Brussels sprout

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Alternative forms

• brussel sprout US simplification

Etymology

Brussels sprouts

Recorded since 1748. Named after Brussels, the capital city of the duchy of Brabant and presently of Belgium. Sprout is from Old English -sprutan (in asprutan (“to sprout”); cognate with Old Saxon sprutan, Old Frisian spruta, Middle Dutch spruten, modern Dutch spruit (“sprout; Brussels sprout”), Old High German spriozan, German spreissen (“to sprout”), from the Proto-Germanic root *spreutanan, from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to strew”).

Noun

Brussels sprout (plural Brussels sprouts)

1. The green vegetable Brassica oleracea gemmifera, a cabbage native to Belgium.

   Brussels sprouts reach a length of 4 centimeters and resemble clusters of miniature cabbages.

Translations

vegetable

Danish: rosenkål (da) Dutch: spruit(je) sg., spruiten pl., usually in the diminutive plural form: spruitjes Finnish: ruusukaali (fi), brysselinkaali (fi) French: chou de Bruxelles (fr) m. German: Rosenkohl (de) m. Hungarian: kelbimbó (hu) Icelandic: rósakál (is) n. Italian: cavolino di Bruxelles (it) m., cavoletto di Bruxelles (it) m. Macedonian: прокељ (mk) (prókelj) m., бриселско зелје (mk) (bríselsko zélje) n., бриселски зелкички (mk) (bríselski zélkički) f. pl.

Maltese: kaboċċi żgħar, kaboċċi ta' Brussel Navajo: atʼééké bijish yázhí Norwegian: rosenkål (no) Portuguese: couve-de-bruxelas (pt) f. Romanian: varză de Bruxelles (ro) f. Russian: брюссельская капуста (ru) (br'uss'él'skaja kapústa) f. Spanish: col de Bruselas (es) f. Swedish: brysselkål (sv) c., rosenkål (sv) c. Volapük: sprotianabrasid (vo)

Usage notes

• rarely used in the singular.