list of filipino names for some common vegetables and fruits

[dreamlessness]

(crossposted to tagalog)

ptiza_schastya asked for some Filipino terms for food in an earlier post in the tagalog community. I thought it would be fun to start compiling a list of these things, but there are just so many... so I decided to at least make a list of Tagalog translations for common vegetables and fruits

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[reiichiru]

jackfruit = durian

actually, jackfruit is "langka". durian remains unchanged.

grapefruit = suha

suha is more popularly known as "pomelo" in english. grapefruit and pomelo belong to the same family, but they are still a tad different because grapefruits are less pulpy and are more bitter.

at bakit ko alam ito? syempre, maraming durian at suha sa davao eh. :)

[eclair]

Wow! Now I know... :)

[dreamlessness]

ahh, thank you. will correct >:D

[eclair]

Iba ang kamote sa ube di ba?

Ang ube ay purple yam :) Ang nalutong ube ay kadalasang 'halaya' - hindi ako sigurado kung may iba pang paraan para lutuin ang ube :)

Sweet potato ang kamote. Yun ang alam ko.

[dreamlessness]

eep so sweet potato is kamote... and ube is another tuber family? will fix, thank you!

[eclair]

Yup. Punta tayo sa palengke, magdala ng kamera at gawan ng dokyu 'yan ;) Para pareho tayong matuto :D

[reiichiru]

(including getting the translation for leron, leron sinta because i didn't know how to translate bataw and patani XD;)

er, bakit pala "leron, leron sinta" ang song na ginamit mo? di ba sa "bahay kubo" may bataw at patani?

[dreamlessness]

BAHAY KUBO NGA!!! see, i wasn't in my right mind when i made this list. thank you ♥;;;

[anonymous]

I have no idea what most of those look or taste like.

Oh, and technically speaking, a tomato is a fruit!

[black_marx]

that was me again!

[dreamlessness]

hi :D

it's a fruit? :O

...though i seem to remember someone telling me this in grade school XD;; will fix, thank you!

[black_marx]

It is claimed that for culinary purposes it is a vegetable because it is served as part of the pain meal but that would mean pineapple is a vegetable too due to the hawaiian pizza.

I seem to remember someone trying to convince me it was technically neither a fruit or vegetable but a berry!

[black_marx]

edible pot = bataw (not sure about the english translation...)

Beans!

[dreamlessness]

Peas! my mother said :D

[black_marx]

My dictionary says 'beans'. But I wouldn't want to say either it or your mother is wrong.

[dreamlessness]

:O!

out of curiosity, which dictionary do you use?

i used to have the english-tagalog and tagalog-english volumes by fr. leo james. i kind of neglected them and the next time i saw them again, they were drenched in floodwater and ripped to shreds.