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au⋅ber⋅gine

  [oh-ber-zheen, -jeen, oh-ber-; oh-ber-zheen, -jeen, oh-ber-]
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–noun
1. Chiefly British. eggplant.
2. a dark purplish color.
Origin:
1785–95; < F < Catalan albargínia < Ar al the + bādhinjān eggplant < Pers bādingān perh. < Indo-Aryan; cf. Skt vātiṅgaṇaḥ
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au·ber·gine   (ō'běr-zhēn', ō'bər-jēn)   
n.  See eggplant.

[French, from Catalan albergina, from Arabic al-bāḏinjān, the eggplant, from Persian bādenjān, bādengān.]
egg·plant   (ěg'plānt')   
n.  
    1. An Indian plant (Solanum melongena var. esculenta) cultivated for its large edible, ovoid, glossy, usually purple-skinned fruit.
    2. The fruit of this plant. Also called aubergine, melongene.
  2. A blackish purple.
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aubergine 
1794, from Fr., "fruit of the eggplant" (Solanum esculentum), dim. of auberge "a kind of peach," from Sp. alberchigo "apricot." But Klein derives the Fr. from Catalan alberginera, from Arabic al-badinjan "the eggplant," from Pers. badin-gan, from Skt. vatin-ganah. As a color like that of the eggplant fruit, it is attested from 1895.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Language Translation for : aubergine
Spanish: berenjena,
German: die Aubergine,
Japanese: なす
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aubergine jargon
A secret term used to refer to computers in the presence of computerphobic third parties.
(1995-01-24)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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