sauerkraut

See also: Sauerkraut

English

Alternative forms

• sourkraut

Etymology

Borrowed into English around 1600 from German Sauerkraut, from sauer (“sour, acidic, spoiled”) + Kraut (“herb; cabbage”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsaʊɚˌkɹaʊt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsaʊəˌkɹaʊt/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsaʊɚˌkɹʌʊt/

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Noun

sauerkraut (countable and uncountable, plural sauerkrauts)

1. (countable, uncountable) A dish made by fermenting finely chopped cabbage.

   Synonyms: kraut, (US, historical, nationalist) liberty cabbage

2. (countable, obsolete, ethnic slur, offensive, slang) A German person. [from 1858]

   Synonym: Kraut

Derived terms

• (food):
  • sauerkraut soup
  • sauerkrauty

Translations

a dish made by fermenting finely chopped cabbage

• Belarusian: ква́шаная капу́ста f (kvášanaja kapústa)
• Bulgarian: ки́село зе́ле n (kíselo zéle)
• Catalan: xucrut (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 酸菜 (zh) (suāncài), 德國酸菜／德国酸菜 (Déguó suāncài)

• Czech: kysané zelí n
• Danish: surkål c
• Dutch: zuurkool (nl) f
• Esperanto: saŭrkraŭto, acida (eo) brasiko (eo)
• Estonian: hapukapsas (et)
• Faroese: súrkál n
• Finnish: hapankaali (fi)
• French: choucroute (fr) f
• German: Sauerkraut (de) n, Sauerkohl (de) m
• Greek: λαχανάλμη f (lachanálmi), ξινολάχανο n (xinoláchano)
• Hungarian: savanyú káposzta (hu)
• Hunsrik: Schukrutt n
• Icelandic: súrkál n
• Ido: surkruto (io)
• Italian: crauti (it) m pl
• Japanese: ザワークラウト (zawākurauto), ザウアークラウト (zauākurauto)
• Korean: 자우어크라우트 (jaueokeurauteu), 사워크라우트 (sawokeurauteu)
• Latvian: skābi kāposti m pl
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: zoerkool m

  German Low German: Suerkruut (nds) n

• Luxembourgish: Sauermous n
• Macedonian: кисела зелка f (kisela zelka), расол m (rasol)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: surkål m

  Nynorsk: surkål m

• Polish: kapusta kiszona (pl) f, kapusta kwaszona (pl) f
• Portuguese: chucrute (pt) m
• Romanian: varză acră f
• Russian: ква́шеная капу́ста (ru) f (kvášenaja kapústa), ки́слая капу́ста f (kíslaja kapústa)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кисели купус m, рибанац m

  Roman: kiseli kupus (sh) m, ribanac (sh) m, kiselo zelje n (Croatia)

• Slovak: kyslá kapusta f
• Slovene: kislo zelje n
• Spanish: chucrut m
• Swedish: surkål (sv) c
• Turkish: lahana turşusu
• Ukrainian: ква́шена капу́ста f (kvášena kapústa)
• Vietnamese: món dưa cải bắp
• Volapük: züdöfabrasid
• Welsh: bresych picl m
• Yiddish: זויערקרויט‎ n (zoyerkroyt)