🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

호두

Pronunciation / Transliteration: hodu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
クルミ/kuɾumi/
nounCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #8500 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"아침마다 호두를 몇 개씩 먹어요."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The edible seed of a walnut tree, enclosed in a hard woody shell.

    "He added crushed kurumi to the homemade chocolate brownies."
  2. 2

    A walnut tree belonging to the genus Juglans.

    "There is a large kurumi tree providing shade in the corner of the garden."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The Japanese word 'kurumi' (胡桃) has ancient origins, deriving from Chinese roots where 'hú' (胡) referred to foreign lands and 'táo' (桃) meant peach, eventually evolving into the specific designation for the walnut tree and its edible nut in Japanese. Over centuries, the term became fully integrated into the Japanese lexicon, frequently written in hiragana or using the kanji representation.

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