kiwi

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiːwi/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -iːwi

Borrowed from Maori kiwi.

kiwi (countable and uncountable, plural kiwi or kiwis)

2. A flightless bird of the order Apterygiformes native to New Zealand.
3. Alternative letter-case form of Kiwi (“person from New Zealand”).
4. (informal) A New Zealand dollar.
6. A kiwi fruit.
7. (uncountable) A green-yellow colour, like that of kiwi fruit flesh (also called kiwi green).

   kiwi:  

8. (military, slang) A member of the air force who does not fly.
   • 1953, Air Force: Official Service Journal of the U.S. Army Air Forces:

     And as its role grew in importance, ground commanders, or kiwis as they were called, made many mistakes in judgment […]

9. (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
   • 1995, “Wynona's Big Brown Beaver”, performed by Primus:

     Now Rex he was a Texan out of New Orleans and he travelled with the carnival shows
     He ran bumper cars, sucked cheap cigars and he candied up his nose
     He got wind of the big brown beaver so he thought he'd take himself a peek
     But the beaver was quick and he grabbed him by the kiwis
     And he ain't pissed for a week (and a half)

• When used to describe people, Kiwi is usually capitalised.
• The plural is usually kiwis; sometimes, kiwi is found as an (invariant) plural form.

• (flightless bird): apteryx
• (kiwi fruit): Chinese gooseberry (dated), kiwi fruit

• Kiwi

• → Catalan: kiwi
• → Dutch: kiwi
• → French: kiwi
• → German: Kiwi
• → Korean: 키위 (kiwi)
• → Polish: kiwi
• → Portuguese: quivi, quiuí, kiwi (unadapted)

• roroa
• rowi
• tokoeka

Genericized trademark from the brand of shoe polish originating in Australia, from Maori kiwi.

kiwi (uncountable)

1. (Singapore, military, slang) Any kind of black shoe polish.

kiwi (third-person singular simple present kiwis, present participle kiwiing or kiwi-ing, simple past and past participle kiwied)

1. (Singapore, military, slang) To polish (boots) with black shoe polish.
   • 1987, Michael Chiang, Army Daze, Landmark Books, →ISBN:

     Johari Salleh: Ya, ya. Better not waste time. Must prepare, tomorrow morning got inspection.
     Teo Ah Beng: Ya lah, must kiwi the boots. Can borrow [lend] me your cloth?
     Krishnamoorthy: Ya, no problem. You better kiwi quickly. 11 pm lights off. […]

• kiwi (bird) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• kiwifruit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Wiki, wiki

Borrowed from English kiwi.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈki.wi]

kiwi m (plural kiwis)

1. kiwi (bird)
2. kiwi (fruit)

   Synonym: actinídia

• “kiwi”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From English kiwi, from Maori kiwi.

• Hyphenation: ki‧wi

kiwi

1. a kiwi fruit
2. a kiwi; a flightless bird of the genus Apteryx

Borrowed from Maori kiwi. The fruit is named after the bird.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɪvɪ]

kiwi n (indeclinable)

1. kiwi, kiwi fruit

From Maori kiwi. The fruit is named after the bird.

• IPA^(key): /kiːvi/, [ˈkʰiːvi]

kiwi c (singular definite kiwien, plural indefinite kiwier)

1. kiwi (bird)
2. kiwi, kiwi fruit

• (kiwi fruit): kiwifrugt

• kiwi on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Kiwier on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Kiwi (frugt) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

• wiki

Borrowed from English kiwi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈki.ʋi/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ki‧wi

kiwi m (plural kiwi's, diminutive kiwietje n)

1. kiwi (bird of the genus Apteryx)
2. kiwi plant, Actinidia deliciosa syn. Actinidia chinensis var. hispida
3. kiwi fruit, kiwi

• kiwi on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

• wiki

• IPA^(key): /ki.wi/

• Audio (Quebec, Montreal):

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kiwi m (plural kiwis)

1. kiwi; kiwi fruit

• “kiwi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• wiki

kiwi m (plural kiwis)

1. kiwi fruit

• IPA^(key): /ˈki.wi/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -iwi
• Hyphenation: kì‧wi

kiwi m (invariable)

1. kiwi fruit
2. kiwi

• kiwi australe
• kiwi bruno

kiwi

1. Rōmaji transcription of キウィ

From Proto-Polynesian *kiu, from Proto-Oceanic *kiuk, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kiuk (“cheep, peep”), probably onomatopoeic for the bird's cry.

kiwi

1. kiwi (bird)

• → English: kiwi
  • → Catalan: kiwi
  • → Dutch: kiwi
  • → French: kiwi
  • → German: Kiwi
  • → Korean: 키위 (kiwi)
  • → Polish: kiwi
  • → Portuguese: quivi, quiuí, kiwi (unadapted)

• IPA^(key): /kiːʋi/

kiwi m (definite singular kiwien, indefinite plural kiwier, definite plural kiwiene)

1. kiwi fruit

• IPA^(key): /kiːʋi/

kiwi m (definite singular kiwien, indefinite plural kiwiar, definite plural kiwiane)

1. kiwi fruit

Borrowed from English kiwi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈki.vi/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ivi
• Syllabification: ki‧wi

kiwi m animal (indeclinable)

1. kiwi (any ratite of the order Apterygiformes)

kiwi n (indeclinable)

1. kiwi (any tree of the genus Actinidia)
2. kiwi, kiwi fruit (fruit of the kiwi)

• kiwi in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kiwi in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• kiwi in PWN's encyclopedia

kiwi m (plural kiwis)

1. alternative form of quivi

Borrowed from French kiwi.

kiwi f (plural kiwi)

1. kiwi

Borrowed from English kiwi, from Maori kiwi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiwi/ [ˈki.wi]
• Rhymes: -iwi
• Syllabification: ki‧wi

kiwi m (plural kiwis)

1. kiwi (bird)
2. kiwi (fruit)

• “kiwi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• Audio (Kenya):

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kiwi class IX (plural kiwi class X)

1. kiwi fruit

kiwi c

1. a kiwi (fruit)

   Synonym: kiwifrukt

• kivi (bird)

• kiwi in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• kiwi in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)