tamarindo

Borrowed from Spanish tamarindo, from Old French tamarinde, from Arabic تَمْر هِنْدِيّ (tamr hindiyy).

tamarindo

1. tamarind preserve
2. tamarind candy

tamarindo (inanimate)

1. (Calpan) tamarind

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tamarindo

Wikipedia ^it

From Old French tamarinde, from Arabic تَمْر هِنْدِيّ (tamr hindiyy).

tamarindo m (plural tamarindi)

1. tamarind (tree)
2. tamarind (fruit)

• → German: Tamarinde
  • → Danish: tamarinde
  • → Dutch: tamarinde

• adontarmi, armandoti, madrinato, mandatori, maritando, rimandato, rimondata

tamarindo

1. Rōmaji transcription of タマリンド

• tamarinho, tambarino, tamarina

From Medieval Latin tamarindus, from Arabic تَمْر هِنْدِيّ (tamr hindiyy).

tamarindo m (plural tamarindos)

1. tamarind (Tamarindus indica, a tropical tree)

   Synonyms: tamarindeiro, tamarindeira, tamarineiro, tamarinheiro

2. tamarind (fruit of the tamarind tree)

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tamarindo

Wikipedia ^es

Ultimately from Arabic تَمْر هِنْدِيّ (tamr hindiyy, “tamarind”, literally “Indian date”). The "police officer" sense is in reference to the fact that Mexican transit police officers used to wear brown uniforms from the 1950s until the early 2000s

• IPA^(key): /tamaˈɾindo/
• Rhymes: -indo
• Syllabification: ta‧ma‧rin‧do

tamarindo m (plural tamarindos)

1. tamarind (tree)
2. tamarind (fruit)
3. a candy made of tamarind fruit
4. (Mexico, slang, dated) An officer of the transit police

• “tamarindo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10