eggplant
/ˈɛɡ.plænt/
eggplant noun: the plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine.
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Noun
eggplant (countable and uncountable, plural eggplants)
- The plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine.
- Some fun meatless recipes include jackfruit sandwiches in place of pulled pork; black bean meatless balls or eggplant and shiitake “meatballs.”2020 May 19, Lisa Drayer, “How to eat less meat and more plants”, in CNN
- A dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit.
- A black person; used mainly by Italian-Americans.
- Hey. Yeah. And, and your great-great-great-great grandmother fucked a nigger, ho, ho, yeah, and she had a half-nigger kid… now, if that's a fact, tell me, am I lying? 'Cause you, you're part eggplant.1993, Quentin Tarantino, True Romance, spoken by Clifford Worley (Dennis Hopper)
- "Why am I not surprised?" This was the limit. "You know, I'm black enough for his family to yell eggplant-this and nigger-that at me," she said.2004, Wendy Coakley-Thompson, Back to Life
- A 180 backside rotated invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the halfpipe wall.
eggplant meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
eggplant in Hindi
- plant
- बैंगन baiṅgan, बतिया batiyā, भण्टा bhaṇṭā
- edible fruit
- बैंगन baiṅgan, बतिया batiyā, भण्टा bhaṇṭā
eggplant in Tamil
- plant
- கத்தரி kattari, கத்திரி kattiri
- edible fruit
- கத்தரிக்காய் kattarikkāy, கத்திரிக்காய் kattirikkāy
eggplant in Marathi
- plant
- वांगी vāṅgī
- edible fruit
- वांगे vāṅge
eggplant in Urdu
- plant
- بینگن baiṅgan, بیگن baigan, بینجن benjan
- edible fruit
- بینگن baiṅgan, بتیا batiyā, بھنٹا bhaṇṭā, بیگن Hyderabad, بینجن benjan
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- eggplant in Bengali
- বেগুন begun
- eggplant in Telugu
- వంగ vaṅga, వంకాయ vaṅkāya
- eggplant in Malayalam
- വഴുതന vaḻutana, വഴുതനങ്ങ vaḻutanaṅṅa
- eggplant in Kannada
- ನೆಲಗುಳ್ಳ nelaguḷḷa, ಬದನೆ badane, ಬಿಳಿಬದನೆ biḷibadane, ಗುಂಡು ಬದನೆಗಿಡ guṇḍu badanegiḍa
- eggplant in Punjabi
- ਬਤਾਊਂ batāū̃, ਬੈਂਗਣ baiṅgaṇ
- eggplant in Gujarati
- રીંગણ rī̃gaṇ, વેંગણ veṅgaṇ
- eggplant in Odia
- ବାଇଗଣ bāigaṇa
- eggplant in Sanskrit
- वृन्ताक vṛntāka, भण्टाकी bhaṇṭākī
- eggplant in Sinhala
- බටු baṭu
- eggplant in Assamese
- বেঙেনা beṅena
- eggplant in Nepali
- बैजनी baijanī, भण्टा bhaṇṭā
- eggplant in Pashto
- بادنجان bādanǰān, بانجان bānǰān, باټينګن bāṭingᶕn, باټينګړ bāṭingᶕṛ
- eggplant in Tagalog
- talong
- eggplant in Arabic
- بَاذِنْجَان bāḏinjān, بَادِنْجَان bādinjān, بَاتِنْجَان bātinjān
- eggplant in Malay
- terung, pokok terung ungu
- eggplant in Indonesian
- terung, terong
- eggplant in Persian
- بادنجان bâdenjân, بادنگان bâdengân, باتنگان bâtengân
- eggplant in Thai
- มะเขือ má-kʉ̌ʉa
- eggplant in Vietnamese
- cà, cà tím
- eggplant in Myanmar
- ခရမ်းပင် hka.ram:pang, ခရမ်း hka.ram:, ခရမ်းသီး hka.ram:si:
- Sindhi
- واڱَڻُ vāṅgṇu
- Dhivehi
- ބަށި baṣi
- Kashmiri
- وانٛگُن vāṅgun, वाँगुन vāṅgun
- Dzongkha
- དོ་ལོམ do lom, དོ་ལོམ་ཤིང
Examples of eggplant in a sentence
- The taste of an eggplant could be described as pepper meets tomato.
- The excellent mature eggplants grown in the garden plot are quickly being picked up by family and friends.
- This braised eggplant has all those savory parm-y flavors, but in an easy any-night form.
Synonyms of eggplant
Forms of eggplant
| plural | eggplants |
|---|---|
| alternative form | egg-plant |
Origin of eggplant
From egg + plant, originally applied only to the white-colored, egg-shaped variety. Compare Dutch and Afrikaans eierplant (“eggplant”), German Eierpflanze (“eggplant”), Swedish äggplanta (“eggplant”). Compare also Afrikaans eiervrug (“eggplant”, literally “egg-fruit”), Icelandic eggaldin (“eggplant”, literally “egg-fruit”).
Words formed from eggplant
- Eggplant mosaic virus
- eggplanty
- Ethiopian eggplant
- pea eggplant
- scarlet eggplant
- wild eggplant
Questions about eggplant
- What does eggplant mean?
- Eggplant means the plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine.
- What is eggplant in Hindi?
- Eggplant in Hindi is बैंगन (baiṅgan), बतिया (batiyā), भण्टा (bhaṇṭā). See Eggplant meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is eggplant?
- Eggplant is a noun.
- How do you pronounce eggplant?
- Eggplant is pronounced /ˈɛɡ.plænt/.
- What is the plural of eggplant?
- The plural of eggplant is eggplants.
Words near eggplant in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: eggplant (page history and authors); බටු (Sinhala) (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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