different between aubergine vs watermelon

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French aubergine, from Catalan albergínia, from Arabic ???????????????? (al-b??inj?n, “the eggplant”), from Persian ???????? (bâdenjân), from ???????? (bâtenjân), from Sanskrit ??????? (v?tigagama, “eggplant”, literally “the plant that cures the wind”). Doublet of brinjal.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?.b?.?in/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???.b?.?i?n/

Noun

aubergine (plural aubergines)

1. (Britain) An Asian plant, Solanum melongena, cultivated for its edible purple, green, or white ovoid fruit.
2. (Britain) The fruit of this plant, eaten as a vegetable.
3. (color) A dark purple colour; eggplant.

Synonyms

• See the list at eggplant.

Derived terms

• auberginey

Descendants

• Bislama: obesin

Translations

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ob?rsji?n?/, [ob?æ????i?n?], [ob?æ????i?ne], [ob?æ????in?]

Noun

aubergine c (singular definite auberginen, plural indefinite auberginer)

1. eggplant, aubergine (fruit, plant, color)

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French aubergine, from Catalan albergínia, from Arabic ???????????????? (al-b??inj?n, “the eggplant”), from Persian ???????? (bâdenjân), from ???????? (bâtenjân), from Sanskrit ??????? (v?tigagama, “eggplant”, literally “the plant that cures the wind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?b?r??in?/, /?o?b?r-/
• Hyphenation: au?ber?gi?ne
• Rhymes: -in?

Noun

aubergine f (plural aubergines, diminutive auberginetje n)

1. An aubergine, an eggplant (plant), Solanum melongena.
2. The fruit of the eggplant, an aubergine (fruit).
3. Aubergine, eggplant (color).

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan albergínia, from Arabic ???????????????? (al-b??inj?n, “the eggplant”), from Persian ???????? (bâdengân), from ???????? (bâtengân), from Sanskrit ??????? (v?tigagama, “eggplant”, literally “the plant that cures the wind”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.b??.?in/

Noun

aubergine f (plural aubergines)

1. eggplant; aubergine.

   Synonym: (Louisiana) brème

2. (historical) A French female traffic warden (from the colour of their uniforms; more recently pervenche).

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: berejèn
• ? Breton: berjinezenn
• ? Danish: aubergine
• ? Dutch: aubergine
• ? English: aubergine
  • Bislama: obesin
• ? German: Aubergine
• ? Limburgish: oberzjien
• ? Lower Sorbian: oberžina
• ? Luxembourgish: Aubergine
• ? Manx: auberjeen
• ? Norman: aubèrginne
• ? North Frisian: aubergine
• ? Norwegian: aubergine
• ? Occitan: aubergina
• ? Picard: oubàrjine
• ? Polish: ober?yna
• ? Romansch: oberschina
• ? Scots: aubergine
• ? Swedish: aubergin, aubergine
• ? Walloon: åberdjene
• ? West Frisian: auberzjine

Further reading

• “aubergine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Swedish

Alternative forms

• aubergin

Etymology

Borrowed from French aubergine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?r???n/, /?b?r??i?n/

Noun

aubergine c

1. eggplant, aubergine (fruit, plant, color)

   Synonyms: äggplanta, äggört

English

Etymology

From the 1610s, a compound of water +? melon.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w??t??m?l?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?w?t???m?l?n/

Noun

watermelon (countable and uncountable, plural watermelons)

1. A plant of the species Citrullus lanatus, bearing a melon-like fruit.
2. The fruit of the watermelon plant, having a green rind and watery flesh that is typically bright red when ripe and contains black pips.
3. (derogatory, slang) An environmentalist with socialist leanings (from the similarity to the fruit, being green on the outside, and red (Communist) on the inside).
4. A pinkish-red colour, like that of watermelon flesh (also called watermelon pink).

5. A project that is presented as on schedule when it actually has parts that are falling behind.

Derived terms

• watermelon radish

Translations

Anagrams

• water lemon