ciruela

ciruela (uncountable)

1. The plant Spondias purpurea.

• auricle

ciruela f (plural cirueles)

1. plum (fruit)

• cirigüeyu
• nisu
• ñisu

Borrowed from Spanish ciruela.

• IPA^(key): /θiˈɾwela/

ciruela f (plural ciruelas)

1. (Lagarteiru, Valverdeñu) plum (fruit)

   Synonyms: abruñu (Valverdeñu), agruñu (Lagarteiru, Mañegu), ameixa (Mañegu)

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Inherited from Late Latin cēreola, an ellipsis of cēreola prūna (literally “wax-colored plums”), from the neuter plural of Latin cereolus, later reinterpreted as a feminine singular; see cēra.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θiˈɾwela/ [θiˈɾwe.la]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /siˈɾwela/ [siˈɾwe.la]
• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: ci‧rue‧la

ciruela f (plural ciruelas)

1. plum

   Synonym: pruna

2. (Bolivia, Honduras, Venezuela) mombin

   Synonym: jocote

• “ciruela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014