Entry: kari:m
Grammar: n.
Meaning: 1) labu siam, an avocado-shaped light waxy green fruit with a thin, soft thorny skin, a large flat thin pit. It is cooked and eaten without the soft thorny skin; 2) the labu siam plant
Comments: the taste of cooked labu siam is vaguely reminiscent of artichokes, although insipid by comparison; cf. kari:m-dzasi. Entry: kari:m-dzasi
Grammar: n.
Meaning: the fruit of the labu siam, as opposed to the plant.
Derivation: [kari:m 'labu siam' + dzasi 'fruit']
