kiwi fruit

See also: kiwifruit

English

Kiwi fruit

Alternative forms

• kiwifruit

Etymology

Trade name used by exporters for one of several varieties selectively bred in New Zealand; named after the endemic New Zealand bird, the kiwi, because the fruit's fuzzy brown skin resembles the plumage of the bird. From Maori kiwi (“kiwi bird”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

kiwi fruit (plural kiwi fruit)

1. A Chinese gooseberry vine fruit, having a hairy brown skin and dark green (or in the case of the kiwi fruit gold, yellow) flesh with fine black seeds, almost always varieties of Actinidia deliciosa.

Synonyms

fruit

• Chinese gooseberry
• kiwi (US and UK informal; rare in New Zealand and Australia)
• yangtao

 

Derived terms

• kiwi

 

Translations

fruit

• Afrikaans: kiwivrug
• Arabic: كِيوِي m (kīwī)
• Armenian: կիվի (hy) (kivi)
• Assamese: কিৱি ফল (kiwi phol)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܝܼܘܝܼ m (kīwī)
• Asturian: quivi (ast) m, kiwi (ast) m
• Belarusian: ківі n (kivi)
• Bulgarian: ки́ви n (kívi)
• Catalan: kiwi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 奇異果／奇异果 (kei⁴ ji⁶ gwo²), 獼猴桃／猕猴桃 (mei⁴ hou⁴ tou⁴, nei⁴ hou⁴ tou⁴), 奇偉果／奇伟果 (kei⁴ wai⁵ gwo²)

  Hokkien: 羊桃 (iûⁿ-thô), 猴桃仔 (kâu-thô-á), 豬公藤／猪公藤 (ti-kong-tîn, tu-kong-tîn), 紅蒂蛇／红蒂蛇 (âng-tì-chôa)

  Mandarin: 獼猴桃／猕猴桃 (zh) (míhóutáo), 奇異果／奇异果 (zh) (qíyìguǒ), 楊桃／杨桃 (zh) (yángtáo), 羊桃 (zh) (yángtáo), 陽桃／阳桃 (zh) (yángtáo)

• Czech: kiwi (cs) n
• Danish: kiwi c, kiwifrugt c
• Dutch: kiwi (nl) m
• Esperanto: kivio, kivifrukto
• Estonian: kiivi (et)
• Faroese: kivifrukt f
• Finnish: kiivi (fi), kiivihedelmä
• French: kiwi (fr) m
• German: Kiwi (de) f, chinesische Stachelbeere f
• Greek: ακτινίδιο (el) n (aktinídio)
• Hebrew: קיוי (he) (kivi)
• Hindi: कीवी m (kīvī)
• Hungarian: kivi (hu)
• Ido: kiwio (io)
• Indonesian: buah kiwi
• Ingrian: aktinidia
• Irish: cíobhaí m
• Italian: kiwi (it) m
• Japanese: キーウィフルーツ (kīwi furūtsu), キーウィ (ja) (kīwi)
• Khmer: ផ្លែ​គី​វី (plae kivi)
• Korean: 다래 (ko) (darae), 키위 (ko) (kiwi)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: kivi (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Kiwi m
• Macedonian: киви n (kivi), актинидија f (aktinidija)
• Maltese: kiwi
• Maori: huakiwi
• Mongolian: киви (mn) (kivi)
• Navajo: chʼil dishooí
• Persian: کیوی (fa) (kivi)
• Polish: kiwi (pl) n
• Portuguese: quivi (pt) m, quiuí (pt) m, kiwi (pt) m
• Romanian: kiwi (ro) m
• Russian: ки́ви (ru) m (kívi)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: киви m

  Latin: kivi (sh) m

• Slovak: kivi (sk) n, kiva f
• Spanish: kiwi (es) m
• Swahili: kiwi
• Swedish: kiwi (sv) c, kiwifrukt (sv) c
• Sylheti: ꠇꠤꠃꠤ ꠚꠟ (kiui fol)
• Tagalog: kiwi, bungang kiwi
• Tamil: பசலிப்பழம் (pacalippaḻam)
• Thai: กีวี (th) (gii-wîi)
• Tibetan: སྤྲེལ་ཁམ (sprel kham)
• Tigrinya: ኪዊ (kiwi)
• Turkish: kivi (tr)
• Uyghur: مايمۇن شاپتۇلى (maymun shaptuli), مىخۇتاۋ (mixutaw)
• Vietnamese: trái ki wi, trái dương đào
• Welsh: ciwi m
• Yiddish: קיווי m (kivi), קיוויפֿרוכט f (kivifrukht)

See also

• kiwi fruit gold