spring onion

English

scallions or spring onions

Noun

spring onion (plural spring onions)

1. A species of onion (Allium fistulosum) from Asia, with slender bulbs.
2. Any of several similar types of onion.

Synonyms

• green onion
• Japanese bunching onion
• scallion
• Welsh onion

Translations

Allium fistulosum

• Abkhaz: акабарџык (akʼabardẑəkʼ)
• Afrikaans: stingelui
• Arabic: بَصَل أَخْضَر m (baṣal ʔaḵḍar, literally “green onion”)
• Armenian: կանաչ սոխ (hy) (kanačʻ sox)
• Burmese: ကြက်သွန်မြိတ် (my) (krakswanmrit)
• Catalan: ceba d'hivern f (literally “winter onion”), cebollí gal·lès m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蔥／葱 (cung¹)

  Mandarin: 蔥／葱 (zh) (cōng), 大蔥／大葱 (zh) (dàcōng)

• Danish: forårsløg n
• Dutch: stengelui (nl) m, bosui (nl) m, lente-ui (nl) m
• Estonian: roheline sibul (et)
• Finnish: pillisipuli, talvisipuli
• French: ciboule (fr) f
• Galician: ceboliña (gl) f
• Georgian: ჭლაკვი (č̣laḳvi), სოხვი (soxvi), სოხი (soxi)
• German: Frühlingszwiebel (de) f, Lauchzwiebel (de) f, Winterzwiebel f
• Greek: φρέσκο κρεμμυδάκι n (frésko kremmydáki)
• Hindi: हरा प्याज़ m (harā pyāz)
• Hungarian: zöldhagyma (hu), újhagyma (hu)
• Icelandic: vorlaukur m
• Ido: porelo (io)
• Indonesian: daun bawang (literally “leaf garlic”)
• Irish: oinniún earraigh m, ciobúl m
• Italian: cipolla d'inverno f, cipollotto (it) m
• Japanese: ネギ (ja) (negi), 葱 (ja) (negi)
• Khmer: ខ្ទឹមខ្យល់ (km) (ktɨm kyɑl)
• Korean: 파 (ko) (pa), 골파 (golpa)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pîvazterk (ku)

• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: млад кромид m (mlad kromid)
• Malay: daun bawang (ms)
• Middle English: chibolle
• Mingrelian: სორხი (sorxi), სოხი (soxi), ჭრაკვი (č̣raḳvi), ჭუაკი (č̣uaḳi)
• Norman: chibot m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vårløk m

  Nynorsk: vårlauk m, vårløk m

• Persian: پیازچه (fa) (piyâzče)
• Plautdietsch: Luak f
• Polish: czosnek dęty m
• Portuguese: cebolinha (pt) f, cebolinha-verde f
• Romanian: ceapă-ciorească f, cepșoare f pl
• Russian: зелёный лук m (zeljónyj luk, literally “green onion”), лук-бату́н (ru) m (luk-batún)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мла̑дӣ лу̏к m

  Latin: mlȃdī lȕk (sh) m (literally “young onion”)

• Slovene: zimski luk m (literally “winter onion”)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: zelinowa f, tutkowa cybula f

• Spanish: cebolleta (es) f, escalonia f
• Swedish: salladslök (sv) c, piplök (sv) c
• Thai: ต้นหอม (dtôn-hɔ̌ɔm), หอมต้นเดี่ยว (hɔ̌ɔm-dtôn-diao)
• Turkish: yeşil soğan (tr) (literally “green onion”)
• Vietnamese: hành lá, hành (vi)
• Welsh: sibols m pl or f pl, sibolsen f, shibwns m pl, shibwnsyn m (South)

similar onion

• Finnish: kevätsipuli (fi)

See also

• chive
• shallot

Further reading

• spring onion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Allium fistulosum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies