鳳梨

Chinese

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Etymology

So named for the similarity between the crown of a pineapple and the tail of a male fenghuang.

Pronunciation


Noun

鳳梨

  1. (now chiefly Taiwan) pineapple [from 17th c.]

Synonyms

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (鳳梨):
  • Japanese: Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • Korean: 봉리(鳳梨) (bongni)

Japanese

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value): two pineapple fruits growing on the pineapple plant.
Kanji in this term
ほう
Jinmeiyō

Grade: 4
kan’on on’yomi

Etymology

From written Chinese Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).[1][2][3][4]

First attested in Japanese in 1876.[1] Apparently the fruit was first cultivated in Japan in 1830, with records from 1845 of the Dutch importing pineapples via Nagasaki.[5]

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.

Pronunciation

Noun

(ほう)() • (hōri) 

  1. [from 1876] (archaic) pineapple, both the fruit and the plant

Usage notes

In modern Japanese, the term パイナップル (painappuru) is much more common.

Synonyms

References

  1. 鳳梨”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten) (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. 鳳梨”, in デジタル大辞泉 (Dejitaru Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  3. 1998, 広辞苑 (Kōjien), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
  4. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. 猪股慶子 (Inomata Keiko), editor (2012-07-10) かしこく選ぶ・おいしく食べる 野菜まるごと事典 (Kashikoku Erabu - Oishiku Taberu - Yasai Marugoto Jiten, The Complete Vegetable Dictionary - for choosing cleverly and eating deliciously), 成美堂出版 (Seibidō Shuppan), →ISBN, page 202
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