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.
3. (by extension, loosely) Any herb resembling parsley, such as cilantro (Chinese parsley) or chervil (French parsley).

Derived terms

terms derived from parsley

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

 

Translations

plant Petroselinum crispum

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

  Egyptian Arabic: بقدونس‎ m (baʕdūnis)

  Gulf Arabic: بَقْدُونِس‎ m (bɐqdunɪs)

  Iraqi Arabic: كرفس‎ m (krafus)

  Hijazi Arabic: بَقْدونِس‎ m (bagdūnis)

  Moroccan Arabic: معدنوس‎ m (mʕadnūs)

• Armenian: մաղադանոս (hy) (maġadanos), կարոս (hy) (karos), ազատքեղ (hy) (azatkʿeġ)
• Azerbaijani: cəfəri (az), bağdanus
• 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／欧芹 (zh) (ōuqín), 荷蘭芹／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 (petruşka)
• Ladino: pirishil, pereshil, prishil
• 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) (janšuj)
• 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 (šumax)
• Plautdietsch: Peetasselj f
• Polish: pietruszka (pl) f
• Portuguese: salsa (pt) f, salsinha
• Punjabi: ਜਵੈਣ f (javaiṇ)
• 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
• Welsh: persli m
• Yiddish: פּעטרעשקע‎ f (petreshke), פּעטרישקע‎ f (petrishke)
• Zazaki: baxdinoz

leaves of this plant used in cooking

• 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. (transitive) To add parsley to.

   parsleyed potatoes

   • 1923, William Teignmouth Shore, My Cook Book, page 46:

     Put a layer of mashed potato on one side and also on the other after peppering, salting and finely-chopped parsleying it to taste.

Anagrams

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