Aprikose

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch abrikoos, from Middle French abricots, plural of abricot, from Catalan albercoc, from Arabic اَلْبَرْقُوق (al-barqūq), from Classical Syriac ܒܰܪܩܽܘܩܳܐ (barqūqā), from Ancient Greek πραικόκιον (praikókion), from Latin praecox (“overripe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˌap.ʁiˈkoː.zə]

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Noun

Aprikose f (genitive Aprikose, plural Aprikosen)

1. apricot

   Synonym: (Austria, Bavaria and South Tyrol) Marille f

Declension

Declension of Aprikose [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Aprikose	die	Aprikosen
genitive	einer	der	Aprikose	der	Aprikosen
dative	einer	der	Aprikose	den	Aprikosen
accusative	eine	die	Aprikose	die	Aprikosen

Related terms

• Aprikosenkern
• Aprikosensaft

Descendants

• → Estonian: aprikoos
• → Kashubian: aprikóza (dated)
• → Latvian: aprikoze
• → Lithuanian: abrikosas
• → Lower Sorbian: aprikoza
• → Silesian: aprikŏza
• → Upper Sorbian: aprikoza

Further reading

• “Aprikose” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Aprikose” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Aprikose” in Duden online
• Aprikose on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de