rambutan

• ramboostan
• rambootan, rambostan (obsolete)

Borrowed from Malay rambutan, English usage first attested 1707.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ɹamˈbjʉːtən]

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• (General American) IPA^(key): [ɹæmˈbuːtən]

rambutan (plural rambutans)

1. A tree of species Nephelium lappaceum, of Southeast Asia.
2. The edible fruit of this tree.
   • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 116:

     The Mangosteen, Lansat, Rambutan, Jack, Jambou, and Blimbing, are all abundant; but most abundant and most esteemed is the Durian, a fruit about which very little is known in England, but which both by natives and Europeans in the Malay Archipelago is reckoned superior to all others.

   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 115:

     Old women crouched over bags of Siamese rice, skeps of red and green peppers, purple egg-plants, bristly rambutans, pineapples, durians.

• antumbra

rambut +‎ -an (compare Malay rambutan)

• IPA^(key): /ram.bu.tan/
• (Kedayan) IPA^(key): /am.bu.tan/

rambutan

1. rambutan, fruit of the tropical tree Nephelium lappaceum

• maritam

From Malay rambutan.

• Hyphenation: ram‧bu‧tan
• IPA^(key): /ɾamˈbutan/ [ɾ̪ɐmˈbu.t̪ɐn̪]

rambutan

1. rambutan tree (Nephelium lappaceum)
2. fruit of this tree

From Malay rambutan or rambut +‎ -an.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ramˈbutan/ [ramˈbu.t̪an]
• Rhymes: -utan
• Syllabification: ram‧bu‧tan

rambutan (plural rambutan-rambutan)

1. rambutan (fruit)

Borrowed from Malay rambutan.

rambutan m

1. rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum)

rambut (“hair”) +‎ -an.

• (Baku) IPA^(key): /ramˈbutan/ [ramˈbu.t̪an]

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  • Rhymes: -utan
• (schwa-variety)
  • IPA^(key): /ramˈbutan/ [ramˈbu.t̪an]
  • IPA^(key): /ramˈbotan/ [ramˈbo.t̪an]
  • Rhymes: -utan, -otan
• Hyphenation: ram‧bu‧tan

rambutan (Jawi spelling رمبوتن or رامبوتن, plural rambutan-rambutan or rambutan²)

1. rambutan (fruit)

• → Dhivehi: ރަންބުސްތާނު (ran̊bustānu)

• lotong, pulasan, redan

• "rambutan" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Borrowed from Malay rambutan.

rambután

1. rambutan (fruit)

rambutan c

1. rambutan (fruit)

   Rambutan påminner om håriga ögon

   Rambutan reminds me of hairy eyeballs

• litchi (“lychee”)

• rambutan in Svensk ordbok (SO)

Borrowed from Malay rambutan, from rambut (“hair”) +‎ -an.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɾambuˈtan/ [ɾɐm.bʊˈt̪an̪]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: ram‧bu‧tan

rambután (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜋ᜔ᜊᜓᜆᜈ᜔)

1. rambutan (tree and fruit)

   Synonym: (obsolete) alpay

• “rambutan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018