kiwi
See also: Kiwi
English

A brown kiwi (Apteryx australis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkiːwi/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -iːwi
Noun
kiwi (plural kiwi or kiwis)
- A flightless bird of the genus Apteryx native to New Zealand.
- Alternative letter-case form of Kiwi (person from New Zealand).
- (informal) A New Zealand dollar.
- A kiwi fruit.
- A green-yellow colour, like that of kiwi fruit flesh (also called kiwi green).
- kiwi:
- (military, slang) A member of the air force who does not fly.
- 1953, Air Force: Official Service Journal of the U.S. Army Air Forces
- And as its role grew in importance, ground commanders, or kiwis as they were called, made many mistakes in judgment […]
- 1953, Air Force: Official Service Journal of the U.S. Army Air Forces
Usage notes
- When used to describe people, Kiwi is usually capitalised.
- The plural is usually kiwis; sometimes, kiwi is found as an (invariant) plural form.
Synonyms
- (flightless bird): apteryx
- (kiwi fruit): Chinese gooseberry (dated), kiwi fruit
Related terms
Descendants
Translations
bird
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kiwi fruit — see kiwi fruit
Further reading
kiwi (bird) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
kiwifruit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Catalan
Further reading
- “kiwi” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ki‧wi
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kiːvi/, [ˈkʰiːvi]
Inflection
Synonyms
- (kiwi fruit): kiwifrugt
Further reading
kiwi on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Kiwier on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Kiwi (frugt) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈki.ʋi/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: ki‧wi
French
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Des kiwis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ki.wi/
Audio (Montreal, Canada) (file) Audio (file)
Further reading
- “kiwi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈki.wi/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -iwi
- Hyphenation: kì‧wi
Derived terms
- kiwi australe
- kiwi bruno
Maori
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *kiu, from Proto-Oceanic *kiuk, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kiuk (“cheep, peep”).
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kiːʋi/
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kiːʋi/
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈki.vi/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ivi
- Syllabification: ki‧wi
Romanian
Declension
Declension of kiwi
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (o) kiwi | kiwiul | (niște) kiwi | kiwile |
genitive/dative | (unei) kiwi | kiwii | (unor) kiwi | kiwilor |
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkiwi/ [ˈki.wi]
- Rhymes: -iwi
- Syllabification: ki‧wi
Further reading
- “kiwi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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