What are the more commonly used language translations for peanut?
In English we have several quite different names: peanut, groundnut, monkey nut and names derived from the Latin name, Arachis hypogea. There are also items like peanut butter and sat sauce to consider; we haven’t done so in what follows. Remember that the presence of peanuts may be taken for granted in some foods with a quite different name. Remember that restaurant staff may be temporary workers with little knowledge of the foods they serve. A patient asked in a restaurant whether sat sauce contained peanut, and was told by the waiter that it did not. Of course it practically consists of peanuts. The French and Dutch, for example, also have several quite different names. Harrap’s dictionary gives: • pistache de terre; • arachide; • cacahouette; • cacaouette; • pinda (peanut butter is pindakaas); • aardnoot, aardnoten; • apenoot; • olienoot (given in dictionary but not used in everyday life). Other languages: It is obvious that other languages are likely to have similar complications.
