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persimmon

noun · 4 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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  • UK: /pɜːˈsɪmən/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: /pəɹˈsɪmən/
  • Australian: /ˈpɜːsəmən/
  • rhymes with -ɪmən

1

noun

Meaning 1

The orange fruit of any of various species of trees in the genus Diospyros, especially Diospyros kaki (the kaki or Japanese persimmon) or Diospyros virginiana (the wild American persimmon), which is sweet when ripe and astringent when immature.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: date plum, kaki, Sharon fruit, possum apple, simmon

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The tree this fruit grows on, generally one of two species of ebony: Diospyros kaki (Asian) or Diospyros virginiana (North American).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

orange fruit resembling a plum; edible when fully ripe

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: berry

4

noun

Meaning 4

any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: persimmon tree

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: fruit tree

Narrower terms: Japanese persimmon, kaki, Diospyros kaki, American persimmon, possumwood, Diospyros virginiana, date plum, Diospyros lotus

History

Etymology

From Powhatan pichamins, pushemins, pasimenan (“dried fruit”), from the same Proto-Algonquian root *-imin (“fruit, berry”) as Unami ximin.

Across languages

Translations

202 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: hurmë — fruit
  • Southern Altai: хурма (hurma) — fruit
  • Arabic: كَاكَا (kākā) — fruit
  • Arabic: كَاكِي (kākī) — fruit
  • Arabic: بِرْسِيمُون (birsimūn) — fruit
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܘܼܪܡܵܠܵܐ (ḥurmālā) — fruit
  • Armenian: խուրմա (xurma) — fruit
  • Armenian: արքայանարինջ (arkʻayanarinǰ) — fruit
  • Azerbaijani: xurma — fruit
  • Azerbaijani: xırnik — fruit
  • Banjarese: tasmak — fruit
  • Basque: kaki — fruit
  • Belarusian: хурма́ (xurmá) — fruit
  • Bulgarian: фурма́ (furmá) — fruit
  • Bulgarian: япо́нска я́бълка (japónska jábǎlka) — fruit
  • Burmese: တည် (tany) — fruit
  • Catalan: caqui — fruit
  • Cherokee: ᏌᎵ (sali) — fruit
  • Chickasaw: onkof — fruit
  • Chinese Cantonese: 腍柿 (nam4 ci2) — fruit
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 柿 (kei) — fruit
  • Chinese: 柿仔 (khī-á) — fruit
  • Chinese Mandarin: 柿子 (shìzi) — fruit
  • Czech: kaki — fruit
  • Czech: tomel — fruit
  • Danish: kaki — fruit
  • Dutch: kaki — fruit
  • Esperanto: persimono — fruit
  • Estonian: hurmaa — fruit
  • Finnish: kaki — fruit
  • Finnish: persimoni — fruit
  • Finnish: sharon — fruit
  • Finnish: taateliluumu — fruit
  • Fox: pyâkimini — fruit
  • French: kaki — fruit
  • Georgian: ხურმა (xurma) — fruit
  • Georgian: კარალიოკი (ḳaralioḳi) — fruit
  • German: Persimone — fruit
  • German: Kaki — fruit
  • German: Lotuspflaume — fruit
  • Greek: λωτός (lotós) — fruit
  • Hebrew: אֲפַרְסְמוֹן (afarsemón) — fruit
  • Hindi: ख़ुरमा (xurmā) — fruit
  • Hungarian: datolyaszilva — fruit
  • Hunsrik: Kacki — fruit
  • Ido: hurmo — fruit
  • Indonesian: kesemek — fruit
  • Irish: dátphluma — fruit
  • Italian: cachi — fruit
  • Italian: diospiro — fruit
  • Italian: caco — fruit
  • Japanese: 柿 (kaki) — fruit
  • Japanese: パーシモン (pāshimon) — fruit
  • Kavalan: amus — fruit
  • Kazakh: құрма (qūrma) — fruit
  • Kazakh: хурма (xurma) — fruit
  • Korean: 감 (gam) — fruit
  • Korean: 퍼시몬 (peosimon) — fruit
  • Kyrgyz: курма (kurma) — fruit
  • Ladino: afarsemón — fruit
  • Ladino: hurmá — fruit
  • Lao: ຫມາກກາກີ (māk kā kī) — fruit
  • Latvian: hurma — fruit
  • Lithuanian: persimonas — fruit
  • Macedonian: ра́јско ја́болко (rájsko jábolko) — fruit
  • Macedonian: ја́понско ја́болко (jáponsko jábolko) — fruit
  • Malagasy: hazoarina — fruit
  • Malagasy: hazoary — fruit
  • Malay: kesmak — fruit
  • Malay: buah samak — fruit
  • Malay: pisang kaki — fruit
  • Māori: āporo makimaki — fruit
  • Mongolian: илжгэн чих (ilžgen čix) — fruit
  • Mongolian: модон шавтал (modon šavtal) — fruit
  • Mongolian: шавтал (šavtal) — fruit
  • Mongolian: хурма (xurma) — fruit
  • Nepali: हलुवाबेद (haluwābed) — fruit
  • Norwegian: kaki — fruit
  • Norwegian: kakiplomme — fruit
  • Norwegian: kakifrukt — fruit
  • Norwegian: persimon — fruit
  • Occitan: caqui — fruit
  • Osage: 𐓷𐓘𐓮𐓰𐓚́𐓤𐓟 — fruit
  • Pashto: املوک (amlúk) — fruit
  • Persian: خرمالو (xormâlu) — fruit
  • Polish: kaki — fruit
  • Polish: persymona — fruit
  • Polish: szaron — fruit
  • Polish: hurma — fruit
  • Portuguese: caqui — fruit
  • Portuguese: dióspiro — fruit
  • Punjabi: ਪਰਸਿੰਮਨ (parsimman) — fruit
  • Quapaw: štaną́ke — fruit
  • Romanian: kaki — fruit
  • Russian: хурма́ (xurmá) — fruit
  • Serbo-Croatian: персимон — fruit
  • Serbo-Croatian: каки — fruit
  • Serbo-Croatian: хурма — fruit
  • Serbo-Croatian: persimon — fruit
  • Serbo-Croatian: kaki — fruit
  • Serbo-Croatian: hurma — fruit
  • Sicilian: lotu — fruit
  • Sicilian: cacu — fruit
  • Slovak: kaki — fruit
  • Slovak: hurma — fruit
  • Slovak: churma — fruit
  • Slovak: hurmikaki — fruit
  • Slovene: kaki — fruit
  • Upper Sorbian: kaki — fruit
  • Spanish: caqui — fruit
  • Spanish: kaki — fruit
  • Spanish: persimón — fruit
  • Spanish: persimonio — fruit
  • Spanish: pérsimo — fruit
  • Spanish: placaminero — fruit
  • Swedish: persimon — fruit
  • Swedish: kaki — fruit
  • Swedish: sharonfrukt — fruit
  • Tajik: хурмо (xurmo) — fruit
  • Tatar: хөрмә (xörmä) — fruit
  • Thai: พลับ (pláp) — fruit
  • Tigrinya: ፐርሲሞን (pärsimon) — fruit
  • Tigrinya: ካኪ (kaki) — fruit
  • Turkish: Trabzon hurması — fruit
  • Turkish: Japon hurması — fruit
  • Turkish: hurma — fruit
  • Ukrainian: хурма́ (xurmá) — fruit
  • Ukrainian: персимо́на (persymóna) — fruit
  • Unami: ximin — fruit
  • Urdu: جاپانی پھل (jāpānī phal) — fruit
  • Urdu: خرما (xurmā) — fruit
  • Uyghur: شىزا (shiza) — fruit
  • Uyghur: ئەبنۇس (ebnus) — fruit
  • Uyghur: хорма (xorma) — fruit
  • Uzbek: xurmo — fruit
  • Uzbek: persimon — fruit
  • Vietnamese: quả hồng vàng — fruit
  • Vietnamese: hồng — fruit
  • Volapük: plakminepafluk — fruit
  • Basque: kakiondo — tree
  • Catalan: caquier — tree
  • Catalan: persimó — tree
  • Catalan: banús — tree
  • Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎷᎢ (tsalalui) — tree
  • Cherokee: ᏣᎵ (tsali) — tree
  • Chinese Mandarin: 柿樹 /柿树 (shì shù) — tree
  • Czech: tomel — tree
  • Esperanto: persimono — tree
  • Esperanto: diospiro — tree
  • Estonian: hurmaa — tree
  • Estonian: kakiploom — tree
  • Estonian: kaki — tree
  • Finnish: kaki — tree
  • French: plaqueminier — tree
  • Georgian: კარალიოკი (ḳaralioḳi) — tree
  • Georgian: ხურმა (xurma) — tree
  • German: Persimonenbaum — tree
  • Greek: λωτός (lotós) — tree
  • Hebrew: אֲפַרְסְמוֹן (afarsemón) — tree
  • Hungarian: datolyaszilva — tree
  • Hunsrik: Kackibaam — tree
  • Icelandic: döðluplóma — tree
  • Icelandic: persimónía — tree
  • Irish: crann dátphlumaí — tree
  • Italian: cachi — tree
  • Ivatan: vatinglaw — tree
  • Japanese: 柿の木 (kakinoki) — tree
  • Khmer: ទន្លាប់ (tɔɔtŭənlŏəp) — tree
  • Korean: 감나무 (gamnamu) — tree
  • Macedonian: ра́јска јабо́лкница (rájska jabólknica) — tree
  • Macedonian: ја́понска јабо́лкница (jáponska jabólknica) — tree
  • Nahuatl: tliltzapotl — tree
  • Occitan: caqui — tree
  • Polish: hebanowiec — tree
  • Polish: hurma — tree
  • Polish: kaki — tree
  • Polish: persymona — tree
  • Polish: szaron — tree
  • Portuguese: caquizeiro — tree
  • Portuguese: diospireiro — tree
  • Quapaw: štaną́hi — tree
  • Russian: хурма́ (xurmá) — tree
  • Serbo-Croatian: персимон — tree
  • Serbo-Croatian: каки — tree
  • Serbo-Croatian: persimon — tree
  • Serbo-Croatian: kaki — tree
  • Sicilian: macchia dû lotu — tree
  • Sicilian: macchia dû cacu — tree
  • Slovak: kaki — tree
  • Slovak: ebenovník rajčiakový — tree
  • Spanish: caqui — tree
  • Spanish: palosanto — tree
  • Swedish: persimonträd — tree
  • Swedish: kakiträd — tree
  • Tagalog: kamagong — tree
  • Tagalog: mabolo — tree
  • Thai: พลับ (pláp) — tree
  • Turkish: Trabzon hurması — tree
  • Turkish: Japon hurması — tree
  • Unami: ximinunshi — tree
  • Vietnamese: hồng — tree
  • Volapük: plakminep — tree
Real reading context

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