grape
English
/ɡɹeɪp/
noun
Definitions
- (countable) A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis.
- (countable) A woody vine that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine; of genus Vitis.
- (countable) A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes.
- (uncountable) grapeshot.
- A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.
- (US) A person's head.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English grape derived from Old French grappe, crape, grape (bunch of grapes, cluster of fruit flowers) derived from Frankish *krappō (hook) derived from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (hook).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*greb-
Gloss
hook
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Grapefruit League English
- fruit English
- grape kernel English
- grape tomato English
- grapefruit English
- grapefruitlike English
- grapefruity English
- grapeless English
- grapelike English
- grapery English
- grapeseed English
- grapeshot English
- grapestone English
- grapevine English
- grapey English
- grapiness English
- grapy English
- kernel English
- seed English
- shot English
- squeeze English
- squeeze-grape English
- stone English
- tomato English
- vine English
- wine English
- winegrape English
- Grapefruit German
- Krapfen German
- grapefruit Dutch, Flemish
- crapaud French
- grape-fruit French
- грейпфру́т Russian
- грейпфрут Russian
- engrapar Spanish, Castilian
- grapa Spanish, Castilian
- *greb- Proto-Indo-European
- *grep- Proto-Indo-European
- grapefrukt Norwegian Bokmål
- グレープフルーツ Japanese
- grejpfrut Polish
- grapefrukt Norwegian Nynorsk
- grape Middle English
- grape kirnell Middle English
- grapefrugt Danish
- كريفون Arabic
- graper Old French
- grapin Old French
- grappe Old French
- grappe, crape, grape Old French
- grejpfrut Serbo-Croatian
- грејпфрут Serbo-Croatian
- grapa Catalan, Valencian
- grepfrut Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- گریپ فروت Persian
- เกด Thai
- เกรปฟรุต Thai
- เกรปฟรูต Thai
- γκρέιπφρουτ Greek (modern)
- krāpho Old High German
- greypfrukt Faroese
- 그레이프프루트 Korean
- *krappō Frankish
- kūreep Marshallese