Dragon fruit on a market stall in Taiwan
From dragon + fruit ; most likely a calque or literal translation of a term in a Southeast Asian language (compare Chinese 火龍果 / 火龙果 ( huǒlóngguǒ , literally “ fiery dragon fruit ” ) . Initial English texts cite Vietnamese thanh long ; however, this was constructed differently, being a Sino-Vietnamese term for "Azure Dragon " (青龍 ) re-used to reference the green, "unripe" color of the fruit. First attributed in 1963.[ 1] [ 2]
dragon fruit (plural dragon fruits )
The fruit of certain cacti of the genus (Stenocereus (syn. Hylocereus ) spp.), cultivated in Southeast Asia and Central and South America, having cerise-pink- or yellow-coloured skin and a white or pink sweet fleshy interior with black seeds.
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Afrikaans: draakvrug , pitaja
Arabic: فَاكِهَة تِنِّين f ( fākihat tinnīn )
Bengali: পিতায়া ( pitaẏa )
Bulgarian: пита́я (bg) f ( pitája )
Burmese: နဂါးမောက် ( na.ga:mauk ) , နဂါးမောက်သီး ( na.ga:mauksi: )
Central Huasteca Nahuatl: chacha
Chinese:
Cantonese: 火龍果 / 火龙果 ( fo2 lung4 gwo2 )
Hakka: 火龍果 / 火龙果 ( fó-liùng-kó )
Hokkien: 火龍果 / 火龙果 ( hóe-liông-kó, hé-liông-kó )
Mandarin: 火龍果 / 火龙果 (zh) ( huǒlóngguǒ ) , 龍珠果 / 龙珠果 (zh) ( lóngzhūguǒ )
Dutch: drakenvrucht f , pitaya m
Esperanto: drakofrukto
Finnish: pitahaya (fi) , pitaya
French: fruit du dragon (fr) m , pitaya (fr) m or f , pitahaya (fr) m or f
Galician: pitaia (gl) f
German: Drachenfrucht (de) f , Pitahaya (de) f , Pitaya f
Greek: φρούτο του δράκου n ( froúto tou drákou )
Gujarati: ડ્રેગનફ્રુટ ( ḍregnaphruṭ ) , પિતાયા ( pitāyā )
Hungarian: pitaja
Indonesian: buah naga
Irish: dragantoradh m
Italian: frutto del drago m
Japanese: ドラゴンフルーツ (ja) ( doragonfurūtsu ) , ピタヤ ( pitaya )
Javanese: woh naga
Kannada: ಡ್ರ್ಯಾಗನ್ ಹಣ್ಣು ( ḍryāgan haṇṇu )
Kazakh: питахайя ( pitaxaiä )
Khmer: ស្រការនាគ ( srɑɑkaaniək ) , ស្រកានាគ ( srɑkaa niək )
Korean: 용과 ( yonggwa ) , 피타야 ( pitaya )
Lak: питайя ( pitayaˤ )
Lao: ໝາກມັງກອນ ( māk mang kǭn )
Latvian: pitaija f
Lü: ᦶᦂᧁᧉᦙᧂᦂᦸᧃ ( k̇aew²mangk̇oan )
Malay: buah naga (ms)
Malayalam: ഡ്രാഗൺ പഴം ( ḍrāgaṇ paḻaṁ )
Mari:
Western Mari: питайя ( pitaja )
Mongolian: луу жимс ( luu žims )
Nahuatl:
Central Huasteca Nahuatl: chacha
Classical Nahuatl: tzaponochtli
Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: chacha
Western Huasteca Nahuatl: chacha
Polish: pitaja (pl) f , smoczy owoc (pl) m
Portuguese: pitaia f , rainha-da-noite f , dama-da-noite (pt) f
Russian: пита́йя (ru) f ( pitájja ) , пита́хайя (ru) f ( pitáxajja ) , питаха́йя (ru) f ( pitaxájja ) , драко́ний фрукт m ( drakónij frukt )
Slovene: pitaja f
Spanish: fruta del dragón f , pitahaya (es) f
Sundanese: buah naga
Swedish: drakfrukt (sv) , pitaya , pitahaya (sv)
Tagalog: pitaya
Tamil: டிராகன் பழம் ( ṭirākaṉ paḻam )
Telugu: పిటాయ ( piṭāya )
Thai: แก้วมังกร ( gɛ̂ɛo-mang-gɔɔn )
Tulu: ಡ್ರ್ಯಾಗನ್ ಪರ್ಂದ್ ( ḍryāganŭ parndŭ )
Turkish: pitaya
Udmurt: питайя ( pitaja )
Ukrainian: пітахайя f ( pitaxajja ) , пітайя f ( pitajja )
Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: thanh long (vi)
Wastek: tsatsaʼ
Yucatec Maya: woob
Zapotec:
Isthmus Zapotec: bidxí