acerola

See also: acérola and acerolą

English

Etymology

From Spanish acerola. Doublet of azarole.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ.səˈɹəʊ.lə/
• Rhymes: -əʊlə

Noun

acerola (plural acerolas)

2. Any tree of species Malpighia glabra, of the West Indies and northern South America.
4. Fruit of this tree.

Translations

fruit

• Arabic: كَرْز هِنْدِيّ f (karz hindiyy)
• Bengali: অ্যাসেরোলা (êserola)
• Catalan: acerola f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西印度櫻桃／西印度樱桃 (Xī-Yìndù yīngtáo), 阿西羅拉／阿西罗拉 (Āxīluólā), 巴貝多櫻桃／巴贝多樱桃 (Bābèiduō yīngtáo)

• Estonian: malpiigiat
• Finnish: barbadoksenakerola, barbadoskirsikka
• French: acérola (fr) m
• Georgian: აცეროლა (acerola)
• German: Azarolapfel (de), Azarole (de) f
• Greek: ασερόλα f (aseróla)
• Japanese: アセロラ (ja) (aserora)
• Latvian: malpīgiju
• Lithuanian: malpigija
• Polish: acerola (pl) f, wiśnia z Barbados f, nadgwiazdka granatolistna f
• Portuguese: acerola (pt) f
• Romanian: acerola (ro) f
• Russian: ацерола f (acerola)
• Spanish: acerola (es) f, semeruco m
• Swedish: acerola
• Ukrainian: ацероли f (aceroly)

Polish

acerola

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish acerola. First attested in 1869.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.t͡sɛˈrɔ.la/

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• Rhymes: -ɔla
• Syllabification: a‧ce‧ro‧la

Noun

acerola f

1. acerola (Malpighia glabra)

   Synonyms: nadgwiazdka granatolistna, wiśnia z Barbados

   owoc aceroli ― fruit of the acerola

2. acerola (fruit of this tree)

   Synonyms: nadgwiazdka granatolistna, wiśnia z Barbados

Declension

Declension of acerola

	singular	plural
nominative	acerola	acerole
genitive	aceroli	acerol/aceroli
dative	aceroli	acerolom
accusative	acerolę	acerole
instrumental	acerolą	acerolami
locative	aceroli	acerolach
vocative	acerolo	acerole

Further reading

• acerola in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• acerola in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic الزَعْرُورَة (az-zaʕrúra).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.seˈɾɔ.lɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.seˈɾɔ.lɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.seˈɾɔ.la/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.sɨˈɾɔ.lɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɔlɐ
• Hyphenation: a‧ce‧ro‧la

Noun

acerola f (plural acerolas)

1. (botany) acerola (Malpighia emarginata)
   1. acerola (the fruit of this plant)

Further reading

• “acerola”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “acerola”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic الزَعْرُورَة (az-zaʕrúra), from Classical Arabic زُعْرُورَة (zuʕrūra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /aθeˈɾola/ [a.θeˈɾo.la]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /aseˈɾola/ [a.seˈɾo.la]
• Rhymes: -ola
• Syllabification: a‧ce‧ro‧la

Noun

acerola f (plural acerolas)

1. azarole, the fruit of the acerolo (Crataegus azarolus)
2. acerola

Usage notes

• Acerola originated as a word for the azerole (Crataegus azarolus), but was applied to Malpighia emarginata after Europeans found it in the New World. Since the azerole is little known outside of Europe, usage in the Americas seems to almost entirely indicate Malpighia rather than Crataegus.

Related terms

• acerolo

 

Further reading

• “acerola”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28