guava

English

guavas (fruit)

Recorded since 1555, from Spanish guaya, a variant of guayaba, from Arawak guayabo (“guava tree”).

guava (countable and uncountable, plural guavas)

A tropical tree or shrub of the myrtle family, Psidium guajava.
Its yellowish tropical fruit, 1¼ to 2 inches, globular or pear-shaped with thin, yellow, green or brown skin, is often made into jams and jellies. The meat is yellowish or pale green to pink in color.

tree or shrub

fruit

Albanian: gujava f
Arabic: جُوَافَة‎ f (juwāfa)
Egyptian Arabic: جوافة‎ f (gawafa)
Armenian: գուավա (guava)
Assamese: মধুৰি (modhuri), মধুৰি আম (modhuri am), সঁফুৰি আম (xõphuri am), মুহৰী (muhori)
Atayal: bwal
Bengali: পেয়ারা (peyara)
Bulgarian: гуа́ва f (guáva)
Burmese: မာလကာသီး (mala.kasi:)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 番石榴 (faan¹ sek⁶ lau⁴^-²)

Mandarin: 番石榴 (zh) (fānshíliu), 芭樂 (zh), 芭乐 (zh) (bālè), 雞矢果, 鸡矢果 (jīshǐguǒ) (mainland China), 巴拉 (zh) (bālā), 芭拉 (bālā)

Min Nan: 林菝仔 (zh-min-nan) (ná-pua̍t-á, ná-pa̍t-á), 菝仔 (zh-min-nan) (pua̍t-á, pa̍t-á)
Czech: guava
Danish: guava
Dutch: guave (nl)
Esperanto: gujavo
Finnish: guava (fi)
French: goyave (fr) f
Galician: guiaba f
German: Guave (de) f
Greek: γκουάβα f (gkouáva)
Guaraní: arasa
Hausa: goba
Hebrew: גויאבה‎ f (guyava)
Hindi: अमरूद (hi) (amrūd)
Hungarian: gujávafa
Ido: guyavo (io)
Ilocano: bayabas
Indonesian: jambu batu (id), jambu biji (id)
Italian: guava f
Japanese: グアバ (guaba), グアヴァ (guava)

guava

Inflection of guava (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		guava	guavat
genitive		guavan	guavojen
partitive		guavaa	guavoja
illative		guavaan	guavoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		guava	guavat
accusative	nom.	guava	guavat
accusative	gen.	guavan	guavat
genitive		guavan	guavojen guavain^rare
partitive		guavaa	guavoja
inessive		guavassa	guavoissa
elative		guavasta	guavoista
illative		guavaan	guavoihin
adessive		guavalla	guavoilla
ablative		guavalta	guavoilta
allative		guavalle	guavoille
essive		guavana	guavoina
translative		guavaksi	guavoiksi
instructive		—	guavoin
abessive		guavatta	guavoitta
comitative		—	guavoineen

guava

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