aubergine
noun /ˈəʊbəʒiːn/
/ˈəʊbərʒiːn/
(British English) (North American English eggplant)
[countable, uncountable]- enlarge imagea vegetable with shiny dark purple skin that is soft and white insideTopics Foodc1Word Originlate 18th cent.: from French, from Catalan alberginia, from Arabic al-bād̲injān (based on Persian bādingān, from Sanskrit vātiṃgaṇa).