spinach

English

spinach leaves (Spinacia oleracea)

Alternative forms

• spinage (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English spinach, from Anglo-Norman spinache, from Old French espinoche, from Old Provençal espinarc, from Arabic اِسْفَانَاخ‏ (isfānāḵ), from Persian اسپناخ‏ (ispanākh).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /spɪnɪt͡ʃ/, /spɪnɪd͡ʒ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /spɪnɪt͡ʃ/

Noun

spinach (countable and uncountable, plural spinaches)

1. A particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea, or its leaves.
2. Any of numerous plants, or their leaves, which are used for greens in the same way Spinacia oleraceae is.
   1. Chinese spinach, red spinach (Amaranthus dubius)
   2. Malabar spinach (Basella alba), red vine spinach, creeping spinach, climbing spinach
   3. New Zealand spinach (Tetragonia tetragonioides)
   4. water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica)
   5. (South Africa) wild spinach, African spinach (various nightshade, legume, and Cucurbitaceae species)
   6. spinach beet, perpetual spinach (Beta vulgaris: chard)
   7. Navajo spinach (Cleome serrulata)
   8. Lincolnshire spinach (Blitum bonus-henricus, syn. Chenopodium bonus-henricus: Good King Henry)
   9. French spinach mountain spinach Atriplex spp.
   10. spinach dock (Rumex acetosa}: common sorrel, garden sorrel)
   11. tree spinach:
       1. Cnidoscolus aconitifolius: chaya
       2. Chenopodium giganteum: magenta spreen, purple goosefoot, giant lambsquarters)

Translations

a particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea

• Albanian: spinaqi
• Amharic: ቆስጣ (qosṭa)
• Arabic: سَبَانِخ‏‎ (ar) m (sabāniḵ)

  Egyptian Arabic: سبانخ‏‎ f pl (sabanex)

• Armenian: սպանախ (hy) (spanax)

  Middle Armenian: սպանախ (spanax), շոմին (šomin), ծմել (cmel)

• Aromanian: spãnac n
• Assamese: পালেং শাক (palêng xak), পালেং (palêng)
• Belarusian: шпінат m (špinát)
• Bole: alayyapo
• Bulgarian: спанак m (spanak)
• Catalan: espinac m
• Central Dusun: sansam
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 菠菜 (bo¹ coi³)

  Mandarin: 菠菜 (zh) (bōcài)

• Czech: špenát (cs) m
• Danish: spinat (da) c
• Dutch: spinazie (nl) m
• Duwai: alayaho
• Esperanto: spinaco (eo)
• Faroese: spinat n
• Finnish: pinaatti (fi)
• French: épinards (fr) m pl
• Georgian: ისპანახი (isṗanaxi)
• German: Spinat (de) m
• Greek: σπανάκι (el) n (spanáki)

  Ancient: σπανακόν n (spanakón), σπάναξ m (spánax)

• Greenlandic: spinatit
• Hausa: alayyaho (ha)
• Hebrew: תרד‏‎ (he) m (tered)
• Hindi: पालक (hi) (pālak)
• Hungarian: spenót (hu)
• Icelandic: spínat n
• Interlingua: spinacia
• Irish: spionáiste m
• Italian: spinacio (it) m
• Japanese: 菠薐草 (ja) (ほうれんそう, hōrensō)
• Karekare: alayyaho
• Korean: 시금치 (ko) (shigeumchi)

• Kumyk: испанакъ (ispanaq)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmancî: spînax (ku) f, siyale

  Soranî: espenax, spênax

• Latin: spinacia
• Latvian: spināti pl
• Luxembourgish: Päinetsch m
• Macedonian: спанаќ m (spánaḱ)
• Malagasy: lalada
• Malay: bayam
• Maltese: spinaċi m
• Maori: rengarenga, rengamutu, kōkihi
• Marathi: पालक n (pālaka)
• Navajo: waaʼ
• Norman: bette f
• Norwegian: spinat (no)
• Persian: اسفناج‏‎ (fa) (esfenâj)
• Polish: szpinak (pl) m
• Portuguese: espinafre (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਪਾਲਕ f (pālak)
• Romanian: spanac (ro) n
• Romansch: spinat m
• Russian: шпина́т (ru) m (špinát)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: спанаћ m, шпинат m

  Roman: spanać (sh) m, špinat (sh) m

• Slovak: špenát m
• Slovene: špinača f
• Spanish: espinaca (es)
• Swedish: spenat (sv) c
• Tagalog: espinaka
• Thai: ผักโขม (pàk kŏhm)
• Turkish: ıspanak (tr)
• Ukrainian: шпинат m (špynát)
• Uzbek: ismaloq (uz)
• Vietnamese: rau bina
• Volapük: spinad
• Walloon: spinasse (wa) f, spinåd (wa) m
• Yiddish: שפּינאַט‏‎ m (shpinat)

See also

• Popeye

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