shallot

English

Shallots (bulbs of Allium ascalonium)

Etymology

Borrowed from French échalote, from Middle French eschalote, alteration of Old French eschaloigne, from Medieval Latin escalonia, from Latin ascalonia (cēpa) (“onion of Ashkelon”). Doublet of scallion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃælət/, /ʃəˈlɑt/
• IPA^(key): /ʃəˈlɒt/
• Rhymes: -ɒt

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Noun

shallot (plural shallots)

1. A vegetable in the onion family.
   1. Allium ascalonium.
   2. Allium oschaninii.
   3. Any small onion.
   4. (New Orleans) A scallion

Translations

vegetable in the onion family

• Arabic: كراث أندلسي m (kurrāṯ ʾandalusiyy)
• Asturian: chalota f
• Basque: tipulatx, exalota
• Catalan: escalunya (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 火蔥／火葱 (huǒcōng), 火葱 (huǒcōng)

• Corsican: scalonia f
• Czech: šalotka (cs) f
• Danish: skalotteløg n
• Dutch: eslook m, sjalot (nl) f
• Esperanto: ŝaloto, askalono
• Finnish: salottisipuli (fi)
• French: échalote (fr) f
• Georgian: ხახვი (xaxvi)
• German: Schalotte (de) f
• Greek: ασκαλώνιο (el) n (askalónio)
• Hungarian: mogyoróhagyma (hu)
• Icelandic: skalottlaukur m, sjalottulaukur m, skalotlaukur m, sandlaukur m
• Ido: shaloto (io)
• Indonesian: bawang merah (id)
• Italian: scalogno m
• Japanese: エシャロット (esharotto)
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• Khmer: ខ្ទឹមក្រហម (km) (khtœ̆mkrâhâm)
• Korean: 셜롯 (syeollot)
• Kurdish:
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• Macedonian: шало́т m (šalót), кромитче n (kromitče)
• Malay: bawang merah
• Norman: châlote f
• Norwegian: sjalottløk m

  Bokmål: sjalottløk m

  Nynorsk: sjalottlauk m

• Occitan: escalonha (oc) f
• Polish: szalotka (pl) f
• Portuguese: chalota f
• Romanian: hașmă (ro) f, șalotă f
• Russian: шало́т (ru) m (šalót), лу́к-шало́т (ru) m (lúk-šalót)
• Slovene: šalotka f
• Spanish: chalota f, chalote m, ajo chalote m, cebolla escalonia f
• Swedish: schalottenlök (sv) c
• Tamil: சின்ன வெங்காயம் (ciṉṉa veṅkāyam)
• Thai: หอมแดง (hɔ̌ɔm-dɛɛng)
• Ukrainian: кущі́вка f (kuščívka), шало́т m (šalót)
• Welsh: shibwnsyn m, sialotsyn m

See also

• chive
• scallion
• spring onion

Further reading

• shallot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia