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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch mangosteen (“mangosteen”), from Malay manggustan, variant of manggis.
Pronunciation
Noun
mangosteen (plural mangosteens)
- A tropical fruit of the tree genus Garcinia.
- (more specifically) A tropical fruit of the tree Garcinia mangostana.
- The tree on which the fruit grows.
Derived terms
Translations
fruit
- Arabic: مَانْغُوسْتِين m (manḡustīn), مَانْجُوسْتِين m (mangustīn), جَوْز جَنْدَم m (jawz jandam)
- Bengali: ম্যাঙ্গোস্টিন (mêṅgōsṭin)
- Bouyei: please add this translation if you can
- Burmese: မင်းကွတ် (my) (mang:kwat)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 山竹 (yue) (saan1 zuk1), 山竹果 (saan1 zuk1 gwo2)
- Hokkien: please add this translation if you can
- Mandarin: 山竹 (zh) (shānzhú), 山竹果 (shānzhúguǒ), 莽吉柿 (zh) (mǎngjíshì)
- Czech: mangostana lahodná f, mangostan m
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Dhivehi: މަބުސްތާން (mabustān̊)
- Dutch: mangistan (nl) m
- Esperanto: mangostano
- Finnish: mangostani (fi)
- French: mangoustan (fr), mangouste (fr), brindone (fr) m
- German: Mangostane (de) f
- Hindi: मेन्गोस्टीन (mengosṭīn)
- Hungarian: mangosztán (hu)
- Indonesian: manggis (id)
- Isan: please add this translation if you can
- Italian: mangostano (it) m
- Japanese: マンゴスチン (mangosuchin)
- Javanese: manngis, manggis (jv)
- Kannada: ಮುರುಗಲ ಹಣ್ಣು (murugala haṇṇu), ಕೋಕಂ (kōkaṃ), ಪುನರ್ಪುಳಿ (punarpuḷi) (Havyaka Kannada)
- Khmer: មង្ឃុត (km) (mŭəngkhut)
- Khmu: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 망고스틴 (manggoseutin)
- Lao: ມັງຄຸດ (mang khut), ໝາກມັງຄຸດ (māk mang khut)
- Lü: please add this translation if you can
- Malay: manggis (ms), manggustan
- Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
- Mongolian: хадны дорго (xadny dorgo)
- Occitan: mangosta (oc) f, mangostan m
- Persian: گوز گندم (gowz-e gandom) (archaic)
- Polish: mangostan (pl) m
- Portuguese: mangostão m, mangostim m
- Romanian: mangustan m
- Russian: мангоста́н (ru) m (mangostán), мангуста́н (ru) m (mangustán)
- Sinhalese: මැංගුස් (si) (mæṁgus), මැන්ගුස් (mængus), පළතුර (si) (paḷatura)
- Spanish: mangostán (es) m, mangostino (es) m
- Sundanese: manggu (su)
- Swedish: mangostan (sv)
- Tagalog: manggustan
- Tamil: மாங்கிஸ் (māṅkis), மங்குசுத்தான் (maṅkucuttāṉ)
- Telugu: please add this translation if you can
- Thai: มังคุด (th) (mang-kút)
- Tulu: ಪುನರ್ಪುಳಿ (punarpuḷi)
- Ukrainian: мангоста́н m (manhostán), мангоста́на f (manhostána), мангуста́н m (manhustán)
- Vietnamese: măng cụt (vi)
- White Hmong: txiv nplai qij
- Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
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