# apricot
## English
### Alternative forms

* apricock (archaic)
* abricock (obsolete)

### Etymology

Alteration of apricock (with influence from French abricot), itself an alteration of abrecock (with influence from Latin apricum (“sunny place”)), from dialectal Catalan abrecoc, abricoc, variants of standard albercoc, from Arabic الْبَرْقُوق (al-barqūq, “plums”), from Byzantine Greek βερικοκκία (berikokkía, “apricot tree”), from Ancient Greek πραικόκιον (praikókion), from Late Latin (persica) praecocia (literally “(peaches) which ripen early”), (mālum) praecoquum (literally “(apple) which ripens early”). Doublet of precocious.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈeɪ.pɹɪ.kɒt/
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* (General American) IPA: /ˈeɪ.pɹɪ.kɑt/, /ˈæp.ɹɪ.kɑt/
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* (General Australian) IPA: /æepɹɪˈkɒt/, /æepɹɪˈkɔt/
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* Hyphenation: apri‧cot

### Noun

apricot (countable and uncountable, plural apricots)
* A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside.
    pickled apricots
* The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.
    Synonym: apricot tree
* A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.
    apricot:
* A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
* (sniper slang) The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.
** 2011, Jordan Gray, Unearthed, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 41:Seven hundred and seventy-eight yards, though I didn't know the exact measurement at the time, plus the fact that the bullet ripped through the victim's apricot tipped me to the fact that we were probably dealing with an experienced sniper.
** 2012, Eric Puchner, “Beautiful Monsters”, in Tom Perrotta, editor, The Best American Short Stories 2012, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 198:I'd aim right for the apricot. The medulla. You'd die instantly.
** 2020, Elise Noble, When the Shadows Fall‎, Undercover Publishing Limited, →ISBN:“See the nose?” Slater asked. He’d drawn a face on the watermelon with a Sharpie. “Aim right below it, at the philtrum. That way, the bullet's gonna go straight through and hit the apricot. Carmen told you about the apricot?” In my first lesson. The apricot was the sniper's nickname for the medulla oblongata, the cone-shaped mass of neurons that connected the brain to the spinal cord.
* (slang, Australia, dated, usually in the plural) A testicle.

#### Hypernyms

* fruit
* tree
* color
* dog

#### Derived terms

* apricot blossom
* apricotlike
* apricot tree
* apricotty
* apricoty
* aprium
* Irish apricot
* Manchurian apricot
* plucot
* plumcot
* pluot

#### Related terms

* precocious

#### Translations

Abkhaz: аҷарам (ačʼaram)
Adyghe: абрикос (abrikʷos)
Afrikaans: appelkoos (af)
Albanian: kajsi (sq) f, zerdeli (sq) f
Alviri-Vidari:
Vidari: شیلان (šilān)
Amharic: ኮክ መሳይ የፍራፍሬ አይነት (kok mäsay yäfrafre ʾäynät)
Arabic: مِشْمِش m (mišmiš)
Andalusian Arabic: مشماش m (mušmāš)
Egyptian Arabic: مشمش m pl (mešmeš)
Hijazi Arabic: مِشْمِش m pl (mišmiš)
Moroccan Arabic: مشماش m (mašmāš)
South Levantine Arabic: مِشْمِش m pl (mišmiš)
Aragonese: alberje
Armenian: ծիրան (hy) (ciran), պարկուկ (hy) (parkuk)
Old Armenian: ծիրան (ciran)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܸܫܡܸܫܬܵܐ f (mišmišta)
Asturian: albaricoque m, albaricoca f
Azerbaijani: ərik (az)
Bashkir: өрөк (örök)
Basque: arbeletxeko, abrikot
Belarusian: абрыко́с m (abrykós)
Bengali: খুবানি (bn) (khubani)
Breton: abriko
Bulgarian: кайси́я (bg) f (kajsíja), за́рзала (bg) f (zárzala), зарзали́я f (zarzalíja) (dialectal)
Catalan: albercoc (ca) m
Chechen: туьрк (türk)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 杏桃 (hang$^6$ tou$^4$, hang$^6$ tou$^{4-2}$), 黃梅 / 黄梅 (wong$^4$ mui$^4$, wong$^4$ mui$^{4-2}$)
Dungan: хын (hɨn)
Hokkien: 杏 (hēng)
Mandarin: 杏 (zh) (xìng), 杏子 (zh) (xìngzi), 杏實 / 杏实 (zh) (xìngshí)
Cornish: brykedh (collective), brykedhen f
Corsican: baracucca f
Czech: meruňka (cs) f
Danish: abrikos (da) c
Dongxiang: orou
Dutch: abrikoos (nl) f
Egyptian: (dpḥ n ꜣrmꜥynꜣ)
Esperanto: abrikoto (eo)
Estonian: aprikoos (et)
Faroese: aprikosa
Finnish: aprikoosi (fi)
French: abricot (fr) m
Galician: albaricoque (gl) m
Gallurese: barracoccu
Georgian: გარგარი (gargari), ჭერამი (č̣erami)
German: Aprikose (de) f, Marille (de) f (Austria)
Greek: βερίκοκο (el) n (veríkoko)
Ancient: πραικόκιον n (praikókion), ἀρμενιακόν n (armeniakón), βερίκοκκον n (beríkokkon)
Greenlandic: abrikosi
Haitian Creole: abiko
Hebrew: מִשְׁמֵשׁ (he) m (mishmesh)
Hindi: ख़ूबानी (hi) f (xūbānī), ज़र्दालू (hi) m (zardālū), ज़रदालू (hi) m (zardālū)
Hungarian: sárgabarack (hu), kajszibarack (hu), kajszi (hu) (informal)
Icelandic: apríkósa (is) f
Indonesian: aprikot (id)
Irish: aibreog f
Italian: albicocca (it) f
Japanese: 杏子 (ja) (あんず, anzu)
Kabardian: хуэрэджэ (kbd) (xʷɛrɛdžɛ)
Kalasha: aẓạ́i
Kannada: ಜರ್ದಾಳು (jardāḷu)
Kashmiri: ژیر (ks) (ċēr)
Kazakh: өрік (örık)
Korean: 살구 (ko) (salgu)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: قەیسی (qeysî)
Northern Kurdish: mijmij (ku) f, qeysî (ku) f, zerdelî (ku) f, hêrûg (ku) f, zerdele (ku), mişmiş (ku)
Kyrgyz: өрүк (ky) (örük), абрикос (ky) (abrikos)
Ladino: kayisí m, abrikok m
Lao: ໝາກຄາຍ (lo) (māk khāi)
Latin: armeniacum n
Latvian: aprikoze (lv) f
Lithuanian: abrikosas (lt) m
Lü: ᦖᦱᧅᦚᦳᧂ (ṁaakḟung)
Macedonian: кајсија (mk) f (kajsija)
Malagasy: aprikaoty (mg)
Malay: aprikot
Malayalam: ജലദാലു (jaladālu)
Maltese: berquqa (mt) f
Manx: apricoc m
Maori: aperekota, pirikota, aperekoti
Marathi: जर्दाळू (jardāḷū)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: абрикос (abrikos)
Mingrelian: მარგული (marguli)
Mongolian: чангаанз (mn) (čangaanz), гүйлс (mn) (güjls)
Navajo: dzidzétsoh díkʼǫ́ǫzhii, didzétsoh yázhí
Northern Sami: aprikosa
Northern Sotho: apolêkôsê
Norwegian: aprikos (no) m
O'odham: wil-gohgih
Occitan: albricòt (oc) m
Oromo: kookii
Ossetian:
Digor: къерами (k’erami)
Iron: чъерами (ḱ’erami)
Ottoman Turkish: قیصی (kaysi, kayısı)
Pashto: زردالو (ps) m (zardālú)
Persian: زردآلو (fa) (zard-âlu)
Plautdietsch: Aupelkoos f
Polish: morela (pl) f
Portuguese: damasco (pt) m (Brazil), abricó (pt), alperce (pt) m, alperche (pt) m
Punjabi: ਖ਼ੁਰਮਾਨੀ (xurmānī)
Romanian: caisă (ro) f
Romansch: apricosa f
Russian: абрико́с (ru) m (abrikós), жердёла f (žerdjóla) (regional)
Sardinian:
Campidanese: piricoccu
Logudorese: barracocco
Sassarese: barracoc
Scottish Gaelic: apragod m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ка̀јсија f, зердѐлица f, марѐлица f
Roman: kàjsija (sh) f, zerdèlica f, marèlica (sh) f
Sicilian: varcocu (scn) m
Slovak: marhuľa (sk) f
Slovene: marẹ̑lica (sl) f
Somali: safiican
Sotho: apolokose (st)
Spanish: albaricoque (es) m, chabacano (es) m (Mexico), damasco (es) m (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay)
Swedish: aprikos (sv) c
Tagalog: albarikoke
Tajik: зардолу (tg) (zardolu)
Tatar: өрек (tt) (örek)
Thai: แอพริคอต (ɛ́p-prí-kɔ̀t)
Tibetan: མངའ་རིས་ཁམས་བུ (mnga' ris khams bu)
Tigrinya: ምሽምሽ (məšməš)
Turkish: kayısı (tr), zerdali (tr)
Turkmen: erik
Ukrainian: абрико́са (uk) f (abrykósa), абрико́с (uk) m (abrykós)
Urdu: خوبانی f (xūbānī), زرد آلو m (zard ālū)
Uyghur: ئۆرۈك (örük)
Uzbek: oʻrik (uz)
Venetan: armełin m
Vietnamese: mơ tây, quả mơ
Volapük: brikod (vo)
Walloon: åbricot (wa) m
Welsh: bricyll (cy) f pl
West Frisian: abrikoas
Yiddish: אַפּריקאָס m (aprikos)
Zazaki: berga :

### Adjective

apricot (comparative more apricot, superlative most apricot)
* Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.

#### Translations
### See also

* lekvar
* Appendix:Colors

### Further reading

* apricot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Prunus armeniaca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
* Prunus armeniaca on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
* Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “apricot”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* aprotic, parotic, patrico

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /apʁiˈkoː/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

apricot (indeclinable)
* (uncommon) apricot-coloured
    Synonym: aprikosenfarben