broccoli

See also: Broccoli

English

broccoli

Alternative forms

• broccolo (rare)
• brocoli (archaic)
• brockely (obsolete)

Etymology

1699, Italian broccoli, plural of broccolo (“cabbage sprout, head”), diminutive of brocco (“shoot, sprout”) (which is also the origin of brocade), from Latin broccus (“pointed, sharp, projecting; buck-toothed”), possibly of Gaulish origin, related to Proto-Celtic *brokkos (“badger”) or Proto-Celtic *brozdos (“tip, point”) (compare Scottish Gaelic brog (“pointed instrument, awl”), Welsh procio (“thrust, poke”), Old English brord (“point, spike”)). More at brochure, brad.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɒ.kə.li/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɑ.kə.li/, /ˈbɹɑk.li/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɒ.kə.li/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

broccoli (countable and uncountable, plural broccolis or broccoli)

1. A plant, Brassica oleracea var. italica, of the cabbage family, Brassicaceae; especially, the tree-shaped flower and stalk that are eaten as a vegetable.

   Hypernym: crucifer

   Hyponym: (UK) Calabrese

   • 2010, Sven Wombwell, Allotment Gardening For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons (→ISBN), Growing Oriental Leaf Vegetables:

     You can also get oriental broccolis such as kailaan and nabana, which are easy to grow and really tasty.

   • 2013, Anselm Anyoha, MD, How Broccoli-Head Lost Thirty Pounds: A Handbook for Healthy Living, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 83:

     Examples of leafy vegetables are broccoli, spinach, celery, and chicory.

2. (US, slang) Marijuana.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana

   • 2014, “Kodak Black”, in Heart Of The Projects, performed by Skrilla:

     I be smokin' broccoli, mama told me eat my veggies

   • 2017, “T-Shirt”, in Culture, performed by Migos:

     All I want is cottage, roll a cigar full of broccoli

Derived terms

• Aztec broccoli
• broccoflower
• broccolilike
• broccoli raab
• broccoli rabe
• broccoli rape
• broccoloid
• Chinese broccoli

 

Related terms

• brocade

Descendants

• → Japanese: ブロッコリー (burokkorī)

Translations

plant Brassica oleracea var. italica

• Arabic: بْرُكُولِي‎ m (brukūlī), بْرُوكُلِي‎ m (brūkulī)

  Egyptian Arabic: بروكلي‎ m pl (brukli)

  Hijazi Arabic: بروكلي‎ m pl (brōkuli)

• Aragonese: bróquil m
• Armenian: բրոկկոլի (brokkoli)
• Belarusian: бро́калі f (brókali)
• Bulgarian: бро́коли pl (brókoli)
• Catalan: bròcoli m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 西蘭花／西兰花 (sai¹ laan⁴ fa¹), 百加利 (baak³ gaa¹ lei⁶)

  Hakka: 青花菜 (chhiâng-fâ-chhoi)

  Mandarin: 西蘭花／西兰花 (zh) (xīlánhuā), 西藍花／西蓝花 (xīlánhuā), 青花菜 (zh) (qīnghuācài), 綠菜花／绿菜花 (zh) (lǜcàihuā), 綠花椰菜／绿花椰菜 (zh) (lǜhuāyēcài, lǜhuāyécài)

  Min Nan: 青花菜 (chheⁿ-hoe-chhài, chhiⁿ-hoe-chhài)

• Czech: brokolice (cs) f
• Danish: broccoli c
• Dutch: broccoli (nl) m
• Esperanto: brokolo (eo)
• Estonian: spargelkapsas, asparkapsas, brokoli
• Faroese: brokkoli n
• Finnish: parsakaali (fi), brokkoli (fi)
• French: brocoli (fr) m
• Galician: brócoli (gl) m
• Georgian: ბროკოლი (broḳoli)
• German: Brokkoli (de) m
• Greek: μπρόκολο (el) n (brókolo)

  Ancient: κραμβοσπάραγον n (krambospáragon)

• Greenlandic: broccolit
• Hebrew: בְּרוֹקוֹלִי‎ (he) m (brókoli)
• Hindi: ब्रोकोली f (brokolī), हरी गोभी (harī gobhī)
• Hungarian: brokkoli (hu)
• Icelandic: spergilkál n, brokkolí (is) n
• Indonesian: brokoli (id)
• Irish: brocailí m
• Italian: broccolo (it) m
• Japanese: ブロッコリ (ja) (burokkori), 緑花野菜 (midorihanayasai), 芽花野菜 (mehanayasai)
• Korean: 브로콜리 (beurokolli)
• Latvian: brokoļi
• Lithuanian: brokolis
• Macedonian: брокола f (brokola), броколи pl (brokoli)
• Malay: brokoli
• Maltese: brokkola f
• Maori: puananī, porokari
• Navajo: chʼilzooł, chʼil dootłʼizh
• Norman: brécolîn m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brokkoli m

  Nynorsk: brokkoli m

• Persian: کلم بروکلی‎
• Polish: brokuł (pl) m
• Portuguese: brócolis m pl
• Romanian: broccoli (ro) m pl
• Romansch: broccoli m
• Russian: бро́кколи (ru) f (brókkoli)
• Serbo-Croatian: brokula (sh) f
• Slovene: brokoli m
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: brokoli

• Spanish: brécol (es) m, bróculi (es) m, brócoli (es) m
• Swedish: broccoli (sv) c
• Tagalog: brokuli
• Thai: บรอกโคลี (brɔ́k-koo-lîi)
• Turkish: brokoli (tr), yeşil karnabahar
• Ukrainian: бро́колі f (brókoli)
• Vietnamese: bông cải xanh
• Volapük: sparagabrasid

Noun

broccoli

1. plural of broccolo

Further reading

• broccoli on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• broccoli on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Danish

Etymology

From the plural of Italian broccolo.

Noun

broccoli c (singular definite broccolien, plural indefinite broccoli)

1. broccoli

Inflection

Declension of broccoli

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	broccoli	broccolien	broccoli	broccoliene
genitive	broccolis	broccoliens	broccolis	broccolienes

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɔk.ko.li/

• Audio (IT)

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• Rhymes: -ɔkkoli
• Hyphenation: bròc‧co‧li

Noun

broccoli m

1. plural of broccolo

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian broccoli.

Noun

broccoli m (uncountable)

1. broccoli

Declension

declension of broccoli (singular only)

	singular
m gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) broccoli	broccoliul
genitive/dative	(unui) broccoli	broccoliului
vocative	broccoliule

Swedish

Noun

broccoli c

1. broccoli

Declension

Declension of broccoli
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	broccoli	broccolin	—	—
Genitive	broccolis	broccolins	—	—

References

• broccoli in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• broccoli in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)