dragon fruit

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From dragon + fruit; most likely a calque or literal translation of a term in a Southeast Asian language (compare Chinese 火龍果 /火龙果 (huǒlóngguǒ, literally “fiery dragon fruit”). Initial English texts cite Vietnamese thanh long; however, this was constructed differently, being a Sino-Vietnamese term for "Azure Dragon" (青龍) re-used to reference the green, "unripe" color of the fruit. First attributed in 1963.

87 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: draakvrug — fruit
• Afrikaans: pitaja — fruit
• Arabic: فَاكِهَة تِنِّين (fākihat tinnīn) — fruit
• Bengali: পিতায়া (pitaẏa) — fruit
• Bulgarian: пита́я (pitája) — fruit
• Burmese: နဂါးမောက် (na.ga:mauk) — fruit
• Burmese: နဂါးမောက်သီး (na.ga:mauksi:) — fruit
• Chinese Cantonese: 火龍果 /火龙果 (fo2 lung4 gwo2) — fruit
• Hakka Chinese: 火龍果 /火龙果 (fó-liùng-kó) — fruit
• Chinese: 火龍果 /火龙果 (hóe-liông-kó, hé-liông-kó) — fruit
• Chinese Mandarin: 火龍果 /火龙果 (huǒlóngguǒ) — fruit
• Chinese Mandarin: 龍珠果 /龙珠果 (lóngzhūguǒ) — fruit
• Dutch: drakenvrucht — fruit
• Dutch: pitaya — fruit
• Esperanto: drakofrukto — fruit
• Finnish: pitahaya — fruit
• Finnish: pitaya — fruit
• Finnish: lohikäärmehedelmä — fruit
• French: fruit du dragon — fruit
• French: pitaya — fruit
• French: pitahaya — fruit
• Galician: pitaia — fruit
• German: Drachenfrucht — fruit
• German: Pitahaya — fruit
• German: Pitaya — fruit
• Greek: φρούτο του δράκου (froúto tou drákou) — fruit
• Gujarati: ડ્રેગનફ્રુટ (ḍregnaphruṭ) — fruit
• Gujarati: પિતાયા (pitāyā) — fruit
• Hungarian: pitaja — fruit
• Icelandic: drekaávöxtur — fruit
• Indonesian: buah naga — fruit
• Irish: dragantoradh — fruit
• Italian: frutto del drago — fruit
• Japanese: ドラゴンフルーツ (doragonfurūtsu) — fruit
• Japanese: ピタヤ (pitaya) — fruit
• Javanese: woh naga — fruit
• Kannada: ಡ್ರ್ಯಾಗನ್ ಹಣ್ಣು (ḍryāgan haṇṇu) — fruit
• Kazakh: питахайя (pitaxaiä) — fruit
• Khmer: ស្រការនាគ (srɑɑkaaniək) — fruit
• Khmer: ស្រកានាគ (srɑɑkaa niək) — fruit
• Korean: 용과 (yonggwa) — fruit
• Korean: 피타야 (pitaya) — fruit
• Lak: питайя (pitayaʕ) — fruit
• Lao: ຫມາກມັງກອນ (māk mang kǭn) — fruit
• Latvian: pitaija — fruit
• Lü: ᦶᦂᧁᧉᦙᧂᦂᦸᧃ (k̇aew2mangk̇oan) — fruit
• Malay: buah naga — fruit
• Malayalam: ഡ്രാഗൺ പഴം (ḍrāgaṇ paḻaṁ) — fruit
• Western Mari: питайя (pitaja) — fruit
• Mongolian: луу жимс (luu žims) — fruit
• Central Huasteca Nahuatl: chacha — fruit
• Classical Nahuatl: tzaponochtli — fruit
• Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: chacha — fruit
• Western Huasteca Nahuatl: chacha — fruit
• Polish: pitaja — fruit
• Polish: smoczy owoc — fruit
• Portuguese: pitaia — fruit
• Portuguese: rainha-da-noite — fruit
• Portuguese: dama-da-noite — fruit
• Portuguese: fruta-do-dragão — fruit
• Russian: пита́йя (pitájja) — fruit
• Russian: пита́хайя (pitáxajja) — fruit
• Russian: питаха́йя (pitaxájja) — fruit
• Russian: драко́ний фрукт (drakónij frukt) — fruit
• Slovene: pitaja — fruit
• Spanish: fruta del dragón — fruit
• Spanish: pitahaya — fruit
• Spanish: pitajaya — fruit
• Spanish: pitaya — fruit
• Spanish: pitayo — fruit
• Sundanese: buah naga — fruit
• Swedish: drakfrukt — fruit
• Swedish: pitaya — fruit
• Swedish: pitahaya — fruit
• Tagalog: pitaya — fruit
• Tamil: டிராகன் பழம் (ṭirākaṉ paḻam) — fruit
• Telugu: పిటాయ (piṭāya) — fruit
• Thai: แก้วมังกร (gɛ̂ɛo-mang-gɔɔn) — fruit
• Tulu: ಡ್ರ್ಯಾಗನ್ ಪರ್ಂದ್ (ḍryāganŭ parndŭ) — fruit
• Turkish: pitaya — fruit
• Udmurt: питайя (pitaja) — fruit
• Ukrainian: пітахайя (pitaxajja) — fruit
• Ukrainian: пітайя (pitajja) — fruit
• Vietnamese: thanh long — fruit
• Wastek: tsatsaʼ — fruit
• Yucatec Maya: woob — fruit
• Isthmus Zapotec: bidxí — fruit