Masculine
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limón

Meaning

  1. (Chile, Spain, masculine) lemon (fruit)
  2. (North-America, masculine) lime (fruit)

Concepts

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
li‧món
Pronounced as (IPA)
/liˈmon/
Etymology

In summary

Borrowed from Arabic لَيْمُون (laymūn) via Andalusian Arabic, from Persian لیمو (limu), لیمون (limun), from Sanskrit निम्बू (nimbū). By surface analysis, lima + -ón.

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