persimmon

English

Alternative forms

• putchamin [17th–18th c.]

Etymology

From Powhatan pichamins, pushemins, pasimenan (“dried fruit”), from the same Proto-Algonquian root *-imin (“fruit, berry”) as Unami ximin. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɜːˈsɪmən/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /pəɹˈsɪmən/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜːsəmən/
• Hyphenation: per‧sim‧mon
• Rhymes: -ɪmən

Noun

persimmon (plural persimmons)

2. A type of fruit, of orange colour, very sweet, quite astringent when immature.

   Synonyms: date plum, kaki, Sharon fruit

   • 1998, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 94:

     I warned them not to eat the persimmons until they were soft to the touch.

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

Derived terms

• Chinese persimmon
• huckleberry above a persimmon
• huckleberry above one's persimmon
• Japanese persimmon
• kaki persimmon
• knock the persimmon
• Oriental persimmon
• the longest pole knocks the persimmon

Translations

fruit

Albanian: hurmë (sq) f Arabic: بِرْسِيمُون m (birsimūn), كَاكَا f (kākā) Armenian: խուրմա (hy) (xurma), (Japanese persimmon) արքայանարինջ (hy) (arkʻayanarinǰ) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܘܼܪܡܵܠܵܐ m (ḥurmālā) Azerbaijani: xurma (az), xırnik (az) Banjarese: tasmak Basque: kaki Belarusian: хурма́ f (xurmá) Bulgarian: фурма́ f (furmá), япо́нска я́бълка f (japónska jábǎlka) Burmese: တည် (my) (tany) Catalan: caqui (ca) m Cherokee: ᏌᎵ (sali) Chickasaw: onkof Chinese: Cantonese: 腍柿 (nam4 ci2) Eastern Min: 柿 (kei) Hokkien: 柿仔 (khī-á) Mandarin: 柿子 (zh) (shìzi) Czech: tomel m Danish: kaki Dutch: kaki (nl) c Esperanto: persimono Estonian: hurmaa Finnish: kaki (fi), persimoni (fi), sharon (fi), taateliluumu Fox: pyâkimini French: kaki (fr) m Georgian: ხურმა (xurma) German: Persimone f, Kaki (de) m or f, Lotuspflaume f Greek: λωτός (el) m (lotós) Hebrew: אֲפַרְסְמוֹן (he) m (afarsemón) Hindi: ख़ुरमा (xurmā) Hungarian: datolyaszilva (hu) Hunsrik: Kacki m Ido: hurmo Indonesian: kesemek (id) Irish: dátphluma m Italian: cachi (it) m, diospiro (it) m, caco (it) m Japanese: 柿 (ja) (kaki), パーシモン (pāshimon) Kavalan: amus Kazakh: құрма (qūrma), хурма (xurma) Korean: 감 (ko) (gam), 퍼시몬 (peosimon) Kyrgyz: курма (ky) (kurma) Ladino: afarsemón m, hurmá f Lao: ໝາກກາກີ (lo) (māk kā kī) Latvian: hurma f Lithuanian: persimonas m Macedonian: ра́јско ја́болко n (rájsko jábolko), ја́понско ја́болко n (jáponsko jábolko) Malagasy: hazoarina, hazoary Malay: kesmak, buah samak, pisang kaki (ms) Maori: āporo makimaki Mongolian: Cyrillic: илжгэн чих (ilžgen čix) (Mongolia), модон шавтал (modon šavtal), шавтал (mn) (šavtal), хурма (mn) (xurma) (Mongolia) Nepali: हलुवाबेद (haluwābed) Norwegian: kaki, kakiplomme (no), kakifrukt, persimon Occitan: caqui (oc) m Pashto: املوک (ps) (amlúk) Persian: خرمالو (fa) (xormâlu) Polish: kaki (pl) n, persymona (pl) f, szaron m, hurma (pl) f Portuguese: caqui (pt) m, dióspiro m Punjabi: ਪਰਸਿੰਮਨ (parsimman) Romanian: kaki (ro) m Russian: хурма́ (ru) f (xurmá) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: персимон m, каки m, хурма f Roman: persimon m, kaki (sh) m, hurma (sh) f Sicilian: lotu m, cacu m Slovak: kaki (sk) n, hurma f, churma f, hurmikaki n Slovene: kaki (sl) m Sorbian: Upper Sorbian: kaki (hsb) f Southern Altai: хурма (hurma) Spanish: caqui (es) m, kaki (es) m, persimón m, persimonio m, pérsimo m, placaminero m Swedish: persimon (sv) c, kaki (sv) c, sharonfrukt c Tajik: хурмо (tg) (xurmo) Tatar: хөрмә (tt) (xörmä) Thai: พลับ (th) (pláp) Tigrinya: ፐርሲሞን (pärsimon), ካኪ (kaki) Turkish: Trabzon hurması (tr), Japon hurması (tr), hurma (tr) Ukrainian: хурма́ f (xurmá), персимо́на f (persymóna) Unami: ximin Urdu: جاپانی پھل m (jāpānī phal), خرما (xurmā) Uyghur: شىزا (shiza), ئەبنۇس (ebnus), хорма (xorma) (Kazakhstan) Uzbek: xurmo (uz), persimon Vietnamese: quả hồng vàng, hồng (vi) Volapük: plakminepafluk

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Basque: kakiondo Catalan: caquier, persimó, banús (ca) Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎷᎢ (tsalalui), ᏣᎵ (tsali) Chinese: Mandarin: 柿樹 / 柿树 (shì shù) Czech: tomel m Esperanto: persimono, diospiro Estonian: hurmaa, kakiploom, kaki (et) Finnish: kaki (fi) French: plaqueminier (fr) m Georgian: კარალიოკი (ḳaralioḳi), ხურმა (xurma) German: Persimonenbaum m Greek: λωτός (el) m (lotós) Hebrew: אֲפַרְסְמוֹן (he) m (afarsemón) Hungarian: datolyaszilva (hu) Hunsrik: Kackibaam m Icelandic: döðluplóma, persimónía Irish: crann dátphlumaí m Italian: cachi (it) m Ivatan: vatinglaw Japanese: 柿の木 (kakinoki) Khmer: ទន្លាប់ (km) (tŭənlŏəp) Korean: 감나무 (gamnamu) Macedonian: ра́јска јабо́лкница f (rájska jabólknica), ја́понска јабо́лкница f (jáponska jabólknica) Nahuatl: tliltzapotl Occitan: caqui (oc) m Polish: hebanowiec m, hurma (pl) f, kaki (pl) n, persymona (pl) f, szaron m Portuguese: caquizeiro m, diospireiro m Russian: хурма́ (ru) f (xurmá) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: персимон m, каки m Roman: persimon m, kaki (sh) m Sicilian: macchia dû lotu m, macchia dû cacu m Slovak: kaki (sk) n, ebenovník rajčiakový (sk) m Spanish: caqui (es) m, palosanto m Swedish: persimonträd n, kakiträd n Tagalog: kamagong (tl), mabolo (tl) Thai: พลับ (th) (pláp) Turkish: Trabzon hurması (tr), Japon hurması (tr) Unami: ximinunshi (North American) Vietnamese: hồng (vi) Volapük: plakminep

Further reading

• persimmon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Diospyros on Wikispecies.Wikispecies