spinach

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Spinach

Etymology

Via Arabic اسفاناخ (isfānākh), from Persian اسپناخ (ispanākh).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /spɪnɪtʃ/, /spɪnɪdʒ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /spɪnɪtʃ/

Noun

spinach (countable and uncountable, plural spinaches)

1. A particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea.
2. Any of numerous plants which are used for greens in the same way spinach is.

Translations

a particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea

• Albanian: spinaqi
• Amharic: ቆስጣ (qosṭa)
• Arabic: سبانخ (ar) m (sabānikh)

  Egyptian Arabic: سبانخ f pl (sabanex)

• Armenian: սպանախ (spanax)

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

• Belarusian: шпінат m (špinát)
• Bulgarian: спанак m (spanak)
• Catalan: espinac m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 菠菜 (zh) (bōcài)

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

  Ancient: σπανακόν (spanakon) n, σπάναξ (spanax) m

• Hebrew: תרד (he) m (tered)
• Hungarian: spenót (hu)
• Icelandic: spínat n
• Irish: spionáiste m
• Italian: spinacio (it) m
• Japanese: ほうれん草 (ほうれんそう, hōrensō)
• Jèrriais: bette f
• Korean: 시금치 (ko) (shigeumchi)

• Kurdish:

  Kurmancî: spînax (ku) f, siyale

  Soranî: espenax, spênax

• Latin: spinacia
• Latvian: spināti pl
• Luxembourgish: Päinetsch
• Macedonian: спанаќ m (spánaḱ)
• Malagasy: lalada
• Maltese: spinaċi m
• Maori: rengarenga, rengamutu, kōkihi
• Navajo: waaʼ
• Norwegian: spinat (no)
• Persian: اسفناج (fa) (esfenâj)
• Polish: szpinak (pl) m
• Portuguese: espinafre (pt) m
• Romanian: spanac (ro) n
• Romansch: spinat m
• Russian: шпинат (ru) m (špinát)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: спанаћ m, шпинат m

  Roman: spanać m, špinat 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
• Vietnamese: rau bina
• Volapük: spinad
• Yiddish: ספּינאַט m (spinat)

Derived terms

• mountain spinach
• New Zealand spinach
• tree spinach

See also

• Popeye