Unless it has been done before, (I have searched around), could I have some help with generating a glossary in various languages about fruit? Thank you.
All the instructions you need can be found here. Start the glossary, post it, and then you'll receive feedback from other member of the WR community creating a great glossary
I have been able to do English, French, Italian and Spanish. If you know of more fruit, please do not hesitate to contribute! MonsieurAquilone
I fixed the formatting on the glossary and added columns for definition, Part of Speech and gender of word. There are some blanks for the French and Italian section. Other languages: Feel free to join! You'll have to add a column for your language yourself. Terms that I added to the glossary: cantaloupe honeydew kiwi starfruit raisin grapefruit nectarine plantain I also added and edited some entries for the Spanish column. Nice idea, Monsieur!
Hi! I added Romanian and Swedish to the list and added some extra fruit: quince guava mulberry rhubarb lychee lingonberry View attachment 3008 Are they familiar to you guys?? robbie
Thank you for your help! I have added a few definitions and am preparing to add Portuguese (unless someone else can do it faster/more correctly than I). Am I allowed to add the version for fruit from my own beloved language, "Costriani"? I beg!!! Anyway, thank you again, long live the fruit glossary!
Hello, I added some French translations and also corrected a few French words or their gender. Here it is : -- Removed file --
I have problems with attaching the file. Anyway I'd like to contribute. Here you are some translations and corrections. -Gooseberry = uva spina -Guava = guaiava -Kiwi = kiwi -Lychee = litchi -Orange = arancia (arancio is the tree, we're talking about fruit) -Quince = mela cotogna -Redcurrant = ribes rosso
Is Redcurrant mirtillo rosso or ribes rosso? EDIT: Oops! I was going to attach the new file with your changes, but it looks like someone beat me to it!
I checked on Oxford Paravia http://www.oxfordparavia.it/lemmaIta23614 and also on Garzanti dictionary = redcurrant (bot.) (Ribes rubrum) ribes rosso.
Hi there! I added Catalan and one in Spanish column ("carambola"). I added four more fruits, too, but only in the Catalan and Spanish columns, as I'm not sure of the English. But I give you some nouns I've found and description and see if you can name them. -chirimoia --> cherimoyer, custard apple? It's mostly a winter fruit. Green exterior and white, creamy interior, with big and black seeds. -níspero --> medlar, loquat? Small and orange, big seeds in the middle (2 or 3). -mandarina --> mandarine, tangerine? Similar to orange but smaller. -pomelo --> grapefruit? ...And let's see if I can attach the file.
Hi, I added the French names for the new fruits (special thanks to WR dictionary and Google image to help me find what chirimoia and níspero are )
In bosnian apple-jabuka pear-kruška plum-šljiva orange-naranđa/naranča grapes=grožđe kiwi=kivi banana=banana pineapple=ananas peach=breskva
aldin: Thanks for contributing! Please add your entries to a new Excel spreadsheet. If you don't know how to do this, look here.
I added Russian and Latvian, and also found some lacking English translations. A few Latvian words i don't know, so if anyone else does please fill them in!
I added Portuguese! Some were hard to find :-S Some I never heard about hehehe I liked to see that "passionfruit" is passionfruit in a lot of languages, but in Russian and Latvian it's marakuja. and in portuguese it "maracujá" but it's read "marakuzhá" hehehe
I have added the Dutch translations. Question: isn't a gooseberry green? In the Netherlands they are, not red. Do certain fruittypes vary from continent to continent in colour? Some were hard to find, others I have never heard of. I've checked a Pond Apple on google, but I've never even seen one.
You're totally right Optimistique that gooseberry is a green fruit, but there are two types of gooseberry! Here in Sweden we have a green and a red gooseberry type. Greetings (or Groet!?) robbie
Thank you very much for helping me out of my confusion, robbie I only know the green ones, from our local speciality the 'gooseberry pie' on where they are always green. Groetjes! (= diminutive of 'groeten', which is plurial of 'groet', so you are right)
In Spanish it can also be "maracuyá". According to Google: Maracuyá 335.000 entries. Fruta de la pasión 41.700 entries. ¡Olé!
I'm writing from the office, I can't modify the file. So... In italiano: grapefruit --> pompelmo tangerine --> mandarino F.
Added Finnish. Some of the fruit I didn't even recognize... No m/f/n column, because words don't have genders in Finnish.
Turkish translations have been added. Pointers: -No word for "pond apple" in Turkish -"lingonberry" seems to be a loanword in Turkish -"honeydrew" is known as "tatlı ve sulu kavun" which means "sweet and juicy melon" in Turkish This attachment has been removed, please read the following message.
I added some Portuguese, another fruit in English and I copied the Hungarian tabel from another file to this one so here are all the languages until now. I think it would be good to add the scientifical name of the fruits trees. It would be easier to do a search then.
Hola: les aviso que aquí, en Argentina, el albaricoque esw conocido como damasco, por lo que se debería agregar este otro nombre en la lista. Disculpenme por no hacerlo yo, pero no sé manejar excel. Saludos
In slovenian: apple- jabolko pear- hruška plum- sliva orange- pomaranča grpineapple- ananas peach- breskva apes- grozdje kiwi- kivi banana- banana
Si mtr tienes razon, hay que poner todos los equivalentes utilizados en America Latina, que son muy muchos y variados. He agregado 'damasco' como tu pides, pero animo a los foreros a añadir los demás. Sé por ejemplo que en Argentina 'un aguacate' es 'una palta' y que los chilenos a 'las fresas' las llaman 'frutillas' y los mejicanos al tomate le dicen jitomate (que es su nombre original), aunque ignoro las fronteras linguisticas, o sea, si son de uso general en todo el continente o no. En fin, que queda mucho por hacer. Anímense cuando tengan un ratito libre. Un saludo
No se como anadir damasco al lado de albaricoque, asi que lo dejo para alguien con mejores conocimientos que yo (esto es facil). Lo siento. Es posibel que la solucion este en hacer una lista de terminos en espanol solamente, que recoja todas las acepciones de la lengua castellana. A quien se anima. Ahora voy corta de tiempo y no puedo hacerlo. Saludos
Hi Gigi1! Welcome to the forums and let me start off by thanking you for all your contributions, there appreciated! The "m/f/n" is the "sex" of the noun, if it's masculine, feminine or neuter. I hope you know what I mean!? robbie
I disagree on the following: Lychee is more commonly called Litschi (f). Passionfruit is Maracuja (f), not Marakuja. Pfirisch is (m), not (f). Persimmon is Persimone (f) or virginische Dattelpflaume (f). Kaki seems to be Japanese persimmon. Honeydew melon is Honigmelone (f), cantaloupe seems to be Warzenmelone (f).
Hi! I added some missing Latvian and Russian words, missing definitions, put in EvilWillow corrections, added 21 new words and freeze 1st row and 3 first columns for more easy use but latest words now are not in alphabetic order maybe we need to fix that? Z P.S. but I cant add this work, it is to big, and all my attachments are latest
