parsley

See also: Parsley

English

Etymology

From Middle English persely, from Old French peresil, from Latin petroselīnum, from Ancient Greek πετροσέλῑνον (petrosélīnon, “parsley”), from πέτρος (pétros, “rock, stone”) + σέλῑνον (sélīnon, “celery”). Displaced Old English petersiliġe, which goes back to the same root.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑː(ɹ)sli/

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Noun

parsley (usually uncountable, plural parsleys)

1. (countable, uncountable) A bright green, biennial herb, Petroselinum crispum, having many cultivars.
2. (uncountable) The leaves of this plant used in Middle Eastern, European, and American cooking.

Derived terms

terms derived from parsley

• bastard parsley (Caucalis)
• beaked parsley (Anthriscus cerefolium)
• black parsley (Thapsia decipiens)
• bur parsley (Caucalis)
• Chinese parsley (Coriandrum sativum)
• common parsley (Petroselinum crispum)
• corn parsley (Carum segetum)
• cow parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris)
• flat-leaved parsley (Petroselinum crispum Neapolitanum Group)
• fool's parsley (Aethusa cynapium)
• French parsley (Anthriscus cerefolium)
• garden parsley (Petroselinum crispum)
• hedge parsley (Torilis spp.)
• hemlock parsley (Conioselinum)
• horse parsley (Smyrnium olusatrum)
• Italian parsley (Petroselinum crispum Neapolitanum Group)
• milk parsley (Peucedanum palustre)
• milk parsley (Peucedanum palustre)
• parsley fern (Cryptogramma crispa)
• parsley frog (Pelodytes spp.)
• parsley haw (Crataegus marshallii)
• parsley piert (Aphanes arvensis and Scleranthus spp.)
• root parsley (Petroselinum crispum Radicosum Group)
• square parsley (Carum heterophyllum)
• stone parsley (Sison amomum and Seseli libanotis)

 

Translations

plant Petroselinum crispum

• Albanian: majdanoz (sq)
• Arabic: مَقْدُونِس‎ m (maqdūnis), بَقْدُونِس‎ m (baqdūnis), مَعْدُونِس‎ m (maʿdūnis)

  Egyptian Arabic: بقدونس‎ m (baʿdūnis)

  Gulf Arabic: بَقْدُونِس‎ m (bɐqdunɪs)

  Iraqi Arabic: كرفس‎ m (krafus)

  Hijazi Arabic: بَقْدونِس‎ m (bagdūnis)

  Moroccan Arabic: معدنوس‎ m (mʕadnūs)

• Armenian: մաղադանոս (hy) (maładanos), կարոս (hy) (karos), ազատքեղ (hy) (azatkʿeł)
• Azerbaijani: cəfəri (az)
• Basque: perrexil (eu)
• Belarusian: пятру́шка f (pjatrúška)
• Bulgarian: магдано́з (bg) m (magdanóz)
• Catalan: julivert (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 番茜 (faan¹ sai¹)

  Mandarin: 歐芹 (zh), 欧芹 (zh) (ōuqín), 荷蘭芹 (zh), 荷兰芹 (zh) (hélánqín), 香菜 (zh) (xiāngcài)

• Crimean Tatar: mağdanoz
• Czech: petržel (cs) f, petrželka f
• Danish: persille (da) c
• Dutch: peterselie (nl)
• Esperanto: petroselo
• Estonian: petersell
• Finnish: persilja (fi)
• French: persil (fr) m
• Friulian: persembul m
• Galician: perexil (gl) m, pirixel (gl) m
• Georgian: ოხრახუში (oxraxuši)
• German: Petersilie (de) f
• Greek: μαϊντανός (el) m (maïntanós), πετροσέλινο (el) n (petrosélino)

  Ancient: πετροσέλινον n (petrosélinon)

• Hebrew: פֶּטְרוֹזִילְיָה‎ (he) f (petrozílya)
• Hungarian: petrezselyem (hu)
• Hunsrik: Petersilje f
• Icelandic: steinselja
• Indonesian: peterseli (id)
• Irish: peirsil f
• Italian: prezzemolo (it) m
• Japanese: パセリ (ja) (paseri)
• Kashubian: piotrëszka f
• Kazakh: ақжелкен (aqjelken), ақжелек (aqjelek)
• Korean: 파슬리 (ko) (paseulli)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: جافری‎ (cafrî), مەعدەنووس‎ (me'denûs)

  Northern Kurdish: bextenîz

• Kyrgyz: петрушка (petruşqa)

• Ladino: maydanoz, pirishil
• Latin: petroselinum n or petroselinon n
• Latvian: pētersīlis m
• Lithuanian: petražolė f
• Macedonian: ма́гдонос m (mágdonos)
• Malay: pasli
• Maltese: tursin
• Maori: pāhiri
• Middle English: persely
• Mongolian: яншуй (mn) (yanshuy)
• Neapolitan: petrosino m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: persille (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: persille m or f

• Occitan: jolverd (oc) m
• Old English: petersiliġe f
• Persian: جعفری‎ (fa) (ja'fari), شومخ‎ (šūmax)
• Plautdietsch: Peetasselj f
• Polish: pietruszka (pl) f
• Portuguese: salsa (pt) f, salsinha (pt)
• Quechua: q'umir qhura
• Romanian: pătrunjel (ro) m
• Romansch: peterschigl m
• Russian: петру́шка (ru) f (petrúška)
• Sardinian: pedrusìmula, padrusímula, pedrusèmini, perdusèmene, pedrusímulu
• Scottish Gaelic: pairseil f, pearsal m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: першин m, першун m

  Roman: peršin (sh) m, peršun (sh) m

• Sicilian: pitrusinu (scn) m, puḍḍisinu m
• Slovak: petržlen m
• Slovene: peteršilj (sl) m
• Spanish: perejil (es) m
• Swedish: persilja (sv)
• Tagalog: perehil
• Tajik: ҷаъфарӣ (jaʾfarī)
• Turkish: maydanoz (tr)
• Turkmen: petruşka
• Ukrainian: петру́шка (uk) f (petrúška)
• Uzbek: petrushka (uz)
• Venetian: parsèmoło, persémoło, parsìmoƚo
• Vietnamese: mùi tây (苿西)
• Volapük: pärjid (vo)
• Walloon: pierzin (wa) m
• Yiddish: פּעטרעשקע‎ f (petreshke)
• Zazaki: baxdinoz

dried leaves of this plant

• Finnish: persilja (fi)

• French: persil (fr) m
• Polish: pietruszka (pl) f, natka pietruszki f

Verb

parsley (third-person singular simple present parsleys, present participle parsleying, simple past and past participle parsleyed)

1. to add parsley to

Anagrams

• Players, parleys, players, prelays, replays, sparely