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