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…
From written Chinese 鳳梨 (fènglí). First attested in Japanese in 1876. Apparently the fruit was first cultivated in Japan in 1830, with records from 1845 of the Dutch importing pineapples via Nagasaki. The reading is the expected Japanese on'yomi (kan'on) for the Chinese spelling. Compare the modern Cantonese reading fung⁶ lei⁴, or Min Nan hōng-lâi.