Contents
- 1 English
- 1.1 Alternative forms
- 1.2 Etymology
- 1.3 Pronunciation
- 1.4 Noun
- 1.4.1 Coordinate terms
- 1.4.2 Derived terms
- 1.4.3 Related terms
- 1.4.4 Translations
- 1.5 References
- 1.6 Further reading
- 2 Middle English
- 2.1 Noun
English
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Alternative forms
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Etymology
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From Middle English cucumer, cucumber, from Old French cocombre, ultimately from Latin cucumis, cucumerem (possibly through an Old Occitan intermediate). Probably of Pre-Italic substrate origin.
Pronunciation
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- (US) IPA(key): /ˈkjuːˌkʌmbɚ/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkjuːˌkʌmbə/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈkaʊˌkʌmbəɹ/[1][2]
Audio (US): (file) - hom*ophone: Qcumber
Noun
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cucumber (plural cucumbers)
- A vine in the gourd family, Cucumis sativus.
1767, A Lady [Hannah Glasse], The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Eaſy […] [1], page 326:
ASPARAGUS, cauliflowers, imperial Sileſia, royal and cabbage lettuces, burnet, purſlain, cucumbers, naſturtian flowers, peaſe and beans ſown in October, artichokes, ſcarlet ſtrawberries, and kidney beans.
- The edible fruit of this plant, having a green rind and crisp white flesh.
1785, James Boswell, quoting Samuel Johnson, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnſon […] [2], London: Henry Baldwin, page 356:
[…] for it has been a common ſaying of phyſicians in England, that a cucumber ſhould be well ſliced, and dreſſed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Publishing”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides.[…], volume II, London: Henry Colburn,[…], →OCLC, page 14:
"Why, pepper and salt your reasons!" cried Curl, forgetting to look at the door for a moment: "your pamphlet has talent; but talent is like a cucumber, nothing without the dressing. You must be more personal."
- A person who is calm and self-possessed.
1986, Linking Technology and Users, page 41:
Just a few tips will help even the most anxious of us get a bit of control over the presentation of information and thus appear to be that "cool cucumber" in cognito!
1999, Mark Grantham, The Brewery, page 275:
The guy's a real cucumber.
2002, Margaret Fisher, Putting on Mock Trials, page 29:
That Wolf is one cool cucumber.
2018, Derek B. Miller, American By Day, page 65:
"You're smart," says Irv, pointing at her and nodding his head. "A smart cucumber."
Derived terms
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Affixed and blended forms
Expressions with this term somehow
Expressions with this term at the beginning
- cucumber
- cucumberish
- cucumberless
Expressions with this term at the middle or end
- aardvark cucumber
- Armenian cucumber
- bitter cucumber
- burr cucumber
- calm as a cucumber
- cool as a cucumber
- devil's cucumber
- exploding cucumber
- gemsbok cucumber
- maroon cucumber
- sea cucumber
- serpent cucumber
- slicing cucumber
- smacked cucumber
- snake cucumber
- spotted cucumber beetle
- squirting cucumber
- star cucumber
- striped cucumber beetle
- stuffing cucumber
- telegraph cucumber
- wild cucumber
- zombie's cucumber
Related terms
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- cucumiform (cucumber-shaped)
Translations
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plant
- Albanian: kastravec(sq)
- Arabic: خِيَار(ar)m (ḵiyār)
- Armenian: վարունգ(hy) (varung)
- Assamese: তিয়ঁহ (tiõh)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܝܼܵܪܵܐm (ḳīyara)
- Asturian: pepinu(ast)m
- Azerbaijani: xiyar(az)
- Bashkir: ҡыяр (qıyar)
- Basque: luzoker
- Belarusian: агуро́к(be)m (ahurók)
- Bulgarian: кра́ставица(bg)f (krástavica)
- Burmese: သခွား(my) (sa.hkwa:)
- Catalan: cogombre(ca)m, cogombreraf
- Chichewa: mnkhaka
- Chinese:
- Coptic: ⲃⲟⲛϯf (bonti)
- Crimean Tatar: hıyar
- Czech: okurka(cs)f
- Danish: agurk(da)c
- Dargwa: хияр (χiər)
- Dutch: komkommer(nl)m
- Erzya: куяр (kujar)
- Esperanto: kukumo
- Estonian: kurk(et)
- Faroese: agurkaf, gurkaf, agurkf
- Finnish: kurkku(fi)
- French: concombre(fr)m
- Galician: cogombro(gl)m
- Georgian: კიტრი(ka) (ḳiṭri)
- German: Gurke(de)f
- Greek: αγγουριά(el)f (angouriá)
- Hebrew: מְלָפְפוֹן(he)m (m'laf'fon)
- Hindi: ककड़ी(hi)f (kakṛī)
- Hungarian: uborka(hu)
- Ido: kukombriero
- Indonesian: mentimun(id), timun(id), ketimun(id)
- Irish: cúcamar
- Italian: cetriolo(it)m
- Japanese: 胡瓜(ja) (きゅうり, kyūri), キュウリ(ja) (kyūri)
- Kannada: ಸೌತೆಬಳ್ಳಿ(kn) (sautebaḷḷi), ಸವುತೆ(kn) (savute)
- Khmer: ត្រសក់(km) (trɑsɑk), តាសក់(km) (tasɑk)
- Kikai: 胡瓜 (きうい, kiui)
- Korean: 오이(ko) (oi)
- Kumyk: хыяр (xıyar)
- Lao: ໝາກແຕງ(lo) (māk tǣng)
- Latin: cucumis(la)m
- Latvian: gurķis(lv)m
- Laz: შუკა (şuǩa)
- Lithuanian: agurkasm
- Low German: Gurkf
- Macedonian: краставицаf (krastavica)
- Malagasy: kitsaotsao(mg)
- Malayalam: വെള്ളരി(ml) (veḷḷari)
- Maltese: ħjarm
- Mauritian Creole: kokom
- Middle English: cucumer
- Mingrelian: კინტირი (ḳinṭiri)
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: pepin
- Okinawan: 胡瓜 (きーうい, kīui)
- Polish: ogórek(pl)m
- Portuguese: pepineiro(pt)m, pepino(pt)m
- Punjabi: ਖੀਰਾm (khīrā)
- Romagnol: ziẓarnëlm
- Romanian: castravete(ro)m
- Russian: огуре́ц(ru)m (oguréc)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: кра̏ставацm
- Roman: krȁstavac(sh)m
- Slovak: uhorka(sk)f
- Slovene: kumara(sl)f
- Somali: qajaar
- Spanish: pepino(es)m
- Swedish: gurka(sv)c
- Tagalog: pipino
- Tamil: வெள்ளரி(ta) (veḷḷari)
- Telugu: దోస(te) (dōsa)
- Thai:
- Tulu: ತೆಕ್ಕರೆ (tekkare)
- Turkish: hıyar(tr), salatalık(tr)
- Ukrainian: огіро́к(uk) (ohirók)
- Uyghur: تەرخەمەك(ug) (terxemek)
- Volapük: küg(vo)
- Welsh: cucumer(cy)m
- White Hmong: dib
- Yiddish: אוגערקעf (ugerke)
edible fruit
- Afrikaans: komkommer(af)
- Albanian: trangull(sq)m kastravec(sq)m
- Alekano: gamó
- Amharic: ኪያርm (kiyar)
- Arabic: خِيَار(ar)m (ḵiyār)
- Armenian: վարունգ(hy) (varung)
- Assamese: তিয়ঁহ (tiõh)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܝܼܵܪܵܐm (ḳīyara)
- Asturian: pepinu(ast)m
- Azerbaijani: xiyar(az)
- Bashkir: ҡыяр (qıyar)
- Belarusian: агуро́к(be)m (ahurók)
- Bengali: শসা(bn) (śośa)
- Brunei Malay: timun
- Bulgarian: кра́ставица(bg)f (krástavica)
- Burmese: သခွား(my) (sa.hkwa:)
- Catalan: cogombre(ca)m
- Cebuano: pepino
- Chechen: наьрс (närs)
- Cherokee: ᎦᎦᎹ (gagama)
- Chichewa: mnkhaka
- Chinese:
- Chuvash: хӑяр (hăjar)
- Coptic:
- Cornish: kukomberm
- Czech: okurka(cs)f
- Danish: agurk(da)c
- Dargwa: хияр (χiər)
- Dutch: komkommer(nl)m
- Early Assamese: খিৰি (khiri)
- Egyptian: (sšptf),
(bꜣdtf)
- Esperanto: kukumo
- Estonian: kurk(et)
- Ewe: adzamtre
- Faroese: agurkaf
- Finnish: kurkku(fi)
- French: concombre(fr)m
- Friulian: cudumarm
- Galician: cogombro(gl)m
- Georgian: კიტრი(ka) (ḳiṭri)
- German: Gurke(de)f, Salatgurkef
- Greek: αγγούρι(el)n (angoúri)
- Greenlandic: agurki
- Gujarati: કાકડીf (kākḍī)
- Hawaiian: kaʻukama
- Hebrew: מְלָפְפוֹן(he)m (m'laf'fon)
- Hindi: ककड़ी(hi)f (kakṛī), खीरा(hi)m (khīrā)
- Hungarian: (often referring to gherkin) uborka(hu), (the type longer than 30cm, 1ft) kígyóuborka(hu)
- Icelandic: gúrka(is)f, agúrka(is)f
- Ido: kukombro(io)
- Ilocano: pipino
- Indonesian: mentimun(id), timun(id), ketimun(id)
- Irish: cúcamar
- Italian: cetriolo(it)m
- Japanese: 胡瓜(ja) (きゅうり, kyūri), キュウリ(ja) (kyūri)
- Javanese: timun(jv)
- Kalmyk: хаяр (xayar), аһурцг (ağurtsg)
- Kannada: ಸೌತೆಕಾಯಿ(kn) (sautekāyi), ಸವುತೆ(kn) (savute)
- Karakalpak: qıyar
- Kazakh: қияр (qiär), бәдірен (bädıren)
- Khakas: ӱгурсӱ (ügursü)
- Khmer: ត្រសក់(km) (trɑsɑk), តាសក់(km) (tasɑk)
- Kikai: 胡瓜 (きうい, kiui)
- Konkani: तौशे (tauśe)
- Korean: 오이(ko) (oi)
- Kumyk: хыяр (xıyar)
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: бадыраң(ky) (badıraŋ)
- Lao: ໝາກແຕງ(lo) (māk tǣng)
- Latin: cucumis(la)m
- Latvian: gurķis(lv)m
- Lithuanian: agurkasm
- Lü: ᦶᦎᧂᦌᧂᧉ (ṫaengsang²)
- Macedonian: краставицаf (krastavica)
- Malay: timun(ms)
- Malayalam: വെള്ളരിക്ക (veḷḷarikka)
- Maltese: ħjara
- Maranao: pipino
- Middle English: cucumer
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: өргөст хэмх (örgöst xemx), огурцы (ogurcy)
- Navajo: taʼneeskʼání áłtsʼóózígíí
- Norman: cocombref
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: cogombre(oc)m
- Okinawan: 胡瓜 (きーうい, kīui)
- Old English: eorþæppelm
- Ottoman Turkish: خیار (hıyâr)
- Persian: خیار(fa) (xiyâr)
- Plautdietsch: Gurkjf
- Polish: ogórek(pl)m
- Portuguese: pepino(pt)m
- Punjabi: ਖੀਰਾm (khīrā)
- Romanian: castravete(ro)m
- Romansch: cucumeraf
- Russian: огуре́ц(ru)m (oguréc)
- Scottish Gaelic: cularanm
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: кра̏ставацm
- Roman: krȁstavac(sh)m
- Seychellois Creole: kokonm
- Sinhalese: පිපිඤ්ඤා(si) (pipiññā)
- Slovak: uhorka(sk)f
- Slovene: kumara(sl)f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: górkaf
- Southern Altai: огурчын (ogurčïn)
- Spanish: pepino(es)m
- Swahili: tango
- Swedish: gurka(sv)c
- Tagalog: pipino
- Tajik: бодиринг(tg) (bodiring)
- Tamil: வெள்ளரிக்காய்(ta) (veḷḷarikkāy)
- Tatar: кыяр(tt) (qıyar)
- Telugu: దోసకాయ(te) (dōsakāya)
- Thai:
- Tigrinya: ኩኩምበር (kukumbär), ቺትርዮለ (čitrəyolä)
- Turkish: hıyar(tr), salatalık(tr)
- Turkmen: hyýar
- Ukrainian: огіро́к(uk) (ohirók)
- Urdu: ککڑیf (kakṛī), کھیراm (khīrā)
- Uyghur: تەرخەمەك(ug) (terxemek)
- Uzbek: bodring(uz)
- Venetian: zetriol
- Vietnamese: dưa chuột(vi), dưa leo(vi)
- Welsh: ciwcymbr(cy)m, ciwcymerm, cucumer(cy)m, chwerwddwrm
- White Hmong: dib
- Yakut: огурсу (ogursu)
- Yiddish: אוגערקעf (ugerke)
- Zhuang: lwgbieng
- ǃXóõ: ʘna̰e
References
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- ^ “Cucumber” in John Walker, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] , London: Sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinſon, Paternoſter Row; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1791, →OCLC.
- ^ Hall, Joseph Sargent (1942 March 2) “1. The Vowel Sounds of Stressed Syllables”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, →DOI, →ISBN, §10, page 38.
Further reading
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Middle English
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Noun
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cucumber
- Alternative form of cucumer
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