garlic chive

English

Flowering garlic chives.

Noun

garlic chive (plural garlic chives)

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

Synonyms

• Chinese chives

Translations

plant

• Assamese: গন্ধনা (gondhona)
• Bengali: চিভ (cibh)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 韭菜 (gau² coi³)

  Hakka: 快菜 (khoai-chhoi)

  Mandarin: 韭菜 (zh) (jiǔcài)

  Min Nan: 韭菜 (kú-chhài)

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• Japanese: ニラ (nira), 韮 (ja) (nira), 韭 (ja) (nira), にら (ja) (nira)
• Korean: 부추 (ko) (buchu)
• Manipuri: ꯃꯔꯣꯏ ꯅꯥꯀꯨꯞꯄꯤ (maroʼi naakooppee)
• Russian: джуса́й m (džusáj)
• Swedish: kinesisk gräslök c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: hẹ (vi)
• Zhuang: byaekgap

used in cooking

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 韭菜 (gau² coi³)

  Hakka: 快菜 (khoai-chhoi)

  Mandarin: 韭菜 (zh) (jiǔcài)

  Min Nan: 韭菜 (kú-chhài)

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• Japanese: ニラ (nira), 韮 (ja) (nira)
• Russian: джуса́й m (džusáj)
• Swedish: kinesisk gräslök c
• Thai: กุยช่าย (th) (gui-châai)
• Zhuang: byaekgap

References

• “garlic chive”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.