Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗A yellowish citrus fruit. · A semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits. · A more or less bright shade of yellow associated with lemon fruits. · Lemon juice.
Inherited from Middle English lymon, from Old French lymon (“citrus”), from Arabic لَيْمُون (laymūn) or Classical Persian لِیمُون (līmūn), a variant of Classical Persian لِیمُو (līmū, līmō), from Sanskrit निम्बू (nimbū, “lime”), ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *limaw or Munda. Doublet of lime. The fandom sense is named after the erotic anime series Cream Lemon.
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