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aubergine

/ˈəʊ.bə.ʒiːn/US/ˈoʊ.bɚ.ʒin/

aubergine noun: an Asian plant, Solanum melongena, cultivated for its edible purple, green, or white ovoid fruit; eggplant.

aubergine: an Asian plant, Solanum melongena, cultivated for its edible purple, green, or white ovoid fruit;...
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Noun

aubergine (countable and uncountable, plural aubergines)

  1. (Ireland, UK) An Asian plant, Solanum melongena, cultivated for its edible purple, green, or white ovoid fruit; eggplant.
  2. (Ireland, UK) The fruit of this plant, eaten as a vegetable.
    • The hot and sour curry is an aubergine version of a south Indian fish curry I often make. […] You barbecue a few aubergines until the skin is completely black and burned, then cool and peel.2013 August 2, Stevie Parle, “A meat cheat? Recipes with aubergine”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2019
  3. A dark purple colour; eggplant.

aubergine meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

aubergine in Hindi

a dark purple colour
बैंगनी baiṅgnī

aubergine in Tamil

கத்தரிக்காய் செடி

aubergine in Urdu

a dark purple colour
بینگنی baiṅganī

aubergine in Bengali

a dark purple colour
বেগুন begun
More languagesFewer languages
aubergine in Gujarati
રીંગણ rīṅgaṇ, વેંગણ věṅgaṇ, બ્રિંજલ briñjal
aubergine in Sanskrit
वातिङ्गण vātiṅgaṇa, वृन्ताक vṛntāka, वङ्गन vaṅgana
aubergine in Malay
terung ungu
aubergine in Persian
بادنجانی bâdanjâni

Synonyms of aubergine

  • the list at eggplant

Forms of aubergine

pluralaubergines

Origin of aubergine

Unadapted borrowing from French aubergine, from Catalan albergínia, from Arabic اَلْبَاذِنْجَان (al-bāḏinjān, “the aubergine”), from Classical Persian بَادِنْجَان (bādinjān), from بَاتِنْگَان (bātingān), from Sanskrit वातिङ्गण (vātiṅgaṇa, “the plant that cures the wind”), from Dravidian, ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *waẓVtV. Cognate with Malayalam വഴുതനങ്ങ (vaḻutanaṅṅa), Hindi बैंगन (baiṅgan). Doublet of brinjal, malidzano, and melongene.

Words formed from aubergine

Questions about aubergine

What does aubergine mean?
Aubergine means an Asian plant, Solanum melongena, cultivated for its edible purple, green, or white ovoid fruit; eggplant.
What is aubergine in Hindi?
Aubergine in Hindi is बैंगनी (baiṅgnī). See Aubergine meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is aubergine?
Aubergine is a noun.
How do you pronounce aubergine?
Aubergine is pronounced /ˈəʊ.bə.ʒiːn/ (UK).
What is the plural of aubergine?
The plural of aubergine is aubergines.

Words near aubergine in the dictionary

  1. aubaine
  2. Aubange
  3. aube
  4. auberge
  5. auberges
  6. aubergine
  7. aubergines
  8. auberginey
  9. aubergiste
  10. aubergistes
  11. Auberjonois

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: aubergine (page history and authors); aubergine (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); બ્રિંજલ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); वङ्गन (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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