Fruits

1. ཨེ་པཱལ།

   E pal

   Apple

   Usage

   One of Bhutan's main export fruits; piled high in Paro and Thimphu markets in autumn

2. ངང་ལག།

   Ngang lag

   Banana

3. ཚལ་ལུ།

   Tsha lu

   Orange

   Usage

   In Bhutan this means the mandarin-type citrus that is a major export to India; a winter market staple

4. རྒུན་འབྲུམ།

   Gun drum

   Grape

5. སྤང་གི་ཚལ་ལུ།

   Pang gi tsha lu

   Strawberry

   Usage

   Literally "meadow citrus"; the DDC also lists ས་གོང ("Sa gong") as an equivalent

6. ཁ་རི་མུ་ཟ།

   Kha ri mu za

   Watermelon

7. རྒྱ་ནག་ཀོང་ཙེ།

   Gya nag kong tse

   Pineapple

   Usage

   Grown in the southern districts of Samtse and Sarpang; often absent from highland markets like Thimphu or Bumthang

8. བེ་ཏ།

   Be ta

   Coconut

   Usage

   Imported from India; more often sold as a temple or ritual offering than as food

9. ཙུ་ནེ།

   Tsu ne

   Lime

   Usage

   Lemon is a separate word, ཧུམ་ཅུང ("Hum chung"); the DDC distinguishes the two

10. ཨམ་ཅུ་ཀུ་ལི།

    Am chu ku li

    Mango

    Usage

    The DDC also lists the short form ཨམ, but on its own that can be read as "woman", so the long form is used on a pointing card

11. མོ་དུ་ཕ་ལ།

    Mo du pha la

    Papaya

    Usage

    The DDC also lists ཆུ་གོན ("Chu gon"), but that word is given for watermelon too, so prefer this form to avoid confusion

12. ལི་ཅི།

    Li chi

    Lychee

    Usage

    Grown in the southern districts of Sarpang and Samtse; on sale only in early summer

13. སྦྲམ་ཟས།

    Dram ze

    Jackfruit

14. བལཔོ་སེའུ།

    Balp seu

    Guava

    Usage

    Literally "the Nepali fruit"; grown in the south and sold at roadside stalls

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