frukt c

1. (botany or more generally) fruit

   ett äpple är en frukt

   an apple is a fruit

   fruktsallad

   fruit salad

   en fruktskål

   a fruit bowl

   frukt och grönt

   fruit and vegetables ["fruit and green [things – nominalized]" – idiomatic]

2. fruit ((positive) end result)

   njuta frukterna av sitt arbete

   enjoy the fruits of one's labor

   Satsningen bar frukt

   The venture bore fruit

• apelsin (“orange”)
• päron (“pear”)
• äpple (“apple”)

• frukt in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• frukt in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• frukt in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH