pflücken

Meaning

to pick (fruit, flowers, cotton, etc.)

Concepts

pick

pluck

gather

cull

harvest

tear

cut off

gatherpick

tear off

trim

nip off

clip

snip

break

cut

interrupt

pull apart

suspend

detach

uncouple

unfasten

untie

amass

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpflʏkən/

Etymology

From Middle High German pflocken, pflucken, pflücken, from Old High German phlockōn, *phlucken, from Proto-Germanic *plukkōną, likely from Vulgar Latin *pilūc(i)cāre, derived ultimately from Latin pilāre (“remove hair”). Compare Luxembourgish plécken, Hunsrik plicke, Rhine Franconian plicke, plocke, Dutch plukken, English pluck, French éplucher, Italian piluccare. Within High German the word was restricted to Central German and northernmost Upper German.

Sentences

Avocados reifen nach dem Pflücken nach .

Avocados ripen after picking.