fenugreek

English

Fenugreek seeds

Etymology

From Middle English fenygreke, fenegrek, from Old French fenugrec, fengrec, from Latin foenum (“hay”, variant of faenum) + graecum (“Greek”, neuter form of graecus), “Greek hay”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛnjʊˌɡɹiːk/, /ˈfɛnjəˌɡɹiːk/
• Hyphenation: fen‧u‧greek

Noun

fenugreek (usually uncountable, plural fenugreeks)

1. A leguminous plant, , eaten as a vegetable and with seeds used as a spice.
2. The seeds of this plant, used as a spice (especially in Indian and Thai cooking).

Synonyms

• methi

Translations

plant and vegetable

• Estonian: lambalääts
• Finnish: sarviapila (fi), rohtosarviapila (fi)
• French: fenugrec (fr)
• Greek:

  Ancient: τῆλις f (têlis)

• Latin: carphos m, telis f
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bukkehornkløver (no) m

• Persian: شنبلیله (fa) (šambalile)
• Swedish: bockhornsklöver c
• Turkish: çemenotu

spice

• Acehnese: haleuba
• Amharic: ኣብሽ (ʾabš)
• Arabic: حُلْبَة f (ḥulba)
• Armenian: հուլպա (hulpa), հացհամեմ (hy) (hacʻhamem)
• Bengali: মেথি (methi)
• Bihari: मेथी
• Bulgarian: сминдух m (sminduh)
• Catalan: frenigrec m, alfolba f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胡蘆巴／胡芦巴 (zh) (húlúbā), 胡芦巴 (zh) (húlúbā)

• Danish: bukkehorn
• Dhivehi: އޯބަތް (ōbat̊)
• Dutch: honingklaver (nl), fenegriek (nl)
• Estonian: lambalääts
• Finnish: sarviapila (fi), rohtosarviapila (fi)
• French: fenugrec (fr)
• Georgian: შამბალილა (šambalila), ულბო (ulbo)
• German: Bockshornklee (de) m
• Greek: τριγωνέλλα f (trigonélla), (colloquial) νυχάκι (el) n (nycháki)
• Gujarati: મેથી (methī)
• Hindi: मेथी (hi) (methī)
• Hungarian: görögszéna
• Indonesian: kelabat (id)
• Italian: trigonella f
• Japanese: フェヌグリーク (fenugurīku)
• Javanese: ꦏꦼꦭꦧꦠ꧀ (kelabat), ꦏ꧀ꦭꦧꦠ꧀ (klabat)
• Kannada: ಮೆಂತೆ (kn) (mente)
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• Korean: 호로파 (horopa)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: şembelîk (ku), xencelîsk (ku)

• Malay: halba
• Malayalam: ഉലുവ (ml) (uluva)
• Marathi: मेथी (methī)
• Nepali: मेथी (methī)
• Norwegian: bukkehornkløver (no)
• Oriya: ମେଥି (or) (methi)
• Persian: شنبلیله (fa) (šambalile)
• Portuguese: feno-grego m, alforba f, alfarva f
• Punjabi: ਮੇਥੀ (methī)
• Romanian: fenugrec (ro) m, fân grecesc n, schinduf (ro) m
• Russian: па́житник (ru) m (pážitnik), шамбала́ (ru) f (šambalá)
• Sanskrit: मेथिका (sa) (methikā)
• Sinhalese: උළුහාල් (uḷuhāl)
• Slovene: grško seno n
• Spanish: alholva f, fenogreco m
• Svan: შა̈მბლიკა̈ჲ (šämbliḳäy)
• Swahili: uwatu
• Swedish: bockhornsklöver c
• Tamil: வெந்தயம் (ta) (ventayam)
• Telugu: మెంతులు (te) (mentulu)
• Thai: ลูกซัด (lûuk-sát)
• Urdu: میتھی f (methī)

Further reading

• fenugreek on Wikipedia.Wikipedia