apple
[ ap-uh l ]
/ ˈæp əl /
noun
Origin of apple
before 900; Middle English
appel, Old English
æppel; cognate with Old Frisian, Dutch
appel, Old Saxon
apl, appul, Old High German
apful (German
Apfel), Crimean Gothic
apel < Germanic
*aplu (akin to Old Norse
epli <
*apljan); Old Irish
ubull (neuter), Welsh
afal, Breton
aval < pre-Celtic
*ǫblu; Lithuanian
óbuolas, -ỹs, Latvian
âbuol(i)s (with reshaped suffix), OPruss
woble, perhaps Thracian (
din)upla, (
sin)upyla wild pumpkin, OCS (
j)ablŭko (representing
*ablŭ-ko, neuter) < Balto-Slavic
*āblu-. Cf.
Avalon
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British Dictionary definitions for apple
apple
/ (ˈæpəl) /
noun
a rosaceous tree, Malus sieversii, native to Central Asia but widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties, having pink or white fragrant flowers and firm rounded edible fruits
See also crab apple
the fruit of this tree, having red, yellow, or green skin and crisp whitish flesh
the wood of this tree
any of several unrelated trees that have fruits similar to the apple, such as the custard apple, sugar apple, and May apple
See also love apple, oak apple, thorn apple
apple of one's eye
a person or thing that is very precious or much loved
bad apple or rotten apple
a person with a corrupting influence
See also
apples
Word Origin for apple
Old English
æppel; related to Old Saxon
appel, Old Norse
apall, Old High German
apful
Idioms and Phrases with apple
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