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aubergine en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ɔbə(r).(d)ʒin/ (South-Asia)
  • ô'bər-d͡ʒēn
  • /ˈəʊ.bə.ʒiːn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • ō'bər-ʒēn (General-American)
  • /ˈoʊ.bɚ.ʒin/ (General-American)
  • ô'bər-ʒēn
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Dravidian *waẓVtVder. Sanskrit वातिङ्गण (vātiṅgaṇa)bor. Classical Persian بَاذِنْگَان (bāzingān)bor. Arabic اَلْبَاذِنْجَان (al-bāḏinjān)bor. Catalan albergíniabor. French auberginebor. English aubergine Unadapted borrowing from French aubergine, from Catalan albergínia, from Arabic اَلْبَاذِنْجَان (al-bāḏinjān, “the aubergine”), from Classical Persian بَادِنْجَان (bādinjān), from بَاتِنْگَان (bātingān), from Sanskrit वातिङ्गण (vātiṅgaṇa, “the plant that cures the wind”), from Dravidian, ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *waẓVtV. Cognate with Malayalam വഴുതനങ്ങ (vaḻutanaṅṅa), Hindi बैंगन (baiṅgan). Doublet of brinjal, malidzano, and melongene.

Meanings

  1. (Ireland, UK, countable, uncountable) An Asian plant, Solanum melongena, cultivated for its edible purple, green, or white ovoid fruit; eggplant.
  2. (Ireland, UK, countable, uncountable) The fruit of this plant, eaten as a vegetable.
    • The hot and sour curry is an aubergine version of a south Indian fish curry I often make. […] You barbecue a few aubergines until the skin is completely black and burned, then cool and peel. 2013 August 2, Stevie Parle, “A meat cheat? Recipes with aubergine”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2019:
  3. (countable, uncountable) A dark purple colour; eggplant.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
aubergines Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

auberginey

Descendants

obesin

Synonyms

the list at eggplant

Translations (13)

ru тёмнофиолетовый (a dark purple colour) · ms terung ungu (a dark purple colour) · cmn 茄紫色 (a dark purple colour) · zza baincan (a dark purple colour) · bn বেগুন (a dark purple colour) · fa بادنجانی (a dark purple colour) · nl aubergine (a dark purple colour) · hi बैंगनी (a dark purple colour) · ru баклажа́новый (a dark purple colour) · cmn 紅紫色 /红紫色 (a dark purple colour) · pl kolor bakłażanowy (a dark purple colour) · el μελιτζανί (a dark purple colour) · ur بینگنی (a dark purple colour)