legume

See also: légume

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French légume, from Latin legūmen (“bean”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪˈɡjuːm/, /ˈlɛɡjuːm/

Noun

legume (plural legumes)

1. The fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food.
2. Any of a large family (Fabaceae, syn. Leguminosae) of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees having fruits that are legumes or loments, bearing nodules on the roots that contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and including important food and forage plants (as peas, beans, or clovers).
3. A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea.

Derived terms

• leguminous

Translations

fruit or seed of leguminous plants

• Armenian: ընդավոր (hy) (əndavor)
• Basque: egoskari (eu), lekale (eu)
• Catalan: llegum (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 豆類 (zh), 豆类 (zh) (dòulèi), 莢果 (zh), 荚果 (zh) (jiáguǒ)

• Czech: luštěnina f
• Dutch: peul (nl) c, peulvrucht (nl) c
• Esperanto: guŝo (eo)
• Finnish: herne (fi), papu (fi)
• French: légume (fr), légumineuse (fr), gousse (fr) f
• Galician: legume m
• German: Hülsenfrucht (de) f
• Greek: όσπριο (el) n (ósprio)
• Icelandic: belgaldin n

• Ido: legumo (io)
• Khmer: សិម្ពិកូល​ (sempi’kool), សណ្ដែក (km) (sɑndaek)
• Marathi: शिंबीफल (śimbīphal), द्विदल धान्य (dvidal dhānya), शेंगा (śeṅgā), कायधान्य (kāyadhānya)
• Polish: strąk (pl) m
• Portuguese: legume (pt) m
• Russian: бобо́вый (ru) m (bobóvyj), стручко́вый (ru) m (stručkóvyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: махуна f

  Latin: mahuna (sh) f

• Spanish: legumbre (es) f
• Swedish: baljväxt
• Tagalog: tapladbunga
• Turkish: baklagil

member of Leguminosae family

• Finnish: hernekasvi (fi)
• Galician: legume m
• German: Leguminose f, Hülsenfrüchtler (de) m
• Hebrew: קִטְנִית‎‎ (he) f (kitnít)
• Hungarian: hüvelyes (hu)
• Khmer: សិម្ពិកូល​ (sempi’kool)
• Malay: merbau

• Polish: roślina strączkowa f
• Portuguese: leguminosa (pt) f
• Romanian: leguminoasă f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: махунарка f

  Latin: mahunarka f

Further reading

• legume on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• emulge

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Galician

Legumes

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese legume (Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin legūmen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leˈɣume̝/

Noun

legume m (plural legumes)

1. legume (the fruit or seed of leguminous plants (as peas or beans) used for food)
   • 1285, Miguel Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 1114:

     et darmos ende cada anno por vosso mayordomo, a que devemos a proveer mentre coller o pan et o vinno, meo de vinno et de noçes, de castanas, de peros, de legumia, et de çhousa, et de lino et de triigo, et de sirgo, et de gaado mayor et de cuba se o vendermos, et terça de çeveyra et de millio, et dorgio, et levarmolo todo por nos a a vossa grangia dAmbas Mestas

     and so we should give each year to your steward, whom we should provide as he is taking the bread and the wine, half of wine and of walnuts, of chestnuts, of peers, of legume, of the products of the garden, of flax, of wheat, of silk, of oxen, of sold wine; and a third of fodder, of millet, of barley; and we should deliver all of it at your farm of Ambas Mestas

   • 1291, E. Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 78:

     oyto fanegas de ligoyma entre fuas et eruellas

     eight fanegas of legume, both beans and peas

2. legume (leguminous plant)
3. legume (pod)
4. (by extension) other vegetables and greens which are consumed after cooking

Related terms

• legumia

References

• “legume” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “legum” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.

• “legume” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.

• “legume” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• “legume” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin legūmen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leˈɡu.me/

Noun

legume m (plural legumi)

1. peas, beans, lentils and similar pulses

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin legūmen.

Noun

legume m (plural legumes)

1. legume (fruits of leguminous plants)
2. (by extension) any vegetable

Synonyms

• (vegetable): verdura, hortaliça

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Romanian

Noun

legume f pl

1. plural of legumă