garlic chive

English

Flowering garlic chives.

Pronunciation

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Noun

garlic chive (plural garlic chives)

1. A plant, Allium tuberosum, with long, thin, white-flowering stalks, related to chives.
2. (in the plural) The garlic-flavoured leaves of this plant used as a vegetable in cooking.

Synonyms

• Chinese chive

Translations

plant

• Assamese: গন্ধনা (gondhona)
• Bengali: চিভ (cibh)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: cibulet de la Xina m, porradell de la Xina m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 韭菜 (gau² coi³)

  Hakka: 快菜 (khoai-chhoi)

  Hokkien: 韭菜 (kú-chhài)

  Mandarin: 韭菜 (zh) (jiǔcài)

• Dutch: Chinese bieslook (nl) m
• Finnish: kiinansipuli
• German: Knoblauch-Schnittlauch m, Schnittknoblauch m, Knolau m (colloquial)
• Japanese: 韮 (ja) (nira), 韭 (ja) (nira)
• Khmer: គូឆាយ (km) (kuuchaay)
• Korean: 부추 (ko) (buchu), 전구지 (jeon'guji) (Gyeongsang), 소풀 (sopul) (Jeolla)
• Manipuri: ꯃꯔꯣꯢ ꯅꯥꯀꯨꯞꯄꯤ (maroi nākuppi)
• Russian: джуса́й m (džusáj)
• Spanish: cuchay m
• Swedish: kinesisk gräslök c
• Tagalog: kutsay
• Thai: กุยช่าย (th) (gui-châai)
• Vietnamese: hẹ (vi)
• Zhuang: byaekgap

used in cooking

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 韭菜 (gau² coi³)

  Hakka: 快菜 (khoai-chhoi)

  Hokkien: 韭菜 (kú-chhài)

  Mandarin: 韭菜 (zh) (jiǔcài)

• Finnish: kiinansipuli
• Japanese: ニラ (nira), 韮 (ja) (nira)
• Khmer: គូឆាយ (km) (kuuchaay)
• Russian: джуса́й m (džusáj)
• Spanish: cuchay m
• Swedish: kinesisk gräslök c
• Tagalog: kutsay
• Thai: กุยช่าย (th) (gui-châai)
• Zhuang: byaekgap

Further reading

• “garlic chive”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Allium tuberosum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia