chard

See also: Chard

English

chard (Beta vulgaris)

Etymology

From earlier card (remodelled after chardoon, obsolete form of cardoon), from Middle French carde, from Latin carduus (“thistle”). Doublet of cardoon.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑːd/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑɹd/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d

Noun

chard (countable and uncountable, plural chards)

1. (uncountable, cooking) An edible leafy vegetable, Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla, with a slightly bitter taste.
2. (cooking) Artichoke leaves and shoots, blanched to eat.

Synonyms

• (leafy vegetable): mangold, silverbeet, Swiss chard

Derived terms

• rainbow chard
• Swiss chard

Translations

Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla

• Arabic: سِلْق‎ m (silq)

  Moroccan Arabic: سلق‎ (silq)

• Aragonese: berza, (Benasquese dialect) blleda
• Asturian: acelga (ast) f
• Basque: zerba
• Bulgarian: цвекло (bg) n (cveklo)
• Catalan: bleda (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 豬乸菜／猪乸菜 (zyu¹ naa² coi³)

  Mandarin: 莙薘菜／莙荙菜 (zh) (jūndácài), 莙薘菜／莙荙菜 (zh) (tǐngdácài), 葉用甜菜／叶用甜菜 (yèyòngtiáncài), 牛皮菜 (zh) (niúpícài), 豬乸菜／猪乸菜 (zh) (zhūnǎcài)

• Corsican: geia, bietula
• Czech: mangold (cs)
• Danish: bladbede
• Dutch: snijbiet (nl)
• Esperanto: folibeto
• Finnish: lehtimangoldi, mangoldi, lehtijuurikas
• French: poirée (fr) f, blette (fr) f, bette (fr) f, jotte (fr) f
• Galician: lampaza f, celga f, encelga f, bleda (gl) f
• German: Mangold (de) m
• Greek: σέσκουλο (el) n (séskoulo)
• Hungarian: mángold (hu)
• Irish: biatas bán
• Italian: bietola (it) f, bieta f
• Japanese: フダンソウ (fudansō), 不断草 (ふだんそう, fudansō), スイスチャード (Suisuchādo)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سِڵق‎ (sillq), گەڵاچەوەندەر‎ (gellaçewender)

  Northern Kurdish: dîw (ku), silka biyanî

• Ladino: pazi
• Maltese: ġidra f
• Maori: rau pīti, korare
• North Frisian: mangold, bleedbeeten
• Norwegian: bladbete c
• Picard: biéte, ghote, pòrèie
• Polish: boćwina (pl) f, botwina f
• Portuguese: acelga (pt) f, celga (pt) f
• Romanian: mangold m, sfeclă furajeră (ro) f, sfeclă elvețiană f
• Russian: манго́льд (ru) m (mangólʹd), свёкла (ru) f (svjókla)
• Serbo-Croatian: blitva (sh) f
• Slovene: blitva f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: mangold m

  Upper Sorbian: burak

• Spanish: acelga (es) f
• Swedish: mangold (sv) c
• Turkish: pazı (tr)

blanched artichoke leaves and shoots

• Chinese:

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• Finnish: kaltattu artisokka
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Further reading

• chard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• D.Arch., archd., hard c

Middle English

Etymology

Representing colloquial pronunciation. See ch-.

Verb

chard

1. I heard.