grapefruit

nl-noun

grapefruit m (plural grapefruits, diminutive grapefruitje n)

grapefruits (plural)
grapefruitje (diminutive neuter)

Citrus paradisi
Citrus paradisi#Translingual

grapefruit (tree of the species Citrus paradisi)

grapefruit (fruit produced by the tree of the species Citrus paradisi)


fruit

Berbice Creole Dutch: frutu

From Middle Dutch fruut, froyt, from Old French fruit, from Latin frūctus. Doublet of vrucht.

(usually collective) fruit (produced by trees or bushes, or any sweet vegetable; only literal sense)


fruit

From Middle Dutch fruten, older friten (“to fry”), from Old French frit, past participle of frire (“to fry”).

first/second/third-person singular present indicative


kiwi

kiwi m (plural kiwi's, diminutive kiwietje n)

kiwi's (plural)
kiwietje (diminutive neuter)


spelt

From Middle Dutch spelte, from Old Dutch *spelta, either from Frankish *spelta or Latin spelta, both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *spiltaz.


look

look n or m (plural loken, diminutive lookje n)

loken (plural)
lookje (diminutive neuter)

From Middle Dutch look, from Old Dutch *lōk, from Proto-Germanic *laukaz. Compare Low German look, Look, German Lauch, English leek, Danish løg, Swedish lök. More at leek.


biet

biet f (plural bieten, diminutive bietje n)

bieten (plural)
bietje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: beet

→ Indonesian: beet

From Middle Dutch bete, from Latin bēta.

Beta vulgaris
Beta vulgaris#Translingual

beet, beetroot plant or tuber of the genus Beta, esp. Beta vulgaris


peer

peer f (plural peren, diminutive peertje n)

peren (plural)
peertje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: peer

Jersey Dutch: pêr

→ Aukan: peli

→ Saramaccan: péíli (from the diminutive form)

From Middle Dutch pēre, from Vulgar Latin *pira, from Latin pirum.

De supermarkt verkoopt heerlijke peren van lokale boomgaarden.

The supermarket sells delicious pears from local orchards.

Ik heb een sappige rijpe peer voor mijn lunch.

Het oude peertje in de lamp is kapot, we moeten het vervangen.

The old light bulb in the lamp is broken, we need to replace it.

Ze draaide het peertje in de fitting en de kamer was weer verlicht.

She screwed in the light bulb and the room was illuminated again.


peer

peer m (plural peren, diminutive peertje n)

De tuin heeft een prachtige peer staan die elk jaar veel fruit produceert.

The garden has a beautiful pear tree that yields a lot of fruit every year.

Hij plantte een jong peertje in zijn achtertuin.

He planted a young pear tree in his backyard.

De oude peer in de boomgaard gaf heerlijke vruchten.

The old pear tree in the orchard produced delicious fruits.

Pyrus communis
Pyrus communis#Translingual


peen

peen f (plural penen, diminutive peentje n)

penen (plural)
peentje (diminutive neuter)

Originally the plural of pee, perhaps from Middle Dutch *pede, with plural peden (with a single attestation), of uncertain origin. Compare schoen and teen, also originally plurals but later singulars. Proposed cognates include English pith and French pied.

Daucus carota
Daucus carota#Translingual


munt

munt f (plural munten, diminutive muntje n)

munten (plural)
muntje (diminutive neuter)

→ Indonesian: min

From Middle Dutch mente, minte, from Latin mentha.


appel

appel n (plural appels, diminutive appelletje n)

appels (plural)
appelletje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: appèl

→ Caribbean Javanese: apèl

→ Indonesian: apèl

→ Papiamentu: apèl

From Middle Dutch appeel, from Old French apel.

(military) roll call (muster of troops at which names are read out, to see if all are present)


ei

ei n (plural eieren, diminutive eitje n)

eieren (plural)
eitje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: eier

Berbice Creole Dutch: airi

Jersey Dutch: āi

Negerhollands: ee, eiu, eyu, eju

From Middle Dutch ei, from Old Dutch *ei, from Proto-West Germanic *aij, from Proto-Germanic *ajją, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.

Ik heb een ei gebakken voor het ontbijt.

Pasen is een feest waarbij veel eieren worden geschilderd.

Easter is a festival where many eggs are painted.

In deze doos zitten twaalf eieren.


bes

bes f (plural bessen, diminutive besje n)

bessen (plural)
besje (diminutive neuter)


mango

mango m (plural mango's, diminutive mangootje n)

mango's (plural)
mangootje (diminutive neuter)

Borrowed from English mango, from Portuguese manga, from Malay mangga, from Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy), from மா (mā, “mango species”) + காய் (kāy, “unripe fruit”).

der

Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy)


sinaasappel

nl-noun

sinaasappel m (plural sinaasappelen or sinaasappels, diminutive sinaasappeltje n)

sinaasappelen (plural)
sinaasappels (plural)
sinaasappeltje (diminutive neuter)

Modification of earlier Chinas-appel (literally “China’s apple”).


courgette

Unadapted borrowing from French courgette, diminutive formed from courge, ultimately from Latin cucurbita.

ubor

Cucurbita pepo
Cucurbita pepo#Translingual

the courgette plant, a variety of Cucurbita pepo


kumquat

nl-noun

kumquat m (plural kumquats, diminutive kumquatje n)

kumquats (plural)
kumquatje (diminutive neuter)


omelet

omelet f (plural omeletten, diminutive omeletje n)

omeletten (plural)
omeletje (diminutive neuter)

→ Papiamentu: òmelèt


haver

haver m (uncountable, diminutive havertje n)

Afrikaans: hawer

Jersey Dutch: hâver

→⇒ English: haversack

→ Papiamentu: haver

→ West Frisian: haver (dialectal)

From Middle Dutch havere, from Old Dutch *havara, from Proto-West Germanic *habrō, from Proto-Germanic *habrô. Cognate with Old Norse hafri, Old English haver, Old High German habaro.

any wild species or cultivar of the genus Avena


emmer

Triticum dicoccon
Triticum dicoccon#Translingual


cranberry

Unadapted borrowing from English cranberry.


asperge

nl-noun

asperge f (plural asperges, diminutive aspergetje n)

asperges (plural)
aspergetje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: aspersie

→ Papiamentu: asperge

Borrowed from Middle French asperge, from Medieval Latin asparagus, sparagus, from Ancient Greek ἀσπάραγος (aspáragos).

Asparagus officinalis
Asparagus officinalis#Translingual

asparagus, Asparagus officinalis (plant, vegetable)


ananas

ananas f or m (plural ananassen, diminutive ananasje n)

ananassen (plural)
ananasje (diminutive neuter)

Berbice Creole Dutch: nanasi

Negerhollands: anas

→ Lokono: nana

→ Caribbean Hindustani: ajanás

→ Sranan Tongo: n'nasi

→ Kari'na: nana

→ West Frisian: ananas

Borrowed from Spanish ananás or Portuguese ananás, ultimately from Old Tupi nanas.

pineapple plant, plant of the genus Ananassa


paprika

paprika f (plural paprika's, diminutive paprikaatje n)

paprika's (plural)
paprikaatje (diminutive neuter)

From German Paprika, from Hungarian paprika, from Serbo-Croatian pàprika, from pȁpar (“pepper”), from Ancient Greek πέπερι (péperi), from an Indo-Aryan language.

Deze paprika bevat veel zaadjes.

This bell pepper contains a lot of seeds.

Het lukt me niet om paprika te laten groeien op mijn balkon.

I can't get a Capsicum annuum plant to grow on my balcony.

Capsicum annuum
Capsicum annuum#Translingual

sweet pepper, bell pepper (plant or fruit of Capsicum annuum varieties yielding sweet peppers)


quinoa

Borrowed from Spanish quinua, from Quechua kinwa.

Chenopodium quinoa
Chenopodium quinoa#Translingual


ui

Afrikaans: ui

From a reinterpretation as a plural of Middle Dutch uyen, from Old French oignon (whence also Southern Dutch ajuin), from Latin ūniō.


chili

Borrowing from Spanish chili, from Classical Nahuatl chīlli.


oregano

Borrowed from Spanish orégano, from Latin orīganum, from Ancient Greek ὀρίγανον (oríganon).

(botany) Synonym of wilde marjolein (“oregano plant, Origanum vulgare”)


aubergine

aubergine f (plural aubergines, diminutive auberginetje n)

aubergines (plural)
auberginetje (diminutive neuter)

Unadapted borrowing from French aubergine, from Catalan albergínia, from Arabic اَلْبَاذِنْجَان (al-bāḏinjān, “the eggplant”), from Persian بادنجان (bâdenjân), from باتنجان (bâtenjân), from Sanskrit वातिगगम (vātigagama, “eggplant”, literally “the plant that cures the wind”).

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اَلْبَاذِنْجَان

Solanum melongena
Solanum melongena#Translingual

an aubergine, an eggplant (plant), Solanum melongena

the fruit of the eggplant, an aubergine (fruit)


lychee

nl-noun

lychee m (plural lychees, diminutive lycheetje n)

lychees (plural)
lycheetje (diminutive neuter)

Litchi chinensis
Litchi chinensis#Translingual


kool

kool f (plural kolen, diminutive kooltje n)

kolen (plural)
kooltje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: kool

Jersey Dutch: kôl

Negerhollands: kool

→ Caribbean Hindustani: koro

→ Chinese: 高麗／高丽, 高麗菜／高丽菜 (via Min Nan)

→ Indonesian: kol

→ Mahican: gónan

→ Papiamentu: kolo

→ Sranan Tongo: kolo

From Middle Dutch col, cole, from Old Dutch *kōl, *kōla, from Latin caulis.

(particularly) the edible leaves of a Brassica


aardappel

aardappel m (plural aardappelen or aardappels, diminutive aardappeltje n)

aardappelen (plural)
aardappels (plural)
aardappeltje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: aartappel

→ Xhosa: itapile

Berbice Creole Dutch: adaplu

→ Ambonese Malay: artapel

→ Icelandic: jarðepli

→ Kristang: atapal, artapal

→ Malayalam: അടുതാപ്പ് (aṭutāppŭ)

→ Sinhalese: අර්තාපල් (artāpal)

→ Tamil: அர்த்தாப்பு (arttāppu)

From Middle Dutch *āerdappel (“cucumber, pumpkin”), equivalent to aarde (“soil, earth, ground”) + appel (“apple”), cognate with Middle Low German erdappel (modern Low German Erdappel), Old High German erdapful (“pumpkin, squash, melon”) (modern German Erdapfel (“potato”)), West Frisian ierappel (“potato”), Old English eorþæppel (“cucumber”) (rare modern English earthapple (“potato”)), Danish jordæble. Compare also French pomme de terre (“potato”), Luxembourgish Gromper (“potato”, literally “ground pear”), regional German Grundbirne (“ground pear”).
In the 16th and 17th centuries, used for various tubers and fruits that grow in or near the soil. Modern sense spread in the 18th century.

cog

Solanum tuberosum
Solanum tuberosum#Translingual

the potato plant species, Solanum tuberosum


aalbes

nl-noun

aalbes f (plural aalbessen, diminutive aalbesje n)

aalbessen (plural)
aalbesje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: aalbessie

Compound of aal + bes (“berry”), cognate with Middle Low German albere. The meaning of the first element is disputed.

the berry of this plant; a red or white currant


coromandel

From the Coromandel Coast in India, a source of this wood. The neuter gender suggests that use as a common noun may be a shortening of coromandelhout.

calamander, striped ebony (a heavy wood, brown in color with deep black streaks, yielded by a limited number of species in the genus Diospyros)


okra

okra m (plural okra's, diminutive [please provide])

Abelmoschus esculentus
Abelmoschus esculentus#Translingual


groente

groente f (plural groenten or groentes, diminutive groentje n or groentetje n or groenteke n)

groenten (plural)
groentes (plural)
groentje (diminutive neuter)
groentetje (diminutive neuter)
groenteke (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: groente

→ Sranan Tongo: gruntu

→ Aukan: guluntu

→ Saramaccan: gulúntu


noot

noot f (plural noten, diminutive nootje n)

noten (plural)
nootje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: neut

Jersey Dutch: nœüt, nût

Negerhollands: neet, noot

Skepi Creole Dutch: noot

→ Papiamentu: nechi, neetsje, neetsjie (from the diminutive)

→ Saramaccan: notò

From Middle Dutch nōte, from Old Dutch *nutu, from Proto-West Germanic *hnut, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts, from Proto-Indo-European *knew-.


aardbei

aardbei m or f (plural aardbeien, diminutive aardbeitje n)

aardbeien (plural)
aardbeitje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: aarbei

→ Indonesian: arbei

→ Papiamentu: artbèi

From Middle Dutch erdbēre, erdbēsie, from Old Dutch *erdberi, from Proto-West Germanic *erþubaʀi, from Proto-Germanic *erþōbazją (literally “earth-berry”). The latter part of the compound was replaced in modern Dutch with bei, from Middle Dutch baye, from Old French baie, from Latin bacca. Cognate with West Frisian ierdbei, German Erdbeere, Danish jordbær.


abrikoos

nl-noun

abrikoos m or f (plural abrikozen, diminutive abrikoosje n)

abrikozen (plural)
abrikoosje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: appelkoos

desctree

→ German: Aprikose
→ Estonian: aprikoos
→ Kashubian: aprikóza (dated)
→ Latvian: aprikoze
→ Lithuanian: abrikosas
→ Lower Sorbian: aprikoza
→ Silesian: aprikŏza
→ Upper Sorbian: aprikoza

→ Indonesian: abrikos

→ Russian: абрико́с (abrikós)
→ Adyghe: абрикос (abrikʷos)
→ Eastern Mari: абрикос (abrikos)
→ Komi-Zyrian: абрикос (abrikos)
→ Tatar: абрикос (abrikos)

→ Ukrainian: абрикос (abrykos)

Late 16th century. Borrowed from Late Middle French abricots, plural of abricot, from Spanish albaricoque, from Arabic اَلْبَرْقُوق (al-barqūq), from Ancient Greek πραικόκιον (praikókion), from Latin praecoqua. At the time of the borrowing, the French plural-s was still pronounced (at least in pausal position), hence the form abrikoos.

der

اَلْبَرْقُوق


banaan

nl-noun

banaan m or f (plural bananen, diminutive banaantje n)

bananen (plural)
banaantje (diminutive neuter)

Berbice Creole Dutch: banana

Negerhollands: banana

Skepi Creole Dutch: banan

→? Aukan: baana

→? Sranan Tongo: bana

→ Caribbean Hindustani: báná

→ Caribbean Javanese: banah

Borrowed from Portuguese banana, probably from a West African language.

(offensive, ethnic slur) black person, person of African heritage


komkommer

komkommer f (plural komkommers, diminutive komkommertje n)

komkommers (plural)
komkommertje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: komkommer

→ Aukan: komukomu

→ Loup A: kemegom

→ Mahican: kumkumsch

→ Munsee: kòmkómush

→ Papiamentu: kònkòmber, komkomber

→ Unami: kùkumës

→ West Frisian: komkommer

From Middle Dutch cucumer, from Old French concombre, from Latin cucumis.


boon

boon f or m (plural bonen, diminutive boontje n)

bonen (plural)
boontje (diminutive neuter)

desctree

Afrikaans: boon
→ Xhosa: imbotyi (from the diminutive)

Berbice Creole Dutch: bono

desc

Negerhollands: bontśi, boontje, boonschi (from the diminutive)

→ Virgin Islands Creole: bontsi (archaic)

→ Caribbean Javanese: bontyis (from the diminutive plural)

→ Indonesian: buncis (from the diminutive plural)

→ Petjo: bontjies, boontjies

→ Javanese: buncis (from the diminutive plural)

→ Papiamentu: bonchi, boontsje (from the diminutive)

→ Sranan Tongo: bonki (from the diminutive)

→ Caribbean Hindustani: bongki

From Middle Dutch bône, from Old Dutch *bōna, from Proto-Germanic *baunō.


pomelo

nl-noun

pomelo m (plural pomelo's, diminutive pomelootje n)

pomelo's (plural)
pomelootje (diminutive neuter)

Citrus maxima
Citrus maxima#Translingual

(chiefly Belgium) pomelo (fruit of the tree Citrus maxima)

cross between pomelo (Citrus maxima) and grapefruit (Citrus ×paradisi), typically with green peel but bigger and sweeter than grapefruit


eikel

eikel m (plural eikels, diminutive eikeltje n)

eikels (plural)
eikeltje (diminutive neuter)

From Middle Dutch ecle, ekele, from Old Dutch *ēkila, *eikila, from Proto-West Germanic *aikilā. For the derogatory sense, cf. English dickhead.


augurk

augurk f or m (plural augurken, diminutive augurkje n)

augurken (plural)
augurkje (diminutive neuter)

→ Papiamentu: augurk, augurki (dated)

→ Sranan Tongo: angorki, ogorki

→ Aukan: angooki

[ˌɑu̯ˈɣʏ.rək]

Borrowed from Low German augurk, from a Slavic source (compare Polish ogórek, Lithuanian agurkas, Russian огурец (ogurec)). Possibly ultimately from Byzantine Greek ἀγγούριον (angoúrion, “small cucumber”).

der

gherkin (small cucumber that is usually pickled)


vijg

nl-noun

vijg f (plural vijgen, diminutive vijgje n)

vijgen (plural)
vijgje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: vy

Negerhollands: vigie (from the diminutive)

From Middle Dutch vige, from Old Dutch fīga.

(particularly) Ficus carica or fig tree, which yields the edible fruit commonly known as fig


bloemkool

bloemkool m or f (plural bloemkolen, diminutive bloemkooltje n)

bloemkolen (plural)
bloemkooltje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: blomkool

desctree

→ Danish: blomkål
→ Faroese: blómkál
→ Greenlandic: blomkåli
→ Icelandic: blómkál

→ Indonesian: blumkol

desc

→ Indonesian: bunga kol, kembang kol (calque) (calque)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: blomkål

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: blomkål

→ Papiamentu: blumkol

→ Swedish: blomkål

From bloem + kool, calque of Italian cavolfiore or calque of Middle French chou-fleur, which also comes from Italian cavolfiore.

Ik heb hele grote bloemkolen.

(colloquial, chiefly plural) large breast, melon, bazonga (often modified with adjectives or phrases indicating a large size)


pompelmoes

nl-noun

pompelmoes f or m (plural pompelmoezen, diminutive pompelmoesje n)

pompelmoezen (plural)
pompelmoesje (diminutive neuter)

→ Caribbean Javanese: jeruk pompelmus

→ Dhivehi: ބަނބުޅަބޮސް (baᵐbuḷabos)

→ English: pompelmous

→ French: pamplemousse

→ German: Pampelmuse

→ Italian: pompelmo

→ Sinhalese: බංබලෝසි (baṁbalōsi)

Uncertain. Possibly from pompoen (“pumpkin”) or pompel (“big, swollen”) + limoes, a variant of limoen modeled after Portuguese limões (“citrus, lemons”). Another explanation is a gradual corruption of Portuguese pomos limões (“citrus fruit”).

der

(Netherlands) pomelo (fruit of the tree Citrus maxima)


druif

nl-noun

druif f or m (plural druiven, diminutive druifje n)

druiven (plural)
druifje (diminutive neuter)

Negerhollands: drufje

→ Aukan: doloifi

→ Papiamentu: drùif, dreif, dreifi

→ Sranan Tongo: droifi

→ Caribbean Hindustani: droifi

→ Caribbean Javanese: droifi

From Middle Dutch druve, from Old Dutch thrūva, from Proto-West Germanic *þrūbō (“grape”).


pruim

pruim f or m (plural pruimen, diminutive pruimpje n)

pruimen (plural)
pruimpje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: pruim

Negerhollands: pruum, prim, plim

→ Papiamentu: preimu, pruim

From Middle Dutch prume, from Old Dutch *prūma. A variant of *plūma, from Proto-West Germanic *plūmā, from Latin prūnum, from Ancient Greek προῦμνον (proûmnon).

Prunus domestica
Prunus domestica#Translingual

a plum tree, one of certain trees of the genus Prunus, especially Prunus domestica

Hieronymus van Alphen, "De pruimeboom".
Jantje zag eens pruimen hangen, / o! als eieren zo groot. / 't Scheen, dat Jantje wou gaan plukken, / schoon zijn vader 't hem verbood.

Little Jan once saw plums (or vulvas; see below) hanging / oh! so big as eggs. / it seemed that little Jan was going to pluck them / though his father forbade him that.

John O'Mill (Johan van der Meulen), "Pruimejantje".
Jantje zag eens pruimen hangen / Oh, als eieren zo groot; / De tuinman zag zijn bolle wangen / Sloeg de vuile gapper dood.

(please add an English translation of this quotation)


nectarine

nectarine f (plural nectarines, diminutive nectarinetje n)

nectarines (plural)
nectarinetje (diminutive neuter)


pepermunt

pepermunt f (plural pepermunten, diminutive pepermuntje n)

pepermunten (plural)
pepermuntje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: peperment

→ Caribbean Javanese: permèn

desc

→ Indonesian: permen (“candy, sweet”), pepermin (“peppermint”)

→ Papiamentu: pepermint (dated)

From peper + munt, Calque of translingual Mentha × piperita.


tomaat

nl-noun

tomaat f (plural tomaten, diminutive tomaatje n)

tomaten (plural)
tomaatje (diminutive neuter)

desctree

Afrikaans: tamatie
→ Sotho: tamati
→ Zulu: utamatisi

→ Caribbean Hindustani: tamáti

→ Caribbean Javanese: tomatis, tomat

→ Indonesian: tomat

→ Sranan Tongo: tomati

→ Aukan: tomati

→ Kari'na: tomati

→ West Frisian: tomaat

Borrowed from English tomato, subsequently influenced by French tomate, both from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl (“tomatillo”).

Solanum lycopersicum
Solanum lycopersicum#Translingual


meloen

nl-noun

meloen f or m (plural meloenen, diminutive meloentje n)

meloenen (plural)
meloentje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: meloen

From Middle Dutch melone, from Middle French melon, from Old French melon, from Late Latin mēlō, shortening of mēlopepō, from Koine Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn).

melon (plant or fruit of certain varieties of members of the Cucurbitaceae, notably excluding cucumbers and courgettes/zucchinis)

melon (organ containing adipose tissue present in toothed whales)

(colloquial, usually in the plural) melon, (large) breast


citroen

citroen f or m (plural citroenen, diminutive citroentje n)

citroenen (plural)
citroentje (diminutive neuter)

→ Aukan: situun

→ Caribbean Hindustani: sitrun

→ Papiamentu: sitrun

→ Sranan Tongo: strun

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Borrowed from Middle French citron, from Latin citrus.


kers

kers f (plural kersen, diminutive kersje n)

kersen (plural)
kersje (diminutive neuter)

⇒ Afrikaans: kersie (from the diminutive form)

Negerhollands: kirsch

→ Caribbean Hindustani: kers

→ Malay: kersen (from the plural form)

Indonesian: kers, kersen

→ Sranan Tongo: kersi

→ Caribbean Hindustani: kersi

→ Caribbean Javanese: kèrsi

→ West Frisian: kers

From Middle Dutch kerse, ultimately from Vulgar Latin ceresia, from the neuter plural of Late Latin ceresium, from Latin cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin.

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a cherry tree, one of certain trees of the genus Prunus, especially the subgenus Cerasus


sla

nl-noun

sla f (uncountable, diminutive slaatje n)

English: slaw

From earlier slae, slaê, with the first syllable reduced from earlier salae, salaê, it in turn being a reduced form of salade with regular loss of intervocalic -d- (as happened in words such as slee, broer, and teer). The semantic distinction between both forms is secondary.


sla

first-person singular present indicative

(in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative

(dated or formal) singular present subjunctive

inflection of slaan:
singular present subjunctive


bosbes

bosbes f (plural bosbessen, diminutive bosbesje n)

bosbessen (plural)
bosbesje (diminutive neuter)

a bilberry; a plant of the genus Vaccinium

Vaccinium myrtillus
Vaccinium myrtillus#Translingual

a bilberry, fruit of a plant in this genus, particularly that of Vaccinium myrtillus


perzik

perzik f or m (plural perziken, diminutive perzikje n)

perziken (plural)
perzikje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: perske
→ Phuthi: iperekisi

Jersey Dutch: pierkes

→ Mahican: péněgěsak

→ Indonesian: persik

→ Munsee: piilkush (from a dialectal form)

→ Unami: pilkësh (from a dialectal form)

→ West Frisian: perzik

From Middle Dutch perseke, from Old Dutch *persika, from Proto-West Germanic *persik, ultimately borrowed from Late Latin persicum, persica.

Prunus persica
Prunus persica#Translingual


appelsien

appelsien f (plural appelsienen, diminutive appelsientje n)

appelsienen (plural)
appelsientje (diminutive neuter)

Negerhollands: aposin, apelsina

desc

→ Virgin Islands Creole: apelsina (archaic)

→ Papiamentu: apelsina, apusina, appelsina

desctree

→ Russian: апельсин (apelʹsin)
→ Belarusian: апельсі́н (apjelʹsín)
→ Chechen: апельсин (apelʲsin)
→ Kazakh: апельсин (apelsin)
→ Ukrainian: апельси́н (apelʹsýn)

→ Sranan Tongo: apresina

→ Lokono: apresjina

→ Aukan: apeesina

→ Caribbean Hindustani: parsina

→ Caribbean Javanese: jeruk prasinah

→ Kari'na: apelisina

→ Saramaccan: apeesína

→ Trió: aperisina

→ Wayana: peresinan

Compound of appel + Sina (old form of China), a calque of French pomme de Sine.

compound

old form of <i class="Latn mention" lang="nl">China</i>

(Belgium, Limburg, archaic elsewhere) orange (fruit)


boulanger

nl-noun

boulanger m (plural boulangers, diminutive boulangertje n)

boulangers (plural)
boulangertje (diminutive neuter)

From French beringène. from Spanish berenjena, from Arabic بَاذِنْجَان (bāḏinjān), from Persian بادنجان (bâdenjân). Compare Antillean French bélangère ("aubergine") and Guadeloupean Creole French bélanjè ("aubergine"). Doublet of aubergine.

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Arabic بَاذِنْجَان (bāḏinjān)

Vroeger werden allerlei soort groenten opgediend, daarbij wist men nog: het is van mijn eigen grondje. Tegenwoordig alleen boulanger en kouseband en daar zorgt de leverancier in de stad voor.

1937 May 12, “CHATILLON”, in De Surinamer : nieuws- en advertentieblad, page 4:

In the old days, all kinds of vegetables were served, and people still knew: it comes from my own allotment. Nowadays only aubergines and yardlong beans [are served] and the supplier in town takes care of that.

(Suriname) Solanum melongena; eggplant, aubergine


raap

nl-noun

raap m (plural rapen, diminutive raapje n)

rapen (plural)
raapje (diminutive neuter)

→ Papiamentu: raap (dated)

From Middle Dutch rape, from Latin rāpum.

De overvallers schoten de kassamedewerker voor zijn raap.

The robbers shot the cashier in his bonce.


raap

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


eigeel

nl-noun

eigeel n (plural eigelen, diminutive eigeeltje n)

eigelen (plural)
eigeeltje (diminutive neuter)

Compound of ei (“egg”) + geel (“yellow”).

Het eigeel heeft een rijke gele kleur.

Om de saus romiger te maken, voegde ze een eigeel toe.

To make the sauce creamier, she added an egg yolk.

Ik gebruikte twee eigelen voor de custard.


dooier

dooier m (plural dooiers, diminutive dooiertje n)

dooiers (plural)
dooiertje (diminutive neuter)

→ Papiamentu: dor, dojer (Aruba)

From Middle Dutch doder, from Old Dutch *dodro, from Proto-West Germanic *dodrō.

De dooier brak toen ik het ei opende.

The yolk broke when I cracked the egg open.

Het verschil tussen dooier en eiwit is duidelijk zichtbaar.

The difference between the yolk and egg white is clearly visible.

Deze taart vraagt om vier dooiers.


wortel

wortel m (plural wortels or wortelen, diminutive worteltje n)

wortels (plural)
wortelen (plural)
worteltje (diminutive neuter)

desc

Afrikaans: wortel (“carrot, square root”)

Negerhollands: wortel, wolter

Skepi Creole Dutch: wotl (“carrot”)

→ Indonesian: akar (“square root, root”) (semantic loan)

→ Indonesian: wortel (“carrot”)

Simon Stevin
nl:wortel (groente)
nl:wortel (plant)
nl:wortel (wiskunde)

From Middle Dutch wortele, from Old Dutch *wurtala, from Proto-Germanic *wurt- (“root”) + *waluz (“stick”), formed from the Proto-Indo-European roots *wréh₂ds + *welH-.
The mathematical sense was coined by Simon Stevin. Compare German Wurzel, Low German Wuddel, Wortel, West Frisian woartel, Old English wyrtwalu; cf. also English wort.

carrot, Daucus carota, especially Daucus carota subsp. sativa


wortel

nl:wortel (groente)
nl:wortel (plant)
nl:wortel (wiskunde)


aker

nl-noun

aker m (plural akers, diminutive akertje n)

akers (plural)
akertje (diminutive neuter)

From Middle Dutch aker, from Old Dutch *akaran, from Proto-Germanic *akraną.


erwt

erwt f (plural erwten, diminutive erwtje n)

erwten (plural)
erwtje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: ertjie
→ Xhosa: i-ertyisi

→ Indonesian: ercis

→ Papiamentu: ert (dated)

→ Sranan Tongo: erki

From Middle Dutch erwete, from Old Dutch *erwit, from Proto-West Germanic *arwīt, from Proto-Germanic *arwīts. Cognate to German Erbse.

Pisum sativum
Pisum sativum#Translingual


knolraap

knolraap m (plural knolrapen, diminutive knolraapje n)

knolrapen (plural)
knolraapje (diminutive neuter)

From knol (“bulb”) + raap (“rape, turnip”).

Brassica rapa
Brassica rapa#Translingual

turnip, cultivated plant with edible white root, Brassica rapa


framboos

framboos m (plural frambozen, diminutive framboosje n)

frambozen (plural)
framboosje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: framboos

→ Indonesian: frambos

16th century, from Middle French framboise, from Frankish *brāmabasi (from a variant of Proto-West Germanic *brāmabaʀi), whence also the inherited doublet braambes (“blackberry”).

raspberry, plant of the species Rubus idaeus


rozemarijn

rozemarijn m (plural rozemarijnen, diminutive rozemarijntje n)

rozemarijnen (plural)
rozemarijntje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: roosmaryn

→ Papiamentu: rósamarein

Borrowed from Middle French rosmarin, from Old French rosmarin, from Latin rōsmarīnus. Secondarily influenced by roos (“rose”), for which compare English rosemary.

Salvia rosmarinus
Salvia rosmarinus#Translingual

Rosmarinus officinalis
Rosmarinus officinalis#Translingual

(chiefly uncountable, countable) the rosemary plant, Salvia rosmarinus syn. Rosmarinus officinalis


tabak

tabak m (plural tabakken, diminutive tabakje n)

tabakken (plural)
tabakje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: tabak

Berbice Creole Dutch: tobaku

Jersey Dutch: tebāk

Negerhollands: tobak, tubak

→ Caribbean Hindustani: tamáku

→ Saramaccan: tabáku

→ West Frisian: tabak

(chiefly uncountable) tobacco, the product made from leaves of certain of its varieties, to be smoked in cigars etc., sniffed or chewed


paasei

paasei n (plural paaseieren, diminutive paaseitje n)

paaseieren (plural)
paaseitje (diminutive neuter)

Compound of Pasen (“Easter”) + ei (“egg”).

Easter egg (egg-shaped chocolate confection)


artisjok

artisjok m (plural artisjokken, diminutive artisjokje n)

artisjokken (plural)
artisjokje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: artisjok

Borrowed from Northern Italian articiocco, from Provençal archichaut, arquichaut, from Old Spanish alcarchofa, from Andalusian Arabic الْخَرْشُوف (al-ẖaršúf), from Arabic الْخُرْشُوف (al-ḵuršūf).

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Arabic الْخُرْشُوف (al-ḵuršūf)

Cynara scolymus
Cynara scolymus#Translingual

artichoke, Cynara scolymus, an edible plant related to the thistle

Diccionario de la lengua española
nl:artisjok


amandel

nl-noun

amandel f (plural amandelen, diminutive amandeltje n)

amandelen (plural)
amandeltje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: amandel

→ Kari'na: mantala

→ Indonesian: amandel

→ Papiamentu: amandel

→ Sranan Tongo: amandra

→ Caribbean Javanese: mandrah


selderij

selderij m (plural selderijen, diminutive selderijtje n)

selderijen (plural)
selderijtje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: seldery

→ Caribbean Javanese: slèdri

→ Belarusian: сельдэрэ́й (sjelʹderéj)

→ Malay: seladeri

Malay: saderi (by elision)

Indonesian: seledri

desc

→ Papiamentu: sèlder, sèldu, selde, selder

desctree

→ Russian: сельдере́й (selʹderéj), селлере́й (selleréj), селере́й (seleréj), сендере́й (senderéj)
→ Kyrgyz: сельдерей (selderey)
→ Tatar: сельдерей (sel’derey)
→ Turkmen: seldereý
→ Uzbek: selderey
→ Yiddish: סעלדעריי (selderey)

Borrowed from French céleri, from Latin selīnum, from Ancient Greek σέλῑνον (sélīnon). For the epenthetic d, which was productive well into the seventeenth century, compare kelder, zolder, daalder, mulder, vilder, volder.

Apium graveolens
Apium graveolens#Translingual


spinazie

→ Caribbean Javanese: spinangsi

→ Papiamentu: spinazi, spinasji

From Middle Dutch spinagie, from Old French espinache, from Latin spinachium, Old Spanish espinaca, from Arabic إسفاناخ, from Persian اسفناج.

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Arabic إسفاناخ

Spinacia oleracea
Spinacia oleracea#Translingual

spinach (Spinacia oleracea, an edible plant)


prei

nl-noun

prei m (plural preien, diminutive preitje n)

preien (plural)
preitje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: prei

→ Indonesian: prei

→ Papiamentu: prei

→ West Frisian: prei

From Middle Dutch poreye, from Old French poree.

Allium ampeloprasum
Allium ampeloprasum#Translingual

Allium porrum
Allium porrum#Translingual

leek, Allium ampeloprasum syn. Allium porrum (stem vegetable)


roerei

roerei n (plural roereieren, diminutive roereitje n)

roereieren (plural)
roereitje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: roereier

→ Papiamentu: webu rurònt

From roeren (“to stir, scramble”) + ei (“egg”), probably a calque of German Rührei.

compound

(countable) a serving of scrambled eggs; (uncountable) scrambled eggs


tarwe

From Middle Dutch tarwe, from Old Dutch *tarwa, from Proto-West Germanic *taru, from Proto-Germanic *tarwō, from Proto-Indo-European *der(H)- (“to tear, crack”). Cognate with Limburgish terve, West Flemish terwe, Zealandic tèrve, Old Saxon tarwa, Middle Low German tarwe, German Low German Tarwe, Old English *taru.
More distantly related to Serbo-Croatian and Slovene trava ("grass"), Lithuanian dirvà (“field”), Russian дере́вня (derévnja, “village”), Ancient Greek δάρατος (dáratos, “bread”), Sanskrit दूर्वा (dū́rvā, “panic grass, millet”), Welsh drewg (“darnel”), Transalpine Gaulish dravoca (“ryegrass, Lolium sp.”).


aardbeienplant

nl-noun

aardbeienplant m or f (plural aardbeienplanten, diminutive aardbeienplantje n)

aardbeienplanten (plural)
aardbeienplantje (diminutive neuter)

Compound of aardbei (“strawberry”) + -en- + plant (“plant”).


eiwit

nl-noun

eiwit n (plural eiwitten, diminutive eiwitje n)

eiwitten (plural)
eiwitje (diminutive neuter)

Het eiwit moet gescheiden worden van de dooier.

The egg white needs to be separated from the yolk.

Een meringue wordt gemaakt van geklopt eiwit.

A meringue is made from whipped egg white.

Ik heb drie eiwitten nodig voor dit recept.

I need three egg whites for this recipe.


gerst

Afrikaans: gars
→ Xhosa: írhási

→ Papiamentu: gerst (dated)

From Middle Dutch gerste, from Old Dutch *gersta, from Proto-West Germanic *gerstu, from Proto-Germanic *gerstō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰersd-.
Cognate with Limburgish gaes, gaers, West Flemish gerst, Zealandic gêêste, gaste, Old Saxon gersta, Middle Low German gerste, German Low German Garste, Plautdietsch Joascht, Old Frisian *jerste, Saterland Frisian Jäärste, Jüste, West Frisian garst, Old English gorst, Middle English gorst, English gorse, Yola goss, Old High German gersta, Middle High German gerste, German Gerste, Alemannic German Geerste, Bavarian Geaschtn, Cimbrian ghéersta, Luxembourgish Geescht, Mòcheno gerst, Yiddish גערשט (gersht).
More distantly related to Latin hordeum, Ancient Greek κριθή (krithḗ), Armenian գարի (gari), Albanian drithë.

Hordeum vulgare
Hordeum vulgare#Translingual


rogge

Afrikaans: rog

Jersey Dutch: rôx

→ Papiamentu: rog (dated)

From Middle Dutch rogge, from Old Dutch *roggo, from Proto-West Germanic *roggō, from Proto-Germanic *ruggô, from Proto-Indo-European *Hrugʰís.
Cognate with Limburgish rogke, West Flemish rogge, Old Saxon roggo, Middle Low German rogge, Low German Rogg, Plautdietsch Rogg, Old High German rocko, Middle High German rocke, German Rocken, Mòcheno rocken, Old Frisian rogga, North Frisian Roog, Saterland Frisian Roage and West Frisian rogge. More distant Germanic cognates are Old English ryġe, Middle English rye, English rye, Scots rye, Yola ree, Old Norse rugr, Icelandic rúgur, Faroese rugur, Norwegian Bokmål rug, Swedish råg, Danish rug, Elfdalian rug, Scanian ruğ, Gutnish ryg.
More distantly related to Latvian rudzis, Lithuanian rugỹs, Old Prussian ruggis, Russian рожь (rožʹ), Old Church Slavonic ръжь (rŭžĭ), Czech rež, Polish reż.

Secale cereale
Secale cereale#Translingual


snijbiet

snijbiet c (plural snijbieten, diminutive snijbietje n)

snijbieten (plural)
snijbietje (diminutive neuter)


blauwe zeedistel

blauwe zeedistel m or f (plural blauwe zeedistels, diminutive blauw zeedisteltje n)

blauwe zeedistels (plural)
blauw zeedisteltje (diminutive neuter)

Literally, “blue sea thistle”; the plant grows in the dunes near the sea.

Eryngium maritimum
Eryngium maritimum#Translingual


venkel

venkel f (plural venkels, diminutive venkeltje n)

venkels (plural)
venkeltje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: vinkel

From Middle Dutch venkel, older venekel, from Latin fēnuculum. Compare German Fenchel.

Foeniculum vulgare
Foeniculum vulgare#Translingual


andijvie

andijvie f or m (plural andijvies, diminutive andijvietje n)

andijvies (plural)
andijvietje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: andyvie

→ Indonesian: andéwi

→ Papiamentu: andijvie, andijvi

→ Sundanese: ᮃᮔ᮪ᮓᮦᮝᮤ (andéwi)

From Middle Dutch endivie, from Old French endive, from Medieval Latin endivia, from Late Latin intibus, from Byzantine Greek ἔντυβον (éntubon). Ultimately of uncertain origin, indeed perhaps Ancient Greek Τῦβι (Tûbi, “the month of Tybi, roughly January”) from Egyptian tꜣ-ꜥꜣbt (“the month of Tybi”).

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Cichorium endivia
Cichorium endivia#Translingual

endive, Cichorium endivia (salad vegetable)


braam

nl-noun

braam f (plural bramen, diminutive braampje n)

bramen (plural)
braampje (diminutive neuter)

From Middle Dutch brame, from Old Dutch *brāmo, from Proto-West Germanic *brāmijō, from *brām + *-jō.

Rubus fruticosus
Rubus fruticosus#Translingual

a bramble, a common blackberry shrub, Rubus fruticosus


dadel

dadel f or m (plural dadels, diminutive dadeltje n)

dadels (plural)
dadeltje (diminutive neuter)

From Middle Dutch dadele. Ultimately from Latin dactylus, from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos), with the sense “date” probably deriving from a Semitic language.

Ik eet elke dag een dadel voor energie.

Deze doos bevat vijftig dadels.

Het dadeltje was zoet en sappig.


moerbei

moerbei f (plural moerbeien, diminutive moerbeitje n)

moerbeien (plural)
moerbeitje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: moerbei

→ Indonesian: murbei

→ Malay: murbei

→ West Frisian: moerbei

From Middle Dutch moerbeye, from Old Dutch *mōrberi, from Proto-West Germanic *mōrubaʀi.


granaatappel

granaatappel m (plural granaatappels or granaatappelen, diminutive granaatappeltje n or granaatappelke n)

granaatappels (plural)
granaatappelen (plural)
granaatappeltje (diminutive neuter)
granaatappelke (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: granaatappel

→ Papiamentu: granatapel

From Middle Dutch garnate-appel, also in phrases like appelen van gernaten. A partial loan-translation of Old French pume grenate, also found as simply grenate. Equivalent to granaat + appel. See granaat for more.

Punica granatum
Punica granatum#Translingual

the plant Punica granatum, which produces it


pistache

pistache c (plural pistaches, diminutive pistachetje n)

pistaches (plural)
pistachetje (diminutive neuter)

From French pistache, from Latin pistacium, from Ancient Greek πιστάκιον (pistákion).

Twee bollen vanille en één pistache, graag

Two scoops vanilla and one pistaccio, please

the fruit's taste, also as a flavor, notably of ice cream


slee

slee m (plural sleeën, diminutive sleetje n)

sleeën (plural)
sleetje (diminutive neuter)

From Proto-Germanic *slaihǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₃y- (“bluish”); cognate to English sloe, and perhaps with Russian сли́ва (slíva, “plum”).

Prunus spinosa
Prunus spinosa#Translingual


slee

nl-adj

slee (comparative sleeër, superlative sleest)

sleeër (comparative)
sleest (superlative)
slee (adverbial positive predicative)
sleeër (adverbial comparative predicative)
het sleest (adverbial predicative superlative)
het sleeste (adverbial predicative superlative)
sleeë (feminine indefinite masculine positive singular)
sleeëre (comparative feminine indefinite masculine singular)
sleeste (feminine indefinite masculine singular superlative)
slee (indefinite neuter positive singular)
sleeër (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
sleeste (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
sleeë (indefinite plural positive)
sleeëre (comparative indefinite plural)
sleeste (indefinite plural superlative)
sleeë (definite positive)
sleeëre (comparative definite)
sleeste (definite superlative)
slees (partitive positive)
sleeërs (comparative partitive)

From Middle Dutch slêeu, from Proto-Germanic *slaiwaz. Cognate with obsolete German schleh, English slow, Swedish slö.


slee

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

nonlemma

first-person singular present indicative

second-person singular present indicative


rucola

nl-noun

rucola f (uncountable, diminutive rucolaatje n)

Eruca vesicaria
Eruca vesicaria#Translingual

wilde rucola

perennial wall rocket, Diplotaxis tenuifolia


aardnoot

aardnoot f (plural aardnoten, diminutive aardnootje n)

aardnoten (plural)
aardnootje (diminutive neuter)

a peanut, a crusted legume resembling a nut and growing in the ground


suikerbiet

suikerbiet f (plural suikerbieten, diminutive suikerbietje n)

suikerbieten (plural)
suikerbietje (diminutive neuter)

Compound of suiker (“sugar”) + biet (“beet”).

the plant sugar beet, Beta vulgaris var. rapa


knoflook

knoflook m or n (plural knofloken, diminutive knoflookje n)

knofloken (plural)
knoflookje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: knoffel, knoflok

→ Aukan: kunofoluku

desc

→ Papiamentu: konofló, konoflok, knoflo, knofló

→ Sranan Tongo: knofroku

From Middle Dutch knofloick, knuuflooch, a dissimilated variant of earlier Middle Dutch cloffloc (literally “clove-leek”), from Old Dutch *kloflōk, from Proto-West Germanic *klobulauk (literally “clove-leek”), equivalent to klieven + look. Compare German Knoblauch, West Frisian knyflok and English clove.

inh

Allium sativum
Allium sativum#Translingual

garlic, Allium sativum (bulb, used as a culinary herb, or plant)


cassave

Berbice Creole Dutch: kasabi

Sundanese: kasapeu

Negerhollands: kassavie

→ Virgin Islands Creole: kasaw

→ Sranan Tongo: kasaba, ksaba

→ Caribbean Hindustani: kasábá

→ Caribbean Javanese: kasabah, kaspé

→ Saramaccan: kasába

Borrowed from French cassave, from Spanish cazabe, from Taíno caçabi.


pinda

nl-noun

pinda m (plural pinda's, diminutive pindaatje n)

pinda's (plural)
pindaatje (diminutive neuter)

→ West Frisian: pinda

Borrowed from Papiamentu pinda and Sranan Tongo pinda, both from Kongo mpinda; cognates include English pinder. Usage spread from the West Indies to the Netherlands from the 1910s onwards. Sense 4 is from the pejorative term pindachinees from the 1930s, which was later applied even more pejoratively to people from East Asia in general, including Indonesians who came en masse to the Netherlands in the late 1940s.

pl the above seeds, gathered to be eaten as a snack or processed into food products


koolraap

koolraap m (plural koolrapen, diminutive koolraapje n)

koolrapen (plural)
koolraapje (diminutive neuter)

From kool (“cabbage”) + raap (“turnip”).

the related Brassica oleracea var. gongylodes or Brassica oleracea var. caulorapa, and their corresponding part


hazelnoot

hazelnoot m or f (plural hazelnoten, diminutive hazelnootje n)

hazelnoten (plural)
hazelnootje (diminutive neuter)

Compound of hazel (“hazel”) + noot (“nut”).

a hazel, a hazel nut tree or shrub; tree of the genus Corylus


veldsla

veldsla m or f (uncountable, diminutive veldslaatje n)

Valerianella locusta
Valerianella locusta#Translingual

mâche (plant and vegetable), Valerianella locusta


peterselie

peterselie f (plural peterselies, diminutive peterselietje n)

peterselies (plural)
peterselietje (diminutive neuter)

Negerhollands: peterselje

desc

→ Papiamentu: pitiseli, piterselie, piteseel

From Middle Dutch petercelie, petercelle, petersille, from Latin petroselinum, of Ancient Greek origin.

Petroselinum crispum
Petroselinum crispum#Translingual


kervel

Afrikaans: kerwel

From Latin caerefolium, chaerephyllum, from Ancient Greek χαιρέφυλλον (khairéphullon).


knol

nl-noun

knol m (plural knollen, diminutive knolletje n)

knollen (plural)
knolletje (diminutive neuter)

→ Papiamentu: kònòlchi (from the diminutive)

From earlier knolle; first attested in the early sixteenth century. The earliest attested meaning in Dutch is "turnip" (now obsolete, the derived knolraap having become the standard term), which appears to be the result of a semantic narrowing from a broader meaning "bulging protrusion"; compare for example the cognates Old High German knollo (“rocky outcrop; lump”), English knoll (“hill”).


latuw

From Middle Dutch latuwe, from Old French laitue, from Latin lactūca.


pompoen

nl-noun

pompoen m (plural pompoenen, diminutive pompoentje n)

pompoenen (plural)
pompoentje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: pampoen

Berbice Creole Dutch: pampuna

Negerhollands: pampuen, pampon

→ Virgin Islands Creole: pum pum (dated)

Skepi Creole Dutch: pampun

→ Papiamentu: pampuna, pampoena

→ Sranan Tongo: pampun

→ Saramaccan: pampú

→ West Frisian: pompoen

Early modern borrowing from Middle French pompon.


radijs

radijs m (plural radijzen, diminutive radijsje n)

radijzen (plural)
radijsje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: radijs

Negerhollands: radies

→ German: Radies

⇒ German: Radieschen (diminutive)

→ Papiamentu: radijs (dated)

From Middle Dutch radijs (“radish”), from Middle French radis, from Italian radice, from Latin rādīx (“root; radish”), from Proto-Italic *wrādīks, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds.

Raphanus sativus
Raphanus sativus#Translingual

the root vegetable harvested from Raphanus sativus


walnoot

walnoot f (plural walnoten, diminutive walnootje n)

walnoten (plural)
walnootje (diminutive neuter)

From Middle Dutch walnote, from Old Dutch [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *walhahnuts (“foreign nut; walnut”). Compare English walnut.


koolrabi

nl-noun

koolrabi f (plural koolrabi's, diminutive koolrabietje n)

koolrabi's (plural)
koolrabietje (diminutive neuter)


uitsmijter

uitsmijter m (plural uitsmijters, diminutive uitsmijtertje n)

uitsmijters (plural)
uitsmijtertje (diminutive neuter)

dish consisting of fried eggs, which have been fried together with ham and cheese


bieslook

bieslook m (plural biesloken, diminutive bieslookje n)

biesloken (plural)
bieslookje (diminutive neuter)

Allium schoenoprasum
Allium schoenoprasum#Translingual


snuiftabak

snuiftabak m (uncountable, diminutive snuiftabakje n)


nachtschade

nachtschade f or m (plural nachtschaden or nachtschades)

nachtschaden (plural)
nachtschades (plural)

From Middle Dutch nachtschade. A compound of nacht + schaduw, where schade was an older form of the latter.

nightshade, any plant of the genus Solanum


witlof

(chiefly Netherlands) Belgian endive, Cichorium intybus subsp. foliosum, a chicory eaten as a leafy vegetable


patat

patat f (plural patatten, diminutive patatje n)

patatten (plural)
patatje (diminutive neuter)

Borrowed from French patate, from Spanish patata, probably from Taíno batata. Doublet of tatta and bataat.

(Northern, uncountable) chips, french fries


eierdooier

eierdooier m (plural eierdooiers, diminutive eierdooiertje n)

eierdooiers (plural)
eierdooiertje (diminutive neuter)


eidooier

eidooier m (plural eidooiers, diminutive eidooiertje n)

eidooiers (plural)
eidooiertje (diminutive neuter)

Kan ik alleen de eidooier gebruiken voor dit recept?

Can I use just the egg yolk for this recipe?

Het eidooiertje was perfect voor de kleine portie saus.

The small egg yolk was perfect for the little portion of sauce.

De eidooiers geven de pasta een rijke en romige textuur.

The egg yolks give the pasta a rich and creamy texture.


passievrucht

passievrucht f (plural passievruchten, diminutive passievruchtje n)

passievruchten (plural)
passievruchtje (diminutive neuter)

a passion fruit, fruit of a plant of the genus Passiflora


kastanje

kastanje m (plural kastanjes, diminutive kastanjetje n)

kastanjes (plural)
kastanjetje (diminutive neuter)

Jersey Dutch: kestänne

→ Indonesian: kastanye

From Middle Dutch castaenge, from Picard Old French castagne, from Latin castānea, from Ancient Greek κᾰστᾰ́νειᾰ (kastáneia), variant of κᾰ́στᾰνᾰ (kástana).


pieper

pieper m (plural piepers, diminutive piepertje n)

piepers (plural)
piepertje (diminutive neuter)


doerian

doerian m (plural doerians, diminutive doeriannetje n)

doerians (plural)
doeriannetje (diminutive neuter)

From Malay durian, from Proto-Malayic *duri-an, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duʀi-an. Attested since the late 16th century.


beetwortel

beetwortel m (plural beetwortels or beetwortelen, diminutive beetworteltje n)

beetwortels (plural)
beetwortelen (plural)
beetworteltje (diminutive neuter)


peul

peul m or f (plural peulen, diminutive peultje n)

peulen (plural)
peultje (diminutive neuter)

(especially in the diminutive, botany) snow pea, Pisum sativum var. saccharatum, or its pod eaten as food


raketsla

raketsla f (uncountable, diminutive raketslaatje n)


kiemgroente

kiemgroente f (plural kiemgroenten or kiemgroentes, diminutive kiemgroentetje n)

kiemgroenten (plural)
kiemgroentes (plural)
kiemgroentetje (diminutive neuter)

sprout (an edible vegetable that comes from germinated seeds)


mungboon

mungboon f or m (plural mungbonen, diminutive mungboontje n)

mungbonen (plural)
mungboontje (diminutive neuter)

Vigna radiata
Vigna radiata#Translingual

mung bean (plant or edible seed of Vigna radiata)


langsat

Borrowed from Indonesian langsat. From Malay langsat.

Lansium domesticum
Lansium domesticum#Translingual

langsat (fruit of the tree Lansium domesticum)


tajer

Borrowed from Portuguese tajá. Cognate of Sranan Tongo taya.

Ik gaf ordres dezelve met alle spoed te volgen, dat met alle moogelyke schielykheid geëxecuteerd wierd, en ons om half drie uuren bragt in een Kostgrond, groot circa 10 akkers, beplant met Casaven, Bannane, Tayers, Pindas, Okkerom, en Tabak (...).

1796, [Charles Brouwn], “Historie der oorlogen met de Marrons of Surinaamsche boschnegers. [History of the wars with the Maroons or Surinamese bush negroes]”, in Surinaamsche Staatkundige Almanach voor den Jaare 1796, Paramaribo: W.P. Wilkens, page 108:

I gave orders to follow them at full speed, which were executed with all possibly hastiness, and, at half past two, we got to a plot of land cleared for subsistence agriculture, measuring about 10 distinct fields, planted with cassava, banana, cocoyam, peanut, okra, and tobacco (...).

arrowleaf elephant ear
arrowleaf elephant ear

Xanthosoma sagittifolium
Xanthosoma sagittifolium#Translingual

(chiefly Suriname) new cocoyam, arrowleaf elephant ear, Xanthosoma sagittifolium

Colocasia esculenta
Colocasia esculenta#Translingual

(chiefly Suriname) old cocoyam, taro, Colocasia esculenta


pastinaak

pastinaak f (plural pastinaken, diminutive pastinaakje n)

pastinaken (plural)
pastinaakje (diminutive neuter)

From Middle Dutch pastenake, from Latin pastināca (“root, carrot”).

Pastinaca sativa
Pastinaca sativa#Translingual


hardgekookt

hardgekookt (adverbial positive predicative)
hardgekookte (feminine indefinite masculine positive singular)
hardgekookt (indefinite neuter positive singular)
hardgekookte (indefinite plural positive)
hardgekookte (definite positive)
hardgekookts (partitive positive)

Hij houdt van hardgekookte eieren.

De dooier van een hardgekookt ei kan groen geworden zijn.

The yolk of a hard-boiled egg may have turned green.

hard-boiled (of a boiled egg)
hard-boiled


mispel

mispel f (plural mispels or mispelen, diminutive mispeltje n or mispelke n)

mispels (plural)
mispelen (plural)
mispeltje (diminutive neuter)
mispelke (diminutive neuter)

→ Papiamentu: mespel, mespu, mispel

→ Sranan Tongo: mispu

→ Aukan: mesupu

Inherited from Middle Dutch mispele, mespele, from Old Dutch *mespila, from Proto-West Germanic *mespilā, from Late Latin mespila.

medlar; any tree of the genus Mespilus, now Crataegus sect. Mespilus


bijenkorfje

The botanical sense ("common selfheal") derives from the resemblance of its flower to a beehive (see picture).

Synonym of gewone brunel (“common selfheal, Prunella vulgaris”)


salie

Afrikaans: salie

→ Papiamentu: sali

From Middle Dutch salie, from older saelge, from Old French selge.

Salvia officinalis
Salvia officinalis#Translingual

(particularly) Synonym of echte salie (“common sage, Salvia officinalis”)


warmoes

From Middle Dutch warmoes, from warm (“warm”) + moes (“food pulp”).

(collective, historical) vegetables, greens


jeneverbes

jeneverbes f (plural jeneverbessen, diminutive jeneverbesje n)

jeneverbessen (plural)
jeneverbesje (diminutive neuter)

the berry of this plant; a juniper berry


sperzieboon

sperzieboon f (plural sperziebonen, diminutive sperzieboontje n)

sperziebonen (plural)
sperzieboontje (diminutive neuter)

→ Papiamentu: spèrzibon

Compound of sperzie (“asparagus”) + boon (“bean”), named after its use along with asparagus in dishes.

Phaseolus vulgaris
Phaseolus vulgaris#Translingual

a variety of green bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, with seeds that have not fully matured


eierbal

eierbal m (plural eierballen, diminutive eierballetje n)

eierballen (plural)
eierballetje (diminutive neuter)


klimop

Afrikaans: klimop

→ Papiamentu: klemòk


spiegelei

spiegelei n (plural spiegeleieren, diminutive spiegeleitje n)

spiegeleieren (plural)
spiegeleitje (diminutive neuter)

From spiegel (“mirror”) + ei (“egg”), calque of French œuf au miroir.


lemmetje

Afrikaans: lemmetjie

→ Sranan Tongo: lemki

From limmetje, from a Romance language + -tje.


ajuin

ajuin m (plural ajuinen, diminutive ajuintje n)

ajuinen (plural)
ajuintje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: uintjie

Berbice Creole Dutch: ajun

→ Saramaccan: ajón

→ Sranan Tongo: ayun

Aukan: ayun

→ Akawaio: ayunu

→ Lokono: ajoeng

→ Kari'na: ajunu, junu

From Middle Dutch oinjun, ayuun, ejuun, from Old French oignon (“onion”). See also Dutch ui (“onion”) and rams (“ramson; now only in place names”).


pomerans

pomerans f (plural pomeransen, diminutive pomeransje n)

pomeransen (plural)
pomeransje (diminutive neuter)

From Middle Dutch pomerancien, from German Pomeranze, from Medieval Latin pomerancium, from pomum (“fruit”) + arancia (“orange”).

a bitter orange tree, of the species Citrus ×aurantium


boerenkool

boerenkool f (plural boerenkolen, diminutive boerenkooltje n)

boerenkolen (plural)
boerenkooltje (diminutive neuter)

→ English: borecole

Compound of boer (“farmer”) + -en- + kool (“cabbage”).

compound

Brassica oleracea
Brassica oleracea#Translingual

kale, curly kale, one of several cultivars of Brassica oleracea


papaja

nl-noun

papaja m (plural papaja's, diminutive papajaatje n)

papaja's (plural)
papajaatje (diminutive neuter)

→ Lokono: papâja

→ Caribbean Hindustani: papaiyá


kriek

kriek f (plural krieken, diminutive kriekje n)

krieken (plural)
kriekje (diminutive neuter)

From Middle Dutch crieke f, from Old Dutch *krieka, unexplained; perhaps from Late Latin prunum graecum (“Greek plum”), though this isn't attested until 1517 in a Latin-German dictionary. Latin gr was often derived as kr in older Germanic borrowings (see Proto-West Germanic *Krēkō (“Greek”)). See German Krieche for more cognates.

unk

unexplained

Prunus cerasus
Prunus cerasus#Translingual


kriek

Afrikaans: kriek

→ Papiamentu: kriki, krieki

From Middle Dutch crekel, from Old Dutch *krik-, of imitative origin, similar to krekel. See also French criquer, English cricket.

onomatopoeic

imitative

(Netherlands, dialectal, Gelderland, formerly also in Holland) a cricket, insect of the family Gryllidae


valeriaan

Valeriana officinalis
Valeriana officinalis#Translingual


doekoe

Borrowed from Sranan Tongo duku (“money”), from Dutch doek.

Gast, ik vind die baan als administratief medewerker bij de dienst Vergunningen boemlauw, maar hoeveel doekoe schuift het?

2013, Kluun, Klunen, Podium b.v. Uitgeverij, →ISBN, page 80:

Dude, I think that job as an administrative clerk for the licensing department is wicked, but what kind of dough are we talking about?

(Suriname, Netherlands, slang) money, dough


kikkererwt

nl-noun

kikkererwt f (plural kikkererwten, diminutive kikkererwtje n)

kikkererwten (plural)
kikkererwtje (diminutive neuter)

Ultimately from Latin cicer. Reanalysed as kikker + erwt.

chickpea plant, a plant of Cicer arietinum


rode kool

rode kool f (plural rode kolen, diminutive rood kooltje n)

rode kolen (plural)
rood kooltje (diminutive neuter)

Identical in meaning to the English term.

(uncountable, countable) red cabbage, purple-leaved variety of Brassica oleracea


rode biet

rode biet f (plural rode bieten, diminutive rood bietje n)

rode bieten (plural)
rood bietje (diminutive neuter)


linze

linze f (plural linzen, diminutive linsje n)

linzen (plural)
linsje (diminutive neuter)

From Middle Dutch lins, lynsen, from Middle High German linse, from Old High German linsa, likely a borrowing from an unidentified source.
Compare Latin lēns, Lithuanian lęšis, and Old Church Slavonic лѧща (lęšta) sounding too similar for a coincidence, however different enough to prohibit reconstruction of a common PIE protoform.
If ultimately a non-IE loanword, locating the source is virtually impossible because cultivation of lentil was widespread in the region since the Neolithic.

Lens culinaris
Lens culinaris#Translingual

lentil, the seed of Lens culinaris (pulse)


bitterzoet

bitterzoet c (plural bitterzoeten, diminutive bitterzoetje n)

bitterzoeten (plural)
bitterzoetje (diminutive neuter)

Solanum dulcamara
Solanum dulcamara#Translingual


tuinboon

tuinboon f (plural tuinbonen, diminutive tuinboontje n)

tuinbonen (plural)
tuinboontje (diminutive neuter)


koolzaad

koolzaad n (plural koolzaden, diminutive koolzaadje n)

koolzaden (plural)
koolzaadje (diminutive neuter)

Middle French: colzat

French: colza (see there for further descendants)


alsem

Afrikaans: als

Negerhollands: alsem, als

→ Papiamentu: alsem (dated)

From Middle Dutch alsene, from Old Dutch *alasina, from Proto-West Germanic *alahsinā.

(chiefly uncountable) an artemisia, any herb of the genus Artemisia


schorseneer

schorseneer f (plural schorseneren, diminutive schorseneertje n)

schorseneren (plural)
schorseneertje (diminutive neuter)

Borrowing from French scorsonère, from Italian scorzonera.

salsify, used for plants of the genera Tragopon and Scorzonera


bacove

Berbice Creole Dutch: bakofu, bakof

Negerhollands: bakoba, bakuba

Skepi Creole Dutch: bakofa

Sranan Tongo: bakuba, bakba

Aukan: bakuba

Saramaccan: bakúba

→ Caribbean Hindustani: bakwa

→ Lokono: bakofa

→ Virgin Islands Creole: bacuba

Borrowed from Portuguese pacova or pacoba (“banana”), ultimately from Old Tupi pakoba (“rolling leaf”).


bosui

bosui m (plural bosuien, diminutive bosuitje n)

bosuien (plural)
bosuitje (diminutive neuter)

Allium fistulosum
Allium fistulosum#Translingual

spring onion, scallion, Allium fistulosum; particularly when cultivated for its bulb


stengelui

stengelui m (plural stengeluien, diminutive stengeluitje n)

stengeluien (plural)
stengeluitje (diminutive neuter)

/ˈstɛ.ŋəlˌœy̯/

spring onion, scallion (Allium fistulosum); particularly when cultivated for its stem, similar to a leek


lente-ui

lente-ui m (plural lente-uien, diminutive lente-uitje n)

lente-uien (plural)
lente-uitje (diminutive neuter)


betonie

betonie f (plural betonies, diminutive betonietje n)

betonies (plural)
betonietje (diminutive neuter)

From Middle Dutch bētonie, from Old French betonie, from Latin betōnica.

Stachys officinalis
Stachys officinalis#Translingual

betony, Betonica officinalis syn. Stachys officinalis


spruitje

(chiefly in the plural) a Brussels sprout, a variant of Brassica oleracea of the gemmifera group


kardoes

kardoes f (plural kardoezen, diminutive kardoesje n)

kardoezen (plural)
kardoesje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: kardoes

Borrowed from Middle French cartouche, Italian cartoccio, derived from Latin carta.

(dated) a pack of tobacco, in particular snuff


kousenband

Afrikaans: kousband

Negerhollands: kous-bant

→ Sranan Tongo: kowsbanti

→ Lokono: kósoebantji

→ Aukan: kowsubanti

→ Caribbean Hindustani: kosbanti

From Middle Dutch cousenbant. Equivalent to kous + -en- + band. The sense “yardlong bean” originated in Surinamese Dutch.

Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis#Translingual

yardlong bean, asparagus bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis)


eslook

eslook m or n (uncountable, diminutive eslookje n)

From Middle Dutch *aschlook, from Old Dutch *asklōk, Proto-West Germanic *askalauk (“shallot”).

inh

Allium cepa var. aggregatum#Translingual

Synonym of sjalot (“shallot, Allium cepa var. aggregatum”)


kruisbes

nl-noun

kruisbes f (plural kruisbessen, diminutive kruisbesje n)

kruisbessen (plural)
kruisbesje (diminutive neuter)


groffie

(Holland, dialectal) a large, unpickled gherkin


ijsbergsla

From ijsberg + sla, calque of English iceberg lettuce.

iceberg lettuce (Lactuca sativa var. capitata)


sjalot

sjalot f (plural sjalotten, diminutive sjalotje n)

sjalotten (plural)
sjalotje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: salot

→ Papiamentu: sjalot (dated)

Borrowed from French échalote, from Middle French eschalote, from Old French eschaloigne, from Medieval Latin escalonia, from Classical Latin ascalonia (cēpa), referring to Ashkelon.


komijn

Afrikaans: komyn

Negerhollands: komin

From Middle Dutch comijn. Ultimately from Latin cumīnum, from Ancient Greek κύμινον (kúminon). The word had already entered early West Germanic as *kumīn (also *kumil), but such a form should have umlaut and initial stress in Dutch (*keumen). Therefore borrowed anew from Old French comin, or at least influenced by it. Doublet of kummel (from German).

Cuminum cyminum
Cuminum cyminum#Translingual


klaroen

Cognate of Sranan Tongo krarun, Spanish calalú, English callaloo, of either Amerindian or Bantu origin.

(Suriname) Chinese spinach, red spinach, Amaranthus dubius


andoorn

a woundwort, betony, plant of the genus Stachys


dovenetel

Univerbation of dove netel (“deaf nettle”). As with English deadnettle, the name refers to the fact that these plants (particularly Lamium album) resemble nettles, but lack any sting. Compare German Taubnessel.

a deadnettle, any nettle-like plant of the genus Lamium


bonenkruid

Compound of boon (“bean”) + -en- + kruid (“herb”). Named for its use along with legumes, its primary use in Dutch cooking. Cf. German Bohnenkraut, one of the two terms might have been calqued from the other.

savory, plant of the genus Satureja, used in particular of those species and varieties used as culinary herbs


kardoen

kardoen m (plural kardoenen or kardoens, diminutive kardoentje n)

kardoenen (plural)
kardoens (plural)
kardoentje (diminutive neuter)

Borrowed from Middle French cardon, from Occitan cardoun, from Latin carduus.

Cynara cardunculus
Cynara cardunculus#Translingual

cardoon, artichoke thistle, Cynara cardunculus


boerenomelet

boerenomelet f (plural boerenomeletten, diminutive boerenomeletje n)

boerenomeletten (plural)
boerenomeletje (diminutive neuter)

Compound of boer (“farmer”) + -en- + omelet (“omelette”).

compound

an omelette containing sliced bell peppers, various vegetables and often bacon bits


kranssalie

the lilac sage plant, Salvia verticillata


tijm

Negerhollands: tiim

Borrowed from Middle French thym, from Latin thymum, from Ancient Greek θύμον (thúmon).


doperwt

nl-noun

doperwt f (plural doperwten, diminutive doperwtje n)

doperwten (plural)
doperwtje (diminutive neuter)

→ Papiamentu: dòpèrt (Aruba)

Compound of doppen (“to pod”) + erwt (“pea”).

a small green pea, eaten without its pod


rodekool

(less common, official spelling) Alternative spelling of rode kool


Chinese kool

Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis#Translingual

a napa cabbage, Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis


snijboon

snijboon f (plural snijbonen, diminutive snijboontje n)

snijbonen (plural)
snijboontje (diminutive neuter)

→ Papiamentu: sneibonchi, snijboontsje (from the diminutive)

Compound of snijden (“to cut”) + boon (“bean”), named because they were usually cut into small pieces before cooking or eating.

a flat bean, a long variety of Phaseolus vulgaris, with flat pods and fully matured seeds


winterpeen

winterpeen f (plural winterpenen, diminutive winterpeentje n)

winterpenen (plural)
winterpeentje (diminutive neuter)


zwarte bes

the berry of Ribes nigrum, a black currant


daslook

From das (“badger”) + look (“garlic, leek”).

Allium ursinum
Allium ursinum#Translingual


kafferkoren

From Afrikaans kafferkoring, itself a compound of kaffer, a now offensive term for the Bantu, and koring (“grain”).

Sorghum bicolor
Sorghum bicolor#Translingual

(now offensive) sorghum, Sorghum bicolor


witte dovenetel

witte dovenetel f (plural witte dovenetels)


lijsterbes

lijsterbes f (plural lijsterbessen, diminutive lijsterbesje n)

lijsterbessen (plural)
lijsterbesje (diminutive neuter)

Compound of lijster (“thrush”) + bes (“berry”). Named because the berries are an important food source for thrushes.

a rowan, a whitebeam, a mountain ash, any tree of the genus Sorbus


hondspeterselie

hondspeterselie f (plural hondspeterselies, diminutive hondspeterselietje n)

hondspeterselies (plural)
hondspeterselietje (diminutive neuter)

(botany) fool's parsley (Aethusa cynapium)


gewone pastinaak

gewone pastinaak f (plural [please provide], diminutive [please provide])

Pastinaca sativa
Pastinaca sativa#Translingual


zevenblad

Compound of zeven (“seven”) + blad (“leaf”).

Aegopodium podagraria
Aegopodium podagraria#Translingual

(chiefly uncountable) ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria)


gewone bereklauw

gewone bereklauw ? (plural [please provide], diminutive [please provide])

Heracleum sphondylium
Heracleum sphondylium#Translingual


pomme de cythère

pomme de cythère m or f (plural pommes de cythère)

Borrowed from French pomme-cythère, from pomme (“apple”) and Cythère (“Kythira”).

Momenteel is fruit duur in Suriname. Alleen bacove is betaalbaar; voeg markoesa en pomme de cythere [sic] toe aan de fruitconsumptie indien mogelijk.

2020 June 8, Sharon Singh, “Diëtiste adviseert lockdown voedingspatroon [Dietitian advises lockdown eating pattern]”, in De Ware Tijd, archived from the original on 2021-01-09:

Fruit is currently expensive in Suriname. Only banana is affordable; add passion fruit and ambarella to your fruit intake if possible.

Spondias dulcis
Spondias dulcis#Translingual

(Suriname) ambarella (fruit (Spondias dulcis))


berenklauw

berenklauw f (plural berenklauwen, diminutive berenklauwtje n)

berenklauwen (plural)
berenklauwtje (diminutive neuter)

Compound of beer (“bear”) + -en- + klauw (“claw”).

hogweed, any plant species of the genus Heracleum, from the family Apiaceae


sopropo

sopropo m (plural sopropo's, diminutive sopropootje n)

sopropo's (plural)
sopropootje (diminutive neuter)

Likely borrowed from Sranan Tongo sopropo, possibly from Twi Akan sɔprɔpɔ

De soppropo is eene bevallig klimmende rankplant met een' enkelen gelen bloesem; de rondachtige, niet groote bladen (2 Ned. duimen in middellijn) hebben meerendeels zeven ronde takken.

1835, Marten Douwes Teenstra, De landbouw in de kolonie Suriname [Agriculture in the colony of Suriname], Groningen: H. Eekhoff, page 277:

The bitter melon is a gracefully climbing vine with a single yellow inflorescence; the roundish, not very large leaves (2 Dutch inches in diameter) mostly have seven round branches.

Op social media zag ik recent foto's en filmpjes van vooral sopropo dat tegen woekerprijzen aan de man werd gebracht.

2021 June 7, Gerold Rozenblad, “Sopropo en koersen [Bitter melons and exchange rates]”, in De Ware Tijd, archived from the original on 2021-12-14:

On social media, I recently saw photos and videos of people selling bitter melons, in particular, at exorbitant prices.

Momordica charantia
Momordica charantia#Translingual

(Suriname, Netherlands) bitter melon, bitter gourd, Momordica charantia and its fruit


veenbes

veenbes f (plural veenbessen, diminutive veenbesje n)

veenbessen (plural)
veenbesje (diminutive neuter)

Vaccinium oxycoccos
Vaccinium oxycoccos#Translingual


podosiri

From Sranan Tongo podosiri, possibly from Aukan apodo sii (“acai”).

‘Ik heb wat podosiri, roti met vis en saus voor jullie meegebracht. De vis is net vanmorgen gevangen.’

1990, Romeo Grot, Raj Powpi, Paramaribo: Groto Publikasi, →ISBN, page 54:

'I have brought some acai, roti with fish and sauce for you. The fish was caught just this morning.'

Door het veldonderzoek moeten de deelnemers een beter beeld krijgen van de kosten, knelpunten en uitdagingen bij het verwerken van cassave en podosiri.

2022 March 20, “Uitblijven financiële ondersteuning nekt telers cassave en podosiri [Lack of financial support fatal for cassava and acai growers]”, in De Ware Tijd, archived from the original on 2022-04-06:

The field study is intended to give the participants a better idea of the costs, bottlenecks and challenges involved in processing cassava and acai.

Waar komt de podosiri cultuur^([sic – meaning podosiri-cultuur]) van Brazilië eigenlijk vandaan? In alles verwerken ze podosiri, zowel in voeding, snoepgoed, drankjes als cosmetica.

2022 December 10, Stephany Kasketi, “Girls Trip: De beste monteur van Belem is een Surinamer [Girls' trip: Belém's best mechanic is a Surinamese man]”, in Starnieuws, retrieved 2024-07-17:

Where did Brazil's acai culture actually stem from? They incorporate acai in everything, whether in food, sweets, drinks or cosmetics.

Euterpe oleracea
Euterpe oleracea#Translingual

(chiefly Suriname) acai (the fruit of Euterpe oleracea, consumed as pulp, mousse, or juice)


markoesa

From Sranan Tongo markusa, from Kari'na merekuya and/or Lokono murukuya.

Niten Seopersad van Fruitly eindigde als tweede en ontving een cheque van 250 euro. Zijn bedrijf doet aan fruitteelt en verwerkt onder meer citrussoorten, markoesa en kersen tot sap.

2022 October 23, Sharon Singh, “Twee landbouwers uitgeroepen tot duurzaamste MKB-landbouwer 2022 [Two farmers awarded most sustainable SME farmer 2022]”, in De Ware Tijd, retrieved 2022-11-28:

Fruitly's Niten Seopersad was runner-up and received a cheque for 250 euros. His company grows fruit and processes citrus varieties, passion fruit, and cherries, among other fruits, into juice.


diaklaroen

Compound of Sranan Tongo dia (“deer”) + klaroen (“Amaranthus dubius”), a partial calque of Sranan Tongo diakrarun.

partial calque

Diaklaroen en javanesi toriman zijn 2 bekende gewassen, die veel langs wegen en op open plaatsen voorkomen, en vooral door de Javanen worden gegeten, wanneer de bladeren nog jong en zacht zijn. Door andere bevolkingsgroepen worden deze beide groenten zelden geconsumeerd.

1942 August 21, Gerold Stahel, “De nuttige planten van Suriname [The useful plants of Suriname]”, in Bulletin, number 57, Paramaribo: Departement Landbouwproefstation in Suriname, Oliveira, page 15:

Centropogon cornutus and Bidens pilosa are two familiar crops, which are common along roads and in open places, and are eaten mainly by Javanese, when the leaves are still young and tender. Both of these vegetables are rarely consumed by other ethnic groups.


postelein

Sranan Tongo: posren

Aukan: posen

→ Kari'na: poseren

From Middle Dutch porceleine, from Middle French porcelaine, from Old French pourcelaine, from Italian porcellana, probably a corruption of Latin porcillāca, an alternative form of Latin portulāca. Cognate of English purslane.

Portulaca oleracea
Portulaca oleracea#Translingual

purslane, any of the family Portulacaceae (order Caryophyllales) of succulent plants, particularly common purslane, Portulaca oleracea


bitawiri

Hitawiri^([sic – meaning bitawiri]) is een populaire groente in Suriname: de bladeren worden gewassen, fijngesneden en kort in olie gebakken met bijvoorbeeld ui en garnalen. (...) Er wordt wel eens gesuggereerd dat bitawiri een Afrikaanse groente is, die met de slavenschepen Suriname is binnengekomen, maar dat is niet het geval.

2011, Tinde van Andel, Sofie Ruysschaert, Medicinale en rituele planten van Suriname [Medicinal and ritual plants of Suriname], Amsterdam: KIT Publishers, NCB Naturalis, page 449:

Cestrum latifolium is a popular vegetable in Suriname: the leaves are washed, finely chopped and briefly fried in oil with, for example, onion and shrimp. (...) It is sometimes suggested that Cestrum latifolium is an African vegetable that entered Suriname along with the slave ships, but this is not the case.

(chiefly Suriname) Cestrum latifolium, the young leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable


fluitenkruid

From fluit (“whistle”) + -en- + kruid (“herb, plant”); the stalks can be made into rudimentary whistles.

af

Anthriscus sylvestris
Anthriscus sylvestris#Translingual


zwaardherik

From zwaard (“sword”) + herik (“charlock mustard”).


sleedoorn

nl-noun

sleedoorn m (plural sleedoornen or sleedoorns, diminutive sleedoorntje n)

sleedoornen (plural)
sleedoorns (plural)
sleedoorntje (diminutive neuter)

Inherited from Middle Dutch sleedorn. By surface analysis, slee + doorn. Compare German Schlehdorn, West Flemish sleedôorn.

Prunus spinosa
Prunus spinosa#Translingual


weidesalie

Compound of weide (“pasture”) + salie (“sage”).

Synonym of veldsalie (“meadow sage, Salvia pratensis”)


veldsalie

Compound of veld (“field”) + salie (“sage”).


echte salie

Salvia officinalis
Salvia officinalis#Translingual

the common sage plant and spice, Salvia officinalis


watermunt

From water + munt. The plant is named after the fact that it grows in and near freshwater.


absintalsem

From absint (“absinthe”) + alsem (“artemisia”).

compound

Artemisia absinthium
Artemisia absinthium#Translingual


weermoed

nl-noun

weermoed m (plural weermoeden, diminutive weermoedje n)

weermoeden (plural)
weermoedje (diminutive neuter)

From Middle Dutch wermoed, from Old Dutch *wermuoda, from Proto-West Germanic *warjamōdā. Doublet of vermout.

(obsolete) Synonym of absintalsem (“wormwood, Artemisia absinthium”)


bijvoet

bijvoet m (plural bijvoeten, diminutive bijvoetje n)

bijvoeten (plural)
bijvoetje (diminutive neuter)

From Middle Dutch bīvoet. Cognates include German Beifuß.

Artemisia vulgaris
Artemisia vulgaris#Translingual


vossenbes

vossenbes f (plural vossenbessen, diminutive vossenbesje n)

vossenbessen (plural)
vossenbesje (diminutive neuter)


rode bosbes

rode bosbes f (plural rode bosbessen, diminutive rood bosbesje n)

rode bosbessen (plural)
rood bosbesje (diminutive neuter)


wilde cichorei

Cichorium intybus
Cichorium intybus#Translingual


majoraan

majoraan f (uncountable, diminutive majoraantje n)

(cooking) Synonym of marjolein (“marjoram (used as food)”)


echte marjolein

echte marjolein f (uncountable, diminutive echt marjoleintje n)

Origanum majorana
Origanum majorana#Translingual


wilde marjolein

wilde marjolein f (uncountable, diminutive wild marjoleintje n)

Origanum vulgare
Origanum vulgare#Translingual


marjolein

marjolein f (uncountable, diminutive marjoleintje n)

(botany, broadly speaking) a marjoram; any plant of the genus Origanum


wilde rucola

wilde rucola f (uncountable, diminutive wild rucolaatje n)

Literally, “wild arugula”, due to the strikingly similar tastes of the (edible) leaves of this plant to those of arugula (Eruca vesicaria). There is no close relationship between the two species otherwise (other than belonging to the same taxonomic family, Brassicaceae).

(particularly in culinary contexts) Synonym of grote zandkool (“perennial wall rocket, Diplotaxis tenuifolia”)


grote zandkool

grote zandkool f (plural grote zandkolen, diminutive groot zandkooltje n)

grote zandkolen (plural)
groot zandkooltje (diminutive neuter)

the perennial wall rocket plant, Diplotaxis tenuifolia


zwarte nachtschade

zwarte nachtschade f or m (plural zwarte nachtschaden or zwarte nachtschades)

zwarte nachtschaden (plural)
zwarte nachtschades (plural)

Literally, “black nightshade”, named after the color of its ripe berries.

Solanum nigrum
Solanum nigrum#Translingual

the black nightshade plant, Solanum nigrum


wilde radijs

wilde radijs m (plural wilde radijzen, diminutive wild radijsje n)

wilde radijzen (plural)
wild radijsje (diminutive neuter)

Raphanus raphanistrum
Raphanus raphanistrum#Translingual

Synonym of knopherik (“wild radish, Raphanus raphanistrum”)


knopherik

From knop (“bud, button”) + herik (“charlock mustard”).


reuzenberenklauw

nl-noun

reuzenberenklauw f (plural reuzenberenklauwen, diminutive reuzenberenklauwtje n)

reuzenberenklauwen (plural)
reuzenberenklauwtje (diminutive neuter)

From reus (“giant”) + -en- + berenklauw (“hogweed”).

af

Heracleum mantegazzianum
Heracleum mantegazzianum#Translingual


zeedistel

nl-noun

zeedistel m (plural zeedistels, diminutive zeedisteltje n)

zeedistels (plural)
zeedisteltje (diminutive neuter)

From zee (“sea”) + distel (“thistle”); the plant grows in the dunes near the sea.

Synonym of blauwe zeedistel (“sea holly, Eryngium maritimum”)


straalscherm

straalscherm n (plural straalschermen, diminutive straalschermpje n)

straalschermen (plural)
straalschermpje (diminutive neuter)

From straal (“ray”) + scherm (“screen, umbel”).


gewone brunel

nl-noun

gewone brunel f (plural gewone brunellen, diminutive gewoon brunelletje n)

gewone brunellen (plural)
gewoon brunelletje (diminutive neuter)

Prunella vulgaris
Prunella vulgaris#Translingual


brunel

brunel f (plural brunellen, diminutive brunelletje n)

brunellen (plural)
brunelletje (diminutive neuter)

From Middle Dutch brunelle, from Latin prunella, brunella.

a prunella, selfheal; any plant of the genus Prunella


gomawiri

From Sranan Tongo agumawiwiri. Compare Jamaican English gouma (“Solanum americanum”), Bahamian English gooma-bush (“Solanum americanum”).

cog

(chiefly Suriname) Solanum americanum, the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable


mopé

From Sranan Tongo mope, from Kari'na mope.

Spondias mombin
Spondias mombin#Translingual

(chiefly Suriname) hog plum, Spondias mombin


wolfspoot

nl-noun

wolfspoot m (plural wolfspoten, diminutive wolfspootje n)

wolfspoten (plural)
wolfspootje (diminutive neuter)

From wolf (“wolf”) + -s- + poot (“leg”); the meaning is identical to that of the genus name Lycopus.


malrove

From Middle Dutch malrovie, marobie, marubie, from Latin marrubium.

Marrubium vulgare
Marrubium vulgare#Translingual


dagoeblad

By surface analysis, Sranan Tongo dagu (“dog”) + blad (“leaf”). Cognate of Sranan Tongo dagublat.

surf

Sranan Tongo <i class="Latn mention" lang="srn">dagu</i> (“dog”)

Ipomoea aquatica
Ipomoea aquatica#Translingual

(Suriname) water spinach, Ipomoea aquatica


gamander

nl-noun

gamander m (plural gamanders, diminutive gamandertje n)

gamanders (plural)
gamandertje (diminutive neuter)

From Middle Dutch gamander, gamandrea, from Medieval Latin gamandrea, earlier chamaedrys, from Ancient Greek χαμαίδρῡς (khamaídrūs).

a germander; any plant of genus Teucrium


lamsoor

lamsoor n (plural lamsoren, diminutive lamsoortje n)

lamsoren (plural)
lamsoortje (diminutive neuter)

sea aster, Tripolium pannonicum, particularly when eaten as a vegetable


watereppe

From water (“water”) + eppe (“celery”); both species are in the celery family (Apiaceae).

Sium latifolium
Sium latifolium#Translingual

either of two plant species of the celery family, Berula erecta or Sium latifolium


eppe

From Middle Dutch eppe (“celery or similar plant”), from Old Dutch *eppi, from Proto-West Germanic *api, from Latin apium.

inh

(dialectal) Synonym of selderij (“celery”)


moerasscherm

nl-noun

moerasscherm n (plural moerasschermen, diminutive moerasschermpje n)

moerasschermen (plural)
moerasschermpje (diminutive neuter)

From moeras (“swamp”) + scherm (“umbel”).

any plant of genus Apium (and some formerly of that genus), such as marshworts


kruipend moerasscherm

kruipend moerasscherm n (plural kruipende moerasschermen, diminutive kruipend moerasschermpje n)

kruipende moerasschermen (plural)
kruipend moerasschermpje (diminutive neuter)

creeping marshwort (Helosciadium repens syn. Apium repens)


nachtegaalskruid

From nachtegaal (“nightingale”) + -s- (“herb, plant”) + kruid.

af

(obsolete) Synonym of fluitenkruid (“cow parsley”)


madame-jeanette

nl-noun

madame-jeanette f (plural madame-jeanettes, diminutive madame-jeanetteje n)

madame-jeanettes (plural)
madame-jeanetteje (diminutive neuter)

Madame Jeanette, a variety of chili pepper from Suriname


guave

guave m (plural guaves or guaven, diminutive guavetje n)

guaves (plural)
guaven (plural)
guavetje (diminutive neuter)

Psidium guajava
Psidium guajava#Translingual