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"paradicsom" just goes to show that this article is confidently incorrect: > Exceptions: Italian uses pomodoro, and some other languages use a word similar to the Italian one. Mandarin Chinese is another exception! "paradicsom" is not similar to pomodoro, in either pronounciation or meaning. And if the author has made one so simple mistake, we have to assume there are many more with the more exotic languages.
Yeah, pomodoro means "golden apple", paradicsom/Paradeiser comes from "paradise" (looks like Hungarians really like tomatos!), so nothing in common except that they start with "P" and the countries they are used in are roughly in the same region. Also, in Romanian a tomato is simply a "roșie" ("red") - Romanians apparently like to name fruit by their color, eggplants are called "vinete" ("purples").
Re: Are any words the same in all languages?
#511well, we used to like them, but then the fantastic "long shelf life" variations came...