English
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 sprießen (“to sprout”), from Proto-Germanic *spreutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to strew”).
Noun
Brussels sprout (plural Brussels sprouts)
- The green vegetable Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template., a cabbage variety native to Belgium.
- Brussels sprouts reach a length of 4 centimeters and resemble clusters of miniature cabbages.
Translations
vegetable
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: col de Brussel·les f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 球芽甘藍／球芽甘蓝, 球芽甘蓝 (qiúyá gānlán), 抱子甘藍／抱子甘蓝 (zh), 抱子甘蓝 (zh) (bào zǐ gānlán), 芽甘藍／芽甘蓝, 芽甘蓝 (yágānlán)
- Czech: růžičková kapusta f
- Danish: rosenkål c
- Dutch: spruit (nl) sg, spruiten (nl) pl, usually in the diminutive plural form: spruitje (nl), spruitkool (nl)
- Esperanto: burĝonbrasiko (eo)
- Estonian: rooskapsas, brüsseli kapsas
- Finnish: ruusukaali (fi), brysselinkaali (fi)
- French: chou de Bruxelles (fr) m
- Galician: col de Bruxelas (gl) f
- Georgian: ბრიუსელის კომბოსტო (briuselis ḳombosṭo)
- German: Rosenkohl (de) m, Sprossen (de) pl or f (in Austria)
- Greek: λάχανο βρυξελλών n (láchano vryxellón)
- Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: kelbimbó (hu)
- Icelandic: rósakál n
- Irish: bachlóg (ga) f, bachlóg Bhruiséile f
- Italian: cavolino di Bruxelles m, cavoletto di Bruxelles m
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- Japanese: 芽キャベツ (me-kyabetsu), コモチカンラン (komochikanran), 子持ち甘藍 (こもちかんらん, komochikanran)
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: briuselio kopūstas
- Macedonian: прокељ m (prokelj), бриселско зелје n (briselsko zelje), бриселски зелкички f pl (briselski zelkički)
- Maltese: kaboċċi żgħar, kaboċċi ta’ Brussel
- Maori: aonanī
- Navajo: atʼééké bijish yázhí
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: rosenkål m
- Nynorsk: rosenkål m
- Polish: brukselka (pl) f
- Portuguese: couve-de-bruxelas (pt) f
- Romanian: varză de Bruxelles (ro) f
- Russian: брюссе́льская капу́ста f (brjussélʹskaja kapústa)
- Slovene: brstični ohrovt (sl) m
- Spanish: col de Bruselas f
- Swedish: brysselkål (sv) c, rosenkål (sv) c
- Tagalog: usbong ng Bruselas
- Thai: กะหล่ำดาว (gà-làm-daao), กะหล่ำหัวลำต้น
- Turkish: Brüksel lahanası (tr)
- Volapük: sprotianabrasid (vo)
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Usage notes
- rarely used in the singular.
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