What is pineapple called in your native language?
By Sheali
@Sheali (7461)
India
March 19, 2019 11:04pm CST
While conducting online language classes, I came to know an interesting fact about pineapples. Throughout the world, they are mostly called ananas or something similar.
While I was teaching English to a lady from Poland, she told me what pineapple is called 'ANANAS' in Polish and I was amazed to know that we also call it by a similar name. I just got curious and asked another student, I can’t remember his nationality but he also gave a similar reply. I was surprised again and searched the internet and came to know that it is called by a name similar to ananas in most languages.
I am an Indian and in Hindi it is called ‘ANARAS’ and in Bengali, ‘ANAROSH’. Ras or Rosh means juice in Indian languages. Maybe because it is a juicy fruit it was given that name.
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@Shivram59 (31764)
• India
20 Mar 19
@Sheali In some areas it is called A NANAS in Hindi.
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@Shivram59 (31764)
• India
20 Mar 19
@LowRiderX Really??Do you call it "Ananas"??
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@LadyDuck (458006)
• Switzerland
21 Mar 19
@Sheali The name of fruits is the same all over the world if you use the "botanical name", that for pineapple is "Ananas comosus". As all botanical names derive from Latin, usually the closest is the Italian name, as you see, here it is the case. The botanical name of "apple" is "malus" and in Italian mela.
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
21 Mar 19
@LadyDuck i had a feeling it was related to the scientific name. here it is piña or pinya.
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@abhinalstrikr (4111)
• India
20 Mar 19
It's surprising that it's commonly called like us in many countries anaras is what we called in our country
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@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
20 Mar 19
Here in the US we have always called them Pineapples, and they are some Good eating
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@shaqziad1610 (506)
• Malaysia
21 Mar 19
Hi. I am from Malaysia, and in my native language, it is Nanas. No surprise there.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60343)
• Perth, Australia
11 Apr 19
@Sheali That dancing pineapple is so cute! 
We just call them Pineapples here. I didn't really know there were a lot of other names for it! So interesting!
We just call them Pineapples here. I didn't really know there were a lot of other names for it! So interesting!1 person likes this
@Sheali (7461)
• India
11 Apr 19
@VivaLaDani13 As many names as tgere are languages in this world
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