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apricot

adj · noun · 10 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.pɹɪ.kɒt/
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  • General-American: /ˈeɪ.pɹɪ.kɑt/
  • General-American: /ˈæp.ɹɪ.kɑt/
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  • Australian: /æepɹɪˈkɒt/
  • Australian: /æepɹɪˈkɔt/
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  • rhymes with -ɒt
  • CMU ARPABET: EY1 P R AH0 K AA2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • pickled apricots

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: apricot tree

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A dog with an orange-coloured coat.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Qualifier: sniper slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

A testicle.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, UK, countable, dated, plural-normally, slang, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

a shade of pink tinged with yellow

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: yellowish pink, peach, salmon pink

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: pink

9

noun

Meaning 9

downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: edible fruit

10

noun

Meaning 10

Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: apricot tree

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: fruit tree

Narrower terms: Japanese apricot, mei, Prunus mume, common apricot, Prunus armeniaca, purple apricot, black apricot, Prunus dasycarpa

History

Etymology

Alteration of apricock (with influence from French abricot), itself an alteration of abrecock (with influence from Latin apricum (“sunny place”)), from dialectal Catalan abrecoc, abricoc, variants of standard albercoc, from Arabic الْبَرْقُوق (al-barqūq, “plums”), from Byzantine Greek βερικοκκία (berikokkía, “apricot tree”), from Ancient Greek πραικόκιον (praikókion), from Late Latin (persica) praecocia (literally “(peaches) which ripen early”), (mālum) praecoquum (literally “(apple) which ripens early”). Doublet of precocious.

Across languages

Translations

312 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: кайсиен (kajsien) — colour
  • Chinese Mandarin: 杏色的 (xìng sè de) — colour
  • Czech: meruňkový — colour
  • Danish: abrikosfarvet — colour
  • French: abricot — colour
  • German: apricot — colour
  • German: aprikosenfarben — colour
  • Japanese: 杏子色の (anzuiro) — colour
  • Polish: morelowy — colour
  • Portuguese: damasco — colour
  • Swedish: aprikosfärgad — colour
  • Vietnamese: vàng mơ — colour
  • Volapük: brikodakölik — colour
  • Abkhaz: аҷарам (ačʼaram) — fruit
  • Afrikaans: appelkoos — fruit
  • Albanian: kajsi — fruit
  • Albanian: zerdeli — fruit
  • Alviri-Vidari: شیلان (šilān) — fruit
  • Amharic: ኮክ መሳይ የፍራፍሬ አይነት (kok mäsay yäfrafre ʾäynät) — fruit
  • Arabic: مِشْمِش (mišmiš) — fruit
  • Andalusian Arabic: مشماش (mušmāš) — fruit
  • Arabic: مشمش (mešmeš) — fruit
  • Arabic: مِشْمِش (mišmiš) — fruit
  • Arabic: مشماش (mašmāš) — fruit
  • Arabic: مِشْمِش (mišmiš) — fruit
  • Aragonese: alberje — fruit
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܸܫܡܸܫܬܵܐ (mišmišta) — fruit
  • Armenian: ծիրան (ciran) — fruit
  • Armenian: պարկուկ (parkuk) — fruit
  • Old Armenian: ծիրան (ciran) — fruit
  • Asturian: albaricoque — fruit
  • Asturian: albaricoca — fruit
  • Azerbaijani: ərik — fruit
  • Azerbaijani: qaysı — fruit
  • Bashkir: өрөк (örök) — fruit
  • Basque: arbeletxeko — fruit
  • Basque: abrikot — fruit
  • Belarusian: абрыко́с (abrykós) — fruit
  • Bengali: খুবানি (khubani) — fruit
  • Breton: abriko — fruit
  • Bulgarian: кайси́я (kajsíja) — fruit
  • Bulgarian: за́рзала (zárzala) — fruit
  • Bulgarian: зарзали́я (zarzalíja) — fruit
  • Catalan: albercoc — fruit
  • Chechen: туьрк (türk) — fruit
  • Chinese Cantonese: 杏桃 — fruit
  • Chinese Cantonese: 黃梅 /黄梅 — fruit
  • Chinese: хын (hɨn) — fruit
  • Chinese: 杏 (hēng) — fruit
  • Chinese Mandarin: 杏 (xìng) — fruit
  • Chinese Mandarin: 杏子 (xìngzi) — fruit
  • Chinese Mandarin: 杏實 /杏实 (xìngshí) — fruit
  • East Circassian: хуэрэджэ (xwɛrɛdžɛ) — fruit
  • West Circassian: абрикос (abrikwos) — fruit
  • Cornish: brykedh — fruit
  • Cornish: brykedhen — fruit
  • Corsican: baracucca — fruit
  • Czech: meruňka — fruit
  • Danish: abrikos — fruit
  • Dongxiang: orou — fruit
  • Dutch: abrikoos — fruit
  • Egyptian: d:p-H-M1-n-A-l-G20-i-i-n:A-N25 (dpḥ n ꜣrmꜥynꜣ) — fruit
  • Esperanto: abrikoto — fruit
  • Estonian: aprikoos — fruit
  • Faroese: aprikosa — fruit
  • Finnish: aprikoosi — fruit
  • French: abricot — fruit
  • North Frisian: Aprikoos — fruit
  • West-Frisian: abrikoas — fruit
  • Galician: albaricoque — fruit
  • Gallurese: barracoccu — fruit
  • Georgian: გარგარი (gargari) — fruit
  • Georgian: ჭერამი (č̣erami) — fruit
  • German: Aprikose — fruit
  • German: Marille — fruit
  • Greek: βερίκοκο (veríkoko) — fruit
  • Ancient Greek: πραικόκιον (praikókion) — fruit
  • Ancient Greek: ἀρμενιακόν (armeniakón) — fruit
  • Ancient Greek: βερίκοκκον (beríkokkon) — fruit
  • Greenlandic: abrikosi — fruit
  • Haitian Creole: abiko — fruit
  • Hebrew: מִשְׁמֵשׁ (mishmesh) — fruit
  • Hindi: ख़ूबानी (xūbānī) — fruit
  • Hindi: ख़ुबानी (xubānī) — fruit
  • Hindi: ज़र्दालू (zardālū) — fruit
  • Hindi: ज़रदालू (zardālū) — fruit
  • Hindi: कुश्मालू (kuśmālū) — fruit
  • Hindi: कुशमालू (kuśmālū) — fruit
  • Hungarian: sárgabarack — fruit
  • Hungarian: kajszibarack — fruit
  • Hungarian: kajszi — fruit
  • Hunsrickisch: Damaske — fruit
  • Hunsrickisch: Abrikoh — fruit
  • Icelandic: apríkósa — fruit
  • Indonesian: aprikot — fruit
  • Irish: aibreog — fruit
  • Italian: albicocca — fruit
  • Japanese: 杏子 (anzu) — fruit
  • Kaitag: ко́ркко (kórkko) — fruit
  • Kalasha: aẓạ́i — fruit
  • Kannada: ಜರ್ದಾಳು (jardāḷu) — fruit
  • Kashmiri: ژیر (ċēr) — fruit
  • Kazakh: өрік (örık) — fruit
  • Korean: 살구 (salgu) — fruit
  • Central Kurdish: قەیسی (qeysî) — fruit
  • Northern Kurdish: mijmij — fruit
  • Northern Kurdish: qeysî — fruit
  • Northern Kurdish: zerdelî — fruit
  • Northern Kurdish: hêrûg — fruit
  • Northern Kurdish: zerdele — fruit
  • Northern Kurdish: mişmiş — fruit
  • Kyrgyz: өрүк (örük) — fruit
  • Kyrgyz: абрикос (abrikos) — fruit
  • Ladino: kayisí — fruit
  • Ladino: abrikok — fruit
  • Lao: ຫມາກຄາຍ (māk khāi) — fruit
  • Latin: armeniacum — fruit
  • Latvian: aprikoze — fruit
  • Lithuanian: abrikosas — fruit
  • : ᦖᦱᧅᦚᦳᧂ (ṁaakḟung) — fruit
  • Luxembourgish: Aprikos — fruit
  • Macedonian: кајсија (kajsija) — fruit
  • Malagasy: aprikaoty — fruit
  • Malay: aprikot — fruit
  • Malayalam: ജലദാലു (jaladālu) — fruit
  • Maltese: berquqa — fruit
  • Manx: apricoc — fruit
  • Māori: aperekota — fruit
  • Māori: pirikota — fruit
  • Māori: aperekoti — fruit
  • Marathi: जर्दाळू (jardāḷū) — fruit
  • Eastern Mari: абрикос (abrikos) — fruit
  • Mingrelian: მარგული (marguli) — fruit
  • Mirandese: albricoque — fruit
  • Mirandese: albaricoque — fruit
  • Mongolian: чангаанз (čangaanz) — fruit
  • Mongolian: гүйлс (güjls) — fruit
  • Navajo: dzidzétsoh díkʼǫ́ǫzhii — fruit
  • Navajo: didzétsoh yázhí — fruit
  • Northern Sotho: apolêkôsê — fruit
  • Norwegian: aprikos — fruit
  • Occitan: albricòt — fruit
  • O'odham: wil-gohgih — fruit
  • Oromo: kookii — fruit
  • Pashto: زردالو (zardālú) — fruit
  • Persian: زردآلو (zard-âlu) — fruit
  • Piedmontese: arbicòch — fruit
  • Plautdietsch: Aupelkoos — fruit
  • Polish: morela — fruit
  • Portuguese: damasco — fruit
  • Portuguese: abricó — fruit
  • Portuguese: alperce — fruit
  • Portuguese: alperche — fruit
  • Portuguese: abricoque — fruit
  • Portuguese: abricote — fruit
  • Punjabi: ਖ਼ੁਰਮਾਨੀ (xurmānī) — fruit
  • Romanian: caisă — fruit
  • Romansh: apricosa — fruit
  • Russian: абрико́с (abrikós) — fruit
  • Russian: жердёла (žerdjóla) — fruit
  • Northern Sami: aprikosa — fruit
  • Campidanese Sardinian: piricoccu — fruit
  • Sardinian: barracocco — fruit
  • Sassarese: barracoc — fruit
  • Scottish Gaelic: apracot — fruit
  • Serbo-Croatian: ка̀јсија — fruit
  • Serbo-Croatian: зердѐлица — fruit
  • Serbo-Croatian: марѐлица — fruit
  • Serbo-Croatian: kàjsija — fruit
  • Serbo-Croatian: zerdèlica — fruit
  • Serbo-Croatian: marèlica — fruit
  • Sicilian: varcocu — fruit
  • Slovak: marhuľa — fruit
  • Slovene: marẹ̑lica — fruit
  • Somali: safiican — fruit
  • Lower Sorbian: aprikoza — fruit
  • Upper Sorbian: aprikoza — fruit
  • Sotho: apolokose — fruit
  • Spanish: albaricoque — fruit
  • Spanish: chabacano — fruit
  • Spanish: damasquillo — fruit
  • Spanish: albérchigo — fruit
  • Spanish: alberge — fruit
  • Spanish: albarcoque — fruit
  • Spanish: albercoque — fruit
  • Spanish: damasco — fruit
  • Swahili: aprikoti — fruit
  • Swedish: aprikos — fruit
  • Tagalog: albarikoke — fruit
  • Tajik: зардолу (zardolu) — fruit
  • Tatar: өрек (örek) — fruit
  • Thai: แอพริคอต (ɛ́p-prí-kɔ̀t) — fruit
  • Tibetan: མངའ་རིས་ཁམས་བུ (mnga' ris khams bu) — fruit
  • Tigrinya: ምሽምሽ (məšməš) — fruit
  • Turkish: kayısı — fruit
  • Turkish: zerdali — fruit
  • Ottoman Turkish: قیصی (kaysi, kayısı) — fruit
  • Turkmen: erik — fruit
  • Ukrainian: абрико́са (abrykósa) — fruit
  • Ukrainian: абрико́с (abrykós) — fruit
  • Urdu: خوبانی (xūbānī) — fruit
  • Urdu: زرد آلو (zard ālū) — fruit
  • Uyghur: ئۆرۈك (örük) — fruit
  • Uzbek: oʻrik — fruit
  • Venetan: armełin — fruit
  • Vietnamese: mơ tây — fruit
  • Vietnamese: quả mơ — fruit
  • Volapük: brikod — fruit
  • Walloon: åbricot — fruit
  • Welsh: bricyll — fruit
  • Yiddish: אַפּריקאָס (aprikos) — fruit
  • Zazaki: berga — fruit
  • Abkhaz: аҷара́мҵла (ačʼarámcʼla) — tree
  • Armenian: ծիրանենի (ciraneni) — tree
  • Asturian: albaricocal — tree
  • Bashkir: өрөк (örök) — tree
  • Belarusian: абрыко́с (abrykós) — tree
  • Bulgarian: ка́йсия (kájsija) — tree
  • Bulgarian: зарзала (zarzala) — tree
  • Bulgarian: зарзалия (zarzalija) — tree
  • Catalan: albercoquer — tree
  • Chinese Mandarin: 杏樹 /杏树 (xìngshù) — tree
  • Czech: meruňka — tree
  • Danish: abrikostræ — tree
  • Dongxiang: orou mutun — tree
  • Dutch: abrikozenboom — tree
  • Esperanto: abrikotujo — tree
  • Esperanto: abrikotarbo — tree
  • Finnish: aprikoosipuu — tree
  • French: abricotier — tree
  • Galician: albaricoqueiro — tree
  • Gallurese: barracoc — tree
  • Georgian: ჭერამი (č̣erami) — tree
  • Georgian: გარგარი (gargari) — tree
  • German: Aprikose — tree
  • German: Marille — tree
  • German: Aprikosenbaum — tree
  • Greek: βερικοκιά (verikokiá) — tree
  • Hindi: ख़ूबानी (xūbānī) — tree
  • Hindi: ख़ुबानी (xubānī) — tree
  • Hindi: ज़र्दालू (zardālū) — tree
  • Hindi: ज़रदालू (zardālū) — tree
  • Hindi: कुश्मालू (kuśmālū) — tree
  • Hindi: कुशमालू (kuśmālū) — tree
  • Hungarian: sárgabarackfa — tree
  • Hungarian: kajszibarackfa — tree
  • Irish: crann aibreoige — tree
  • Italian: albicocco — tree
  • Korean: 살구나무 (salgunamu) — tree
  • Lao: ກຄາຍ (ka khāi) — tree
  • Latin: armeniaca — tree
  • Latvian: aprikoze — tree
  • Lithuanian: abrikosas — tree
  • Macedonian: ка́јсија (kájsija) — tree
  • Maltese: siġra tal-berquq — tree
  • Manx: billey apricoc — tree
  • Eastern Mari: абрикос (abrikos) — tree
  • Norwegian: aprikostre — tree
  • Persian: درخت زردآلو (deraxt-e zard-âlu) — tree
  • Polish: morela — tree
  • Portuguese: damasqueiro — tree
  • Romanian: cais — tree
  • Russian: абрико́с (abrikós) — tree
  • Campidanese Sardinian: piricoccu — tree
  • Sardinian: barracocco — tree
  • Sassarese: barracoc — tree
  • Scottish Gaelic: apracot — tree
  • Serbo-Croatian: кајсија — tree
  • Serbo-Croatian: зерделица — tree
  • Serbo-Croatian: марелица — tree
  • Serbo-Croatian: kajsija — tree
  • Serbo-Croatian: zerdelica — tree
  • Serbo-Croatian: marelica — tree
  • Spanish: albaricoquero — tree
  • Spanish: alberchiguero — tree
  • Spanish: albarcoquero — tree
  • Spanish: albercoquero — tree
  • Spanish: albergero — tree
  • Spanish: damasco — tree
  • Swahili: mwaprikoti — tree
  • Swedish: aprikosträd — tree
  • Turkish: kayısı — tree
  • Ukrainian: абрико́са (abrykósa) — tree
  • Ukrainian: абрико́с (abrykós) — tree
  • Urdu: زرد آلو (zard ālū) — tree
  • Vietnamese: cây mơ — tree
  • Volapük: brikodabim — tree
  • Volapük: brikodep — tree
  • Walloon: åbricotî — tree
  • Armenian: ծիրանի (cirani) — colour
  • Bulgarian: кайсия (kajsija) — colour
  • Chinese Mandarin: 杏色 (xìngsè) — colour
  • Danish: abrikosfarve — colour
  • French: abricot — colour
  • Greek: κιτρινορόδινο (kitrinoródino) — colour
  • Greek: βερικοκί (verikokí) — colour
  • Hindi: ख़ूबानी (xūbānī) — colour
  • Hindi: ख़ुबानी (xubānī) — colour
  • Hindi: ज़र्दालू (zardālū) — colour
  • Hindi: ज़रदालू (zardālū) — colour
  • Hindi: कुश्मालू (kuśmālū) — colour
  • Hindi: कुशमालू (kuśmālū) — colour
  • Japanese: 杏子色 (anzuiro) — colour
  • Korean: 살구색 (salgusaek) — colour
  • Latvian: dzeltenoranža krāsa — colour
  • Maltese: lewn il-berquq — colour
  • Eastern Mari: абрикостӱслӧ (abrikostüslö) — colour
  • Polish: morelowy — colour
  • Portuguese: damasco — colour
  • Russian: абрико́совый (abrikósovyj) — colour
  • Spanish: albaricoque — colour
  • Volapük: brikodaköl — colour
Real reading context

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