peanut

peanut

See also: pea-nut

English

peanuts

Etymology

From pea +‎ nut, perhaps a folk etymology of pinda, pinder (still found in Southern US dialects).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: pē'nŭt", IPA^(key): /ˈpiːˌnʌt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpinət/, /ˈpiˌnʌt/

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• Rhymes: -ʌt

Noun

peanut (plural peanuts)

1. A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea.
2. (US) A very small clam.
3. See peanuts (“very small amount”).

Synonyms

• goober (Southern US slang), goober pea (dated Southern US), monkey nut (UK)

Hypernyms

• earthnut, groundnut

Derived terms

• if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
• packing peanut
• peanut butter
• peanut butter and jelly
• peanutlike
• peanutty
• Peanut yellow mosaic virus

Translations

a legume resembling a nut

Afrikaans: grondboontjie Alabama: hayaɬi Albanian: kikirik (sq) m Amharic: ኦቾሎኒ (ʾočoloni) Amuzgo: Guerrero: ta̱ti San Pedro Amuzgos: tëtyi Arabic: فُول سُودَانِيّ‎ m (fūl sūdāniyy) Egyptian Arabic: فول سوداني‎ m pl (fūl sūdānī), سوداني‎ m pl (sūdānī) Moroccan Arabic: كاوكاو‎ (kāwkāw) South Levantine Arabic: فستق‎ (fustu[q]) Armenian: գետնանուշ (hy) (getnanuš) Asturian: cacagüés (ast) m, cacagüesa (ast) f Aymara: chuqupa Basque: kakahuete Belarusian: ара́хіс m (aráxis) Bengali: চিনাবাদাম (cinabadam) Brunei Malay: kacang tanah Bulgarian: фъстъ́к (bg) m (fǎstǎ́k) Burmese: မြေပဲ (my) (mrepai:) Catalan: cacauet (ca) m Cebuano: mani Cerma: kaakoeŋo Chinese: Cantonese: 花生 (faa1 sang1), 落花生 (lok6 faa1 sang1) Hakka: 番豆 (fân-theu) Mandarin: 花生 (zh) (huāshēng), 落花生 (zh) (luòhuāshēng), 長生果／长生果 (zh) (chángshēngguǒ), 土豆 (zh) (tǔdòu) (Taiwan) Min Nan: 塗豆 (zh-min-nan) (thô͘-tāu) Cornish: knowen dhor f Czech: arašíd (cs) m, burský oříšek m Danish: jordnød c, peanut (da) c Dutch: aardnoot (nl) f, pinda (nl) m, apennoot (nl) f, arachidenoot f, grondnoot (nl) f, olienoot (nl) f Erzya: модапеште (modapešte) Esperanto: arakido, ternukso Estonian: maapähkel (et), arahhis, arahhispähkel, hiina pähkel Faroese: jarðnøt f Finnish: maapähkinä (fi) French: arachide (fr) f, cacahuète (fr) m; pinotte (fr) f (Quebec, informal) Galibi Carib: akunepy Galician: cacahuete (gl) m Georgian: არაქისი (arakisi), მიწის თხილი (mic̣is txili) German: Erdnuss (de) f Greek: φυστίκι (el) n (fystíki) Greenlandic: jordnøddi Guaraní: manduvi (gn) Gujarati: please add this translation if you can Hawaiian: pineki Hebrew: בוֹטֵן‎ m (boten), אגוז אדמה‎ (he) (egoz adama) Higaonon: mani Hindi: मूँगफली (hi) f (mūṅgaphlī), चिनियाबदाम (hi) m (ciniyābdām) Hungarian: földimogyoró (hu), amerikaimogyoró (hu) Icelandic: jarðhneta (is) f Ido: arakido (io) Indonesian: kacang tanah (id) Irish: pis talún Isan: please add this translation if you can Italian: arachide (it) f, bagigio (it) m Japanese: ピーナツ (pīnatsu), 落花生 (ja) (らっかせい, rakkasei) Kannada: ಕಡಲೇಕಾಯಿ (kn) (kaḍalēkāyi) Kazakh: жержаңғақ (jerjañğaq) Khmer: សណ្ដែកដី (sɑndaek dəy) Kongo: nguba, mpinda Korean: 땅콩 (ko) (ttangkong) Kyrgyz: жержаңгак (jerjaŋgak) Lao: ຖົ່ວດິນ (thūa din) Latin: (New Latin) arachis m Latvian: zemesrieksts m Lithuanian: valgomasis arachis Low German: Eerdnööt f, Ültje m Luhya: chimaito Luxembourgish: Kakuett, Afennoss f Lü: ᦷᦏᧈᦡᦲᧃ (ṫho¹ḋiin) Macedonian: кикири́тка f (kikirítka), кикири́ка f (kikiríka) Malay: kacang tanah (ms) Malayalam: കപ്പലണ്ടി (ml) (kappalaṇṭi), നിലക്കടല (nilakkaṭala) Maltese: karawett m Manx: cro thallooin m Maori: pīnati Marathi: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: хуасан (mn) (xuasan) Nahuatl: cacáhuatl, tlalcacahuatl (nah) Navajo: neeshchʼííłbáhí Ngazidja Comorian: ndjugu class 9/10 Northern Sami: please add this translation if you can Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: peanøtt f, jordnøtt f Occitan: cacauèt (oc) m Old English: eorþhnutu f Oriya: please add this translation if you can Oromo: ocholoonii Ottoman Turkish: یر فستغی‎ (yer fıstığı) Papiamentu: pinda Persian: بادام کوهی‎ (bâdâm kuhi), بادام زمینی‎ (bâdâm zamini) Plautdietsch: Ieednät f, Pienat f Polish: arachid (pl) m, fistaszek (pl) m, orzech arachidowy m, orzech ziemny (pl) m, orzeszek ziemny m, żydek (pl) m (colloquial) Portuguese: amendoim (pt) m; ginguba (Angola) Punjabi: ਮੁੰਗਫਲੀ f (muṅgphalī) Quechua: inchik Romanian: arahidă (ro), alună de pământ (ro) f, alună americană (ro) f Romansch: spagnoletta f Russian: ара́хис (ru) m (aráxis), земляно́й оре́х (ru) m (zemljanój oréx), кита́йский оре́х m (kitájskij oréx) Scottish Gaelic: cnò-thalmhainn f Serbo-Croatian: Roman: kikirìki (sh) m Slovak: arašid (sk) m Slovene: arašíd (sl) m, kikirikí (sl), kikirikí (sl) m Sotho: letokomane Southern Thai: please add this translation if you can Spanish: maní (es) m (Latin America), cacahuate (es) (Mexico), cacahuete (es) m (Spain) Swahili: njugu (sw), karanga (soft), njugunyasa (soft), njugumawe (hard) Swedish: jordnöt (sv) c Tagalog: mani Tamil: நிலக்கடலை (ta) (nilakkaṭalai) Telugu: ("standard") వేరుసెనగ (te) (vērusenaga), వేరుసెనగకాయ (vērusenagakāya) (unshelled), (northern Telangana) పల్లీ (pallī), పల్లీకాయ (pallīkāya) (unshelled), (Mahabubnagar, Nalgonda) ఇలాతికాయ (ilātikāya) (unshelled), (Mahabubnagar, Kurnool) బుడ్డ (te) (buḍḍa), (Coastal Andhra) గుత్తిసెనగ (guttisenaga), (Rayalaseema) సెనక్కాయ (senakkāya) Thai: ถั่วลิสง, ลิสง (lí-sǒng) Tibetan: སྦ་ཏམ (sba tam) Tongan: pīnati Turkish: yer fıstığı (tr) Uab Meto: fukasê Ukrainian: ара́хіс (uk) m (aráxis) Upper Sorbian: zemski worjech Urdu: مونگفلی‎ f (mungfali) Venetian: bajijo m pl, bagigio (vec) m Vietnamese: đậu phộng, đậu phụng, lạc (vi) Volapük: raagid (vo) Wayana: ahnep, pinta Welsh: cneuen ddaear (cy) f sg, cnau daear (cy) f pl, pysgnau f pl White Hmong: please add this translation if you can Wolof: gerte (wo), areen Yiddish: פֿיסטאַשקע‎ f (fistashke), סטאַשקע‎ f (stashke), רבי־ניסל‎ n (rebe-nisl) Zhuang: duhdoem, duhnamh

See also

• beer nut

Verb

peanut (third-person singular simple present peanuts, present participle peanutting, simple past and past participle peanutted)

1. (transitive) To pull on somebody's tie as a prank, causing the knot to tighten.

Further reading

• Arachis hypogaea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• peanut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• peanut at USDA Plants database
• peanut at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

Anagrams

• ante up, ante-up, untape

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Danish

Etymology

From English peanut.

Noun

peanut c (singular definite peanutten, plural indefinite peanuts)

1. peanut

Inflection

Declension of peanut

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	peanut	peanutten	peanuts	peanuttene
genitive	peanuts	peanuttens	peanuts'	peanuttenes

Synonyms

• jordnød

Further reading

• “peanut” in Den Danske Ordbog