köken: 16th century, from Middle French ananas and/or Dutch ananas, themselves from Portuguese ananás, from Old Tupi naná. In sense two, an abbreviation of Ananaserdbeere (literally “pineapple strawberry”), translating French fraise ananas.
pineapple fruit · pineapple plant (Ananas comosus) · a certain fragrant, sweet cultivar of pineapple
çekim: çoğul abacaxis
eş: pepino, complicação, dificuldade
köken: Unknown. The use for the people (noun 2 sense 1) and river (see Abacaxis) are attested much earlier than the fruit (noun 1 sense 1); the relation between the two senses is unclear. Several authors point to a supposed Old Tupi 'ybakatĩ /'ybakati (“fragrant fruit”), but this formation is unattested and involves an undocumented word katĩ /kati. One of the earliest mentions of this etymology is in…
köken: First attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean 솘〮바ᅌᅩᆯ〮 (Yale: swól-s-pàngwól). From 솔 (sol, “pine”) + -ㅅ- (-s-, genitive interfix; omitted from the spelling, but this causes the tense phonation of the following consonant) + 방울 (bang'ul).
köken: From French ananas, from Spanish ananás, from Portuguese ananás (“pineapple”), from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”).
Etimoloji
From pijn (“pine”) + appel (“apple”). Although the word was formed very similarly to English pineapple, their meanings now differ: the tropical fruit is instead known as ananas in modern Dutch.