carrot

English

Carrots

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle French carotte, from Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek καρῶτον (karôton). Doublet of carotte. Displaced native more, from Old English moru.

• Noun sense of "motivational tool" refers to carrot and stick.
• Verb sense in felt manufacture refers to the orange colour of drying furs.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹ.ət/, /ˈkɛɹ.ət/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹ.ət/

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• Rhymes: -æɹət
• Homophones: caret, karat, carat
• Hyphenation: car‧rot

Noun

carrot (countable and uncountable, plural carrots)

1. A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, especially the subspecies sativus in the family Apiaceae.
2. A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots.

   carrot colour:  

3. Any motivational tool.

Derived terms

Terms derived from carrot

• baby carrot
• Camberwell carrot
• carrot and stick

• carrot bag
• carrot cake
• carrot cruncher

• carrotless
• carrotlike
• carrot top

• carroty
• stick and carrot

Translations

Daucus carota ssp. sativus

• Abkhaz: ажьаҷыркәа (āž̍āč̣̍ərḳ°ā)
• Adyghe: пхъы (pχə)
• Afrikaans: wortel
• Alabama: assikchi laana
• Albanian: karotë (sq) f
• Alviri-Vidari: (Vidari) گزر‎‎ (gazer)
• Amharic: ካሮት (karot)
• Arabic: جَزَر‎‎ m (jazar)

  Egyptian Arabic: جزرة‎‎ f (gazara), جزر‎‎ m (gazar)

  Hijazi Arabic: جُزَر‎‎ m (juzar)

  Libyan Arabic: سفناري‎‎ m (sfənnāri), سفنارية‎‎ m (sfənnāriyya)

  Moroccan Arabic: خيزو‎‎ m (xīzzo)

• Aragonese: azanoria f
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܓܙܪܐ‎‎ m (gezzārā)

• Arapaho: yeneinit
• Armenian: գազար (hy) (gazar), ստեպղին (hy) (stepłin)
• Aromanian: morcuvu m
• Assamese: গাজৰ (gazor)
• Asturian: cenahoria f, zanahoria f
• Avar: ламадур (lamadur)
• Azerbaijani: kök (az), yerkökü
• Baluchi: گزرک‎‎ (gizirk, gazirk)
• Bashkir: кишер (kišer)
• Basque: azenario (eu)
• Belarusian: мо́рква f (mórkva)
• Bengali: গাজর (bn) (gajôr)
• Bhojpuri: गाजर m (gājar)
• Breton: karotezenn (br) f
• Bulgarian: мо́рков (bg) m (mórkov)
• Burmese: မုန်လာဥဝါ (my) (munlau.wa)
• Buryat: морхооб (morxoob)
• Catalan: pastanaga (ca) f, carota (ca) f
• Cebuano: sanahorya
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⴰⴼⴻⵙⵏⴰⵅⵜ f (tafesnaxt)
• Central Dusun: lubak
• Chechen: жӏонка (žʿonka)
• Cherokee: ᎠᏓᎵᏥᏍᏗᏍᎩ (adalitsisdisgi)
• Cheyenne: anonévee'tose
• Chichewa: kaloti class 1a/2
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 紅蘿蔔, 红萝卜 (hung⁴ lo⁴ baak⁶), 胡蘿蔔, 胡萝卜 (wu⁴ lo⁴ baak⁶)

  Mandarin: 紅蘿蔔 (zh), 红萝卜 (zh) (hóngluóbo), 胡蘿蔔 (zh), 胡萝卜 (zh) (húluóbo)

  Min Nan: 紅菜頭 (zh-min-nan), 红菜头 (âng-chhài-thâu), 紅蘿蔔, 红萝卜 (âng-lâ-pa̍k), 紅蘿蔔仔, 红萝卜仔 (âng-lo̍k-po̍k-á), 番蘿蔔, 番萝卜 (hoan-lô͘-po̍k), 蘿蔔, 萝卜 (nâ-po̍k), 山蘿蔔, 山萝卜 (soaⁿ-lô-po̍k), 蘿蔔菜, 萝卜菜 (lâ-pa̍k-chhài), lîn-jín, ji̋n-jín, li̋n-jím, li̋n-chín, li̋n-jín, jîn-jîn

• Chuvash: кишĕр (kišĕr)
• Classical Nahuatl: Caxtīllān camohtli
• Cornish: karetys f
• Cree: ᐅᐢᑳᑖᐢᐠ (oskaataask)
• Crimean Tatar: markof
• Czech: mrkev (cs) f
• Dakota: phąǧí
• Danish: gulerod (da) c
• Dargwa: набадари (nabadari)
• Dhivehi: ކެރެޓް‎‎ (kereṭ)
• Dongxiang: tuma
• Dutch: wortel (nl) m, peen (nl) m
• Erzya: пурька (purʹka)
• Esperanto: karoto (eo)
• Estonian: porgand (et)
• Evenki: моркопка (morkopka)
• Faroese: gularót f
• Fijian: kareti (fj)
• Finnish: porkkana (fi)
• French: carotte (fr) f
• Friulian: caròtule f
• Galician: cenoria (gl) f
• Georgian: სტაფილო (sṭapilo)
• German: Möhre (de) f, Mohrrübe (de) f, Karotte (de) f, Rüebli n (Swiss), gelbe Rübe (de) f (regional)

  Alemannic German: Rüebli n

  Pennsylvania German: Gehlrieb f

• Greek: καρότο (el) n (karóto)

  Ancient Greek: καρῶτον n (karôton). Koine: καρωτόν n (karōtón)

• Greenlandic: kuloruuju, musaq
• Gujarati: ગાજર (gu) m, n (gājar)
• Haitian Creole: karòt
• Hebrew: גזר‎‎ (he) m (gezer)
• Hindi: गाजर (hi) m (gājar), गज़र m (gazar)
• Hungarian: sárgarépa (hu), répa (hu)
• Icelandic: gulrót (is) f
• Ido: karoto (io)
• Indonesian: wortel (id)
• Interlingue: carotte
• Irish: cairéad m, meacan dearg m
• Italian: carota (it) f
• Japanese: ニンジン (ninjin), 人参 (ja) (にんじん, ninjin)
• Kabardian: пхъы (pχə)
• Kabuverdianu: sinóra
• Kalmyk: шар луувң (şar luuvñ), марку (marku)
• Kannada: ಕ್ಯಾರೇಟು (kn) (kyārēṭu)
• Karachay-Balkar: быхы (bıxı)
• Karakalpak: geshir
• Kashmiri: गाज़्रुर f (gāzürü)
• Kazakh: сәбіз (kk) (säbiz)
• Khasi: kajor m
• Khmer: ការ៉ុត (kaarot)
• Komi-Permyak: гӧрдкушман (gördkušman)
• Korean: 당근 (ko) (danggeun)
• Kumyk: чыта (çıta), къызыл чыта (qızıl çıta)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: gêzer (ku) f

  Sorani: گوێزه‌ر‎‎ (gwêzer)

• Kyrgyz: сабиз (ky) (sabiz), зардек (ky) (zardek)
• Ladino: safanórya f
• Lak: къур (q̄ur)
• Lao: ຫົວກາລົດ (lo) (hūa kā lot)
• Latin: carōta f, daucum n
• Latvian: burkāns m
• Leonese: acenoria f

• Lezgi: газар (gazar)
• Ligurian: caròttoa f
• Limburgish: moeër f, moer (li) m
• Lithuanian: morka (lt) f
• Lombard: caròtola f
• Low German: Wortel f
• Luganda: kalati
• Luhya: please add this translation if you can
• Luxembourgish: Muert f, Wuerzel f
• Macedonian: морков m (morkov)
• Maithili: गाजर (gājar)
• Malagasy: karaoty (mg), karoty (mg)
• Malay: wortel, karot, lobak merah
• Malayalam: ശീമമുള്ളങ്കിച്ചെടി (śīmamuḷḷaṅkicceṭi)
• Maltese: zunnarija f, karrota f
• Manx: carradje m
• Maori: kāreti
• Marathi: गाजर n (gājar)
• Mazanderani: گزر‎‎ (gazer)
• Mi'kmaq: enmapejit
• Moksha: пурьхкя (purʹxkja)
• Mongolian: шар лууван (šar luuvan), лууван (mn) (luuvan)
• Navajo: chąąshtʼezhiitsoh
• Neapolitan: pastenaca
• Nogai: пыхы (pıxı)
• Norman: cârotte f
• North Frisian: wochel
• Northern Sami: rušpi
• Norwegian: gulrot c
• Occitan: pastenaga (oc) f, carròta (oc) f
• Ojibwe: okaadaakoons, okaadaak
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: мръкꙑ (mrŭky)

• Oriya: ଗର୍ଜର (or) (gôrjôrô)
• Ossetian:

  (Digor): ӕпхӕ (æpxæ)

  (Iron): уырыдзы (wyryʒy)

• Papiamentu: karòt
• Persian: هویج‎‎ (fa) (havij), گزر‎‎ (fa) (gazar), زردک‎‎ (fa) (zardak) (Dari)
• Picard: càrote f
• Polish: marchewka (pl) f, marchew (pl) f
• Portuguese: cenoura (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਗਾਜਰ f (gājara)
• Quechua: sanawrya
• Romanian: morcov (ro) m, carotă (ro) f
• Romansch: risch melna f, rischmelna f, carotta f, riebla f, ragisch cotschna f, carota f
• Russian: морко́вь (ru) f (morkóvʹ), (colloquial) морко́вка (ru) f (morkóvka), (regional) морква́ (ru) f (morkvá), мо́рква (ru) f (mórkva)
• Rwanda-Rundi: ikaroti class 9/6
• Samoan: taloti
• Sanskrit: गाजरम् (sa) n (gājaram), गृञ्जनकम् n (gṛñjanakam)
• Sardinian: fostinaja m, frustinaca f
• Scottish Gaelic: curran m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мрква f, шаргарепа f

  Roman: mrkva (sh) f, šargarepa (sh) f

• Shor: марқоп (marqop)
• Sicilian: carota (scn) f
• Sindhi: گَجَرَ‎‎ f (gājara)
• Slovak: mrkva (sk) f
• Slovene: korenje (sl) n, korenček m inan, mŕkev f (Eastern)
• Somali: dabacase m, karooto f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: marchwej f

  Upper Sorbian: morchej f

• Sotho: sehwete (st) class 9/10
• Southern Altai: моркоп (morqop)
• Spanish: zanahoria (es) f
• Swahili: karoti class 9/10
• Swedish: morot (sv) c
• Tabasaran: кьучӏ (q̇uč̣)
• Tachawit: xizzu
• Tagalog: asanorya, asinorya, karot
• Tajik: сабзӣ (tg) (sabzī), бехӣ (bexī)
• Tamil: காரட் (ta) (kāraṭ)
• Tatar: кишер (tt) (kişer)
• Telugu: కారెట్ (kāreṭ)
• Thai: แครอท (kɛɛ-rɔ̀t), แคร์รอต (th) (kɛɛ-rɔ̀t)
• Tibetan: ལ་ཕུག་དམར་པོ (la phug dmar po)
• Tigrinya: ካሮቲ (karoti)
• Tiwi: rani f
• Tofa: моърһооқ (moʺrhooq)
• Tswana: segwete
• Turkish: havuç (tr)
• Turkmen: käşir
• Tuvan: please add this translation if you can
• Udi: кӏаьзаьр (ḳäzär)
• Udmurt: ӵужкушман (čužkušman)
• Ukrainian: мо́рква f (mórkva)
• Urdu: گاجر‎‎ m (gājar), گزر‎‎ m (gazar)
• Uyghur: سەۋزە‎‎ (sewze)
• Uzbek: sabzi (uz)
• Venetian: cavaƚón m
• Vietnamese: cà rốt (vi), ca rốt
• Vilamovian: mien f
• Volapük: dauk (vo)
• Võro: põrgnas
• Walloon: raecene (wa) f, carote f
• Wappo: síṭukh
• Waray-Waray: karot
• Welsh: moronen (cy) f, moron (cy) f pl
• West Frisian: woartel (fy) c
• Wolof: karoot
• Xhosa: umnqathe class 3/4
• Yakut: моркуоп (morkuop)
• Yiddish: מייער‎‎ (meyer), מער‎‎ f (mer)
• Zhuang: lauxbaeghoengz
• Zulu: ikhalothi (zu) class 5/6

shade

• Finnish: porkkananpunainen, porkkanankeltainen

• Greek: καροτί (el) (karotí)

motivational tool

• Danish: gulerod (da) c

• Finnish: porkkana (fi)

See also

• Queen Anne's lace

References

• carrot in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Verb

carrot (third-person singular simple present carrots, present participle carroting, simple past and past participle carroted)

1. (transitive) To treat (an animal pelt) with a solution of mercuric nitrate as part of felt manufacture.

Anagrams

• trocar