aubergine

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈəʊ.bə.ʒiːn/    美 /ˈoʊ.bɚ.ʒin/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An Asian plant, Solanum melongena, cultivated for its edible purple, green, or white ovoid fruit; eggplant. Ireland,UK,countable,uncountable
  2. The fruit of this plant, eaten as a vegetable. Ireland,UK,countable,uncountable
    — The hot and sour curry is an aubergine version of a south Indian fish curry I often make. […] You barbecue a few aubergines until the skin is completely black and burned, then cool and peel.
  3. A dark purple colour; eggplant. countable,uncountable

词形变化

aubergines plural

词汇关系

近义词
the list at eggplant
衍生词
auberginey

词源

Unadapted borrowing from French aubergine, from Catalan albergínia, from Arabic اَلْبَاذِنْجَان (al-bāḏinjān, “the aubergine”), from Classical Persian بَادِنْجَان (bādinjān), from بَاتِنْگَان (bātingān), from Sanskrit वातिङ्गण (vātiṅgaṇa, “the plant that cures the wind”), from Dravidian, ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *waẓVtV. Cognate with Malayalam വഴുതനങ്ങ (vaḻutanaṅṅa), Hindi बैंगन (baiṅgan). Doublet of brinjal.
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