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ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The answer seems to be that they mainly call a citron “cedrat”.

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  • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I looked it up and German has several translations, among them Zedrate, as you suggested, but also Judenapfel (Jew apple) for no obvious reason (according to dict.cc)

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    • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Luckily that isn’t the name of the Wikipedia entry

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• KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  In Polish, the word for lemon is cytryna, but the word for citron is cytron

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