rutabaga

English

Alternative forms

• ruta-baga

Etymology

1799, borrowed from Swedish rotabagge, a dialectal word from Västergötland, from rot (“root”) +‎ bagge (“lump, bunch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹutəˌbeɪɡə/

Noun

rutabaga roots

rutabaga (usually uncountable, plural rutabagas)

1. (now Canada, US) the swede, or Swedish turnip; the European plant Brassica napus var. napobrassica
2. (now Canada, US) the edible root of this plant
   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     Sometimes your royal dogs tear down our thatch,
     And then we seek the shelter of a ditch;
     Hog-wash or grains, or ruta-baga, none
     Has yet been ours since your reign begun.

Synonyms

• swede, Swedish turnip

Translations

edible root

• Armenian: շաղգամ (hy) (šaġgam), գոնգեղ (hy) (gongeġ)
• Belarusian: бручка f (bručka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大頭菜／大头菜 (zh) (dàtóucài), 大头菜 (zh) (dàtóucài)

• 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 (de) 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 (rutabaga)
• Komi-Zyrian: галанка (galanka)
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• Korean: 무 (ko) (mu), 나복 (nabok)
• Latgalian: grīziņs
• Latvian: kālis (lv)
• Macedonian: жолто цвекло n (žolto cveklo)
• 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, Västergötland)
• Tagalog: nabikol, kolinabo
• Turkish: şalgam (tr)
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁy.ta.ba.ɡa/

• Audio:

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Noun

rutabaga m (plural rutabagas)

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

Further reading

• “rutabaga”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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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