persimmon

English

persimmons

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/

• Audio (Southern England):

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

Noun

persimmon (plural persimmons)

1. 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.

2. 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)
• 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)

• 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

• Spanish: caqui (es) 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)
• 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

tree

• 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) (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
• 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