aubergine









aubergine


noun

  1. Chiefly British. eggplant.
  2. a dark purplish color.

noun

  1. a tropical Old World solanaceous plant, Solanum melongena, widely cultivated for its egg-shaped typically dark purple fruitUS, Canadian, and Australian name: eggplant
  2. the fruit of this plant, which is cooked and eaten as a vegetable
    1. a dark purple colour
    2. (as adjective)an aubergine dress
n.

“eggplant,” 1794, from French aubergine, “fruit of the eggplant” (Solanum esculentum), diminutive of auberge “a kind of peach,” variant of alberge, from Spanish alberchigo “apricot” [OED]. Klein derives the French word from Catalan alberginera, from Arabic al-badinjan “the eggplant,” from Persian badin-gan, from Sanskrit vatin-ganah. As a color like that of the eggplant fruit, it is attested from 1895.

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