- [countable]
a round fruit with yellow or orange skin and a large hard seed inside 杏；杏子 dried apricots 杏干
- [uncountable]
a pale orange colour 杏黄色
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Portuguese albricoque or Spanish albaricoque, from Spanish Arabic al ‘the’ + barqūq (via late Greek from Latin praecoquum, variant of praecox ‘early-ripe’); influenced by Latin apricus ‘ripe’ and French abricot.