English Explanatory Dictionary

persimmon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The orange fruit of any of various species of trees in the genus Diospyros, especially Diospyros kaki (the kaki or Japanese persimmon) or Diospyros virginiana (the wild American persimmon), which is sweet when ripe and astringent when immature.
  2. The tree this fruit grows on, generally one of two species of ebony: Diospyros kaki (Asian) or Diospyros virginiana (North American).

Pronunciation

/pɜːˈsɪmən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-persimmon.wav /pəɹˈsɪmən/ /ˈpɜːsəmən/

Word forms

persimmon persimmons persimon putchamin

Etymology

From Powhatan pichamins, pushemins, pasimenan (“dried fruit”), from the same Proto-Algonquian root *-imin (“fruit, berry”) as Unami ximin.

Synonyms

date plum kaki Sharon fruit possum apple simmon

Derived words

Chinese persimmon huckleberry above a persimmon huckleberry above one's persimmon Indian persimmon Japanese persimmon kaki persimmon knock the persimmon Oriental persimmon the longest pole knocks the persimmon

Translations

Albanian: hurmë Southern Altai: хурма Arabic: كَاكَا Arabic: كَاكِي Arabic: بِرْسِيمُون Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܘܼܪܡܵܠܵܐ Armenian: խուրմա Armenian: արքայանարինջ Azerbaijani: xurma Azerbaijani: xırnik Banjarese: tasmak Basque: kaki Belarusian: хурма́ Bulgarian: фурма́ Bulgarian: япо́нска я́бълка Burmese: တည် Catalan: caqui Cherokee: ᏌᎵ Chickasaw: onkof Chinese Cantonese: 腍柿 Eastern Min Chinese: 柿 Chinese: 柿仔 Chinese Mandarin: 柿子 Czech: kaki Czech: tomel Danish: kaki Dutch: kaki Esperanto: persimono Estonian: hurmaa Finnish: kaki Finnish: persimoni Finnish: sharon Finnish: taateliluumu Fox: pyâkimini French: kaki Georgian: ხურმა Georgian: კარალიოკი German: Persimone German: Kaki German: Lotuspflaume Greek: λωτός Hebrew: אֲפַרְסְמוֹן Hindi: ख़ुरमा Hungarian: datolyaszilva Hunsrik: Kacki Ido: hurmo Indonesian: kesemek Irish: dátphluma Italian: cachi Italian: diospiro Italian: caco Japanese: 柿 Japanese: パーシモン Kavalan: amus Kazakh: құрма Kazakh: хурма
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