cacahuete

Meaning

peanut (plant, seed)

Concepts

peanut

groundnut

monkey nut

earthnut

goober

groundnuts

ground nut

pinda

monkeynut

goober pea

Arachis hypogaea

monkeynuts

peanut vine

jack nut

peanuts

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Synonyms

maní

cacahuate

cacahué

mani

nuez del mono

arachis hypogaea

mani

Translations

arachide

Erdnuss

arachide

amendoim

cacahuète

cacauet

pinda

aardnoot

apenoot

فول سوداني

Erdnuß

cacahouète

αραχίδα

nocciolina

Hyphenated as

ca‧ca‧hue‧te

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kakaˈwete/

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl: cacahuatl

In summary

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl (“cocoa bean”), with phonetical influence of alcahuete (“gossip”), hypothetically of Arabic origin (this influence is absent in cacahuate, the variant of the word used in Honduras and Mexico). Note that in Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl might refer to the cocoa bean, with tlālcacahuatl (literally “earth cocoa bean”) probably being the name for the peanut.