papaya

From Spanish papaya, from Arawak papáia.

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• IPA^(key): /pəˈpaɪə/, /pəˈpɑːjə/
• Rhymes: -aɪə, -ɑːjə

papaya (plural papayas)

1. A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit.
2. The fruit of this tree.
   • 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 135:

     It was that image, its practical mundanity, the preparation of fruit I have seen you do a thousand times, the spoon gliding along the papaya’s flesh-orange core, a slush of black seeds plopping into the steel sink, that made it unbearable.

3. An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.

   papaya:  

• pawpaw (Australia), common term for papaya, but strictly speaking this refers to a different tree/fruit.

• papain

• papaya on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Spanish papaya, from Arawak papáia.

papaya

1. papaya

Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Arawak papáia.

papaya

1. papaya

Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Arawak papáia.

papaya

1. papaya

• papayón, papayo

From Cariban/Arawak papáia.

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• Rhymes: -aʝa
• Syllabification: pa‧pa‧ya

papaya f (plural papayas)

1. papaya (fruit)

   Synonyms: lechoza, (Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Paraguay) lechosa, mamón

2. (Cuba, slang, euphemistic) vagina (likely from the shape of the fruit when sliced in half lengthwise: see image)
3. (Colombia, slang) opportunity

• Cubans typically call the papaya fruit fruta bomba instead, reserving the word papaya for its slang sense.

papaya (plural papayas)

1. (Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, slang) easy

• “papaya”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Arawak papáia. Compare Pangasinan apayas and Kapampangan kapaya.

• Hyphenation: pa‧pa‧ya
• IPA^(key): /paˈpaja/, [pɐˈpa.jɐ]
• Rhymes: -aja

papaya

1. papaya

• payapa

papaya

1. accusative singular of papa

papaya

1. papaya.