rutabaga

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• ruta-baga

Etymology

1799, a borrowing from Swedish rotabagge, a dialectal word from Västergötland, from rot ‎(“root”) +‎ bagge ‎(“bag”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈrutəˌbeɪɡə/

Noun

rutabaga roots

rutabaga ‎(usually uncountable, plural rutabagas)

1. (Canada, US) the swede, or Swedish turnip; the European plant Brassica napus
2. (Canada, US) the edible root of this plant

Synonyms

• swede, Swedish turnip

Translations

edible root

• Armenian: շաղգամ (hy) ‎(šałgam), գոնգեղ (hy) ‎(gongeł)
• Belarusian: бручка (bručka) f
• Chinese: 大頭菜, 大头菜 (dà tóu cài)
• Czech: tuřín (cs) m
• Danish: kålroe
• Dutch: koolraap (nl) f
• Esperanto: napo
• Estonian: kaalikas (et)
• Faroese: kálrót f
• Finnish: lanttu (fi)
• French: rutabaga (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: schwedische Rübe f, Kohlrübe (de) f, Steckrübe f
• Irish: svaeid m
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: カブハボタン ‎(kabuhabotan), カブカンラン ‎(kabukanran), ルタバガ ‎(rutabega)
• Komi-Zyrian: галанка ‎(galanka)

• Korean: 무 (ko) ‎(mu), 나복 ‎(nabok)
• Latgalian: grīziņs
• Latvian: kālis (lv)
• Macedonian: жолто цвекло n ‎(žólto cvéklo)
• Navajo: tséyaa hataałí
• Norwegian: kålrot
• Portuguese: rutabaga f, colza (pt) f, nabo da Suécia m, couve-nabiça f, couve-nabo (pt) f
• Romanian: nap suedez m
• Russian: брю́ква (ru) f ‎(brjúkva)
• Scots: swade
• Scottish Gaelic: turnip, neep
• Slovak: kvaka f
• Spanish: colinabo m
• Swedish: kålrot (sv) c, rotabagge m (dialectal, Västgötska)
• Tagalog: nabikol, kolinabo
• Turkish: şalgam (tr)
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

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French

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁy.ta.ba.ɡa/

Noun

rutabaga m ‎(plural rutabagas)

1. swede, rutabaga (yellow root of Brassica napus)

External links

• “rutabaga” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Portuguese

Noun

rutabaga f (plural rutabagas)

1. rutabaga (Brassica napus, a plant with an edible root)

Synonyms

• (rutabaga): colza, nabo da Suécia, couve-nabiça, couve-nabo