broccoli

See also: Broccoli

English

broccoli

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɒ.kə.li/
• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɑ.kə.li/, /ˈbɹɑk.li/
• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɒ.kə.li/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

broccoli (plural broccolis or broccoli)

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

   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.

Derived terms

• broccoflower
• broccoloid

Related terms

• brocade

Translations

plant Brassica oleracea var. italica

• Arabic: بْرُكُولِي m (brukūlī)

  Egyptian Arabic: بروكلي m pl (brukli)

• Armenian: բրոկկոլի (brokkoli)
• Belarusian: бро́калі f (brókali)
• Bulgarian: броколи n (brokoli)
• Catalan: bròcoli m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 西蘭花／西兰花 (sai¹ laan⁴ faa¹), 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), 西兰花 (zh) (xīlánhuā), 西藍花／西蓝花 (xīlánhuā), 西蓝花 (xīlánhuā), 青花菜 (zh) (qīnghuācài), 綠菜花／绿菜花 (zh) (lǜcàihuā), 绿菜花 (zh) (lǜcàihuā), 綠花椰菜／绿花椰菜 (lǜhuāyēcài), 绿花椰菜 (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)
• French: brocoli (fr) m
• Galician: brócoli (gl) m
• Georgian: ბროკოლი (broḳoli)
• German: Broccoli (de) m, Brokkoli (de) m
• Greek: μπρόκολο (el) n (brókolo)

  Ancient: κραμβοσπάραγον n (krambospáragon)

• Greenlandic: broccolit
• Hebrew: בְּרוֹקוֹלִי (he) m (brókoli)
• Hindi: ब्रोकोली f (brokolī)
• Hungarian: brokkoli (hu)
• Icelandic: spergilkál n, brokkolí (is) n
• Italian: broccolo (it) m
• Japanese: ブロッコリ (ja) (burokkori), 緑花野菜 (midorihanayasai), 芽花野菜 (mehanayasai)
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• Korean: 브로콜리 (beurokolli)
• Latvian: brokoļi
• Lithuanian: brokolis
• Macedonian: брокола f (brokola), броколи pl (brokoli)
• Malay: brokoli
• Maltese: brokkola f
• 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)
• Ukrainian: бро́колі f (brókoli)
• Vietnamese: bông cải xanh
• Volapük: sparagabrasid

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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

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbrɔk.̚ko.li], /ˈbrɔkkoli/

• Audio (IT):

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Noun

broccoli m

1. plural of broccolo