Word Origin Summary

Grapefruit is attested in English. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• เกรปฟรุต

  Thai · borrowed from

• grapefrukt

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• γκρέιπφρουτ

  Greek · borrowed from

• كريفون

  Arabic · borrowed from

• grapefrugt

  Danish · borrowed from

• 그레이프프루트

  Korean · borrowed from

• грејпфрут

  HBS · borrowed from

• grejpfrut

  HBS · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root