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/ˈoʊbərʒiːn/ · /ˈəʊbəʒiːn/
a large vegetable with smooth shiny skin that is dark purple on the outside and soft and pale inside, cooked and eaten as food.
茄子
複數 aubergines
核心畫面
Think of one thing only: a long, deep-purple vegetable with shiny skin, light in the hand, white and inside. Aubergine is the British word; Americans say eggplant.
一顆深紫色、表皮亮得會反光的長條形蔬菜，掂起來意外地輕，切開卻是白白軟軟的海綿肉，一下鍋就把油全吸進去。整個字就掛在…更多收起
一顆深紫色、表皮亮得會反光的長條形蔬菜，掂起來意外地輕，切開卻是白白軟軟的海綿肉，一下鍋就把油全吸進去。整個字就掛在這一顆東西上，沒有引申、沒有比喻。要記的其實是「哪裡的人這樣叫它」：aubergine 是英式說法（英國、愛爾蘭、南非），美式叫 eggplant，中文都是茄子。另外這個顏色太有辨識度，所以 aubergine 也直接被拿來當顏色名用，指那種帶紅的深紫，常見在衣服和油漆的色卡上。From the word’s history
Borrowed from French aubergine, from Catalan albergínia, from Arabic al-bādinjān, from Persian bādingān, ultimately from Sanskrit vātiṅgaṇa — the word travelled west with the plant itself.
這個字繞了半個地球：源頭是梵語 vātiṅgaṇa，經波斯語 bādingān、阿拉伯語 al-bādinjān（帶著阿拉伯文的冠詞 al-），傳進加泰隆語成 albergínia，再由法語寫成 aubergine，最後被英語借走。字根本身講的就是這種蔬菜，沒有藏著別的畫面——但這條路線正好說明了茄子怎麼從印度一路西行進到歐洲的廚房。
Wiktionary, entry for 'aubergine' (French < Catalan albergínia < Arabic al-bāḏinjān < Persian bādingān < Sanskrit vātiṅgaṇa)
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
auberginenoun/ˈəʊ.bə.ʒiːn/
- 1
An Asian plant, Solanum melongena, cultivated for its edible purple, green, or white ovoid fruit; eggplant.
- 2
The fruit of this plant, eaten as a vegetable.
- The hot and sour curry is an aubergine version of a south Indian fish curry I often make. […] You barbecue a few aubergines until the skin is completely black and burned, then cool and peel.
- 3
A dark purple colour; eggplant.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。