kohlrabi

See also: Kohlrabi

English

Kohlrabi

Alternative forms

• kohl rabi

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kohlrabi, from Kohl (“cabbage”) + Italian rape (“turnips”), from cavoli rape, the plural of cavolo rapa (“cole rape”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /koʊlˈɹɑb.i/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊlˈɹɑː.bi/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːbi
• Hyphenation: kohl‧ra‧bi

Noun

kohlrabi (countable and uncountable, plural kohlrabis or kohlrabies)

1. Brassica oleracea var. gongylodes, a variety of the cabbage, having a turnip-shaped edible stem.

   Synonym: (India, obsolete) nol-kole

Translations

cabbage variety

• Abkhaz: а-хәы́л (a-xʷə́l)
• Bulgarian: алабаш (bg) m (alabaš)
• Catalan: colrave f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 苤藍／苤蓝 (zh) (piělán), 撇藍／撇蓝 (piēlán), 擘藍／擘蓝 (bāilán), 大頭菜／大头菜 (zh) (dàtóucài)

• Czech: kedluben m
• Danish: glaskål c, knudekål c, glaskålrabi c, kålrabi c (dated, now refers mainly to rutabaga)
• Dutch: koolrabi (nl)
• Esperanto: tigobrasiko (eo)
• Faroese: knútakál n, glaskál n
• Finnish: kyssäkaali (fi), kaalirapi (fi)
• French: chou-rave (fr) m
• Georgian: კეჟერა (ḳežera), კოლრაბი (ḳolrabi)
• German: Kohlrabi (de) m
• Greek: γογγυλοκράμβη f (gongylokrámvi)
• Greenlandic: kålrabi
• Hungarian: karalábé (hu)
• Icelandic: hnúðkál n
• Italian: cavolo rapa m
• Japanese: コールラビ (kōrurabi)
• Korean: 콜라비 (kollabi)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: داشکەلەم (daşkelem)

• Lithuanian: kaliaropė f
• Macedonian: келера́ба f (kelerába)
• Maori: kararapi
• Mingrelian: ხული (xuli), კოლრაბი (ḳolrabi)
• Navajo: Béésh Bichʼahii beʼakétłʼóól dijoolí
• Norman: kohlrabi m
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Nynorsk: knutekål

• Polish: kalarepa (pl) f
• Portuguese: couve-rábano f
• Punjabi: ਗੰਢ ਗੋਭੀ f (gaṇḍh gobhī)
• Romanian: gulie (ro) f
• Romansch: colrava f
• Russian: кольра́би (ru) f (kolʹrábi)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: келераба f

  Roman: keleraba (sh) f

• Slovak: kaleráb m
• Slovene: koleraba f
• Spanish: colirrábano m
• Swedish: kålrabbi (sv) c, knutkål c
• Thai: กะหล่ำปม
• Turkish: yer lahanası, alabaş (tr)
• Vietnamese: su hào (vi)
• Volapük: kaulabrasid

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English kohlrabi.

Noun

kohlrabi m (uncountable)

1. (Jersey) kohlrabi