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Haitian Creole: lay (from l’ail)

Mauritian Creole: lay (from l’ail)

Moore: lay (from l’ail)

Inherited from Old French, from Latin allium.


tomate

Haitian Creole: tomat

→ Hunsrik: Tomatt

→ Sedang: tơmat

Borrowed from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl.


rutabaga

Brassica napus
Brassica napus#Translingual

swede, rutabaga (yellow root of Brassica napus)


courgette

→ Dutch: courgette

→ English: courgette

→ Portuguese: curgete

From courge (“vegetable marrow, marrow squash”) + -ette.

af

courgette (UK), zucchini (Australia, Canada, US)


courge

Inherited from Old French cohourge, ultimately from Latin cucurbita, perhaps via Vulgar Latin *cucurbica. Doublet of gourde (from the form cohourde).

marrow (UK; vegetable), vegetable marrow (UK), marrow squash (US)


chou

fr-adj

chou (feminine choute, masculine plural choux, feminine plural choutes)

choute (feminine)
choux (masculine plural)
choutes (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French chous, from Latin caulis, itself akin to or derived from Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós).


artichaut

→ Vietnamese: atisô

Borrowed from Occitan artichaut, arquichaut, from Lombard articioch (cf. articiocco), from Old Spanish alcarchofa, from Andalusian Arabic الْخَرْشُوف (al-ḵaršūf), from Arabic الْخُرْشُوف (al-ḵuršūf).

der

Arabic الْخُرْشُوف (al-ḵuršūf)


endive

→ Iranian Persian: آنْدیوْ (ândiv)

Inherited from Middle French endive, endivie, andive, indivie, from Medieval Latin endivia or Italian indivia or endivia, suspected via Byzantine Greek ἐντύβιον (entúbion) from Latin intibus.

Une salade d’endive.

Cichorium intybus
Cichorium intybus#Translingual

(cooking) Belgian endive (edible chicory bud of Cichorium intybus)


oignon

desctree

Saint Dominican Creole French: z'oignon
Haitian Creole: zonyon

Seychellois Creole: zonyon

Inherited from Middle French oingnon, from Old French oignon, from Latin ūniōnem.


pomme de terre

fr-noun

pomme de terre f (plural pommes de terre)

→ German: Erdapfel (calque)

desc

→ Persian: سیب زمینی (sib-zamini) (calque)

→ Hebrew: תפוח אדמה (calque)

Literally, “apple of [the] earth”. The word pomme used to mean "fruit" in Old French. The French construction originated, as calques, Dutch aardappel, Icelandic jarðepli, Persian سیبزمینی (sib-zamini), Modern Hebrew תפוח אדמה (tapúakh adamá), the rare English earthapple, German Erdapfel, etc.

Solanum tuberosum
Solanum tuberosum#Translingual


aubergine

Haitian Creole: berejèn

→ Breton: berjinezenn

→ Danish: aubergine

→ Dutch: aubergine

→ English: aubergine
Bislama: obesin

→ German: Aubergine

→ Limburgish: oberzjien

→ Lower Sorbian: oberžina

→ Luxembourgish: Aubergine

→ Manx: auberjeen

→ Norman: aubèrginne

→ North Frisian: aubergine

→ Norwegian: aubergine

→ Occitan: aubergina

→ Picard: oubàrjine

→ Piedmontese: obergin-a

→ Polish: oberżyna

→ Romansch: oberschina

→ Scots: aubergine

→ Swedish: aubergin

→ Walloon: åberdjene

→ West Frisian: auberzjine

Borrowed from Catalan albergínia, from Arabic اَلْبَاذِنْجَان (al-bāḏinjān, “the eggplant”), from Classical Persian بَادِنْگَان (bādingān), from بَاتِنْگَان (bātingān), from Sanskrit वातिगगम (vātigagama, “eggplant”, literally “the plant that cures the wind”).

der

اَلْبَاذِنْجَان

(historical) a French female traffic warden (from the colour of their uniforms; more recently pervenche)


gourde

Inherited from Old French coorde, cohourde, with later voicing of initial c-, from Latin cucurbita. Doublet of courge (from the form cohourge). Compare English gourd.

(by extension) water bottle; flask; canteen (water bottle used by soldiers, camper etc.)


concombre

From Latin cucumerem, possibly through an Old Occitan intermediate cogombre or cocombre. Compare Occitan and Catalan cogombre.


carotte

Seychellois Creole: karot

Mauritian Creole: karot

→ Catalan: carrota

→ English: carotte

→ German: Karotte

→ Vietnamese: cà rốt

Borrowed from Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek κᾰρωτόν (kărōtón).


poireau

Haitian Creole: powo

From the form porreau (probably influenced by poire), from a diminutive of the Old French por (cf. poiree, poree, poret), from Latin porrum. Compare Norman pouothé and Walloon porea.

Allium ampeloprasum
Allium ampeloprasum#Translingual

Allium porrum
Allium porrum#Translingual

leek (Allium ampeloprasum, syn. Allium porrum)


panais

Haitian Creole: pane

Inherited from Old French pasnaie, from Latin pastinaca. Doublet of pastenague.


betterave

desc

→ Spanish: beterraga, betarraga, betabel, beterava


chou de Bruxelles

fr-noun

chou de Bruxelles m (plural choux de Bruxelles)

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potiron

Uncertain; perhaps of Semitic origin, such as Hebrew פִּטְרִיָּה (pitriyá, “mushroom”), Classical Syriac ܦܛܘܪܬܐ (peṭṭorta), Arabic فُطْر (fuṭr, “mushroom”). Or, related to Old French bot (“toad”), recalling the shape of a big mushroom. Or, from Middle French poistron, from Late Latin posteriōnem, from Latin posterus (“following, next”).


laitue

Inherited from Old French laitue, from Latin lactūca.


haricot

→ Sango: ariköo

In the sense 'stew', from Middle French haricot, a deverbal derivation of Old French harigoter (“to shred, slice up, slice into pieces”), from Frankish *hariōn (“to ruin, lay waste, ravage, plunder, destroy”), from Proto-Germanic *harjōną (“to plunder, lay waste, harry”). Cognate with Middle High German verheeren (“to harry”). More at harry.
In the sense 'bean', etymology uncertain. Influenced in form by the 'stew' word, if not originally identical to it; in that case possibly from Mexican Spanish ayacotli, ayacote, or possibly from Calicut.


haricot rouge

fr-noun

haricot rouge m (plural haricots rouges)


pomme d'amour

pomme d’ amour (canonical feminine)
pommes d’amour (plural)

→ English: love apple (calque)

Literally, “love apple”, referring for sense 2 to the supposed aphrodisiac qualities of tomato seeds. This origin is disputed, and it also suspected to be a corruption of Spanish poma de moros (literally “fruit of Moors”), which may also be the basis of the Italian pomo d'oro and the Sicilian puma d'amuri.


radis

→ Wolof: radi

Borrowed from Italian radice, from Latin rādīx (“root”).


navet

From Old French nef (“turnip”) + -et, from Latin nāpus.

Au secours, seigneurs, au secours ! venez à l’aide de mon seigneur, qui est engagé dans la plus formidable et la plus sanglante bataille que mes yeux aient jamais vue. Vive Dieu ! il a porté un tel revers au géant ennemi de madame la princesse Micomicona, qu’il lui a tranché la tête à rasibus des épaules, comme si c’eût été un navet.

1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXXV, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et Cⁱᵉ, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:

Help, good sirs, help! Come to the help of my master, who is engaged in the most formidable and the most bloody battle that my eyes have ever seen. By God! He delivered such a backhand to the giant enemy of the lady princess of Micomicona that he sliced off his head cleanly from the shoulders, as if it had been a turnip.

Brassica rapa
Brassica rapa#Translingual


chou-fleur

chou (“cabbage”) + fleur (“flower”). Compare Italian cavolfiore, English cauliflower.


ciboulette

→ Catalan: cibulet

Diminutive of ciboule, with the suffix -ette.


topinambour

→ German: Topinambur

→ Italian: topinambur

→ Portuguese: tupinambor, tupinambo

From earlier plural forms topinambaux or topinambaulx, from Old Tupi tupinambá, the name of a South American tribe where the plant was thought to have originated, 1650s.

Helianthus tuberosus
Helianthus tuberosus#Translingual

Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus)


brocoli

Borrowed from Italian broccoli, plural of broccolo, diminutive of brocco (“shoot, sprout”), from Latin broccus, of Gaulish origin.


échalote

échalotes (plural)
échalotte (alternative)

→ English: shallot

→ German: Schalotte
→ Romanian: șalotă

→ Portuguese: chalota

→ Spanish: chalote, chalota

Inherited from Middle French eschalote, alteration of Old French eschaloigne, from Classical Latin ascalonia (cēpa) (literally “onion of Ascalon”). Cf. also Medieval Latin scalongia, escalonia, modeled after the Old French.

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Allium cepa var. aggregatum
Allium cepa var. aggregatum


fève

Inherited from Old French feve, from Latin faba, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”). Cognate with Spanish haba, Italian fava.


brème

→ Portuguese: brema

Inherited from Old French braisme, from Frankish *brahsima (compare Dutch brasem), from West Germanic *brahsmō, from Proto-Germanic *brahsmǭ, *brahsinō, *brahsmaz (“bream”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *brehwanaz (“shining, glittery, sparkly”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerek- (“to shine”) (see English braid (verb)).

der

(ichthyology) bream (fish of the genus Abramis)


chou-rave

choux-raves (plural)
chou rave (alternative)

→ Vietnamese: su hào


ciboule

Inherited from Middle French ciboule, from Old French cibole, borrowed from Occitan cibola, itself from Late Latin cēpulla~caepulla, diminutive of Latin cēpa~caepa (“onion”), whence the inherited French cive (“chive”).

Allium fistulosum
Allium fistulosum#Translingual

scallion, spring onion (Allium fistulosum)


poivron

Capsicum annuum
Capsicum annuum#Translingual

sweet pepper, bell pepper (Capsicum annuum)


céleri

→ Czech: celer

→ Dutch: selderij (see there for further descendants)

→ English: celery

→ Korean: 셀러리 (selleori)

→ Welsh: seleri

→ Finnish: selleri

→ German: Sellerie
→ Estonian: seller

→ Hungarian: zeller

→ Icelandic: sellerí

→ Irish: soilire

→ Japanese: セロリ (serori)

→ Macedonian: целер (celer)

→ Norman: céléri

→ Norwegian: selleri

→ Polish: seler

→ Scottish Gaelic: soilire

→ Serbo-Croatian: celer / целер

→ Swedish: selleri

→ Vilamovian: seler

→ West Flemish: selder

→ Yiddish: סעלעריע (selerye)

Borrowed from Lombard selleri, plural form of seller, from Late Latin selīnon, from Ancient Greek σέλινον (sélinon, “celery”).


épinard

Probably borrowed from Medieval Latin spīnarchia, ultimately from Arabic إِسْفَانَاخ (ʔisfānāḵ), from Persian اسپناخ (espanâx).

uder

Arabic إِسْفَانَاخ (ʔisfānāḵ)

Spinacia oleracea
Spinacia oleracea#Translingual


tomatier

fr-adj

tomatier (feminine tomatière, masculine plural tomatiers, feminine plural tomatières)

tomatière (feminine)
tomatiers (masculine plural)
tomatières (feminine plural)


tomatier

fr-noun

tomatier m (plural tomatiers, feminine tomatière)


scarole

scaroles (plural)
escarole (alternative)

→ English: escarole

desc

→ German: Escarol, Eskarol, Escariol, Eskariol

Borrowed from Italian scarola, from Latin escāriola.


arracache

arracaches (plural)
arracacha (alternative)

Borrowed from Spanish arracacha, from Quechua raqacha.


douce-amère

Solanum dulcamara
Solanum dulcamara#Translingual

bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)


potimarron

Blend of potiron (“winter squash”) + marron (“chestnut”)

blend

Cucurbita maxima
Cucurbita maxima#Translingual

red kuri squash (cultivar of species Cucurbita maxima)


piment de Cayenne

fr-noun

piment de Cayenne m (plural piments de Cayenne)

Capsicum frutescens
Capsicum frutescens#Translingual


piment enragé

piment enragé m (plural piments enragés)


chou rouge

Coordinate term: chou vert


chou chinois

chou chinois m (usually uncountable, plural choux chinois)

Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis
Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis

bok choy (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis)

Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis
Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis

napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis)


poirée

Inherited from Old French poiree, from a variant of which also French poireau (“leek”).


ail des ours

ail des ours m (plural ails des ours or aulx des ours)

ails des ours (plural)
aulx des ours (plural)

Calque of Latin Allium ursinum (literally “bear garlic”).

calque

Allium ursinum
Allium ursinum#Translingual


ail sauvage

ramsons (Allium ursinum, a wild relative of chives)


chrysanthème comestible

fr-noun

chrysanthème comestible m (plural chrysanthèmes comestibles)

garland chrysanthemum
garland chrysanthemum

Glebionis coronaria
Glebionis coronaria#Translingual

(botany) garland chrysanthemum, chrysanthemum greens, edible chrysanthemum, crowndaisy chrysanthemum (Glebionis coronaria (L.) Cass.)


chrysanthème des jardins

chrysanthème des jardins m (plural chrysanthèmes des jardins)

(botany) Garland chrysanthemum, chrysanthemum greens, edible chrysanthemum, crowndaisy chrysanthemum (Glebionis coronaria (L.) Cass.)


rabiole

From a diminutive of Latin rāpum (“turnip”).


haricot d'Espagne

haricot d’Espagne m (plural haricots d’Espagne)

haricot d’ Espagne (canonical masculine)
haricots d’Espagne (plural)

Phaseolus coccineus
Phaseolus coccineus#Translingual


haricot de Lima

haricot de Lima m (plural haricots de Lima)

Phaseolus lunatus
Phaseolus lunatus#Translingual


haricot du Tonkin

haricot du Tonkin m (plural haricots du Tonkin)

(obsolete) Synonym of haricot de Lima (“lima bean”)


haricot de Baria

haricot de Baria m (plural haricots de Baria)


févi

Potentially related to Gun fevi (“okra”).


laitue romaine

laitue romaine f (plural laitues romaines)

desc

→ English: romaine lettuce (partial calque)


tabac marron

earleaf nightshade (Solanum mauritianum)