Eggplant

Alternative forms

 * egg-plant

Etymology
From egg: + plant:, originally applied only to the white-colored variety.

Noun

 * 1) Solanum melongena
 * 2) Aubergine, the edible fruit of the Solanum melongena.
 * 3) A dark purple color.
 * 4)  A black person.
 * 5) * 2004, Wendy Coakley-Thompson, Back to Life
 * "Why am I not surprised?" This was the limit. "You know, I'm black enough for his family to yell eggplant-this and nigger-that at me," she said.
 * 1) * 2006, Jerome Charyn, Raised by wolves: the turbulent art and times of Quentin Tarantino
 * What else can he do? But Hopper continues his riff. "Sicilians still carry that nigger gene . . . Your ancestors are niggers. You're part eggplant."
 * What else can he do? But Hopper continues his riff. "Sicilians still carry that nigger gene . . . Your ancestors are niggers. You're part eggplant."

Synonyms

 * aubergine, brinjal, brown jolly, melongene

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: lilek,
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ბადრიჯანი
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: melanzana
 * Italian: melanzana


 * Japanese:, ナス
 * Ladino:
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:, eggplante, eggplanta
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: патлиџан
 * Roman: patlidžan
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, äggplanta
 * Vietnamese: cà


 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azeri:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: патладжан
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ბადრიჯანი
 * German:
 * Gujarati:, વેંગણ
 * Hindi:, बतिया, भण्टा
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ナス
 * Kannada:, ,  ,
 * Kashmiri:
 * Ladino:
 * Latin:
 * Latin:


 * Lao:
 * Macedonian:
 * Marathi:
 * Navajo:
 * Nepali: बैजनी, भण्टा
 * Norwegian:, eggfrukt
 * Persian:, بادنگان, باتنگان
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: патлиџан
 * Roman: patlidžan
 * Slovene: jajčevec, melancan
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, äggplanta
 * Tajik: ,
 * Telugu:
 * Tibetan:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:, بتیا, بھنٹا
 * Tibetan:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:, بتیا, بھنٹا