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The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.
Nana Mouskouri

Meaning of "aubergine" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD AUBERGINE

From French, from Catalan alberginia, from Arabic al-bādindjān, ultimately from Sanskrit vatin-ganah, of obscure origin.
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PRONUNCIATION OF AUBERGINE

aubergine  [ˈəʊbəˌʒiːn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AUBERGINE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Aubergine is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AUBERGINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

aubergine

Eggplant

Eggplant is a species of nightshade commonly known in British English as aubergine and also known as melongene, garden egg, or guinea squash. It is known in South Asia, Southeast Asia and South Africa as brinjal. It bears a fruit of the same name that is widely used in cooking, most notably as an important ingredient in dishes such as moussaka and ratatouille. As a member of the genus Solanum, it is related to both the tomato and the potato. It was originally domesticated in India and Bangladesh from the wild nightshade, the thorn or bitter apple, S. incanum.

Definition of aubergine in the English dictionary

The first definition of aubergine in the dictionary is a tropical Old World solanaceous plant, Solanum melongena, widely cultivated for its egg-shaped typically dark purple fruit US, Canadian, and Australian name: eggplant. Other definition of aubergine is the fruit of this plant, which is cooked and eaten as a vegetable. Aubergine is also a dark purple colour.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AUBERGINE


agene
ˈeɪdʒiːn
antigene
ˈæntɪˌdʒiːn
asparagine
əˈspærəˌdʒiːn
gene
dʒiːn
hygiene
ˈhaɪdʒiːn
indigene
ˈɪndɪˌdʒiːn
ingine
ɪnˈdʒiːn
jean
dʒiːn
jin
dʒiːn
Neogene
ˈniːəˌdʒiːn
oncogene
ˈɒŋkəʊˌdʒiːn
Palaeogene
ˈpælɪəˌdʒiːn
paleogene
ˈpælɪəʊˌdʒiːn
pathogene
ˈpæθəˌdʒiːn
phosgene
ˈfɒzdʒiːn
sagene
səˈdʒiːn
supergene
ˈsuːpərˌdʒiːn
tagine
tæˈʒiːn
tajine
tæˈʒiːn
transgene
ˈtrænzˌdʒiːn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AUBERGINE

au jus
au lait
au naturel
au pair
au revoir
aua
aubade
Aube
Auber
auberge
aubergiste
Aubervilliers
aubretia
Aubrey
aubrieta
aubrietia
auburn
Aubusson
AUC
auceps

WORDS THAT END LIKE AUBERGINE

compression-ignition engine
diesel engine
engine
external-combustion engine
fire engine
fuel injection engine
gas engine
imagine
internal-combustion engine
jet engine
petrol engine
Prigogine
reimagine
replacement engine
search engine
steam engine
steam-engine
Stirling engine
tank engine
turbo engine

Synonyms and antonyms of aubergine in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «aubergine» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AUBERGINE

Find out the translation of aubergine to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of aubergine from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «aubergine» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

茄子
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

berenjena
570 millions of speakers

English

aubergine
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बैंगन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بَاذِنـْجان
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

баклажан
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

berinjela
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সরাইখানা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

aubergine
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Auberge
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Aubergine
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ナス
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

가지
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Auberge
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cà tím
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Auberge
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

औबेरगे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

auberge
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

melanzana
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bakłażan
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

баклажан
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

vânătă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μελιτζάνα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

aubergine
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

aubergine
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

aubergine
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of aubergine

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AUBERGINE»

The term «aubergine» is quite widely used and occupies the 29.445 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AUBERGINE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about aubergine

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QUOTES WITH «AUBERGINE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word aubergine.
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Nana Mouskouri
The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AUBERGINE»

Discover the use of aubergine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to aubergine and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Blue Aubergine
He won't remember that the swelling in his wife's belly had turned into a blue aubergine for many days to come. As soon as he sees her he will realize that the child came before her time and that the umbilical cord, which they had knotted to  ...
Al-Tahawy, 2006
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Don't Sweat the Aubergine
Written in Clee's easy, wry style and packed with his own selection of jargon-busting recipes that will deliciously broaden your range of standbys, this is the last cookbook you will ever need to buy . . .
Nicholas Clee, 2012
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Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book
The aubergine so much belongs to the delights of Mediterranean food that it is surprising to learn of its original home in tropical Asia. Like ginger, or the cherry, it carries its history in its name. Aubergine, the French name we have adopted, ...
Jane Grigson, 2007
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Trixie Tempest and the Ghost of St Aubergine's
Trixie, the tweenager with a brain full of fireworks and a heart of gold has some problems to solve.
Ros Asquith, 2003
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Good Housekeeping
Parmesan cheese. French Ways with Eggplant By X. Own The following recipes for preparing aubergine or eggplant were given me by the vivacious wife of a French gardener. As they are as quaint as is madame herself, I pass them on, ...
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Gordon Ramsay's Passion for Flavour: Recipes from the Aubergine
Stunning photographs by Geoff Lung capture the superb lightness and detail of Gordon Ramsay's cooking, making this book a source of delight for the keen amateur and armchair gourmet alike.
Gordon Ramsay, Roz Denny, 2000
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Pharmacodynamic Basis of Herbal Medicine, Second Edition
An eggplant, aubergine, or brinjal is either of two species of nightshade, Solanum melongena and S. esculentum, bearing large pendulous purple or white fruit. Although aubergine is the English name given to this fruit, it is often invoked to ...
Manuchair Ebadi, 2006
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Provence A-Z: A Francophile's Essential Handbook
Caviar d'Aubergine The aufiergine, or eggplant, is thought to have originated in India before setting off on its travels through the Balkans. the Middle East, and the Mediterranean. gathering recipes along the way. One of these was caviar d ...
Peter Mayle, 2009
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Cupboard Love 2: A Dictionary of Culinary Curiosities
See also cup. eggplant Although my six-year-old niece will not eat eggplant, she will eat aubergine, a strange ... with aubergine eventually becoming the usual name for the plant in Britain, while eggplant became the usual name in North ...
Mark Morton, 2004
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My Kitchen Table: 100 Essential Curries
Aubergine Cooked with Crushed Mustard Seeds and Yoghurt This quick-cooking dish from eastern India uses three ingredients that are very typical of Bengali cooking — mustard oil, panchphoran and crushed black mustard seeds Step One  ...
Madhur Jaffrey, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AUBERGINE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term aubergine is used in the context of the following news items.
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... but leaves sweat patches on the screen, highlighting heaving expanses of exquisite, aubergine-dark skin in glorifying pools of crimson light. «Variety, Jul 15»
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Eating Out: Savour the Turkish delights on offer at popular new city …
Other meze dishes were up to this standard – the sweet vegetable stew with aubergine, red and green peppers, garlic and tomato (soslu ... «Leicester Mercury, Jul 15»
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The Most Gorgeous Makeup For Green Eyes
Her top lip color picks include, Bite Beauty Matte Crème Lip Pencil in Aubergine, Sephora Collection Cream Lip Stain #12 African Violet and ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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mewithoutYou Takes Fitz Faithful to a Fever Pitch
... most enthusiastic performances and responses were reserved for songs like “Leaf,” “Four-Word Letter,” “Aubergine,” “Timothy Hay,” “Bullet to ... «Houston Press, Jul 15»
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Be your best beautiful this Eid!
... by softening the edges, and the ubiquitous black shadow has been replaced with colours such as aubergine, emerald, sapphire and slate. «The Daily Star, Jul 15»
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Leighton Meester, Michelle Dockery, Sarah Hyland And More Carry …
That same night, Minnie Driver carried the aubergine satin version of the clutch which perfectly matched her Pamella Roland Spring 2015 ... «Fashion & Style, Jul 15»
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Angle-Shoe pivots offer solution for affordable flush doors
The project architect had specified a “flush aubergine wall, flush aubergine door, 'fire hose reel' in pale aubergine” and nothing else for the ... «Architecture and Design, Jul 15»
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Sainsbury's in line for a badgering, a booting and a living wage row
... canon of lamb and aubergine polenta plus a rhubarb and almond tart – they'll be back for a refill on Tuesday and an audience with George ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Marcus Wareing's new Tredwell's restaurant offers eight-course …
More than one in three children has never been offered either avocado, coconut or aubergine by their parents, says research commissioned by ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
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Jan Kirsh sculpture wins art competition
Easton — A Jan Kirsh Studio sculpture titled “Aubergine” has won the Howard County Arts Council's ARTsites 2015 competition and exhibit. «The Star Democrat, Jul 15»

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