red onion

English

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red onions

Pronunciation

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Noun

red onion (plural red onions)

2. A type of onion with reddish purplish skin.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 70:

     Marcus Empiricus, a Roma physician, prescribed three scruples of cress, three of red onion, three of pine seed, three of Indian nard, for impotence.

4. An instance of this type.

Translations

a type of onion with reddish purplish skin

• Arabic: بَصَل أَحْمَر m (baṣal ʔaḥmar), بَصَل أَرْجُوَانِيّ m (baṣal ʔarjuwāniyy)
• Danish: rødløg c
• Estonian: punane sibul
• Finnish: punasipuli (fi)
• French: oignon rouge (fr)
• Hungarian: lila hagyma (hu), vöröshagyma (hu) (archaic, chiefly Transylvania), vereshagyma (archaic, chiefly Transylvania)
• Icelandic: rauðlaukur m
• Nahuatl: chīchīltic xonacatl
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rødløk m

  Nynorsk: raudlauk m, raudløk m

• Polish: cebula czerwona f
• Portuguese: cebola-roxa f
• Romanian: ceapă roșie f
• Russian: красний лук m (krasnij luk)
• Spanish: cebolla roja f
• Swedish: rödlök c
• Telugu: ఎర్రగడ్డ (te) (erragaḍḍa)
• Turkish: kırmızı soğan

References

• “red onion”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• red onion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia