rambutan

See also: rambután

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay rambutan, English usage first attested 1707.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [ɹamˈbjʉːtən]
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • (General American) IPA(key): [ɹæmˈbuːtən]

Noun

rambutan (plural rambutans)

  1. A tree of species Nephelium lappaceum, of Southeast Asia.
  2. The fruit of this tree.
    • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 115:
      Old women crouched over bags of Siamese rice, skeps of red and green peppers, purple egg-plants, bristly rambutans, pineapples, durians.

Translations

Anagrams

Brunei Malay

Etymology

rambut +‎ -an (compare Malay rambutan)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ram.bu.tan/
  • (Kedayan) IPA(key): /am.bu.tan/

Noun

rambutan

  1. rambutan, fruit of the tropical tree Nephelium lappaceum

See also

Cebuano

Etymology

From Malay rambutan.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ram‧bu‧tan
  • IPA(key): /ɾamˈbutan/ [ɾ̪ɐmˈbu.t̪ɐn̪]

Noun

rambutan

  1. rambutan tree (Nephelium lappaceum)
  2. fruit of this tree

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay rambutan or rambut +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ramˈbutan/ [ramˈbu.t̪an]
  • Rhymes: -utan
  • Syllabification: ram‧bu‧tan

Noun

rambutan (plural rambutan-rambutan)

  1. rambutan (fruit)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay rambutan.

Noun

rambutan m

  1. rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum)

Malay

Etymology

rambut (hair) +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

  • (Baku) IPA(key): /ramˈbutan/ [ramˈbu.t̪an]
  • (Johor-Riau)
    • IPA(key): /ramˈbutan/ [ramˈbu.t̪an]
    • IPA(key): /ramˈbotan/ [ramˈbo.t̪an]
    • Rhymes: -utan, -otan
  • Hyphenation: ram‧bu‧tan

Noun

rambutan (Jawi spelling رمبوتن or رامبوتن, plural rambutan-rambutan)

  1. rambutan (fruit)

See also

Further reading

Southern Catanduanes Bicolano

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay rambutan.

Noun

rambután

  1. rambutan (fruit)

Swedish

Noun

rambutan c

  1. rambutan (fruit)
    Rambutan påminner om håriga ögon
    Rambutan reminds me of hairy eyeballs

Declension

Declension of rambutan
nominative genitive
singular indefinite rambutan rambutans
definite rambutanen rambutanens
plural indefinite rambutaner rambutaners
definite rambutanerna rambutanernas

See also

References

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay rambutan, from rambut (hair) +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ɾambuˈtan/ [ɾɐm.bʊˈt̪an̪]
  • Rhymes: -an
  • Syllabification: ram‧bu‧tan

Noun

rambután (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜋ᜔ᜊᜓᜆᜈ᜔)

  1. rambutan (tree and fruit)
    Synonym: (obsolete) alpay

Further reading

  • rambutan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018