chickpea

See also: chick-pea

English

chickpea pods with chickpeas inside

Alternative forms

• chick pea

Etymology

From French pois chiche, from pois (“pea”) + chiche, from Latin cicer (“chickpea”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɪkˌpiː/
• Hyphenation: chick‧pea

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Noun

chickpea (plural chickpeas)

1. An annual Asian plant (Cicer arietinum) in the pea family, widely cultivated for the edible seeds in its short inflated pods.
2. A seed of this plant, often used as a food.

   Chickpea is valued for its nutritive seeds with high protein content.

Synonyms

• (plant): Bengal gram, garbanzo
• (seed): Bengal gram, garbanzo bean

Translations

plant

• Arabic: حُمُص‎‎ m pl (ḥumuṣ)

  Egyptian Arabic: حمص‎‎ m pl (ḥumuṣ)

  Moroccan Arabic: حمص‎‎ m pl (ḥəmməṣ)

• Armenian: սիսեռ (hy) (siseṙ)

  Old Armenian: սիսեռն (siseṙn)

• Aromanian: tseatsiri f, arivitclju n
• Assamese: বুট গছ (but gos)
• Asturian: garbanzu m
• Bulgarian: нахут m (nahut), леблебия f (leblebija)
• Catalan: cigronera f, (Algherese) ciuró (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鷹嘴豆 (zh), 鹰嘴豆 (zh) (yīngzuǐdòu)

• Crimean Tatar: nohut
• Czech: cizrna (cs) f
• Danish: kikært c
• Dutch: kikkererwt (nl) c
• Estonian: kikerhernes
• Finnish: kikherne (fi)
• French: pois chiche (fr)
• Friulian: piçûl m
• Galician: garavanzo (gl) m
• Gallurese: fasgiolu tundu
• Georgian: მუხუდო (muxudo)

• Greek: ρεβιθιά (el) f (revithiá)
• Hebrew: חומוס‎‎ (he) m (ḥumuṣ)
• Icelandic: kjúklingabaun f
• Ido: garbanzo (io)
• Irish: sicphiseánach m
• Italian: cece (it)
• Macedonian: леблебија f (leblebija), наут m (naut), слануток m (slanutok)
• Maltese: ċiċra f
• Portuguese: grão-de-bico (pt) m
• Romanian: năut (ro) m
• Russian: нут (ru) m (nut), туре́цкий горо́х m (turéckij goróx), наха́т m (naxát), хуму́с (ru) m (xumús), бара́ний горо́х m (baránij goróx)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: cìxiri

  Logudorese: basolu pittudu

• Sassarese: fasgiorutòndu
• Serbo-Croatian: slanutak (sh) m, сланутак m, leblebija (sh) f, леблебија f
• Spanish: garbanzo (es) m
• Swedish: kikärt (sv) c
• Tagalog: garbansos
• Turkish: nohut (tr)
• Venetian: cexarìna f, pixól
• Walloon: garvane (wa) f, poes d' souke (wa) m

seed

• Arabic: حُمُص‎‎ m pl (ḥumuṣ)

  Egyptian Arabic: حمص‎‎ m pl (ḥumuṣ)

  Moroccan Arabic: حمص‎‎ m pl (ḥəmməṣ)

• Armenian: սիսեռ (hy) (siseṙ)

  Old Armenian: սիսեռն (siseṙn)

• Aromanian: tseatsiri f, arivitclju n
• Assamese: বুট (but)
• Asturian: garbanzu m
• Basque: txitxirio, garbantzu
• Bulgarian: нахут m (nahut), леблебия f (leblebija)
• Burmese: ကုလားပဲ (my) (ku.la:pai:), ပဲခြမ်း (my) (pai:hkram:), ပဲဆန် (my) (pai:hcan)
• Catalan: cigró (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 雞心豆, 鸡心豆 (gai¹ sam¹ dau^6-2), 三角豆 (saam¹ gok³ dau^6-2)

  Mandarin: 鷹嘴豆 (zh), 鹰嘴豆 (zh) (yīngzuǐdòu)

• Czech: cizrna (cs) f
• Dalmatian: cič m
• Danish: kikært c, kikærter pl
• Dutch: kikkererwt (nl), keker (nl), kekererwt (nl), Spaanse erwt, kreukerwt
• Estonian: kikerhernes
• Faroese: kikertur m
• Finnish: kikherne (fi), kahviherne (fi)
• French: pois chiche (fr) m
• Galician: garavanzo (gl) m
• Gallurese: fasgiolu tundu
• Georgian: მუხუდო (muxudo)
• German: Kichererbse (de) f
• Greek: ρεβίθι (el) n (revíthi)

  Ancient: ἐρέβινθος m (erébinthos)

• Hungarian: csicseriborsó (hu)
• Icelandic: kjúklingabaun f
• Ido: garbanzo-semino
• Irish: sicphiseánach m
• Italian: cece (it) m

• Japanese: ヒヨコ豆 (ひよこまめ, hiyokomame)
• Korean: 병아리콩 (byeong-arikong)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: نۆک‎‎ (ku) (nok)

• Latin: cicer n
• Ligurian: çéixou m
• Macedonian: леблебија f (leblebija), наут m (naut), слануток m (slanutok)
• Maltese: ċiċra f, ċiċri pl
• Neapolitan: cìcero, cìcere pl
• Persian: نخود‎‎ (fa) (noxod), نخودچی‎‎ (noxodči)
• Portuguese: grão-de-bico (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਛੋਲਾ m (cholā)
• Romanian: năut (ro) m
• Romansch: chicra f
• Russian: нут (ru) m (nut)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: cìxiri

  Logudorese: basolu pittudu

• Sassarese: fasgiorutòndu
• Serbo-Croatian: slanutak (sh) m, сланутак m
• Sicilian: cìciru (scn) m, cìciri (scn) pl
• Slovak: cícer baraní m
• Slovene: čičerika f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: šćerica f

• Spanish: garbanzo (es) m
• Swedish: kikärt (sv)
• Tagalog: garbansos
• Telugu: సెనగలు (te) (senagalu)
• Turkish: nohut (tr)
• Vietnamese: đậu gà
• Walloon: garvane (wa) f, poes d' souke (wa) m
• Welsh: gwygbys f pl, ffacbys f pl

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Translations to be checked

• Albanian: ^{(please verify)} thirqe f

See also

• chickpea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cicer arietinum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Cicer arietinum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• peachick