artichoke

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lombard articiòc, alteration of arciciòf (possibly influenced by ciocco (“stump”)), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Spanish alcarchofa, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic الْخُرْشُوف (al-ḵuršūf, “artichoke”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹ.tɪˌtʃəʊk/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.tɪˌtʃəʊk/

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Noun

artichoke (plural artichokes)

1. A plant related to the thistle with enlarged flower heads eaten as a vegetable while immature.
2. A dull green colour, like that of an artichoke.

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Synonyms

• Cynara scolymus (the former taxonomic name)
• Cynara cardunculus (the currently accepted taxonomic name, which also includes cardoons)

Related terms

• artichoke heart
• Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus)
• globe artichoke

Translations

vegetable

• Afrikaans: artisjok
• Albanian: angjinarja
• Amharic: ከርቹፍ (kärčuf), ኀርቹፍ (ḫärčuf)
• Arabic: خُرْشُوف m (ḵuršūf), خُرْشُوفَة f (ḵuršūfa) (singulative), أَرْضِي شَوْكِي m (ʾarḍī šawkī, ʾarḍī šōkī)

  Egyptian Arabic: خرشوف m pl (ḵaršūf), خرشوفة f (ḵaršūfa) (singulative)

  Hijazi Arabic: خَرْشوف m pl (ḵaršūf)

  Moroccan Arabic: خرشف (ḵuršuf), قنارية (qannāriya)

  Tunisian Arabic: ڨنّاريّة f (gennariya)

• Armenian: կանկառ (hy) (kankaṙ)
• Asturian: alcachofa f
• Azerbaijani: artişok, ənginar
• Basque: orburu
• Belarusian: артышо́к m (artyšók)
• Bengali: হাতিচোক (haticōk)
• Bulgarian: артишо́к m (artišók)
• Burmese: ပဲပိုးတီ (my) (pai:pui:ti)
• Catalan: carxofera (ca) f (plant), carxofa (ca) (flower)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 洋薊／洋蓟 (zh) (yángjì), 洋蓟 (zh) (yángjì), 朝鮮薊／朝鲜蓟 (cháoxiǎnjì), 朝鲜蓟 (cháoxiǎnjì), 洋百合 (yángbǎihé), 法國百合／法国百合 (Fǎguó bǎihé), 法国百合 (fǎguó bǎihé)

• Czech: artyčok (cs) m
• Danish: artiskok
• Dutch: artisjok (nl) m
• Esperanto: artiŝoko
• Estonian: artišokk
• Faroese: artiskokkur m
• Finnish: latva-artisokka (fi), artisokka (fi)
• French: artichaut (fr) m
• Galician: alcachofra (gl) f, herba tioura f, herba punteira f
• Georgian: არტიშოკი (arṭišoḳi)
• German: Artischocke (de) f
• Greek: αγκινάρα (el) f (agkinára)

  Ancient: σκόλυμος m (skólumos), κινάρα f (kinára), κᾰ́κτος m (káktos)

• Hebrew: אַרְטִישׁוֹק (he) m (artishók), קִנְרֵס m (kinrés), חֻרְשָׁף (he) m (khursháf)
• Hindi: आटिचोक (āṭicok), हाथीचक (hi) (hāthīcak)
• Hungarian: articsóka (hu)
• Icelandic: ætiþistill m
• Ido: artichoko (io)
• Interlingue:
• Irish: bliosán m
• Italian: carciofo (it) m
• Japanese: アーティチョーク (ja) (ātichōku), 朝鮮薊 (ja) (ちょうせんあざみ, Chōsen azami) (Korean thistle)
• Kazakh: бөрікгүл (börıkgül), артишок (artişok)
• Korean: 아티초크 (atichokeu)
• Kyrgyz: артишок (ky) (artişok)
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• Latin: carduus m
• Latvian: artišoks m
• Ligurian: articiòcca f
• Lithuanian: artišokas m
• Macedonian: артичо́ка m (artičóka)
• Malay: articok
• Maltese: qaqoċċa f
• Maori: atihoka
• Navajo: azeeʼ hókániitsoh daadánígíí
• Norman: artichaut vèrt m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: artisjokk (no) m, artiskokk m

  Nynorsk: artisjokk m, artiskokk m

• Occitan: carchòfa (oc) f
• Pennsylvania German: Aerdabbel
• Persian: کنگر فرنگی (kangar-e-farangi), آرتیشو (fa) (ârtišo), انگنار (fa) (angenâr)
• Polish: karczoch (pl) m
• Portuguese: alcachofra (pt) f, alcachofra hortense f
• Romanian: anghinare (ro) f
• Romansch: artischocca f
• Russian: артишо́к (ru) m (artišók)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: артичока f

  Roman: artičoka (sh) f

• Sicilian: cacocciùlu (scn) m, cacocciùla (scn) f, caccioffula f
• Slovak: artičoka (sk) f
• Slovene: artičoka (sl) f
• Spanish: alcachofa (es) f, alcaucil (es) m (Argentina, Southern Spain)
• Swedish: kronärtskocka (sv)
• Tagalog: alkatsopa
• Tajik: анганор (anganor)
• Thai: อาติโช๊ค
• Turkish: enginar (tr)
• Turkmen: artişok
• Ukrainian: артишо́к (uk) m (artyšók)
• Urdu: اٹچوک (āṭicok)
• Uzbek: artishok
• Venetian: articioco m, articiòco (vec) m, articiòch (vec) m
• Vietnamese: atisô
• Volapük: tijod (vo), (older term) tijep
• Welsh: artisiog
• Yiddish: אַרטישאָק m (artishok)

References

• Michael Quinion (2004) “Artichoke”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, →ISBN.