"pawpaw" meaning in All languages combined

See pawpaw on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈpɔːpɔː/, /ˈpɑːpɑː/ [cot-caught-merger] Forms: pawpaws [plural]
Etymology: Via Portuguese and Spanish papaya (which is botanically unrelated) from Kari'na kapaja; the reason for the change in spelling is unknown. Via Yuchi pahpah Etymology templates: {{taxfmt|Asimina triloba|species}} Asimina triloba, {{der|en|pt|-}} Portuguese, {{der|en|es|papaya}} Spanish papaya, {{der|en|car|kapaja}} Kari'na kapaja, {{der|en|yuc|pahpah}} Yuchi pahpah Head templates: {{en-noun}} pawpaw (plural pawpaws)
  1. Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:
    Asimina, a genus of trees and shrubs native to eastern North America, especially common pawpaw (Asimina triloba).
    Categories (lifeform): Brassicales order plants, Custard apple family plants Translations (Asimina): асимина (asimina) [feminine] (Bulgarian), chirimoyo de la Florida [masculine] (Spanish), banano de montaña [masculine] (Spanish) Translations (Asimina triloba): pápá [masculine] (Irish)
    Sense id: en-pawpaw-en-noun-HhhjpD31 Disambiguation of Brassicales order plants: 29 16 35 8 12 Disambiguation of Custard apple family plants: 32 16 21 23 8 Disambiguation of 'Asimina': 50 20 25 5 Disambiguation of 'Asimina triloba': 51 20 21 8
  2. Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:
    Papaya (Carica papaya), a widely cultivated tropical fruit tree.
    Categories (lifeform): Brassicales order plants Translations (Carica papaya): папая (papaja) [feminine] (Bulgarian)
    Sense id: en-pawpaw-en-noun-Ycrb8e6g Disambiguation of Brassicales order plants: 29 16 35 8 12 Disambiguation of 'Carica papaya': 17 63 16 4
  3. Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:
    Mountain pawpaw (Vasconcellea pubescens), a fruit tree native to South America.
    Categories (lifeform): Brassicales order plants, Fruits
    Sense id: en-pawpaw-en-noun-dQ3rq~Qf Disambiguation of Brassicales order plants: 29 16 35 8 12 Disambiguation of Fruits: 21 15 37 14 13 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 17 32 9 21 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 22 18 35 4 21
  4. The fruit of these trees. Synonyms: bandango, custard apple, hillbilly mango, prairie banana
    Sense id: en-pawpaw-en-noun-mGdvdj9M
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: paw-paw Translations (any of several trees): асимина (asimina) [feminine] (Bulgarian) Translations (fruit): ببو فاكهَة (Arabic), папая (papaja) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 泡泡 (pàopào) (Chinese Mandarin), papaija (Finnish), asimina [feminine] (French), Papau [feminine] (German), Asimina [feminine] (German), pápá [masculine] (Irish), ポーポー (pōpō) (Japanese), папа́ја (papája) [feminine] (Macedonian), papaia (Maori), pōpō (Maori), mamão [masculine] (Portuguese), азимина (azimina) [feminine] (Russian), асимина (asimina) [feminine] (Russian), papaya [feminine] (Spanish), papai (Swahili), pawpaw [common-gender] (Swedish)
Etymology number: 1 Disambiguation of 'any of several trees': 30 30 30 9 Disambiguation of 'fruit': 18 29 21 32

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈpɔːpɔː/, /ˈpɑːpɑː/ [cot-caught-merger] Forms: pawpaws [plural]
Etymology: Related to papa, or pa(w) pa(w) (one’s father’s father). Head templates: {{en-noun}} pawpaw (plural pawpaws)
  1. (dialectal or colloquial) Grandfather. Tags: colloquial, dialectal Categories (topical): Male family members Categories (lifeform): Brassicales order plants Synonyms: peepaw, pepaw, papaw, pappaw Related terms: mamaw
    Sense id: en-pawpaw-en-noun-y8SmV3Zp Disambiguation of Male family members: 18 7 19 4 52 Disambiguation of Brassicales order plants: 29 16 35 8 12
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Adjective [Tagalog]

IPA: /pawˈpaw/, [paʊ̯ˈpaʊ̯] Forms: pawpáw [canonical], ᜉᜏ᜔ᜉᜏ᜔ [Baybayin]
Head templates: {{tl-adj|pawpáw|b=+}} pawpáw (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜏ᜔ᜉᜏ᜔)
  1. level to the brim; smooth on top Synonyms: pantay-labi

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for pawpaw meaning in All languages combined (10.2kB)

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Asimina triloba",
        "2": "species"
      },
      "expansion": "Asimina triloba",
      "name": "taxfmt"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pt",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Portuguese",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "es",
        "3": "papaya"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish papaya",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "car",
        "3": "kapaja"
      },
      "expansion": "Kari'na kapaja",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "yuc",
        "3": "pahpah"
      },
      "expansion": "Yuchi pahpah",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Via Portuguese and Spanish papaya (which is botanically unrelated) from Kari'na kapaja; the reason for the change in spelling is unknown.\nVia Yuchi pahpah",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pawpaws",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pawpaw (plural pawpaws)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "29 16 35 8 12",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Brassicales order plants",
          "orig": "en:Brassicales order plants",
          "parents": [
            "Plants",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 16 21 23 8",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Custard apple family plants",
          "orig": "en:Custard apple family plants",
          "parents": [
            "Magnoliids",
            "Shrubs",
            "Trees",
            "Plants",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:",
        "Asimina, a genus of trees and shrubs native to eastern North America, especially common pawpaw (Asimina triloba)."
      ],
      "id": "en-pawpaw-en-noun-HhhjpD31",
      "links": [
        [
          "fruit",
          "fruit"
        ],
        [
          "Asimina",
          "Asimina#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "genus",
          "genus"
        ],
        [
          "North America",
          "North America"
        ],
        [
          "Asimina triloba",
          "Asimina triloba#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "50 20 25 5",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "asimina",
          "sense": "Asimina",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "асимина"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "50 20 25 5",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "Asimina",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "chirimoyo de la Florida"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "50 20 25 5",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "Asimina",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "banano de montaña"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "51 20 21 8",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "Asimina triloba",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pápá"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "29 16 35 8 12",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Brassicales order plants",
          "orig": "en:Brassicales order plants",
          "parents": [
            "Plants",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:",
        "Papaya (Carica papaya), a widely cultivated tropical fruit tree."
      ],
      "id": "en-pawpaw-en-noun-Ycrb8e6g",
      "links": [
        [
          "fruit",
          "fruit"
        ],
        [
          "Papaya",
          "papaya"
        ],
        [
          "Carica papaya",
          "Carica papaya#Translingual"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "17 63 16 4",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "papaja",
          "sense": "Carica papaya",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "папая"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "21 17 32 9 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "22 18 35 4 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "29 16 35 8 12",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Brassicales order plants",
          "orig": "en:Brassicales order plants",
          "parents": [
            "Plants",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "21 15 37 14 13",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fruits",
          "orig": "en:Fruits",
          "parents": [
            "Foods",
            "Plants",
            "Eating",
            "Food and drink",
            "Lifeforms",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:",
        "Mountain pawpaw (Vasconcellea pubescens), a fruit tree native to South America."
      ],
      "id": "en-pawpaw-en-noun-dQ3rq~Qf",
      "links": [
        [
          "fruit",
          "fruit"
        ],
        [
          "Mountain pawpaw",
          "mountain pawpaw"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "[2015, Andrew Moore, Pawpaw: In Search of America’s Forgotten Fruit, Chelsea Green Publishing, page 1",
          "text": "Throughout the years it's gone by a lot of names—frost banana, Indiana banana, fetid-bush, bandango, custard apple, prairie banana, poor man's banana—but most of the time it's just been called pawpaw. At first glance, both the fruit and the tree seem out of place in North America.]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 254",
          "text": "Xavier sliced the pawpaw in half, emptying the tiny black seeds over the veranda wall.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 September 29, Molly Fitzpatrick, “He’s the Pawpaw King of Brooklyn. (What’s a Pawpaw?)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "If there were such a thing as an anticapitalist fruit, the pawpaw, commonly foraged in the wild and inherently resistant to commodification, might qualify.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The fruit of these trees."
      ],
      "id": "en-pawpaw-en-noun-mGdvdj9M",
      "links": [
        [
          "fruit",
          "fruit"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bandango"
        },
        {
          "word": "custard apple"
        },
        {
          "word": "hillbilly mango"
        },
        {
          "word": "prairie banana"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɔːpɔː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɑːpɑː/",
      "tags": [
        "cot-caught-merger"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "paw-paw"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "_dis1": "30 30 30 9",
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "asimina",
      "sense": "any of several trees",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "асимина"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "18 29 21 32",
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "word": "ببو فاكهَة"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "18 29 21 32",
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "papaja",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "папая"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "18 29 21 32",
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "pàopào",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "word": "泡泡"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "18 29 21 32",
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "word": "papaija"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "18 29 21 32",
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asimina"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "18 29 21 32",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Papau"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "18 29 21 32",
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Asimina"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "18 29 21 32",
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pápá"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "18 29 21 32",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "pōpō",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "word": "ポーポー"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "18 29 21 32",
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "papája",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "папа́ја"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "18 29 21 32",
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "word": "papaia"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "18 29 21 32",
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "word": "pōpō"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "18 29 21 32",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mamão"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "18 29 21 32",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "azimina",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "азимина"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "18 29 21 32",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "asimina",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "асимина"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "18 29 21 32",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "papaya"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "18 29 21 32",
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "word": "papai"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "18 29 21 32",
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "pawpaw"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pawpaw"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "Related to papa, or pa(w) pa(w) (one’s father’s father).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pawpaws",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pawpaw (plural pawpaws)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "29 16 35 8 12",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Brassicales order plants",
          "orig": "en:Brassicales order plants",
          "parents": [
            "Plants",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 7 19 4 52",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Male family members",
          "orig": "en:Male family members",
          "parents": [
            "Family members",
            "Male people",
            "Family",
            "Male",
            "People",
            "Gender",
            "Human",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Grandfather."
      ],
      "id": "en-pawpaw-en-noun-y8SmV3Zp",
      "links": [
        [
          "Grandfather",
          "grandfather#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dialectal or colloquial) Grandfather."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "mamaw"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "peepaw"
        },
        {
          "word": "pepaw"
        },
        {
          "word": "papaw"
        },
        {
          "word": "pappaw"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɔːpɔː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɑːpɑː/",
      "tags": [
        "cot-caught-merger"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pawpaw"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pawpáw",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ᜉᜏ᜔ᜉᜏ᜔",
      "tags": [
        "Baybayin"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pawpáw",
        "b": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "pawpáw (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜏ᜔ᜉᜏ᜔)",
      "name": "tl-adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "paw‧paw"
  ],
  "lang": "Tagalog",
  "lang_code": "tl",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Tagalog entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Tagalog terms with Baybayin script",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Tagalog terms with missing Baybayin script entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "level to the brim; smooth on top"
      ],
      "id": "en-pawpaw-tl-adj-RpDhdPfv",
      "links": [
        [
          "level",
          "level"
        ],
        [
          "brim",
          "brim"
        ],
        [
          "smooth",
          "smooth"
        ],
        [
          "top",
          "top"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pantay-labi"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pawˈpaw/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[paʊ̯ˈpaʊ̯]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pawpaw"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Kari'na",
    "English terms derived from Portuguese",
    "English terms derived from Spanish",
    "English terms derived from Yuchi",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Requests for review of Macedonian translations",
    "Requests for review of Spanish translations",
    "en:Brassicales order plants",
    "en:Custard apple family plants",
    "en:Fruits",
    "en:Male family members"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Asimina triloba",
        "2": "species"
      },
      "expansion": "Asimina triloba",
      "name": "taxfmt"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pt",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Portuguese",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "es",
        "3": "papaya"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish papaya",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "car",
        "3": "kapaja"
      },
      "expansion": "Kari'na kapaja",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "yuc",
        "3": "pahpah"
      },
      "expansion": "Yuchi pahpah",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Via Portuguese and Spanish papaya (which is botanically unrelated) from Kari'na kapaja; the reason for the change in spelling is unknown.\nVia Yuchi pahpah",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pawpaws",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pawpaw (plural pawpaws)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:",
        "Asimina, a genus of trees and shrubs native to eastern North America, especially common pawpaw (Asimina triloba)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fruit",
          "fruit"
        ],
        [
          "Asimina",
          "Asimina#Translingual"
        ],
        [
          "genus",
          "genus"
        ],
        [
          "North America",
          "North America"
        ],
        [
          "Asimina triloba",
          "Asimina triloba#Translingual"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:",
        "Papaya (Carica papaya), a widely cultivated tropical fruit tree."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fruit",
          "fruit"
        ],
        [
          "Papaya",
          "papaya"
        ],
        [
          "Carica papaya",
          "Carica papaya#Translingual"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:",
        "Mountain pawpaw (Vasconcellea pubescens), a fruit tree native to South America."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fruit",
          "fruit"
        ],
        [
          "Mountain pawpaw",
          "mountain pawpaw"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "[2015, Andrew Moore, Pawpaw: In Search of America’s Forgotten Fruit, Chelsea Green Publishing, page 1",
          "text": "Throughout the years it's gone by a lot of names—frost banana, Indiana banana, fetid-bush, bandango, custard apple, prairie banana, poor man's banana—but most of the time it's just been called pawpaw. At first glance, both the fruit and the tree seem out of place in North America.]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 254",
          "text": "Xavier sliced the pawpaw in half, emptying the tiny black seeds over the veranda wall.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 September 29, Molly Fitzpatrick, “He’s the Pawpaw King of Brooklyn. (What’s a Pawpaw?)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "If there were such a thing as an anticapitalist fruit, the pawpaw, commonly foraged in the wild and inherently resistant to commodification, might qualify.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The fruit of these trees."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fruit",
          "fruit"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bandango"
        },
        {
          "word": "custard apple"
        },
        {
          "word": "hillbilly mango"
        },
        {
          "word": "prairie banana"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɔːpɔː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɑːpɑː/",
      "tags": [
        "cot-caught-merger"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "paw-paw"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "asimina",
      "sense": "any of several trees",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "асимина"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "asimina",
      "sense": "Asimina",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "асимина"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Asimina",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chirimoyo de la Florida"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Asimina",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "banano de montaña"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "Asimina triloba",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pápá"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "papaja",
      "sense": "Carica papaya",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "папая"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "word": "ببو فاكهَة"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "papaja",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "папая"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "pàopào",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "word": "泡泡"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "word": "papaija"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asimina"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Papau"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Asimina"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pápá"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "pōpō",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "word": "ポーポー"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "papája",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "папа́ја"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "word": "papaia"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "word": "pōpō"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mamão"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "azimina",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "азимина"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "asimina",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "асимина"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "papaya"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "word": "papai"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "pawpaw"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pawpaw"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "en:Brassicales order plants",
    "en:Custard apple family plants",
    "en:Fruits",
    "en:Male family members"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "Related to papa, or pa(w) pa(w) (one’s father’s father).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pawpaws",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pawpaw (plural pawpaws)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "mamaw"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English dialectal terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Grandfather."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Grandfather",
          "grandfather#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dialectal or colloquial) Grandfather."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɔːpɔː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɑːpɑː/",
      "tags": [
        "cot-caught-merger"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "peepaw"
    },
    {
      "word": "pepaw"
    },
    {
      "word": "papaw"
    },
    {
      "word": "pappaw"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pawpaw"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pawpáw",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ᜉᜏ᜔ᜉᜏ᜔",
      "tags": [
        "Baybayin"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pawpáw",
        "b": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "pawpáw (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜏ᜔ᜉᜏ᜔)",
      "name": "tl-adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "paw‧paw"
  ],
  "lang": "Tagalog",
  "lang_code": "tl",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Tagalog 2-syllable words",
        "Tagalog adjectives",
        "Tagalog entries with incorrect language header",
        "Tagalog lemmas",
        "Tagalog terms with Baybayin script",
        "Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Tagalog terms with missing Baybayin script entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "level to the brim; smooth on top"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "level",
          "level"
        ],
        [
          "brim",
          "brim"
        ],
        [
          "smooth",
          "smooth"
        ],
        [
          "top",
          "top"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pantay-labi"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pawˈpaw/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[paʊ̯ˈpaʊ̯]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pawpaw"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.