Other forms: aubergines
An aubergine is a shiny deep purple vegetable. Slice the aubergine, roast the aubergine, aubergine and tomato.
It is the American eggplant, named when the varieties known there were small and white and looked like eggs. It soaks up oil like a sponge unless salted or cooked hot. It is also a colour, and the word came into English through French from Arabic and Persian.
1nounaubergineA shiny deep purple vegetable.
“Slice the aubergine, brush it with oil and grill it until soft.”
aubergine is a vegetable.
Also accepted in games: eggplant
French aubergine comes through Catalan and Arabic from a Sanskrit name for the plant.
French
aubergine
English, today
aubergine
Borrowed from French aubergine. French aubergine, from Catalan albergínia, from Arabic باذنجان (“the aubergine”), from fa-cls بَادِنْجَان, from بَاتِنْگَان, from Sanskrit वातिङ्गण (“the plant that cures the wind”), from dra, ultimately from dra-pro waẓVtV. Cognate with Malayalam വഴുതനങ്ങ, Hindi बैंगन. a doublet of brinjal and malidzano and melongene.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA