köken: Literally, “love apple”, referring for sense 2 to the supposed aphrodisiac qualities of tomato seeds. This origin is disputed, and it also suspected to be a corruption of Spanish poma de moros (literally “fruit of Moors”), which may also be the basis of the Italian pomo d'oro and the Sicilian puma d'amuri.
From Paradies (“paradise”) + Apfel (“apple”), referring to the fruit of the forbidden tree. Similar forms for “tomato”, perhaps borrowed from German, exist in several eastern European languages.