noun
Meaning 1
A tree of species Nephelium lappaceum, of Southeast Asia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
rambutan
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.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: [ɹamˈbjʉːtən]
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General-American: /ɹæmˈbutən/
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General-American: /ɹæmˈb(j)utæn/
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General-American: /ɹɑmˈb(j)utɑn/
noun
Meaning 2
The edible fruit of this tree.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
pleasantly acid bright red oval Malayan fruit covered with soft spines
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rambotan
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: edible fruit
noun
Meaning 4
Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rambotan, rambutan tree, Nephelium lappaceum
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fruit tree
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay rambutan, English usage first attested 1707.
Across languages
Translations
49 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: رَامْبُوتَان (rambutān) — fruit
- Bengali: রামবুটান (rambuṭan) — fruit
- Burmese: ကြက်မောက် (krakmauk) — fruit
- Burmese: ကြက်မောက်သီး (krakmauksi:) — fruit
- Chinese Cantonese: 紅毛丹 /红毛丹 (hung4 mou4 daan1) — fruit
- Chinese Mandarin: 韶子 (sháozi) — fruit
- Chinese Mandarin: 紅毛丹 /红毛丹 (hóngmáodān) — fruit
- Danish: rambutan — fruit
- Central Dusun: rangalau — fruit
- Dutch: ramboetan — fruit
- Estonian: rambutan — fruit
- Finnish: rambutani — fruit
- French: ramboutan — fruit
- French: litchi chevelu — fruit
- German: Rambutan — fruit
- Hebrew: רמבוטן — fruit
- Hindi: रम्बूटान (rambūṭān) — fruit
- Indonesian: rambutan — fruit
- Irish: rambútan — fruit
- Italian: rambutan — fruit
- Japanese: ランブータン (ranbūtan) — fruit
- Khmer: សាវម៉ាវ (saav maav) — fruit
- Korean: 람부탄 (rambutan) — fruit
- Lao: ຫມາກເງາະ (māk ngǫ) — fruit
- Lao: ເງາະ (ngǫ) — fruit
- Latvian: rambutāns — fruit
- Lithuanian: rambutanas — fruit
- Malay: rambutan — fruit
- Brunei Malay: rambutan — fruit
- Kedah Malay: moktan — fruit
- Negeri Sembilan Malay: moktan — fruit
- Central Melanau: ramutan — fruit
- Tagal Murut: rangalau — fruit
- Navajo: chʼil ditsʼozíłchííʼ — fruit
- Polish: rambutan — fruit
- Portuguese: rambutã — fruit
- Russian: рамбута́н (rambután) — fruit
- Spanish: rambután — fruit
- Spanish: mamón chino — fruit
- Swedish: rambutan — fruit
- Tagalog: rambutan — fruit
- Thai: เงาะ (ngɔ́) — fruit
- Turkish: rambutan — fruit
- Ukrainian: рамбута́н (rambután) — fruit
- Vietnamese: chôm chôm — fruit
- Yakan: usew — fruit
- Indonesian: pohon rambutan — tree
- Irish: rambútan — tree
- Polish: rambutan — tree