Saturday, June 1, 2013

Wiktionary - Recent changes [en]: lemon

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* {{ttbc|ja}}: {{t-|ja|レモン味|tr=れもんあじ, remonaji|sc=Jpan}}

 

* {{ttbc|ja}}: {{t-|ja|レモン味|tr=れもんあじ, remonaji|sc=Jpan}}

 

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*: Bokmål: {{t|nb|sitronsmak|m}}

 

* Spanish: ({{l|es|sabor}}) limón

 

* Spanish: ({{l|es|sabor}}) limón

 

* Swahili: {{t+|sw|ndimu}}

 

* Swahili: {{t+|sw|ndimu}}


Latest revision as of 22:51, 1 June 2013

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English[edit]

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A whole and a cut lemon.
A lemon tree.

Etymology[edit]

From Old French lymon ("citrus"), from Arabic ليمون (laymūn) or Ottoman Turkish لیمون (limun), from Persian لیمو (limu). Cognate with Sanskrit निम्ब (nimbū, "lime").

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

lemon (plural lemons)

  1. A yellowish citrus fruit.
  2. A semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits.
  3. A taste or flavour/flavor of lemons.
  4. A more or less bright shade of yellow associated with lemon fruits.
    lemon flesh colour:    
  5. (slang) A defective or inadequate item.
    He didn't realise until he'd paid for it that the car was a lemon.
  6. (Cockney rhyming slang, from "lemon tart") Smart; cheeky, vocal.
    • 2009, Caitlin Moran, 'Why I love paying tax', The Times, 12 Oct 2009:
      Obviously Emin is not the first public figure to get lemon over tax increases.
  7. (Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from "lemon flavour") favour, favor.
    A thousand quid for that motor? Do me a lemon, I could get it for half that.
  8. (fandom slang) A piece of fanfiction involving explicit sex (named after the erotic anime series Cream Lemon).

Synonyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

See also[edit]

Translations[edit]

citrus fruit

tree

defective item

colour/color

taste

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Adjective[edit]

lemon (comparative more lemon, superlative most lemon)

  1. Containing or having the flavour/flavor and/or scent of lemons.
  2. Of the pale yellow colour/color of lemons.

Translations[edit]

having the flavour/flavor and/or scent of lemons

having the colour/color of lemons

See also[edit]

Anagrams[edit]


Esperanto[edit]

Noun[edit]

lemon

  1. accusative singular of lemo

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