cucumber

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkjuːˌkʌmbə/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [ˈkhjʊu̯ˌkhʌmbə]
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• Northern-England: /ˈkjuːˌkʊmbə/ without the foot-strut split
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• Northern-England: [ˈkhjʊu̯ˌkhʊ̈mbə] without the foot-strut split
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• General-American: /ˈkjuˌkʌmbɚ/
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• General-American: [ˈkhjʊu̯ˌkhʌ̈mbɚ] ~ [ˈkhjʊu̯ˌkhʌ̈mbɹ̩]
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• Scotland: /ˈkjʉˌkʌmbəɹ/
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• Scotland: [ˈkjʉˌkʌmbəɹ]
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• obsolete: /ˈkaʊˌkʌmbəɹ/
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• obsolete: [ˈkhaʊ̯ˌkhʌmbəɹ]
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• rhymes with -ʌmbəɹ
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• homophone: Qcumber
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• CMU ARPABET: K Y UW1 K AH0 M B ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English cucumer, cucumber, from Old French cocombre, ultimately from Latin cucumis, cucumerem (possibly through an Old Occitan intermediate). Probably of Pre-Italic substrate origin. First attested in the late 14c. Displaced native English earthapple (see which for more), which has since acquired other senses.

312 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: kastravec — plant
• Arabic: خِيَار (ḵiyār) — plant
• Arabic: خيار (xeyār) — plant
• Arabic: خيار (ḵyār) — plant
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܝܼܵܪܵܐ (ḳīyara) — plant
• Armenian: վարունգ (varung) — plant
• Assamese: তিয়ঁহ (tiõh) — plant
• Asturian: pepinu — plant
• Azerbaijani: xiyar — plant
• Bashkir: ҡыяр (qıyar) — plant
• Basque: luzoker — plant
• Belarusian: агуро́к (ahurók) — plant
• Bulgarian: кра́ставица (krástavica) — plant
• Burmese: သခွား (sa.hkwa:) — plant
• Catalan: cogombre — plant
• Catalan: cogombrera — plant
• Chichewa: mnkhaka — plant
• Chinese Cantonese: 青瓜 (ceng1 gwaa1) — plant
• Chinese: хуонгуа (huongua) — plant
• Chinese Mandarin: 黃瓜 /黄瓜 (huángguā) — plant
• Chinese Mandarin: 青瓜 (qīngguā) — plant
• Coptic: ⲃⲟⲛϯ (bonti) — plant
• Crimean Tatar: hıyar — plant
• Czech: okurka — plant
• Danish: agurk — plant
• Dargwa: хияр (ꭓiər) — plant
• Dutch: komkommer — plant
• Erzya: куяр (kujar) — plant
• Esperanto: kukumo — plant
• Estonian: kurk — plant
• Faroese: agurka — plant
• Faroese: gurka — plant
• Faroese: agurk — plant
• Finnish: kurkku — plant
• French: concombre — plant
• Galician: cogombro — plant
• Georgian: კიტრი (ḳiṭri) — plant
• German: Gurke — plant
• Greek: αγγουριά (angouriá) — plant
• Ancient Greek: σίκυος (síkuos) — plant
• Ancient Greek: σίκυς (síkus) — plant
• Greek: ἀγγουρέα (angouréa) — plant
• Hebrew: מְלָפְפוֹן (m'laf'fon) — plant
• Hindi: खीरा (khīrā) — plant
• Hindi: ककड़ी (kakṛī) — plant
• White Hmong: dib — plant
• Hungarian: uborka — plant
• Ido: kukombriero — plant
• Indonesian: mentimun — plant
• Indonesian: timun — plant
• Indonesian: ketimun — plant
• Irish: cúcamar — plant
• Isan: บักแตง (bak-dtɛɛng) — plant
• Isan: หมากแตง (maak-dtɛɛng) — plant
• Italian: cetriolo — plant
• Japanese: 胡瓜 (kyūri) — plant
• Japanese: キュウリ (kyūri) — plant
• Kaitag: хийа́р (ꭓijár) — plant
• Kannada: ಸೌತೆಬಳ್ಳಿ (sautebaḷḷi) — plant
• Kannada: ಸವುತೆ (savute) — plant
• Khmer: ត្រសក់ (trɑɑsɑk) — plant
• Khmer: តាសក់ (tasɑk) — plant
• Kikai: 胡瓜 (kiui) — plant
• Komi-Zyrian: ӧгурец (ögurec) — plant
• Komi-Zyrian: ӧгуреч (ögureć) — plant
• Korean: 오이 (oi) — plant
• Kumyk: хыяр (xıyar) — plant
• Lao: ຫມາກແຕງ (māk tǣng) — plant
• Latin: cucumis — plant
• Latvian: gurķis — plant
• Laz: შუკა (şuǩa) — plant
• Lithuanian: agurkas — plant
• Low German: Gurk — plant
• Macedonian: краставица (krastavica) — plant
• Malagasy: kitsaotsao — plant
• Malayalam: വെള്ളരി (veḷḷari) — plant
• Maltese: ħjar — plant
• Marathi: काकडी (kākḍī) — plant
• Mauritian Creole: kokom — plant
• Middle English: cucumer — plant
• Mingrelian: კინტირი (ḳinṭiri) — plant
• Norwegian Bokmål: agurk — plant
• Norwegian Nynorsk: agurk — plant
• Occitan: pepin — plant
• Okinawan: 胡瓜 (kīui) — plant
• Pazeh: baxat — plant
• Pohnpeian: kiuhri — plant
• Polish: ogórek — plant
• Portuguese: pepineiro — plant
• Portuguese: pepino — plant
• Punjabi: ਖੀਰਾ (khīrā) — plant
• Punjabi: کھِیرا (khīrā) — plant
• Romagnol: ziẓarnël — plant
• Romanian: castravete — plant
• Russian: огуре́ц (oguréc) — plant
• Serbo-Croatian: кра̏ставац — plant
• Serbo-Croatian: krȁstavac — plant
• Shan: တႅင် (těng) — plant
• Sikkimese: ག་ཉོན (ga nyon) — plant
• Slovak: uhorka — plant
• Slovene: kumara — plant
• Somali: qajaar — plant
• Spanish: pepino — plant
• Swahili: mtango — plant
• Swedish: gurka — plant
• Tagalog: pipino — plant
• Tamil: வெள்ளரி (veḷḷari) — plant
• Telugu: దోస (dōsa) — plant
• Thai: แตงกวา (dtɛɛng-gwaa) — plant
• Northern Thai: บะแต๋ง (ba-dtɛ̌ng) — plant
• Southern Thai: แตงเบา (dtɛɛng-bao) — plant
• Tulu: ತೆಕ್ಕರೆ (tekkare) — plant
• Turkish: hıyar — plant
• Turkish: salatalık — plant
• Ukrainian: огіро́к (ohirók) — plant
• Uyghur: تەرخەمەك (terxemek) — plant
• Vietnamese: dưa chuột — plant
• Vietnamese: dưa leo — plant
• Volapük: küg — plant
• Welsh: cucumer — plant
• Yiddish: אוגערקע (ugerke) — plant
• Afrikaans: komkommer — edible fruit
• Albanian: trangull m kastravec — edible fruit
• Alekano: gamó — edible fruit
• Southern Altai: огурчын (ogurčïn) — edible fruit
• Amharic: ኪያር (kiyar) — edible fruit
• Arabic: خِيَار (ḵiyār) — edible fruit
• Arabic: خيارة (xeyāra) — edible fruit
• Arabic: خيار (xeyār) — edible fruit
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܝܼܵܪܵܐ (ḳīyara) — edible fruit
• Armenian: վարունգ (varung) — edible fruit
• Assamese: তিয়ঁহ (tiõh) — edible fruit
• Early Assamese: খিৰি (khiri) — edible fruit
• Asturian: pepinu — edible fruit
• Azerbaijani: xiyar — edible fruit
• Bashkir: ҡыяр (qıyar) — edible fruit
• Belarusian: агуро́к (ahurók) — edible fruit
• Bengali: শসা (śośa) — edible fruit
• Bhojpuri: खीरा (khīrā) — edible fruit
• Bulgarian: кра́ставица (krástavica) — edible fruit
• Burmese: သခွား (sa.hkwa:) — edible fruit
• Catalan: cogombre — edible fruit
• Cebuano: pepino — edible fruit
• Chechen: наьрс (närs) — edible fruit
• Cherokee: ᎦᎦᎹ (gagama) — edible fruit
• Chichewa: mnkhaka — edible fruit
• Chinese Cantonese: 青瓜 (ceng1 gwaa1) — edible fruit
• Chinese Cantonese: 黃瓜 /黄瓜 (wong4 gwaa1) — edible fruit
• Chinese: хуонгуа (huongua) — edible fruit
• Eastern Min Chinese: 黃瓜 /黄瓜 (uòng-guă) — edible fruit
• Hakka Chinese: 黃瓜 /黄瓜 (vòng-kôa) — edible fruit
• Chinese: 刺瓜 (zh-min-nan) — edible fruit
• Chinese: 黃瓜 /黄瓜 (zh-min-nan) — edible fruit
• Jin Chinese: 黃瓜 /黄瓜 (huon1 gua1) — edible fruit
• Chinese Mandarin: 黃瓜 /黄瓜 (huángguā) — edible fruit
• Chinese Mandarin: 青瓜 (qīngguā) — edible fruit
• Wu Chinese: 黃瓜 /黄瓜 (6waon-ko) — edible fruit
• Xiang Chinese: 黃瓜 /黄瓜 (uan2 gua1) — edible fruit
• Chuvash: хӑяр (hăjar) — edible fruit
• Cornish: kukomber — edible fruit
• Czech: okurka — edible fruit
• Danish: agurk — edible fruit
• Dargwa: хияр (ꭓiər) — edible fruit
• Dutch: komkommer — edible fruit
• Egyptian: s-S:p*t-Hn:Z2ss (sšpt) — edible fruit
• Egyptian: bA-Z1: -d:t*Z5-Hn (bꜣdt) — edible fruit
• Erzya: куяр (kujar) — edible fruit
• Esperanto: kukumo — edible fruit
• Estonian: kurk — edible fruit
• Ewe: adzamtre — edible fruit
• Faroese: agurka — edible fruit
• Finnish: kurkku — edible fruit
• French: concombre — edible fruit
• Friulian: cudumar — edible fruit
• Galician: cogombro — edible fruit
• Georgian: კიტრი (ḳiṭri) — edible fruit
• German: Gurke — edible fruit
• German: Salatgurke — edible fruit
• Greek: αγγούρι (angoúri) — edible fruit
• Ancient Greek: σίκυος (síkuos) — edible fruit
• Ancient Greek: σικυός (sikuós) — edible fruit
• Ancient Greek: σίκυς (síkus) — edible fruit
• Ancient Greek: ἀγγούριον (angoúrion) — edible fruit
• Greenlandic: agurki — edible fruit
• Gujarati: કાકડી (kākḍī) — edible fruit
• Hawaiian: kaʻukama — edible fruit
• Hebrew: מְלָפְפוֹן (m'laf'fon) — edible fruit
• Hindi: ककड़ी (kakṛī) — edible fruit
• Hindi: खीरा (khīrā) — edible fruit
• White Hmong: dib — edible fruit
• Hungarian: uborka — edible fruit
• Hungarian: kígyóuborka — edible fruit
• Icelandic: gúrka — edible fruit
• Icelandic: agúrka — edible fruit
• Ido: kukombro — edible fruit
• Ilocano: pipino — edible fruit
• Indonesian: mentimun — edible fruit
• Indonesian: timun — edible fruit
• Indonesian: ketimun — edible fruit
• Irish: cúcamar — edible fruit
• Isan: บักแตง (bak-dtɛɛng) — edible fruit
• Isan: หมากแตง (maak-dtɛɛng) — edible fruit
• Italian: cetriolo — edible fruit
• Japanese: 胡瓜 (kyūri) — edible fruit
• Japanese: キュウリ (kyūri) — edible fruit
• Javanese: timun — edible fruit
• Kaitag: хийа́р (ꭓijár) — edible fruit
• Kalmyk: хаяр (xayar) — edible fruit
• Kalmyk: аһурцг (ağurtsg) — edible fruit
• Kannada: ಸೌತೆಕಾಯಿ (sautekāyi) — edible fruit
• Kannada: ಸವುತೆ (savute) — edible fruit
• Karakalpak: qıyar — edible fruit
• Kashubian: gùrka — edible fruit
• Kazakh: қияр (qiär) — edible fruit
• Kazakh: бәдірен (bädıren) — edible fruit
• Khakas: ӱгурсӱ (ügursü) — edible fruit
• Khmer: ត្រសក់ (trɑɑsɑk) — edible fruit
• Khmer: តាសក់ (tasɑk) — edible fruit
• Kikai: 胡瓜 (kiui) — edible fruit
• Komi-Zyrian: ӧгурец (ögurec) — edible fruit
• Komi-Zyrian: ӧгуреч (ögureć) — edible fruit
• Konkani: तौशे (tauśe) — edible fruit
• Korean: 오이 (oi) — edible fruit
• Kumyk: хыяр (xıyar) — edible fruit
• Central Kurdish: ئاروو (arû) — edible fruit
• Central Kurdish: خەیار (xeyar) — edible fruit
• Northern Kurdish: xiyar — edible fruit
• Northern Kurdish: arû — edible fruit
• Kyrgyz: бадыраң (badıraŋ) — edible fruit
• Lao: ຫມາກແຕງ (māk tǣng) — edible fruit
• Latin: cucumis — edible fruit
• Latvian: gurķis — edible fruit
• Lithuanian: agurkas — edible fruit
• Lü: ᦶᦎᧂᦌᧂᧉ (ṫaengsang2) — edible fruit
• Lutuv: paziy — edible fruit
• Macedonian: краставица (krastavica) — edible fruit
• Malay: timun — edible fruit
• Brunei Malay: timun — edible fruit
• Malayalam: വെള്ളരിക്ക (veḷḷarikka) — edible fruit
• Maltese: ħjara — edible fruit
• Maranao: pipino — edible fruit
• Marathi: काकडी (kākḍī) — edible fruit
• Middle English: cucumer — edible fruit
• Moksha: куяр (kujär) — edible fruit
• Mongolian: өргөст хэмх (örgöst xemx) — edible fruit
• Mongolian: огурцы (ogurcy) — edible fruit
• Navajo: taʼneeskʼání áłtsʼóózígíí — edible fruit
• Norman: cocombre — edible fruit
• Norwegian Bokmål: agurk — edible fruit
• Norwegian Nynorsk: agurk — edible fruit
• Occitan: cogombre — edible fruit
• Okinawan: 胡瓜 (kīui) — edible fruit
• Old English: eorþæppel — edible fruit
• Old English: hwerhwette — edible fruit
• Pannonian Rusyn: огурка (ohurka) — edible fruit
• Dari: بَادْرَنْگ (bādrang) — edible fruit
• Dari: خِیَار (xiyār) — edible fruit
• Iranian Persian: خِیار (xiyâr) — edible fruit
• Plautdietsch: Gurkj — edible fruit
• Pohnpeian: kiuhri — edible fruit
• Polish: ogórek — edible fruit
• Portuguese: pepino — edible fruit
• Punjabi: ਖੀਰਾ (khīrā) — edible fruit
• Punjabi: کھِیرا (khīrā) — edible fruit
• Romanian: castravete — edible fruit
• Romansh: cucumera — edible fruit
• Russian: огуре́ц (oguréc) — edible fruit
• Samoan: kukama — edible fruit
• Scottish Gaelic: cularan — edible fruit
• Serbo-Croatian: кра̏ставац — edible fruit
• Serbo-Croatian: krȁstavac — edible fruit
• Seychellois Creole: kokonm — edible fruit
• Sinhalese: පිපිඤ්ඤා (pipiññā) — edible fruit
• Slovak: uhorka — edible fruit
• Slovene: kumara — edible fruit
• Lower Sorbian: górka — edible fruit
• Spanish: pepino — edible fruit
• Swahili: tango — edible fruit
• Swedish: gurka — edible fruit
• Tagalog: pipino — edible fruit
• Tajik: бодиринг (bodiring) — edible fruit
• Tamil: வெள்ளரிக்காய் (veḷḷarikkāy) — edible fruit
• Tatar: кыяр (qıyar) — edible fruit
• Telugu: దోసకాయ (dōsakāya) — edible fruit
• Thai: แตงกวา (dtɛɛng-gwaa) — edible fruit
• Northern Thai: บะแต๋ง (ba-dtɛ̌ng) — edible fruit
• Southern Thai: แตงเบา (dtɛɛng-bao) — edible fruit
• Tigrinya: ኩኩምበር (kukumbär) — edible fruit
• Tigrinya: ቺትርዮለ (čitrəyolä) — edible fruit
• Turkish: hıyar — edible fruit
• Turkish: salatalık — edible fruit
• Ottoman Turkish: خیار (hıyâr) — edible fruit
• Turkmen: hyýar — edible fruit
• Ukrainian: огіро́к (ohirók) — edible fruit
• Unami: kùkumës — edible fruit
• Urdu: کَکْڑی (kakṛī) — edible fruit
• Urdu: کِھیرا (khīrā) — edible fruit
• Uyghur: تەرخەمەك (terxemek) — edible fruit
• Uzbek: bodring — edible fruit
• Venetan: zetriol — edible fruit
• Vietnamese: dưa chuột — edible fruit
• Vietnamese: dưa leo — edible fruit
• Welsh: ciwcymbr — edible fruit
• Welsh: ciwcymer — edible fruit
• Welsh: cucumer — edible fruit
• Welsh: chwerwddwr — edible fruit
• Winnebago: wicąwąssake xaarek — edible fruit
• Winnebago: wicąwą sake xaarek — edible fruit
• Yakut: огурсу (ogursu) — edible fruit
• Yiddish: אוגערקע (ugerke) — edible fruit
• Zhuang: lwgbieng — edible fruit
• ǃXóõ: ʘna̰e — edible fruit