buckwheat

English

Buckwheat (plant)

Buckwheat groats

Etymology

From Middle Dutch boecweite or Middle Low German bōkwête (“beech-wheat”), compare German Buchweizen. Despite the name, buckwheat is not related to wheat, as it is not a grass.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌkwiːt/

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Noun

buckwheat (usually uncountable, plural buckwheats)

1. An Asian plant, of the species Fagopyrum esculentum.
2. (cooking) The fruit of this plant used as a pseudocereal.
3. (western US) Any of the wild buckwheats in the genus .

Derived terms

• buckwheat cake
• buckwheat coal

Translations

Fagopyrum esculentum plant

• Bashkir: ҡарабойҙай (qaraboyźay)
• Catalan: fajol m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蕎麥／荞麦 (kiu⁴ mak⁶), 荞麦 (kiu⁴ mak⁶)

  Mandarin: 蕎麥／荞麦 (zh) (qiáomài), 荞麦 (zh) (qiáomài)

• Finnish: viljatatar (fi), tattari (fi)
• French: sarrasin (fr) m
• Galician: trigo sarraceno m
• Georgian: წიწიბურა (c̣ic̣ibura)
• German: Buchweizen (de) m
• Hindi: कूटू (hi) m (kūṭū)
• Hungarian: hajdina (hu)
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• Italian: grano saraceno m
• Japanese: 蕎麦 (ja) (soba), ソバ (ja) (soba)
• Kalmyk: меерә (meerä)
• Korean: 메밀 (ko) (memil)
• Mongolian: сагаг (mn) (sagag), сагадай (mn) (sagadaj)
• Portuguese: trigo-mouro m, trigo-mourisco m, trigo-sarraceno (pt) m, fagópiro m
• Russian: гречи́ха (ru) f (grečíxa)
• Scottish Gaelic: cruithneachd-buidhe m
• Spanish: alforfón (es) m
• Swedish: bovete (sv) n
• Tagalog: hayang trigo

fruit of this plant as cereal

• Afrikaans: bokwiet (af)
• Arabic: حِنْطَة سَوْدَاء f (ḥinṭa sawdāʾ)
• Armenian: հնդկացորեն (hy) (hndkacʻoren)
• Azerbaijani: qarabaşaq yarması
• Bashkir: ҡарабойҙай (qaraboyźay)
• Belarusian: грэ́чка (be) f (hréčka)
• Bulgarian: елда f (elda)
• Catalan: gra de fajol m, blat sarraí m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蕎麥／荞麦 (kiu⁴ mak⁶), 荞麦 (kiu⁴ mak⁶)

  Mandarin: 蕎麥／荞麦 (zh) (qiáomài), 荞麦 (zh) (qiáomài)

• Czech: pohanka (cs) f
• Danish: boghvede c
• Dutch: boekweit (nl) f, beuktarwe m
• Esperanto: poligono
• Estonian: tatar
• Finnish: tattari (fi)
• French: blé sarrasin m, blé noir (fr) m, sarrasin (fr) m
• Gallo: bié naïr m
• Georgian: წიწიბურა (c̣ic̣ibura)
• German: Buchweizen (de) m
• Hebrew: כוסמת (he) f (kusémet)
• Hindi: कूटू (hi) (kūṭū)
• Hungarian: hajdina (hu)
• Icelandic: bókhveiti n, bæki (is) n
• Irish: ruán m
• Italian: grano saraceno m
• Japanese: 蕎麦 (ja) (そば, soba), ソバ (ja) (soba)
• Kalmyk: меерә (meerä)
• Kazakh: қарақұмық (qaraqūmyq)
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• Korean: 메밀 (ko) (memil)
• Latvian: griķi (lv) m pl
• Lithuanian: grikiai m pl
• Macedonian: елда f (elda)
• Manchu: ᠮᡝᡵᡝ (mere)
• Maori: witi paka
• Mongolian: сагаг (mn) (sagag), сагадай (mn) (sagadaj)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bokhvete

• Polish: gryka (pl) f
• Portuguese: trigo-mouro m, trigo-mourisco m, trigo-sarraceno (pt) m
• Romanian: hrișcă (ro) f
• Russian: гречи́ха (ru) f (grečíxa), гре́чка (ru) f (gréčka)
• Scottish Gaelic: cruithneachd-buidhe m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хељда f

  Roman: heljda (sh) f

• Sichuan Yi: ꈾ (mge)
• Slovak: pohánka (sk) f
• Slovene: ajda (sl) f
• Spanish: alforfón (es) m
• Swedish: bovete (sv) n
• Tibetan: རྒྱ་བྲ (rgya bra)
• Turkish: karabuğday (tr)
• Ukrainian: гре́чка f (hréčka)
• Uzbek: grechka, marjumak
• Vietnamese: lúa mạch, kiều mạch
• Welsh: gwenith yr haidd pl

plant of the genus Eriogonum — see wild buckwheat

Further reading

• buckwheat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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