fenugreek

English

Etymology

Wikipedia

From Latin foenum (“hay”) (variant of faenum) + Graecum (“Greek”) (neuter form of Graecus), “Greek hay”.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈfɛnjʊˌɡriːk], [ˈfɛnjəˌɡriːk]

Noun

Fenugreek seeds

fenugreek (usually uncountable; plural fenugreeks)

1. A spice made from the seeds of Trigonella foenum-graecum, used in Indian and Thai cooking.

Translations

spice

• Bulgarian: сминдух (bg) (sminduh) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胡蘆巴 (cmn), 胡芦巴 (cmn) (húlúbā)

• Danish: bukkehorn (da)
• Dutch: honingklaver (nl), fenegriek (nl)
• Finnish: sarviapila (fi), rohtosarviapila (fi)
• French: fenugrec (fr)
• German: Bockshornklee (de) m
• Greek: τριγωνέλλα (el) (trigonélla) f, (colloquial) νυχάκι (el) (nycháki) n
• Hindi: मेथी (hi)
• Hungarian: görögszéna (hu)

• Italian: trigonella (it) f
• Malay: halba (ms)
• Norwegian: bukkehornkløver (no)
• Persian: شنبلیله (fa) (shanbelile)
• Romanian: fenugrec (ro) m, fân grecesc (ro) n, schinduf (ro) m
• Russian: па́житник (ru) (pážitnik) m, шамбала́ (ru) (šambalá) f
• Slovene: grško seno (sl) n
• Spanish: alholva (es) f, fenogreco (es) m
• Swedish: bockhornsklöver (sv) c
• Tamil: வெந்தயம் (ta) (ventiyam)