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Apple : Măr
Banana : Banană
Carrot : Morcov
Strawberry : Căpşune
Peaches : Piersici
Pepper : Ardei
Corn : Porumb
Pumpkin : Dovleac
Lettuce : Salată Verde
Pineapple : Ananas
Onion : Ceapă
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The Hungarian word for pineapple is also similar: ananász. This prompted me to look into the etymology of the word ananas and according to Wikiedia, most languages use a variation “ananas” for pineapple. It comes from the Portuguese version of the Guarani word.
Hello Zsuzsa, what a good idea! You’re right – it’s always interesting to compare and contrast languages and vocabulary. It surprised me for example how similar the word Pineapple in Romanian is similar to the Spanish ananá, or French ananas. We’ll definitely do lists in Croatian, Hungarian, and Romanian going forward.
I have a suggestion about these lists. You should put them up in all 3 languages (Croatian, Hungarian & Romanian). It would be interesting to compare them, since Croatian and Romanian are from different branches of the Indo-European language family (Slavic & Italic, respectively) and Hungarian is from the completely different Uralic family.