lemon
English
/ˈlɛmən/
noun
Definitions
- A yellowish citrus fruit.
- A semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits.
- A taste or flavour/flavor of lemons.
- A more or less bright shade of yellow associated with lemon fruits.
- (slang) A defective or inadequate item or individual.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Favor.
- (fandom) A piece of fanfiction involving explicit sex (named after the erotic anime series ).
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English lymon derived from Old French lymon (citrus) derived from Arabic لَيْمُون (lemon, lime) derived from Ottoman Turkish لیمون derived from Persian لیمو (lemon, lm, lime).
Origin
Persian
لیمو
Gloss
lemon, lm, lime
Concept
Semantic Field
Agriculture and vegetation
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- fish English
- grass English
- lemonade English
- lemonal English
- lemonary English
- lemonfish English
- lemongrass English
- lemoniness English
- lemonish English
- lemonize English
- lemonless English
- lemonlike English
- lemonweed English
- lemonwood English
- lemony English
- weed English
- wood English
- лимо́н Russian
- lima Spanish, Castilian
- limoncito Spanish, Castilian
- limón Spanish, Castilian
- lime Norwegian Bokmål
- lima Portuguese
- レモン Japanese
- レモングラス Japanese
- レモン色 Japanese
- निम्बू Sanskrit
- lymon Middle English
- ليمون Arabic
- لَيْمُون Arabic
- لَيْمُون Arabic
- لِيمَة Arabic
- lymon Old French
- नींबू Hindi
- limón Galician
- آبلیمو Persian
- لیمو Persian
- λέμονι Greek (modern)
- λεμόνι Greek (modern)
- lemon Welsh
- lemwn Welsh
- limon Turkish
- لیمون Ottoman Turkish
- ლიმონი Georgian
- 檸檬 Chinese
- લીંબુ Gujarati
- dimu Swahili
- dimu, ndimu Swahili
- 레몬 Korean
- lemo Hausa
- لَيْمُون Andalusian Arabic
- لِيمَة Andalusian Arabic
- remoni Shona