English

Etymology

Pronunciation

• AHD : plŭm
• IPA : /plʌm/
• SAMPA : /plVm/

Homophones

• plumb

Noun

plum (plural plums )

1. (also plum tree) A stone-fruit tree of the Prunus family.
2. The fruit of the plum tree.
3. A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
4. A desirable thing.
5. A raisin, when used in a pudding or cake.
6. (slang; usually in plural) A testicle.

Derived terms

• plummy
• plum pudding
• plum tree

Translations

tree

fruit

colour

desirable thing

raisin See raisin

slang: testicle

Translations to be checked

The translations below need to be checked by native speakers and inserted into the appropriate table(s) above, removing the numbers. The numbering is unreliable.

• Arabic: برقوق (barqūq), خوخ (khaukh)
• Binisayâ : sirwelas
• Bosnian: šljiva f
• Bulgarian: слива (sliva) f (2)
• Burmese: မက္မန္းသီး (makmansii)
• Chinese: 李子 (lǐzi)
• Croatian: šljiva f (2, 1)
• Czech: švestka f, slíva f
• Dutch: pruimenboom (1), pruim (2), donkerrood (3), rozijn (5)
• Old English: plūme f
• Esperanto: pruno
• Estonian: ploom
• Farsi: آلو (alu), گوجه (gujah)
• Frisian: prom (2), rezyn (5)
• Galician: ameixeira f (1), ameixa f (2)
• German: Pflaume f
• German, Middle High : pflūme , pfrūme
• German, Old High : pfrūma
• Greek: δαμασκηνιά (dhamaskiniá) f (1), δαμάσκηνο (dhamáskino) n (2)
• Hebrew: שזיף (shozif) m
• Hindi: आलूचा (ālūcā)
• Hungarian: szilva
• Icelandic: plóma f
• Irish: pluma m, prúna m
• Latin: prunum n
• Latvian: plūme f
• Lithuanian: slyva f (1, 2), slyvinis m (3)
• Luxembourgish: Praum f, Promm f
• Norwegian: plomme
• Polish: śliwka f (2), rodzynka f (5)
• Portuguese: ameixa f (2)
• Russian: слива (sliva) f (2)
• Sanskrit: कर्कन्धुः (karkandhuḥ)
• Serbian: шљива (šljiva) f (2,1)
• Slovakian: slivka f (2)
• Spanish: ciruela f
• Thai: ลูกพุทราฝรั่ง (luukphutrafrang)
• Turkish: erik
• Vietnamese: quả mận , trái mơ
• Volapük: plöm
• Welsh: eirinen f
• Zulu: iplamu , ithungulu

Adjective

plum

1. Of a dark bluish-red colour.

Translations

• Dutch: donkerrood
• Finnish: luumunpunainen
• Romanian: prună f

See also

• Wiktionary appendix of colours
• Wikipedia article on the plum