# durian
## English
### Etymology

From Malay durian, ultimately from Proto-Austronesian *duʀi (“thorn”). Doublet of iwi, from Māori.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈdʊə.ɹɪən/, /ˈdʒʊə.ɹɪən/
* (US) IPA: /ˈdʊə.ɹi.ən/, /ˈdʊə.ɹiˌɑn/
* (Singapore) IPA: /ˈd(j)u.ɹi.æn/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

durian (countable and uncountable, plural durians)
* Any of several trees, genus Durio, of Southeast Asia.
* The spiky edible fruit of this tree, known for its strong taste and very strong, unpleasant odor.
** 1692, Robert Boyle, General Heads for the Natural History of a Country Great or Small, London: John Taylor and S. Hedford, “Enquiries for Suratte, &c.,” p. 96,
    Whether the Betele hath such a contrariety to the Durion, that a few Leaves of that, put to a whole Shopful of Durions, will make them all rot suddenly; and whether those that have surfeited on Durions, and thereby over-heated themselves, do, by laying a Leaf or two of Betele upon their Breasts or Stomachs, immediately cure the Inflammations, and Recover.
** 1869 November, “The Land of the Malay: A Record of Travel in the Oriental Tropics”, in [Thomas] Mayne Reid, editor, Onward: A Magazine for the Young Manhood of America, New York, N.Y.: Onward Publishing Office, →OCLC, page 494:The dessert I thoroughly enjoyed, for the various fruits of Singapore are delicious. One of them, the "durion," exhales a most noxious perfume, but is pleasant to the palate.
** 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 115:Old women crouched over bags of Siamese rice, skeps of red and green peppers, purple egg-plants, bristly rambutans, pineapples, durians.
* (uncountable) A deep, rich yellow colour, like that of durian flesh (also called durian yellow).
    durian:

#### Alternative forms

* darion, durean, durion (archaic)

#### Descendants

* → Arabic: دُرْيَان (duryān)
* → Bengali: দুরিয়ান (duriẏan), ডুরিয়ান (ḍuriẏan)
* → Bikol Central: durian
* → Bulgarian: дуриан (durian)
* → Catalan: durian
* → Czech: durian
* → Danish: durian
* → Esperanto: durio
* → Finnish: durio
* → French: durian
* → Galician: durián
* → Georgian: დურიო (durio)
* → German: Durian
* → Hebrew: דוריאן (duri'an)
* → Italian: durian
* → Japanese: ドリアン (dorian)
* → Komi-Permyak: дуриан (durian)
* → Komi-Zyrian: дуриан (durian)
* → Korean: 두리안 (durian)
* → Lak: дуриан (durian)
* → Latvian: duriāns
* → Lithuanian: durijus
* → Norwegian Bokmål: durian
* → Persian: دوریان (duryân)
* → Polish: durian
* → Portuguese: durio, durião
* → Russian: дуриан (durian)
* → Rwanda-Rundi: duriyani
* → Spanish: durián
* → Swedish: durian
* → Turkish: durian
* → Udmurt: дуриан (durian)
* → Ukrainian: дуріан (durian)
* → Western Mari: дуриан (durian)

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* uranid

## Bikol Central
### Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *duʀi (“thorn”).

### Noun

durian
* durian (fruit)

## Brunei Malay
### Etymology

From duri (“thorn”) +‎ -an, from Proto-Malayic *duri-an, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duʀi-an.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /durian/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: du‧ri‧an

### Noun

durian
* durian (fruit)

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from English durian, from Malay durian, from Proto-Malayic *duri-an, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duʀi-an.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [du.ɾiˈan]

### Noun

durian m (plural durians)
* durian

## Cebuano
### Noun

durian
* nonstandard spelling of duryan

## Czech
### Etymology

Borrowed from English durian, from Malay durian, from Proto-Malayic *duri-an, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duʀi-an.

### Noun

durian m inan
* durian

#### Declension
## Danish
### Etymology

From English durian, from Malay durian, from Proto-Malayic *duri-an, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duʀi-an.

### Noun

durian n
* durian

## French
### Etymology

From English durian, from Malay durian, from Proto-Malayic *duri-an, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duʀi-an.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dy.ʁjɑ̃/, /du.ʁjɑ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

durian m (plural durians)
* durian

## Indonesian
### Alternative forms

* duren (colloquial)

### Etymology

Reconstructed as duri (“thorn, spike”) +‎ -an, inherited from Malay durian, from Proto-Malayic *duri-an, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duʀi-an.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /duˈrian/ [duˈri.an]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -an
* Syllabification: du‧ri‧an

### Noun

durian (plural durian-durian)
* durian

#### Derived terms

* durian belanda
* durian kuning
* durian pulu
* durian tinggang

### Further reading

* “durian” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Etymology

From English durian, from Malay durian, from Proto-Malayic *duri-an, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duʀi-an.

### Noun

durian m
* durian

### Anagrams

* Undari, diurna, indura, raduni

## Kapampangan
### Etymology

From Malay durian, from Proto-Malayic *duri-an, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duʀi-an.

### Noun

durian
* durian

## Malay
### Etymology

duri +‎ -an, from Proto-Malayic *duri-an, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duʀi-an.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /durian/
* Rhymes: -ian, -jan, -an
* Audio (Malaysia):(file)

### Noun

durian (Jawi spelling دورين or دوريان, plural durian-durian, informal 1st possessive durianku, 2nd possessive durianmu, 3rd possessive duriannya)
* durian (fruit)

#### Descendants

* Indonesian: durian
* → Burmese: ဒူးရင်းသီး (du:rang:si:)
* → Cebuano: duryan
* → Chinese: 榴槤 / 榴梿 (liúlián)
* → Dutch: doerian
* → English: durian (see there for further descendants)
* → Kapampangan: durian
* → Lao: ທຸລຽນ (thu līan)
* → Swahili: duriani
* → Tamil: துரியான் (turiyāṉ)
* → Tagalog: durian, duryan
* → Thai: ทุเรียน (tú-riian)
* → Vietnamese: sầu riêng

### Further reading

* “durian” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From English durian, from Malay durian, from Proto-Malayic *duri-an, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duʀi-an.

### Noun

durian m
* durian (fruit)

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English durian, from Malay durian, from Proto-Malayic *duri-an, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duʀi-an.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdu.rjan/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -urjan
* Syllabification: du‧rian

### Noun

durian m inan
* durian (tree)
    Synonym: zybuczkowiec
* durian (fruit)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* durian in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Swedish
### Etymology

From English durian, from Malay durian, from Proto-Malayic *duri-an, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duʀi-an.

### Noun

durian c
* durian

#### Declension
## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /duɾˈjan/ [d̪ʊɾˈjan̪]
* Rhymes: -an
* Syllabification: dur‧ian

### Noun

durián (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜇ᜔ᜌᜈ᜔)
* Alternative spelling of duryan

## Turkish
### Etymology

From English durian, from Malay durian, from Proto-Malayic *duri-an, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duʀi-an.

### Noun

durian
* durian

## West Makian
### Etymology

From Malay durian.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d̪u.ˈri.an̪/

### Noun

durian
* durian fruit
* the durian tree

### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics