apple – Wiktionary

See also: Apple and äpple

English

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apple

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Etymology

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PIE word*h₂ébōl

Granny Smith apple

From Middle English appel, from Old English æppel (“apple, fruit in general, ball”), from Proto-West Germanic *applu, from Proto-Germanic *aplaz (“apple”) (compare Scots aipple, West Frisian apel, Dutch appel, German Apfel, Swedish äpple, Danish æble), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl, *h₂ébl̥ (“apple”) (compare Welsh afal, Irish úll, Lithuanian óbuolỹs, Russian я́блоко (jábloko), possibly Ancient Greek ἄμπελος (ámpelos, “vine”)).[1][2]

Pronunciation

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• (

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  UK

  )

  enPR:

  ăpʹ(ə)l

  , IPA(key):

  /ˈæp.əl/

  ,

  [ˈæp.ɫ̩]

• Audio (US)

• Audio (UK)

• Rhymes:

  -æpəl

• Hyphenation:

  ap‧ple

Noun

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apple (plural apples)

Synonyms

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  a tree of the genus Malus

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  malus

Hypernyms

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Hyponyms

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fruit of the genus Malus

Derived terms

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Descendants

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• Tok Pisin: apel

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  Abenaki: aples

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  apples

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  Assamese: আপেল

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  apel

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  Bengali: আপেল

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  apel

  )

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  Dhivehi: އާފަލު

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  āfalu

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  East Futuna: apo

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  Fijian: yapolo

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  Fiji Hindi: aapul

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  Finnish: äpüli

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  Malay: epal

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  Malaysia

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  Malayalam: ആപ്പിൾ

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  āppiḷ

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  Maori: āporo

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  Marshallese: abōļ

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  Sinhalese: ඇපල්

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  æpal

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  Sotho: apole

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  Tamil: ஆப்பிள்

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  āppiḷ

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  Telugu: ఆపిల్

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  āpil

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  Thai: แอปเปิล

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  ɛ́p-bpə̂n

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  Tokelauan: apu

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  Yurok: ˀɹplɹs

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  apples

  )

Translations

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— see

apple tree

tree

Cockney rhyming slang)

— see

apples and pears

apples and pears (

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Galician: (please verify) maceira(gl)

  f

  (please verify) mazá(gl)

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Verb

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apple (third-person singular simple present apples, present participle appling, simple past and past participle appled)

1. (

   transitive, intransitive

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   To make or become apple-like.

   • 1992, Marilyn Strathern, Reproducing the Future:

     One might say they have to be appled-up; varieties are selected for marketing which have the most apple-like qualities.

   • 2004, Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram: A Novel:

     He glanced at me, his cheeks appled in the impish grin I was learning to recognise as the clever under-side of his broad and gentle smile.

   • 2007, Claudia D. Newcorn, Crossover: Krisalys Chronicles of Feyree, page 35:

     A large smile appled his full cheeks as the four sprytes eagerly served themselves from the seeds and thinly sliced fruits.

   • 2011, Cynthia Robinson, The Barbary Dogs, page 57:

     She smiled, and her cheeks appled up and her teeth were big and flat and her mouth was wide and spacious like an open invitation.

2. (

   obsolete

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   To form buds, bulbs, or fruit.

   • 1601 (1634), Philemon Holland (translator), Pliny, II, page 98:

     Either they floure, or they apple or els be ready to bring forth fruit.

   • 1767, James Justice, The British gardener’s calendar, page 274:

     You may now sow upon moderate hot-beds, a few of the small Salad feeds, such as White Mustard, Rape, Cresses, and Cabbage Lettuces, and you may also sow upon other hot-beds, not to be drawn until they are pretty large and well appled, Radishes and Turnips, observing to sow them very thin, that the plants may have room to swell and grow;

   • 1796 (1800), Charles Marshall, Gardening, page 245:

     The cabbage turnep is of two kinds; one apples above ground, and the other in it.

   • 1807, The Complete Farmer:

     Other cultivators, however, advise “that the seed collected from a few turnips thus transplanted, should be preserved and sown in drills, in order to raise plants for see for the general crop, drawing out all such as are weak and improper, leaving only those that are strong and which take the lead; and that when these have appled or formed bulbs, to again take out such as do not appear good and perfect, as by this means turnip seed may be procured, not only of a more vigorous nature, but which is capable of vegetating with less moisture and which produces stronger and more hardy plants.

See also

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• malic

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  ethnic slur

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  coconutOreobananaTwinkie

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Middle English

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Noun

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apple

1. appel

   Alternative form of