tomaat
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English tomato, subsequently influenced by French tomate, both from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl (“tomatillo”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /toːˈmaːt/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: to‧maat
- Rhymes: -aːt
Noun
tomaat f (plural tomaten, diminutive tomaatje n)
- tomato, fruit of Solanum lycopersicum
- tomato plant, Solanum lycopersicum
- Synonym: tomatenplant
- Hypernym: nachtschade
- Hyponyms: cherrytomaat, kerstomaat, vleestomaat, waterbom
Derived terms
- cherrytomaat
- kerstomaat
- tomatenplant
- tomatenpuree
- tomatensap
- tomatensaus
- tomatensoep
- vleestomaat
Descendants
- Afrikaans: tamatie
- → Caribbean Hindustani: tamáti
- → Caribbean Javanese: tomatis, tomat
- → Indonesian: tomat
- → Sranan Tongo: tomati
- → West Frisian: tomaat
Further reading
- tomaat on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
West Frisian
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch tomaat, from English tomato, though the Dutch was subsequently influenced by French tomate, both from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl (“tomatillo”).
Noun
tomaat c (plural tomaten, diminutive tomaatsje)
Further reading
- “tomaat”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011