avocado

Etymology
Borrowed from Latin American, from the earlier , which comes from. . Compare,.

The first mention can be found in the 1696 catalogue of Jamaican plants.

Noun

 * 1) The large, usually yellowish-green or black, savory fruit of the avocado tree.
 * 2) The avocado tree,, of the laurel family.
 * 3)  A dark chartreuse colour, like the colour of the skin of an avocado.
 * 1)  A dark chartreuse colour, like the colour of the skin of an avocado.

Hypernyms

 * fruit

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: avokado
 * Amharic: አቮካዶ
 * Antillean Creole: zaboka, zabèlbòk
 * Arabic: أَفُوكَادُو
 * Egyptian Arabic: افوكاتو
 * Hijazi Arabic: أفكادو
 * Moroccan Arabic: أفوكا
 * Asi: abokado
 * Assamese: মাখন ফল
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܦ̮ܘܿܟܵܕܘܿ
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: авака́да
 * Bengali: এভোক্যাডো, মাখন ফল
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 牛油果
 * Hokkien: a-bu-kha-lo
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Chol: oñ
 * Cornish: avokado
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, avokado
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: avokado
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ავოკადო
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: માખણફળ
 * Hawaiian: pea
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, अवोकाडो, मक्खनफल
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: lárpera,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: abhacád, piorra abhcóide
 * Isthmus Zapotec: yaxhu
 * Italian:
 * Jamaican Creole: pear
 * Japanese:, 鰐梨
 * K'iche': oj
 * Kabuverdianu: abakati, abakate
 * Kapampangan: abukadu
 * Kazakh: авокадо
 * Khmer:
 * Kikuyu: ikorobia
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: авокадо
 * Lao: ໝາກອາໂວກາໂດ
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: avokadas
 * Macedonian: авока́до
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay: alpukat, avokado, apukat,
 * Malayalam: ആത്തച്ചക്ക
 * Maltese: avokado
 * Maori: awhekātō,, awakato
 * Mongolian: авокадо
 * Nahuatl:
 * Central : awakatl, ahuacatli , ahuacatl , auakatl , ahuakatl
 * Central Huasteca: auakatl
 * Classical: ahuacatl
 * Eastern Huasteca: awakatl
 * Guerrero: auakatl
 * Highland Puebla: awakat
 * Orizaba: awakatl
 * Western Huasteca: auakatl
 * Navajo: chʼil akʼahí
 * Northern Sami: avokádo
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:
 * Pipil: awakat
 * Polish:, smaczliwka
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਮੱਖਣ ਫਲ
 * Purepecha: kupanda
 * Quechua: palta
 * Romansch: avocado
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: авокадо
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: avokádo
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: canbaruudda
 * Spanish:, ,  ,
 * Swahili: parachichi
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik: авокадо
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: авокадо
 * Thai: อาโวคาโด, ลูกเนย
 * Tigrinya: ኣቮካዶ
 * Tok Pisin: bata prut
 * Tongan: 'âvoka
 * Tsonga: ovhakhadi
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: awokado
 * Tz'utujil: ooj
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: مگر ناشپاتی
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: אַוואָקאַדאָ
 * Yucatec Maya: oon


 * Antillean Creole: pyé zaboka, pyé zabèlbòk
 * Asturian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: alvocater
 * Classical Nahuatl: āhuacacuahuitl
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: avokadarbo, avokadujo
 * Finnish:, avokadopuu
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, Avocadobaum
 * Greek:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: abhacád, crann abhacád
 * Italian:
 * Jamaican Creole: pear
 * Kabuverdianu: abakate, abakati
 * Kikuyu: mũkorobia
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian: авока́до
 * Malay: pokok avokado
 * Nahuatl:
 * Central: ahuacacuahuitl
 * Central Huasteca: auakakoauitl, auakakuauitl
 * Classical: ahuacacuahuitl
 * Eastern Huasteca: awakakuawitl
 * Orizaba: awakakuawitl
 * Norman: avocatchi
 * Polish:, smaczliwka
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: mparachichi
 * Swedish: avokadoträd
 * Tamil: வெண்ணைப் பழ மரம்
 * Thai: อาโวคาโด
 * Tongan: 'âvoka
 * Welsh:


 * French:
 * Irish: abhacád, dath an abhacáid
 * Malay: avokado
 * Welsh:, lliw afocado


 * Indonesian:, ,

Adjective

 * 1) Of a dull yellowish-green colour.

Translations

 * French:
 * Ido: avokadea
 * Malay: avokado
 * Swedish: avokadofärgad

Etymology
From, from.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
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Etymology 1
From, possibly influenced by a Caribbean language.