prune
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English prune, from Old French prune, from Vulgar Latin *prūna, feminine singular formed from the neutral plural of Latin prūnum, from Ancient Greek προῦνον (proûnon), variant of προῦμνον (proûmnon, “plum”), a loanword from a language of Asia Minor. Doublet of plum.
Inflected forms:
form: prunes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: proin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: prunes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pruning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pruned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pruned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: proin
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A plum.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
pos: noun
gloss: Something wrinkly like a prune.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: We are not free when we are in the grip of the false conditioning that decrees that we need sex. We are not free if we believe the culture's ominous warnings that we will become "horny" (what a callous, offensive word) and frustrated and neurotic and finally shrivel up into prunes and have to abandon hope of being good, creative, effective people.
gloss: An old woman, especially a wrinkly one.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: I hardly left that spot in my pool that month even when my fingers pruned and chlorine dried out my skin.
Synonyms: old woman
Derived words: German prune
mirabelle prune
prune belly syndrome
prunelike
prune plum
prune tree
pruney
pruno
pruny
South African prune
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: أَجَاص
roman: ʔajāṣ
lang: Arabic
word: عَوِينَة
roman: ʕawīna
lang: Arabic
word: عَوِينَة مُجَفَّفَة
lang: Arabic
word: خَوْخ مُجَفَّف
roman: ḵawḵ mujaffaf
lang: Armenian
word: սալորաչիր
roman: saloračʻir
lang: Bulgarian
word: сушена слива
roman: sušena sliva
lang: Catalan
word: pruna seca
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 李子乾 /李子干
roman: lǐzigān
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 西梅乾 /西梅干
roman: xīméigān
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 乾梅子 /干梅子
roman: gānméizi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 梅乾 /梅干
roman: mēigān
lang: Czech
word: sušená švestka
lang: Danish
word: sveske
lang: Dutch
word: gedroogde pruim
lang: Esperanto
word: sekigita pruno
lang: Finnish
word: kuivattu luumu
lang: French
word: pruneau
lang: Galician
word: ameixa secada
lang: German
word: Backpflaume
lang: German
word: Trockenpflaume
lang: German
word: Dörrpflaume
lang: Greek
word: αποξηραμένο δαμάσκηνο
roman: apoxiraméno damáskino
lang: Hungarian
word: aszalt szilva
lang: Icelandic
word: sveskja
lang: Irish
word: prúna
lang: Italian
word: prugna secca
lang: Japanese
word: プルーン
roman: purūn
lang: Japanese
word: 西洋李
roman: seiyō sumomo
lang: Korean
word: 말린 자두
roman: mallin jadu
lang: Macedonian
word: сува слива
roman: suva sliva
lang: Māori
word: paramu menge
lang: Māori
word: purunu
lang: Middle English
word: prune
lang: Navajo
word: chʼil naʼatłʼoʼiitsoh
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: sviske
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: sviske
lang: Polish
word: suszona śliwka
lang: Portuguese
word: ameixa seca
lang: Romanian
word: prună uscată
lang: Russian
word: черносли́в
roman: černoslív
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: prùn
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: searg
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: сува шљива
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: suva šljiva
lang: Slovak
word: sušená slivka
lang: Slovene
word: suha sliva
lang: Spanish
word: ciruela pasa
lang: Spanish
word: pruna seca
lang: Spanish
word: guindón
lang: Swedish
word: katrinplommon
lang: Swedish
word: sviskon
lang: Turkish
word: kuru erik
lang: Ukrainian
word: чорно́слив
roman: čornóslyv
lang: Vietnamese
word: nho khô
lang: Walloon
word: caetche
lang: Walloon
word: pronne
lang: Walloon
word: purnea
lang: Yup'ik
word: isuumaq