rambutan
UK[ɹamˈbjʉːtən]/ɹæmˈbutən/
rambutan noun: a tree of species Nephelium lappaceum, of Southeast Asia.
Noun
rambutan (plural rambutans)
- A tree of species Nephelium lappaceum, of Southeast Asia.
- The edible fruit of this tree.
- The Mangosteen, Lansat, Rambutan, Jack, Jambou, and Blimbing, are all abundant; but most abundant and most esteemed is the Durian, a fruit about which very little is known in England, but which both by natives and Europeans in the Malay Archipelago is reckoned superior to all others.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 116
- Old women crouched over bags of Siamese rice, skeps of red and green peppers, purple egg-plants, bristly rambutans, pineapples, durians.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 115
rambutan meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam
rambutan in Hindi
- fruit
- रम्बूटान rambūṭān
rambutan in Tamil
- மலேயாநாட்டு உயரமான பழமரவகை
rambutan in Bengali
- fruit
- রামবুটান rambuṭan
rambutan in Malayalam
- rambutan, lychee; a fruit
- റംബൂട്ടാൻ ṟambūṭṭāṉ
More languagesFewer languages
- rambutan in Sinhala
- රඹුටන් raᵐbuṭan
- rambutan in Tagalog
- rambutan
- rambutan in Arabic
- رَامْبُوتَان rambutān
- rambutan in Malay
- rambutan
- rambutan in Indonesian
- rambutan, pohon rambutan
- rambutan in Thai
- เงาะ ngɔ́
- rambutan in Vietnamese
- chôm chôm
- rambutan in Myanmar
- ကြက်မောက် krakmauk, ကြက်မောက်သီး krakmauksi:
Forms of rambutan
| plural | rambutans |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | ramboostan |
| alternative form (obsolete) | rambootan |
| alternative form (obsolete) | rambostan |
| alternative form (obsolete) | rambotan |
| alternative form (obsolete) | ramboteen |
| alternative form (obsolete) | ramboutan |
| alternative form (obsolete) | rambustan |
| alternative form (obsolete) | rambustine |
| alternative form (obsolete) | rampostan |
Origin of rambutan
From Malay rambutan, from rambut (“hair”) + -an (“forming nouns”).
Phrases with rambutan
Questions about rambutan
- What does rambutan mean?
- Rambutan means a tree of species Nephelium lappaceum, of Southeast Asia.
- What is rambutan in Hindi?
- Rambutan in Hindi is रम्बूटान (rambūṭān). See Rambutan meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is rambutan?
- Rambutan is a noun.
- How do you pronounce rambutan?
- Rambutan is pronounced [ɹamˈbjʉːtən] (UK).
- What is the plural of rambutan?
- The plural of rambutan is rambutans.
Words near rambutan in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: rambutan (page history and authors); rambutan (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); റംബൂട്ടാൻ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); රඹුටන් (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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