carrot

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Carrots

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Etymology

Middle French carotte, from Latin carota.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛɹət/, /ˈkæɹət/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹət/

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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, orange, sweet root, Daucus carota in the family Apiaceae.
2. A shade of orange similar to the flesh of carrots.

   carrot colour:

3. A motivational tool.

Derived terms

• carrot and stick
• carrot bag
• carrot cake
• carrot cruncher
• carrot top
• carrotless
• carrotlike
• carroty

Translations

orange root vegetable

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Afrikaans: wortel
• Albanian: karotë f
• Alviri-Vidari: (Vidari) گزر (gazer)
• Arabic: جزر m (jázar)

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

  Moroccan Arabic: خيزو m (xīzzo)

• Armenian: գազար (gazar), ստեպղին (stepłin)
• Asturian: cenahoria f, zanahoria
• Avar: ламадур (lamadur)
• Azeri: kök (az), yerkökü
• Baluchi: گزرک (gizirk, gazirk)
• Bashkir: кишер (kišer)
• Basque: azenario (eu)
• Belarusian: мо́рква f (mórkva)
• Bengali: গাজর (gājar)
• Bulgarian: мо́рков (bg) m (mórkov)
• Burmese: မုန်လာဥဝါ (my) (munlau.wa)
• Catalan: pastanaga (ca) f
• Chechen: жӏонка (žʿonka)
• Chinese:

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

• Chuvash: кишĕр (kišĕr)
• Crimean Tatar: markof
• Czech: mrkev (cs) f
• Danish: gulerod c
• Dongxiang: tuma
• Dutch: wortel (nl) m, peen (nl) m
• Esperanto: karoto (eo)
• Estonian: porgand (et)
• Faroese: gularót f
• Fijian: kareti (fj)
• Finnish: porkkana (fi)
• French: carotte (fr) f
• Galician: cenoria (gl)
• Georgian: სტაფილო (stap’ilo)
• German: Möhre (de) f, Mohrrübe (de) f, Karotte (de) f

  Alemannic German: Rüebli n

• Greek: καρότο (el) n (karóto)
• Hebrew: גזר (he) m (gezer)
• Hindi: गाजर m (gājar), गज़र m (gazar)
• Hungarian: sárgarépa (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)
• Kalmyk: шар луувң (şar luuvñ)
• Kannada: ಕ್ಯಾರೇಟು (kn) (kyārēṭu)
• Karachay-Balkar: быхы (bıxı)
• Kazakh: сәбіз (säbiz)
• Khmer: ការ៉ុត (kaarot)
• Korean: 당근 (ko) (danggeun)
• Kumyk: чыта (çıta)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: gêzer (ku)

  Sorani: گوێزه‌ر

• Kyrgyz: сабиз (sabiz)
• Lao: ຫົວກາລົດ (lo) (hūa kā lot)
• Latin: carota f, daucum n

• Latvian: burkāns (lv) m
• Lithuanian: morka (lt) f
• Luganda: kalati
• Luhya: please add this translation if you can
• Luxembourgish: Muert f, Wuerzel f
• Macedonian: морков m (morkov)
• Malay: wortel, karot, lobak merah
• Maltese: zunnarija f, karrota f
• Maori: kāreti
• Marathi: गाजर (gājar)
• Mongolian: шар лууван (šar luuvan)
• Navajo: chąąshtʼezhiitsoh
• Neapolitan: pastenaca
• Northern Sami: rušpi
• Norwegian: gulrot c
• Ojibwe: okaadaakoons, okaadaak
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: мръкꙑ (mrŭky)

• Ossetian:

  (Digor): ӕпхӕ (æpxæ)

  (Iron): уырыдзы (wyryʒy)

• Persian: هویج (fa) (havij), گزر (fa) (gazar)
• Polish: marchewka (pl) f, marchew (pl) f
• Portuguese: cenoura (pt) f
• 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) морква (ru) f (morkvá, mórkva)
• Scottish Gaelic: curran m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мрква f, шаргарепа f

  Roman: mrkva (sh) f, šargarepa f

• Slovak: mrkva f
• Slovene: korenje (sl) n, korenček m inan
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: marchwej

  Upper Sorbian: morchej

• Sotho: sehwete (st)
• Southern Altai: моркоп (morqop)
• Spanish: zanahoria (es) f
• Swahili: ^{(please verify)} karoti class 9/10
• Swedish: morot (sv) c
• Tagalog: karot
• Tajik: сабзӣ (tg) (sabzī), бехӣ (bexī)
• Tamil: காரட் (ta) (kāraṭ)
• Tatar: кишер (tt) (kişer)
• Telugu: కారెట్ (kāreṭ)
• Thai: แครอท (kaerôt)
• Turkish: havuç (tr)
• Turkmen: käşir
• Tuvan: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: мо́рква f (mórkva)
• Urdu: گاجر m (gājar), گزر m (gazar)
• Uyghur: سەۋزە (sewze)
• Uzbek: sabzi
• Vietnamese: cà rốt (vi), ca rốt
• Walloon: raecene (wa) f, carote f
• Welsh: moron (cy)
• West Frisian: woartel (fy) c
• Yakut: моркуоп (morkuop)
• Yiddish: מייער (meyer), מער f (mer)

References

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

See also

• Queen Anne's lace

Anagrams

• trocar