| Pages in topic: [1 2 3] > | Do you have 2 words for the word/fruit "pineapple" in your language? Thread poster: Ivana de Sousa Santos
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I've been wondering about this for a while (since I became a pineapple lover a few months ago).
When I buy it at the supermarket I usually have two choices (specially in big surfaces): "Ananás" and "Abacaxi".
If I was to translate an English text with the word "pineapple", a French one with the word "ananas" or a Spanish one with the word "piña", I would immediately translate it into "ananás". But then, we also have "abacaxi". Also, my English-Portuguese dictionary o... See more I've been wondering about this for a while (since I became a pineapple lover a few months ago).
When I buy it at the supermarket I usually have two choices (specially in big surfaces): "Ananás" and "Abacaxi".
If I was to translate an English text with the word "pineapple", a French one with the word "ananas" or a Spanish one with the word "piña", I would immediately translate it into "ananás". But then, we also have "abacaxi". Also, my English-Portuguese dictionary only has the word "ananás" as the translation of pineapple (I've just checked).
Actually, here in Portugal, it's easier to find "abacaxi" rather than "ananás" (and it's cheaper as well) and when I say I bought "ananás" people tend to correct me and say it is "abacaxi".
When asked about the difference people say that the leaves of the "ananás" are smaller than those of the "abacaxi" and the taste is better, but I actually bought a "ananás" a while ago from Azores and I had to put sugar on it in order to eat it, although I was told it was just a bad "ananás".
Another curious thing is the fact that whenever I buy "abacaxi", the tag usually says "Costa Rica's pineapple" or somewhere else "pineapple", which I would translate "ananás" from Costa Rica (or somewhere else).
So I wonder, do you also have 2 words for the word/fruit "pineapple" in your language?
I am very curious to know about it in several languages (even in English, French and Spanish, although I've never heard about it).
Thank you in advance.
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| | | | Cecilia Civetta 
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| Sophia Hundt (X)
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Only one word in Russian (that I can think of, anyway, although it's been a while): ananas (from Spanish?). We didn't used to have whole lot of it around in USSR when I was growing up. Not sure about now.
| | | | Kalinka Hristova
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No, in Bulgaria we have just one, "ананас", and we reed it as "ananás".
I was in Portugal just a few months ago, and I still wonder why on earth you need two words for the same thing! You don't have separate words for red and yellow apples for example, do you? )
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| Abacaxi pérola etc | Oct 20, 2006 |
Oi Ivana
Aqui no Brasil, apesar de existir o nome ananás, todo mundo chama de abacaxi. Fiquei imaginando se a diferença de nome em PT não é usada para marcar apenas variedades da mesma fruta. Aqui nós temos Abacaxi pérola (mais doce, alongado e de polpa esbranquiçada) e o Abacaxi Havaí (mais baixinho, às vezes tb super doce, mais fibroso e de polpa bem amarela.)
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Aqui no Brasil, apesar de existir o nome ananás, todo mundo chama de abacaxi. Fiquei imaginando se a diferença de nome em PT não é usada para marcar apenas variedades da mesma fruta. Aqui nós temos Abacaxi pérola (mais doce, alongado e de polpa esbranquiçada) e o Abacaxi Havaí (mais baixinho, às vezes tb super doce, mais fibroso e de polpa bem amarela.)
Veja fotos em
http://www.paodeacucar.com.br/categoria.asp?categoria=catHortifruti&subCategoria=catFrutaNacional
Aliás, segundo esse documento aqui, os dois nomes têm os nomes originados pelas línguas indígenas cá do Brasil.
Na Wikipedia eles dizem:
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananás
"O termo abacaxi (em português) é, com forte probabilidade, oriundo do tupi ibacati, ‘bodum ou fedor de fruto’, ‘fruto fedorento’ (ibá, ‘fruto’, cati, ‘recender ou cheirar fortemente’), documentado já no início do séc. XIX.
O termo ananás (em português e espanhol) é do guarani naná, e documentado em português na primeira metade do séc. XVI e em espanhol na segunda (1578), em que é empréstimo do português do Brasil ou da sua língua geral."
Pessoalmente não sou muito chegada no abacaxi porque sempre me enche a boca de aftas, mas achei interessante a sua pergunta.
Boa sorte e bons abacaxis!
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| | | | Inga Jakobi
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| One word in German | Oct 20, 2006 |
Hi,
in German we only have one word: Ananas. There is probably a Latin word as well (like for all the plants), but nobody would use it in common language.
Regards,
Inga
| | | | | Only ananas in Dutch and German | Oct 20, 2006 |
HI Ivana, interesting question, although I am not a lover of ananas. But maybe its also because of the quality you find here in the supermarkets.
But I have found something interesting
http://ars.usda.gov/Main/docs.htm?docid=12537
Agricultural Research Service offers a photo gallery there you find
Ananas comosus called ‘Abacaxi’ among many other differen... See more HI Ivana, interesting question, although I am not a lover of ananas. But maybe its also because of the quality you find here in the supermarkets.
But I have found something interesting
http://ars.usda.gov/Main/docs.htm?docid=12537
Agricultural Research Service offers a photo gallery there you find
Ananas comosus called ‘Abacaxi’ among many other different types
http://ars.usda.gov/SP2UserFiles/Place/53200345/PHOTOS/HANA-21.gif
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/pineapple.html
Abacaxi' (also called 'White Abacaxi of Pernambuco', 'Pernambuco', 'Eleuthera', and 'English') is well known in Brazil, the Bahamas and Florida. (..)It is very fragrant. The flesh is white or very pale yellowish, of rich, sweet flavor, succulent and juicy with only a narrow vestige of a core. This is rated by many as the most delicious pineapple. It is too tender for commercial handling…
Bons abacaxis! (I like that one.)
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| | | | | In Finnish, only one word | Oct 20, 2006 |
at least I can't think of another one.
However, there are "pineapple-cherries" sold in Finland, which are "cape gooseberries" (or "Peruvian Cherries") in English.
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| One word in Italian | Oct 20, 2006 |
Hi Ivana
One word only in Italian too, and it is....... Ananas
Bye bye
Angio
| | | | Dina Abdo
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| One word in Arabic too! | Oct 20, 2006 |
Ananas for plural and Ananasa for Singular!
Interesting! I didn't even know it's named the same in other languages!
Cool
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In the Latvian language there is just one word for this fruit - "ananāss".
Have a nice weekend!
Kr.
| | | | Rafa Lombardino
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| Abacaxi & Ananás | Oct 20, 2006 |
farre wrote:
Aqui no Brasil, apesar de existir o nome ananás, todo mundo chama de abacaxi.
Interesting thread Ivana!
In Brazil I'd say "abacaxi" is the popular term, but "ananás" is not ruled out — my Grandma used to say it all the time. Actually, it seems that abacaxi and ananás are like cousins, the latter would be considered "wilder" and a bit smaller, also referring to the plant as a whole, and the former being the popular fruit itself.
As Farre said, both words come from the indigenous language Tupi (ananás = naná / abacaxi = katí) and at supermarkets we can see several varieties of abacaxi, according to the different "hybrids" or from where they were originally imported. There's also abacaxi-de-tingir, which is used to make yellow paint.
A funny fact is that we often use abacaxi as a synonym for "problem, hairy situation, difficult event," as in "On Fridays, John Doe leaves the office early and I always have to work late to solve the pineapples he left behind."
Other general uses of abacaxi are related to the Military area ("hand grenade"), physical appearance ("awkward,: "clumsy"), and Immigration (people from Portugal that immigrated to Rio used to be affectionately be called "abacaxi," just don't ask me why, 'cause I don't know! )
[Edited at 2006-10-20 19:49]
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ciovo
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| In Croatia one word | Oct 20, 2006 |
It's called ANANAS here in Croatia.
| | | | Margreet Logmans (X)
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| Confusion in Dutch | Oct 20, 2006 |
The funny thing is, in Dutch there is a word 'pijnappel', which looks and almost sounds like 'pineapple'.
However, ' pijnappel' does not mean 'pineAPPLE', but 'pineCONE'.
The fruit you're talking about is called 'ananas' in Dutch, no other word for it. Good fruit though, love the taste of it.
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SITE LOCALIZER | Anannas in Hindi too | Oct 21, 2006 |
Pineapple is called anannas in Hindi too.
It has a rather interesting name in Malayalam, another Indian language, kashuda chhakka, which when translated into English means "donkey's jackfruit".
Apparently this interesting name is derived the external spiny appearance of this fruit to jackfruit. Also in taste, the pineapple is definitely inferior to jackfruit, which according to me, deserves to be called the "king of fruits", for it can beat even the best variety of mang... See more Pineapple is called anannas in Hindi too.
It has a rather interesting name in Malayalam, another Indian language, kashuda chhakka, which when translated into English means "donkey's jackfruit".
Apparently this interesting name is derived the external spiny appearance of this fruit to jackfruit. Also in taste, the pineapple is definitely inferior to jackfruit, which according to me, deserves to be called the "king of fruits", for it can beat even the best variety of mango in sweetness and flavour. ▲ Collapse
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