Can you name the fruits by seeing them in random other languages?

created by bubbleboy

Enter a fruit (last names acceptable) in the box below
Correctly named fruits will show up below
Click any empty Fruit In Other Languages or Fruit in English to answer for that location

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Fruit In Other Languages	Fruit in English	Languages Used
nettarina, nektarina, nektarien		Italian, Croatian, Afrikaans
lemmetjie, limau, lacho		Afrikaans, Malay, Haitian Creole
litschi, lichia, vải thiều		German, Galacian, Vietnamese
meló, dinja, kavun		Catalan, Croatian, Turkish
paradicsom, domates, trátaí		Hungarian, Turkish, Irish
jabolko, afal, táo		Slovenian, Welsh, Vietnamese
maduixa, morango, fraise		Catalan, Portuguese, French
abrikos, bricyll, abrikoos		Danish, Welsh, Dutch
broskyňa, melocotón, perzik		Slovak, Spanish, Dutch
mirtillo, borůvka, heidelbeere		Italian, Czech, German
granātkoks, rodie, granatmedis		Latvian, Romanian, Lithuanian

Fruit In Other Languages	Fruit in English	Languages Used
mangga, embe, mànec		Filipino, Swahili, Catalan
nanas, anann, pinya		Malay, Irish, Catalan
naranča, portokall, oranžs		Croatian, Albanian, Latvian
pera, piorra, hruška		Spanish/Italian, Irish, Czech
framboise, hindbær, himbeere		French, Danish, German
pisang, ndizi, plátano		Indonesian, Swahili, Spanish
plóma, luumu, llokum		Icelandic, Finnish, Albanian
acinus, uva, winogrono		Latin, Portuguese, Polish
češnja, kiraz, kirsebær		Slovenian, Turkish, Danish
lumi, citrina, llimona		Maltese, Lithuanian, Catalan

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Fruits in Other Languages Quiz

by bubbleboy

Created Aug 27, 2011 in Language
Featured Sep 13, 2011
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	erinrebekah:	Sep 13th, 2011 at 19:16 GMT	2 points
	Please accept 'litchi' as an alternate spelling to 'lychee'

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	caramba:	Sep 13th, 2011 at 20:09 GMT	5 points
	Really well done - at least one subtle clue in each set.

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	Krys2485:	Sep 13th, 2011 at 20:13 GMT	1 point
	Thank God you didn't ask for the fruit in the other languages. Then, I really would have been lost.

	fraac:	Sep 13th, 2011 at 20:27 GMT	4 points
	Re naranča: original word for orange was norange so they called one 'a norange', which someone misheard. Nobody tell me if that half-remembered trivia is untrue because I love it.

	gowhere:	Sep 13th, 2011 at 21:01 GMT	2 points
	@fraac: It's a cute story and probably partially true. The english word is the same as the French word and similar to the Italian and Latin words. Although I do agree that the initial n was probably either added or lost because an elided article, it likely took place long before the word was incorporated into English. In French the word is une orange and in Italian, un'arancia, so the elision with an n exists in those languages, too. There are several latin variations of the word, arantia, arangia, arantium, arancium

	FujiMouse:	Sep 13th, 2011 at 21:17 GMT	4 points
	@nyyhec why should it be? the challenge is to find the fruit which is the translation of all three words, not just the Spanish one.

	guyborab:	Sep 14th, 2011 at 00:26 GMT	5 points
	Gotta admit, never heard of a lychee before... Just looked it up and I don't believe I've eaten one before either. Good o know.

	kristifree:	Sep 14th, 2011 at 02:19 GMT	5 points
	"Our name, Portokalos, is come from the Greek word 'portokali,' which mean 'orange.'"

	idledandy:	Sep 14th, 2011 at 02:43 GMT	2 points
	I have only heard of lychee because I went to the World of Coke and sampled a lychee-flavored beverage from Thailand. It wasn't good.

	Jerdoggiedog:	Sep 14th, 2011 at 03:36 GMT	1 point
	All I know is Northern Brazil has amazing fruit. You are missing Maracuja and Goiaba and a bunch I loved but don't remember and probably don't have english names anyway.

	Pogues:	Sep 14th, 2011 at 04:19 GMT	8 points
	Isn't "melon" not so much a fruit but a classification of fruits?

	yurase_ima_wo:	Sep 14th, 2011 at 05:50 GMT	6 points
	Glad to see that lychee made it on... it's one of my favorite fruits!

	gringuita_1:	Sep 14th, 2011 at 06:23 GMT	6 points
	"Enter a fruit (last names acceptable)"?

	TessSGS:	Sep 14th, 2011 at 10:31 GMT	4 points
	I love lychees, but haven't had one in years. We lived in Hong Kong when I was a child and you could get them fresh. Lovely.

	johnsy:	Sep 14th, 2011 at 11:18 GMT	-1 points
	Thanks to Filipino, Malay, and Dutch... they give birth to our language and the clues from those languages are pretty straight forward to us.

	marpocky:	Sep 14th, 2011 at 15:25 GMT	2 points
	Pineapple is very similar in a surprising number of languages, even ones without a common lineage. Check it out sometime, most of the world's common languages (though not English) call it something like nanas/ananas/anana/etc.

	kristifree:	Sep 14th, 2011 at 16:20 GMT	3 points
	@gringuita_1 LOL good call! I didn't know fruit had full names... :)

	RJMurphy:	Sep 14th, 2011 at 19:18 GMT	2 points
	Loved this quiz. I only know English & German (& a small bit of French & Mandarin), but logic really pulls you through. Found out the berries from the German/Dutch, and worked out the major fruits that hadn't come up yet at the end.

	Lil2:	Sep 14th, 2011 at 23:56 GMT	2 points
	i remember in my high school french class my teacher would show us this french kids show called telefrancais. one of the characters was a talking pineapple and 'je suis un ananas,' meaning 'i am a pineapple' is probably the bit of french that is most firmly entrenched in my memory.

	Mayan:	Sep 15th, 2011 at 09:14 GMT	5 points
	One thing: nouns are always capitalized in German.

	tacobel:	Sep 15th, 2011 at 13:42 GMT	2 points
	@Jerdoggiedog maracujá: passion fruit; goiaba: guava

	expat:	Sep 15th, 2011 at 14:17 GMT	1 point
	Facepalm for melocoton because here in Argentina we call peches duraznos.

	Vman455:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 00:48 GMT	0 points
	Seems a bit unfair to include the generic 'melon' yet several different varieties of berry (especially since I guessed watermelon, cantaloupe, and honeydew for the melon clue!).

	NagMeNot:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 06:36 GMT	1 point
	I was expecting 'pamplemousse' as a clue!

	jwac:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 22:55 GMT	-1 points
	Yeah, "melon" is not a fruit.