Sunday Special-Why Only English call Ananas Pine Apple?

Ananas is a small genus of tropical American plants (family Bromeliaceae) having basal sword-shaped leaves, terminal racemose flowers, and large syncarpous fruits 
Pretty Much Everyone Else in the World Calls This Fruit--Ananas

• Brazilian Portuguese: abacaxi
• Chinese: 菠萝
• Croatian: ananas
• Czech: ananas
• Japanese: パイナップル
• Korean: 파인애
• European Portuguese: ananás
• Sanskrit अनानस् फलम्
• Thai: สับปะรด
• Urdu  انناس  
• Only in English  it is called Pineapple

According to the Natural History Museum in London, the pineapple "was first discovered by the Tupi-Guaraní Indian tribe, and then in 1493 on Guadaloupe Island off the coast of Mexico during the second voyage of Christopher Columbus."The word "pineapple" in English was first recorded in 1398, when it was originally used to describe the reproductive organs of conifer trees (now termed pine cones). The term "pine cone" for the reproductive organ of conifer trees was first recorded in 1694. When European explorers discovered this tropical fruit in the Americas, they called them "pineapples" (first so referenced in 1664 due to resemblance to what is now known as the pine cone). In the scientific binomial Ananas comosus, ananas, the original name of the fruit, comes from the Tupi word nanas, meaning "excellent fruit", as recorded by André Thevet in 1555, and comosus, "tufted", refers to the stem of the fruit. Other members of the Ananas genus are often called "pine"

Why is this fruit  called  pineapple  when it has nothing to do with Pine or Apple?

The pineapple — which is no relation to pine trees or apples — got its name through the combination of the Spanish “pina” (so named because it reminded them of a pine cone) and the English “apple” (so named because of its sweet taste).

When British sailors first found pineapples, they reminded them of those pinecones.

Apple was already a more generic name for fruit.

The forbidden fruit eaten by Adam and Eve was indeed a real fruit, but not necessarily an apple

Up until the 17^th century, the word “apple” meant all fruit other than berries but including nuts.

This is a deer:

It’s a squirrel, yes, but it’s also a deer - a former deer, anyway. The further back in time you go, the more and more general the definition of “deer” becomes: In Middle English, it could be any small-ish animal, like a deer, for instance; in Old English, it could be any animal whatsoever; in PIE - Proto-Indo-European, it could literally be anything that breathed. (German Tier, “animal”, is related.)

This is an apple:

Well, a retired apple. “Apple” had a more complicated word-history: it began its life meaning “apple” and ended up meaning “apple”, but there was a bit in the middle around Old English where æppel had widened its definition to mean any kind of fruit or round, apple-looking-y object.

This is also an apple:

It is the fruit of a pine tree: they grow on trees, have seeds, and you can eat (bits of) them. What to call this fruit of the pine tree, asked Middle English? The fruit - the appel - of the pine tree would be an appel from a pyn - so a pin-appel, if you will, or a “pineapple” in modern spelling. A pine-fruit, a pine-apple. That image just above this paragraph is a pineapple.

This is an ananas:

 “Ananas” is a great word. It fits perfectly within Japanese syllable structure: a-na-na-su, with a nearly-silent “u” on the end. Easy to pronounce, easy to learn, should have been an easy choice. But no, no, no! They borrowed it from English - English! - and bestowed upon the lexicon of the Japanese language the most infuriating thing ever written in katakana: painappuru. And the Koreans followed!: painaepeul.

Searched ,Compiled and Illustrated by Tejinder Kamboj