parsley

English

Etymology

From Old French peresil, from Latin petroselīnum, from Ancient Greek πετροσέλῑνον (petrosélīnon, “parsley”), from πέτρος (pétros, “rock, stone”) + σέλῑνον (sélīnon, “celery”).

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Noun

parsley (usually uncountable, plural parsleys)

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

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Chinese parsley
• fool's parsley
• hedge parsley
• milk parsley

• parsley fern
• parsley frog
• parsley piert
• stone parsley

Translations

herb

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

  Egyptian Arabic: بقدونس‏‎ m (baʿdūnis)

  Hijazi Arabic: بَقْدونِس‏‎ m (bagdūnis)

  Moroccan Arabic: معدنوس‏‎ m (maʿdnus)

• Armenian: մաղադանոս (hy) (maładanos), կարոս (hy) (karos), ազատքեղ (hy) (azatkʿeł)
• Azeri: cəfəri (az), maydanoz (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
• Georgian: ოხრახუში (oxraxuši)
• German: Petersilie (de) f
• Greek: μαϊντανός (el) m (maïntanós), πετροσέλινο (el) n (petrosélino)
• Hebrew: פֶּטְרוֹזִילְיָה‏‎ (he) f (petrozílya)
• Hungarian: petrezselyem (hu)
• Icelandic: steinselja
• Indonesian: peterseli (id)
• Irish: peirsil f
• Italian: prezzemolo (it) m
• Japanese: パセリ (ja) (paseri)
• Kashubian: piotrëszka f
• Kazakh: ақжелкен (aqjelken)
• Korean: 파슬리 (ko) (paseulli)
• Kyrgyz: петрушка (petruşka)

• Latin: petroselinum n or petroselinon n
• Latvian: pētersīlis m
• Lithuanian: petražolė f
• Macedonian: ма́гдонос m (mágdonos)
• Malay: pasli
• Maori: pāhiri
• Mongolian: яншуй (mn) (janšuj)
• Neapolitan: petrosino m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: persille (no) m, f

• Occitan: jolverd (oc) m
• Persian: جعفری‏‎ (fa) (ja'fari)
• Polish: pietruszka (pl) f
• Portuguese: salsa (pt) f, perrexil
• 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
• 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
• Volapük: pärjid (vo)
• Walloon: pierzin (wa) m
• Yiddish: פּעטרעשקע‏‎ f (petreshke)

Anagrams

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