papaya

See also: Papaya and papàyā

English

Unripe papaya fruits

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Lokono papáia.

Pronunciation

• Audio (UK):

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• IPA^(key): /pəˈpaɪə/, /pəˈpɑːjə/
• Rhymes: -aɪə, -ɑːjə

Noun

papaya (plural papayas)

1. A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit.
2. The fruit of this tree.
   • 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 135:

     It was that image, its practical mundanity, the preparation of fruit I have seen you do a thousand times, the spoon gliding along the papaya’s flesh-orange core, a slush of black seeds plopping into the steel sink, that made it unbearable.

3. An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.

   papaya:  

Synonyms

• pawpaw (Australia), common term for papaya, but strictly speaking this refers to a different tree/fruit.

Derived terms

• mountain papaya
• raw papaya
• yaya papaya

 

Translations

tree

• Basque: papaiondo
• Bikol Central: tapayas (bcl)
• Bulgarian: папая f (papaja)
• Dutch: papajaboom, meloenboom m
• Finnish: papaija (fi)
• French: papayer (fr) m
• Gujarati: પપૈયું (papaiyũ)
• Hindi: पपीता (hi) m (papītā)
• Hunsrik: Mammongbaam m
• Ido: papayiero (io)
• Indonesian: pepaya (id)
• Javanese: ꦏꦠꦺꦱ꧀ (katès)
• Macedonian: папа́ја f (papája)
• Malayalam: കപ്ലം (kaplaṁ)
• Paicî: mâmîâpo
• Polish: papaja (pl) f
• Portuguese: mamoeiro (pt) m
• Russian: папа́йя (ru) f (papájja)
• Spanish: papayo (es) m, frutabomba f, papayero (es) m, lechoso (es) m
• Swahili: mpapai (sw) class 3/4
• Telugu: బొప్పాయిచెట్టు (te) (boppāyiceṭṭu)
• Thai:

  Central Thai: มะละกอ (th) (má-lá-gɔɔ)

  Isan: บักหุ่ง (bàk-hùng), หมากหุ่ง (màak-hùng)

  Northern Thai: บะก้วยเต๊ศ (bpa-gûai-dtêet)

  Southern Thai: ลอกอ (lɔɔ-gɔɔ)

• Turkish: papaya (tr)
• Vietnamese: cây đu đủ
• Welsh: papaia m

fruit

• Albanian: papaja f
• Arabic: بَابَايَا f (bābāyā)
• Armenian: պապայա (hy) (papaya)
• Assamese: অমিতা (omita)
• Balinese: ᬕᭂᬤᬂ (gedang)
• Bambara: manje
• Basque: papaia (eu)
• Belarusian: папа́я f (papája)
• Bengali: পেঁপে (bn) (pẽpe), কয়ফল (bn) (koẏfol)
• Bikol Central: tapayas (bcl)
• Bulgarian: папа́я f (papája)
• Burmese: သင်္ဘောသီး (sangbhau:si:)
• Catalan: papaia f
• Central Melanau: kepayaih
• Chamicuro: ajpaya
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 木瓜 (muk⁶ gwaa¹)

  Hakka: 木瓜 (muk-kôa)

  Hokkien: 木瓜 (zh-min-nan) (bo̍k-kue), 萬壽匏／万寿匏 (bān-siū-pû), 番匏 (hoan-pû), 奶匏 (ni-pû, leng-pû)

  Mandarin: 番木瓜 (zh) (fānmùguā), 木瓜 (zh) (mùguā) (everyday term)

• Czech: papája f
• Danish: papaja (da) c
• Dhivehi: ފަޅޯ (faḷō)
• Dupaningan Agta: kapaya
• Dutch: papaja (nl)
• Esperanto: papajo
• Estonian: papaia
• Ewe: aɖiba
• Fijian: weleti (fj), maoli, leweti (Lau), uto (fj) (Ba, Yasawa)
• Finnish: papaija (fi)
• French: papaye (fr) f
• Galician: mamá f
• Georgian: ნესვის ხე (nesvis xe)
• German: Papaya (de) f
• Greek: παπάγια (el) f (papágia)
• Gujarati: પપૈયાં (papaiyā̃)
• Hausa: gwanda
• Hawaiian: mīkana, milikana, hēʻī
• Hebrew: פָּפָּיָה (he) (papaia)
• Hindi: पपीता (hi) (papītā)
• Hunsrik: Mammong m
• Ido: papayo (io)
• Indonesian: pepaya (id), betik (id)
• Italian: papaia (it) f
• Jamaican Creole: papaw
• Japanese: パパイヤ (ja) (papaiya)
• Javanese: kates (jv), ꦏꦠꦺꦱ꧀ (katés)
• Kabuverdianu: papaia
• Kannada: ಪರಂಗಿ ಹಣ್ಣು (kn) (paraṅgi haṇṇu)
• Khmer: ផ្លែល្ហុង (phlae lhong), ល្ហុង (km) (lhong)
• Korean: 파파야 (ko) (papaya)
• Lao: ໝາກຫຸ່ງ (māk hung)
• Latvian: papaija f
• Lingala: payipáyi, paipái
• Lithuanian: papaja f
• Luganda: eppaapaali
• Macedonian: папа́ја f (papája)
• Malagasy: voapaza (mg), papay (mg)
• Malay: betik, pepaya
• Malayalam: കപ്ലങ്ങ (kaplaṅṅa)
• Maori: pōpō, papaia
• Marathi: पपाया m (papāyā)
• Minangkabau: kaliki
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: папайя (papajja)

• Nahuatl: ochonetli (nah)
• Navajo: hashkʼaan dootłʼizhí
• Nepali: मेवा (ne) (mewā)
• Ngazidja Comorian: pwapwai
• Niuean: loku, lotu
• Norwegian: papaya
• Occitan: papaia (oc) f
• Persian: پاپایه (fa) (pâpâye)
• Polish: papaja (pl) f, melonowiec m
• Portuguese: (Brazil) mamão (pt), papaia (pt)
• Punjabi: ਪਪੀਤਾ (pa) (papītā)
• Rarotongan: ngingitā
• Romanian: papaia (ro) f
• Russian: папа́йя (ru) f (papájja)
• Samoan: ʻesi
• Sinhalese: පැපොල් (pæpol) ගස්ලබු (si) (gaslabu) (literally "tree melon")
• Slovak: papája f
• Slovene: papaja f
• Spanish: papaya (es) f, frutabomba (es) f (Cuban standard usage - Eastern Cuba: papaya), lechosa (es) f (Dominican Republic, Eastern Central Colombia and Llanos, Venezuela - Colombia standard usage: papaya), mamón (es) m (Argentina, Paraguay), put (es) m
• Sundanese: ᮌᮨᮓᮀ (gedang), gedang (su), kates
• Swahili: papai (sw), papayu
• Swedish: papaya (sv) c
• Tagal Murut: tapayas
• Tagalog: papaya (tl)
• Tahitian: ʻiʻitā, ninita
• Tamil: பப்பாளி (ta) (pappāḷi)
• Telugu: బొప్పాయి పండు (te) (boppāyi paṇḍu)
• Thai:

  Central Thai: มะละกอ (th) (má-lá-gɔɔ)

  Isan: บักหุ่ง (bàk-hùng), หมากหุ่ง (màak-hùng)

  Northern Thai: บะก้วยเต๊ศ (bpa-gûai-dtêet)

  Southern Thai: ลอกอ (lɔɔ-gɔɔ)

• Tibetan: སེ་ཡབ (se yab)
• Tigrinya: ፓፓያ (papaya)
• Tongan: lesi
• Turkish: papaya (tr)
• Ukrainian: папа́йя f (papájja)
• Urdu: پپیتا (papītā)
• Uyghur: كۇلى بېھىسى (kuli bëhisi)
• Vietnamese: đu đủ (vi)
• Welsh: papaia m
• West Coast Bajau: kepayas
• Western Panjabi: پپیتا (ppetā)
• Wolof: pàppaaya
• Yoruba: ìbẹ́pẹ, dẹ̀dẹ̀rẹ̀kún, ògòlòmọ̀ṣí, ògùdùgbẹ̀, gbẹ̀gbẹ̀rẹ̀

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

• Efik: ^{(please verify)} pawpaw
• Ibibio: ^{(please verify)} pawpaw

See also

• papain

 

Further reading

• papaya on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Lokono papáia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈpaja/ [paˈpa.ja]
• Hyphenation: pa‧pa‧ya

Noun

papáya (Basahan spelling ᜉᜉᜌ)

1. papaya

   Synonym: tapayas

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish papaya, from Lokono papáia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈpaʝa/, [paˈpa.ʝa]
• Hyphenation: pa‧pa‧ya

Noun

papaya

1. papaya

Eastern Bontoc

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Lokono papáia.

Noun

papaya

1. papaya

Karao

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Lokono papáia.

Noun

papaya

1. papaya

Spanish

A papaya sliced lengthwise.

Alternative forms

• papayón, papayo

Etymology

From Cariban/Lokono papáia.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /paˈpaʝa/ [paˈpa.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /paˈpaʝa/ [paˈpa.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /paˈpaʃa/ [paˈpa.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /paˈpaʒa/ [paˈpa.ʒa]

• Audio (Peru):

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• Rhymes: -aʝa
• Syllabification: pa‧pa‧ya

Noun

papaya f (plural papayas)

1. papaya (fruit)

   Synonyms: lechoza, (Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Paraguay) lechosa, mamón

2. (Cuba, slang, euphemistic) vagina (likely from the shape of the fruit when sliced in half lengthwise: see image)
3. (Colombia, slang) opportunity

Usage notes

• Cubans typically call the papaya fruit fruta bomba instead, reserving the word papaya for its slang sense.

Adjective

papaya m or f (masculine and feminine plural papayas)

1. (Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, slang) easy

   Synonym: fácil

Descendants

Descendants

• > Chavacano: papaya (inherited)
• → English: papaya
• → English: pawpaw
• → Karao: papaya
• → Macedonian: папаја (papaja)
• → Russian: папайя (papajja)
• → Swahili: papai
• → Tagalog: papaya
• → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: papöya
• → Zacatepec Chatino: papàyā

Further reading

• “papaya”, 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

Swedish

Noun

papaya c

1. papaya (fruit and tree)

Declension

Declension of papaya

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	papaya	papayas
	definite	papayan	papayans
plural	indefinite	papayor	papayors
	definite	papayorna	papayornas

References

• papaya in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• papaya in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• papaya in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Lokono papáia. Compare Pangasinan apayas and Kapampangan kapaya.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /paˈpaja/ [pɐˈpaː.jɐ]
• Rhymes: -aja
• Syllabification: pa‧pa‧ya

Noun

papaya (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜉᜌ)

1. papaya

Anagrams

• payapa

Turkish

Noun

papaya

1. accusative singular of papa

Western Huasteca Nahuatl

Noun

papaya

1. papaya.