Meaning

4 senses
  1. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Philippines, US, countable, uncountable)The plant Solanum melongena or its edible fruit; an aubergine.

    Aubergine, Eierpflanze, Eierfrucht

    баклажа́нbaklažán, баклажа́нbaklažán, си́ненькийsínenʹkij

    баклажа́нbaklažán, баклажа́нbaklažán

  2. (Canada, US, countable, uncountable)A dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit.

    egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow

  3. (US, countable, derogatory, offensive, slang, uncountable)A black person; used mainly by Italian-Americans.

  4. (countable, uncountable)A 180 backside rotated invert in which the front hand is planted on the lip of the halfpipe wall.

Examples

37 sentences
  1. I love eggplant.

    Я обожнюю баклажани.

    ruЯ люблю баклажаны.

    deIch liebe Auberginen.

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  2. You don't get eggplants from a gourd vine.

    ruНельзя вырастить баклажаны на тыквенной лозе.

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  3. Tom doesn't like eggplant.

    ruТом не любит баклажаны.

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  4. The eggplant was delicious.

    deDie Aubergine war deliziös.

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  5. Tom likes eggplant.

    ruТом любит баклажаны.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
plant:
Русский
By meaning 2
plant:
edible fruit:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
plant:

Origin

From egg + plant, originally applied only to the white-colored, egg-shaped variety. Compar

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”).

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Forms

plural: eggplants

Synonyms

12 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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