broccoli

See also: Broccoli

English

Broccoli

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

First attested in 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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɒk.ə.li/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɑ.kə.li/, /ˈbɹɑk.li/

  • Audio (US):

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɔk.ə.liː/, (nonstandard) /ˈbɹɔk.ə.lɑe/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɒk(ə)li/
  • (dialectal) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɒk(ə)lɪ/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈbrɔːk.(ə).liː/, /broˈkoː.liː/, /brɒˈkoː.liː/

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
• baby broccoli
• broccoflower
• broccoli cut
• broccoli hair
• broccoli haircut
• broccolilike
• broccolini
• broccoli raab
• broccoli rabe
• broccoli rape
• broccoloid
• Chinese broccoli
• superbroccoli

Related terms

• brocade

Descendants

• → Japanese: ブロッコリー (burokkorī)
• → Thai: บรอกโคลี (brɔ́k-koo-lîi)

Translations

plant Brassica oleracea var. italica

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

  Egyptian Arabic: بروكلي m pl (brukli)

  Hijazi Arabic: بروكلي m pl (brōkuli)

  Tunisian Arabic: برُوكلُو (brūklu)

• 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)

  Hokkien: 青花菜 (chheⁿ-hoe-chhài, chhiⁿ-hoe-chhài)

  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)

• Cornish: broklos pl
• 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 Greek: 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: broccoli (it) m, broccolo (it) m
• Japanese: ブロッコリー (ja) (burokkorī), 緑花野菜 (midorihanayasai), 芽花野菜 (mehanayasai)
• Korean: 브로콜리 (beurokolli)
• Latvian: brokoļi
• Lithuanian: brokolis
• Low German:

  East Frisian Low German: brokkoolii m

• Macedonian: брокола f (brokola), броколи pl (brokoli)
• Malay: brokoli
• Maltese: brokkola f
• Māori: puananī, porokari
• Marathi: ब्रॉकोली f (brŏkolī)
• Navajo: chʼilzooł, chʼil dootłʼizh
• Norman: brécolîn m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brokkoli m

  Nynorsk: brokkoli m

• Persian: کلم بروکلی
• Polish: brokuł (pl) m
• Portuguese: brócolis (pt) m pl
• Romanian: broccoli (ro) m pl
• Romansh: broccoli m
• Russian: бро́кколи (ru) f (brókkoli)
• Scottish Gaelic: brocail m, càl-broillein m
• Serbo-Croatian: brokula (sh) f
• Slovene: brokoli m
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: brokoli

• Spanish: brécol (es) m, bróculi (es) m, brócoli (es) m, brócol m, brócul m, bróquil m
• Swedish: broccoli (sv) c
• Tagalog: brokuli
• Thai: บรอกโคลี (brɔ́k-koo-lîi)
• Turkish: brokoli (tr), yeşil karnabahar

  Ottoman Turkish: قرنابیت (karnabit)

• Ukrainian: бро́колі f (brókoli)
• Vietnamese: bông cải xanh
• Volapük: sparagabrasid
• Welsh: brocoli m or pl
• Yiddish: בראָקאָלי m (brokoli)

Noun

broccoli

1. plural of broccolo

Further reading

• broccoli on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category: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

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian broccoli

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: broc‧co‧li

Noun

broccoli m (plural broccoli's, diminutive broccolietje n)

1. (chiefly uncountable) broccoli

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɔk.ko.li/

• Audio (IT):

  (file)

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

Noun

broccoli m

1. plural of broccolo

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Celtic *brokkos

Gaulish *brokkosbor.?

Latin broccus

Italian brocco

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -ulus

Italian -olo

Italian broccolo

Italian broccolibor.

Romanian broccoli

Borrowed from Italian broccoli.

Noun

broccoli m (uncountable)

1. broccoli

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	broccoli	broccoliul
genitive-dative	broccoli	broccoliului
vocative	broccoliule

Swedish

Noun

broccoli c

1. broccoli

Declension

Declension of broccoli

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	broccoli	broccolis
	definite	broccolin	broccolins
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

References

• “broccoli”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “broccoli”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)