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AUBERGINE
Definition of AUBERGINE
noun
An Asian plant, Solanum melongena, cultivated for its edible purple, green, or white ovoid fruit; eggplant.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Unadapted borrowing from French aubergine, from Catalan albergínia, from Arabic اَلْبَاذِنْجَان (al-bāḏinjān, “the aubergine”), from Classical Persian بَادِنْجَان (bādinjān), from بَاتِنْگَان (bātingān), from Sanskrit वातिङ्गण (vātiṅgaṇa, “the plant that cures the wind”), from Dravidian, ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *waẓVtV. Cognate with Malayalam വഴുതനങ്ങ (vaḻutanaṅṅa), Hindi बैंगन (baiṅgan). Doublet of brinjal, malidzano, and melongene.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
14th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
0.9%
of traced words share this origin (252)
branch · 1.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, AUBERGINE · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Hindi, Malay.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
AUBERGINE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 46 boards so far. 119 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 20, 9 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 147, 14 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 20, 9 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
AUBERGINE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABEEGINRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start AUBERG
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 20
Could you have found AUBERGINE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 20 - and most players walked straight past it.
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