papaya

Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Lokono papáia.

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• IPA^(key): /pəˈpaɪə/, /pəˈpɑːjə/
• Rhymes: -aɪə, -ɑːjə

papaya (plural papayas)

1. A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit.
2. The fruit of this tree.
   • 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 135:

     It was that image, its practical mundanity, the preparation of fruit I have seen you do a thousand times, the spoon gliding along the papaya’s flesh-orange core, a slush of black seeds plopping into the steel sink, that made it unbearable.

3. An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.

   papaya:  

• pawpaw (Australia), common term for papaya, but strictly speaking this refers to a different tree/fruit.

• papaya on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Lokono papáia.

• IPA^(key): /paˈpaja/ [paˈpa.ja]
• Hyphenation: pa‧pa‧ya

papáya (Basahan spelling ᜉᜉᜌ)

1. papaya

   Synonym: tapayas

Inherited from Spanish papaya, from Lokono papáia.

• IPA^(key): /paˈpaʝa/, [paˈpa.ʝa]
• Hyphenation: pa‧pa‧ya

papaya

1. papaya

Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Lokono papáia.

papaya

1. papaya

Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Lokono papáia.

papaya

1. papaya

• papayón, papayo

From Cariban/Lokono papáia.

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• Rhymes: -aʝa
• Syllabification: pa‧pa‧ya

papaya f (plural papayas)

1. papaya (fruit)

   Synonyms: lechoza, (Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Paraguay) lechosa, mamón

2. (Cuba, slang, euphemistic) vagina (likely from the shape of the fruit when sliced in half lengthwise: see image)
3. (Colombia, slang) opportunity

• Cubans typically call the papaya fruit fruta bomba instead, reserving the word papaya for its slang sense.

papaya m or f (masculine and feminine plural papayas)

1. (Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, slang) easy

   Synonym: fácil

• “papaya”, 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
• “papaya”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
• DiPerú | Diccionario de peruanismos en línea

papaya c

1. papaya (fruit and tree)

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

Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Lokono papáia. Compare Pangasinan apayas and Kapampangan kapaya.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /paˈpaja/ [pɐˈpaː.jɐ]
• Rhymes: -aja
• Syllabification: pa‧pa‧ya

papaya (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜉᜌ)

1. papaya

• payapa

papaya

1. accusative singular of papa

papaya

1. papaya.