mangosteen

mangosteen

English

purple mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana)

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch mangosteen (“mangosteen”), from Malay manggustan, variant of manggis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæŋɡəstiːn/

Noun

mangosteen (plural mangosteens)

1. A tropical fruit of the tree genus Garcinia.
   1. (more specifically) A tropical fruit of the tree Garcinia mangostana.
2. The tree on which the fruit grows.

Translations

fruit

Arabic: مَانْغُوسْتِين‎ m (manḡustīn), مَانْجُوسْتِين‎ m (mangustīn), جَوْز جَنْدَم‎ m (jawz jandam) Hijazi Arabic: مانقُستين‎ m (mangustīn), مانقوستين‎ m (māngōstīn) Bengali: ম্যাঙ্গোস্টিন (mẏaṅgosṭin) Bouyei: please add this translation if you can Burmese: မင်းကွတ် (my) (mang:kwat) Chinese: Cantonese: 山竹 (yue) (saan1 zuk1), 山竹果 (saan1 zuk1 gwo2) Mandarin: 山竹 (zh) (shānzhú), 山竹果 (shānzhúguǒ), 莽吉柿 (zh) (mǎngjíshì) Min Nan: please add this translation if you can Czech: mangostana lahodná f, mangostan m Danish: please add this translation if you can Dhivehi: މަބުސްތާން‎ (mabustān̊) Dutch: mangistan m Esperanto: mangostano Finnish: mangostani (fi) French: mangoustan (fr), mangouste (fr), brindone (fr) m German: Mangostane (de) f Hindi: मेन्गोस्टीन (mengosṭīn) Hungarian: mangosztán (hu) Indonesian: manggis (id) Isan: please add this translation if you can Italian: mangostano (it) m Japanese: マンゴスチン (mangosuchin) Javanese: manngis, manggis (jv) Kannada: ಮುರುಗಲ ಹಣ್ಣು (murugala haṇṇu), ಕೋಕಂ (kōkaṃ), ಪುನರ್ಪುಳಿ (punarpuḷi) (Havyaka Kannada) Khmer: មង្ឃុត (km) (mŭəngkhut) Khmu: please add this translation if you can Korean: 망고스틴 (manggoseutin) Lao: ມັງຄຸດ (mang khut), ໝາກມັງຄຸດ (māk mang khut) Lü: please add this translation if you can Malay: manggis (ms), manggustan Malayalam: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: хадны дорго (xadny dorgo) Occitan: mangosta (oc) f, mangostan m Persian: گوز گندم‎ (gowz-e gandom) (archaic) Portuguese: mangostão m Romanian: mangustan m Russian: мангоста́н (ru) m (mangostán), мангуста́н (ru) m (mangustán) Sinhalese: මැංගුස් (si) (mæṁgus), මැන්ගුස් (mængus), පළතුර (si) (paḷatura) Spanish: mangostán (es) m, mangostino (es) m Sundanese: manggu (su) Swedish: mangostan (sv) Tagalog: manggustan Tamil: மாங்கிஸ் (māṅkis), மங்குசுத்தான் (maṅkucuttāṉ) Telugu: please add this translation if you can Thai: มังคุด (th) (mang-kút) Tulu: ಪುನರ್ಪುಳಿ (punarpuḷi) Ukrainian: мангоста́н m (manhostán), мангоста́на f (manhostána), мангуста́н m (manhustán) Vietnamese: măng cụt (vi) White Hmong: txiv nplai qij Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• mangosteen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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