Kichererbse

German

Etymology

From Kicher (“chickpea”), from Middle High German kicher, from Old High German kihhira, + Erbse (“pea”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɪçɐˌɛrpsə/
• Hyphenation: Ki‧cher‧erb‧se

• Audio

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Noun

Kichererbse f (genitive Kichererbse, plural Kichererbsen)

1. chickpea (Cicer arietinum)

Declension

Declension of Kichererbse [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Kichererbse	die	Kichererbsen
genitive	einer	der	Kichererbse	der	Kichererbsen
dative	einer	der	Kichererbse	den	Kichererbsen
accusative	eine	die	Kichererbse	die	Kichererbsen

Further reading

• “Kichererbse” in Duden online
• “Kichererbse” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Kichererbse on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Kichererbse”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 367