มะกอก(má-gòk)

Meanings

1NounA2

olive (fruit)

The olive, a small oval fruit used for food and oil; in Thai it may also loosely refer to similar sour fruits in some contexts.

I like to eat olives in salad.

2NounB1

olive tree

The tree that bears olives.

The backyard garden grows an olive tree to provide shade.

3NounB2

hog plum; Spondias (loosely, esp. มะกอกน้ำ)

Loosely used in some regions to refer to local sour fruits of the Spondias genus (hog plum), though the precise term is มะกอกน้ำ.

At the local market, people call the small sour fruit makok, though it is actually makok nam (Spondias).

olive

มะกอกmá-gòk