Jerusalem artichoke

English

Plant with flowers (1)

Tubers (2)

Etymology

Uncertain, possible corruption of Italian girasole articiocco (“sunflower artichoke”), with girasole mistaken for the word Jerusalem via folk etymology.

Noun

Jerusalem artichoke (plural Jerusalem artichokes)

1. a variety of sunflower, Helianthus tuberosus, native to North America, having yellow flower heads and edible tubers
2. the tuber of this plant, eaten as a vegetable; the sunchoke

Synonyms

• ground pear
• (tuber): earthapple

Translations

plant and tuber

• Armenian: Գետնախնձոր (Getnaxnjor)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 菊芋 (zh) (júyù), (informal) 洋姜 (zh) (yángjiāng)

• Dutch: aardpeer (nl) m
• Esperanto: terpiro
• Finnish: maa-artisokka (fi), mukula-artisokka (fi)
• French: topinambour (fr) m
• German: Topinambur (de) m
• Greek: αγκινάρα της Ιερουσαλήμ f (agkinára tis Ierousalím)
• Icelandic: ætifífill m
• Irish: bliosán gréine m
• Italian: (plant and tuber) topinambur m
• Japanese: 菊芋 (きくいも, kikuimo)

• Korean: 뚱딴지 (ttungttanji)
• Macedonian: шалган m (šálgan), (tuber) зимско јаболко n (zímsko jábolko), (plant) кртолест сончоглед m (k'rtolest sónčogled)
• Mazanderani: یارم مستی‏‎ (yâra/em-mas(t)i)
• Norman: paithe dé tèrre f
• Ojibwe: askiibwaan
• Persian: سیب‌زمینی ترشی‏‎ (sib-zamini-ye torši), شلغم فرنگی‏‎ (šalğam-(e) farangi)
• Portuguese: tupinambor m, tupinambo m
• Romanian: topinambur (ro) m, nap (ro) m, nap-porcesc m
• Russian: топина́мбур (ru) m (topinámbur), земляна́я гру́ша f (zemljanája grúša)
• Spanish: topinambur
• Swedish: jordärtskocka (sv) c
• Turkish: yer elması (tr)
• Vietnamese: cúc vu

Further reading

• Jerusalem artichoke on Wikipedia.Wikipedia