garlic

English

Garlic bulbs.

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• garlicke (archaic)

Etymology

From the Old English gārlēac, from gār (“spear”, in reference to the cloves) + lēac (“leek”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɡɑːlɪk/, X-SAMPA: /gA:lIk/
• (US) enPR: gärˈlĭk, IPA: /ˈɡɑɹlɪk/, X-SAMPA: /"gA:rlIk/

• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)lɪk

Noun

garlic (countable and uncountable; plural garlics)

1. A plant, Allium sativum, related to the onion), having a pungent bulbous root much used in cooking.
   • 2013 March 1, David S. Senchina, “Athletics and Herbal Supplements”, American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, page 134: 

     Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.

Derived terms

Terms derived from the noun garlic

bear's garlic black garlic broadleaf garlic, broad-leaved garlic Canadian garlic clove of garlic, garlic clove crow garlic daffodil garlic elephant garlic false garlic field garlic garlic bread garlic chive garlicky

garlic crusher garlic-germander garlic mustard garlic-pear, garlic-peartree garlic press garlic root garlic-sage garlic salt garlic sausage garlic toad garlic treaclewort garlic-tree garlic-wort

golden garlic hedge garlic hog's garlic meadow garlic Naples garlic Neapolitan garlic Oriental garlic peelgarlic, pilgarlick pilled-garlic stag's garlic white garlic wild garlic wood garlic

Related terms

• leek

Translations

plant

• Afrikaans: knoffel (af)
• Akkadian: 𒋧 (šūmū)
• Alabama: kosòoma
• Albanian: hudhër (sq) m
• Amharic: ነጭ ሽንኩርት (am) (näč̣ šənkurt)
• Arabic: ثوم (ar) (ṯūm) m, ثُومَة (ar) (ṯūma) f (singulative)

  Egyptian Arabic: توم (tawm) m

• Armenian: սխտոր (hy) (sxtor)
• Azeri: sarımsaq (az)
• Bashkir: һарымһаҡ (harımhaq)
• Basque: baratxuri (eu)
• Belarusian: часнык (be) (časnýk) m
• Bengali: রসুন (bn) (rôsun)
• Breton: kignen (br) m
• Bulgarian: чесън (bg) (čésǎn) m, чеснов лук (bg) (česnóv luk) m
• Burmese: ကြက်သွန်ဖြူ (my) (kje'thun bju׃)
• Campidanese Sardinian: allu
• Catalan: all (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蒜頭, 蒜头 (sūen.tau)

  Mandarin: 大蒜 (cmn) (dàsuàn), 蒜頭 (cmn), 蒜头 (cmn) (suàntóu)

• Chuvash: ыхра (ıxra)
• Czech: česnek (cs) m
• Dalmatian: ail
• Danish: hvidløg (da) n
• Dutch: knoflook (nl) m and f
• Esperanto: ajlo (eo)
• Estonian: küüslauk (et)
• Faroese: hvítleykur (fo) f
• Finnish: valkosipuli (fi)
• Flemish: look (vls) m
• French: ail (fr) m
• Gagauz: sarmısak
• Galician: allo (gl)
• Georgian: ნიორი (ka) (niori)
• German: Knoblauch (de) m
• Goguryeo: 買尸 (maesi)
• Greek:

  Ancient: σκόρδον (skórdon) n

  Modern: σκόρδο (el) (skórdo) n

• Gujarati: લસણ (gu) (lasaṇ)
• Hausa: àlbásà mai go (ha)
• Hebrew: שום (he) (shum) m
• Hindi: लहसुन (hi) (lahsun) m
• Hungarian: fokhagyma (hu)
• Icelandic: hvítlaukur (is)
• Ido: alio (io)
• Indonesian: bawang putih (id)
• Interlingua: allio (ia)
• Irish: gairleog (ga) f
• Italian: aglio (it) m
• Japanese: 大蒜 (ja) (にんにく, ninnikú), ニンニク (ja) (ninnikú)
• Javanese: bawang (jv)
• Jèrriais: ail m
• Kalmyk: сәрмсг (särmsg)
• Kannada: ಬೆಳ್ಳುಳ್ಳಿ (kn) (beḷḷuḷḷi)
• Karachay-Balkar: сарсмакъ (sarsmaq), сарымсах (sarımsax)
• Karakalpak: sarımsaq
• Kazakh: сарымсақ (kk) (sarımsaq)
• Khmer: ខ្ទឹមស (km) (ktɨm sɑɑ)

• Korean: 마늘 (ko) (maneul)
• Kumyk: самурсакъ (samursaq)
• Kurdish: sîr (ku) f, سیر (ku)
• Kyrgyz: сарымсак (ky) (sarımsaq)
• Lao: ຜັກທຽມ (lo) (phak-thiam)
• Latin: allium (la) n
• Latvian: ķiploks (lv) m
• Lithuanian: česnakas (lt) m
• Macedonian: лук (mk) (luk) m
• Malay: bawang putih (ms)
• Malayalam: വെളുത്തുള്ളി (ml) (veḷuttuḷḷi)
• Maltese: tewm (mt) m
• Marathi: लसूण (mr) (lasūṇ)
• Megleno-Romanian: al' n
• Mongolian: сармис (mn) (sarmis)
• Navajo: tłʼohchin díchʼííʼí
• Neapolitan: àglio (nap)
• Nepali: लसुन (ne) (lasun)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hvitløk (no) m

  Nynorsk: kvitlauk (nn) m

• Occitan: alh (oc) m
• Papiamentu: konofló
• Persian: سیر (fa) (sir)
• Piedmontese: ai (pms)
• Polish: czosnek (pl) m
• Portuguese: alho (pt) m
• Quechua: ananisikim (qu)
• Rajasthani: लसण (lasaṇ)
• Romanian: usturoi (ro) m, ai (ro)
• Russian: чеснок (ru) (česnók) m
• Sanskrit: लशुन (sa) (laśuna) n
• Scottish Gaelic: creamh (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чешњак (sh) m, бели лук (sh) m, бијели лук (sh) m

  Roman: češnjak (sh) m, beli luk (sh) m, bijeli luk (sh) m

• Sicilian: agghiu (scn) m
• Sinhalese: සුදු ලූනු (si) (sudu lūnu)
• Slovak: cesnak (sk) m
• Slovene: česen (sl) m
• Somali: toon (so)
• Spanish: ajo (es) m
• Swahili: kitunguu saumu (sw), somu (sw), thumu (sw)
• Swedish: vitlök (sv) c
• Tagalog: bawang (tl)
• Tajik: сир (tg) (sir)
• Tamil: பூண்டு (ta) (pūṇṭu)
• Tatar: сарымсак (tt) (sarımsaq)
• Telugu: వెల్లుల్లి (te) (vellulli)
• Thai: กระเทียม (th) (grà-tiam)
• Turkish: sarımsak (tr)
• Turkmen: sarymsak (tk)
• Ukrainian: часник (uk) (časnýk) m
• Urdu: لہسن (ur) (lahsun) m
• Uzbek: sarimsoq (uz)
• Vietnamese: tỏi (vi)
• Vilamovian: knöwłoch
• Volapük: läl (vo)
• West Frisian: knyflok (fy) n
• Yakut: чочунаах (çoçunaax)
• Yiddish: קנאָבל (yi) (knobl)

See also

• alliaceous
• ramp, ramson

External links

• Garlic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Garlic on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons