rambutan

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English

rambutan fruit
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Etymology

Borrowed from Malay rambutan, English usage first attested 1707.

Pronunciation

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.

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Anagrams

Brunei Malay

Etymology

rambut +‎ -an (compare Malay rambutan)

Pronunciation

Noun

rambutan

  1. rambutan, fruit of the tropical tree Nephelium lappaceum

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Cebuano

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Etymology

From Malay rambutan.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ram‧bu‧tan
  • IPA(key): /ɾamˈbutan/

Noun

rambutan

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

Indonesian

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Etymology

From Malay rambutan or rambut +‎ -an.

Noun

rambutan (plural rambutan-rambutan)

  1. rambutan (fruit)

Italian

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Etymology

Borrowed from Malay rambutan.

Noun

rambutan m

  1. rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum)

Malay

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Etymology

rambut (“hair”) +‎ -an.

Pronunciation

Noun

rambutan (Jawi spelling رمبوتن or رامبوتن, plural rambutan-rambutan, informal 1st possessive rambutanku, 2nd possessive rambutanmu, 3rd possessive rambutannya)

  1. rambutan (fruit)

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Further reading

Southern Catanduanes Bicolano

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay rambutan.

Noun

rambután

  1. rambutan (fruit)

Tagalog

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

rambután (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜋ᜔ᜊᜓᜆᜈ᜔)

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

Further reading

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