English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] Borrowed from Old French vegetable Latin vegetābilis ( “ able to live and grow ” ) , derived from vegetāre ( “ to enliven ” )
Pronunciation [ edit ] vegetable (plural vegetables
Any plant .
1837 , The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (volume 23, page 222)
That he might ascertain whether any of the cloths of ancient Egypt were made of hemp, M. Dutrochet has examined with the microscope the weavable filaments of this last vegetable .
A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves , roots , fruit or flowers , but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit , grain , or spice in the culinary sense.
Synonyms: veg veggie
The edible part of such a plant.
Synonyms: veg veggie
( figuratively , derogatory ) A person whose brain (or, infrequently, body ) has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a brain-dead person.
Synonym: cabbage Derived terms [ edit ] Related terms [ edit ]
Terms related to vegetable
Translations [ edit ]
a plant raised for some edible part of it
Afrikaans: groente (af)
Albanian: perime (sq) , zarzavate (sq)
Arabic: خُضَر f pl ( ḵuḍar ) , خُضَار m pl ( ḵuḍār ) , خَضْرَاوَات f pl ( ḵaḍrāwāt )
Egyptian Arabic: خضار m pl ( xuḍaar )
Armenian: բանջարեղեն (hy) ( banǰarełen ) , բանջար (hy) ( banǰar )
Assamese: পাচলি ( pasoli )
Asturian: verdura f
Azerbaijani: tərəvəz (az)
Bashkir: йәшелсә ( yäšelsä )
Belarusian: гаро́дніна f ( haródnina ) , агаро́дніна f ( aharódnina )
Bengali: সবজি ( sôbji )
Bikol Central: gulay
Breton: legumaj (br)
Bulgarian: зеленчук m ( zelenčuk )
Burmese: ဟင်းသီးဟင်းရွက် (my) ( hang:si:hang:rwak )
Capiznon: kautanan
Catalan: verdura (ca) f hortalissa f ( pod vegetable ) llegum (ca) m
Cebuano: utanon
Chamorro: Gollai siha
Chinese:
Mandarin: 蔬菜 (zh) ( shūcài ) , 青菜 (zh) ( qīngcài )
Cornish: losowen gegin f lojowen-dhebri f
Czech: zelenina (cs)
Danish: grøntsag (da) c grønsag (da) c
Dutch: groente (nl) f gewas (nl) n
Esperanto: legomo (eo)
Estonian: köögivili aedvili
Finnish: vihannes (fi)
French: légume (fr) m
Galician: vexetal (gl) m verdura (gl) f
Georgian: ბოსტნეული ( bosṭneuli )
German: Gemüse (de) n
Greek: λαχανικό (el) n ( lachanikó )
Ancient Greek: λάχανον n ( lákhanon )
Greenlandic: grøntsagi
Hebrew: יֶרֶק (he) ( yérek )
Hiligaynon: kautanan
Hindi: सब्ज़ी (hi) f ( sabzī )
Hungarian: zöldség (hu)
Icelandic: grænmeti (is) n
Ilocano: nateng
Indonesian: sayuran (id) , sayur-sayuran (id) pl
Interlingua: legumine
Irish: glasra (ga) m
Italian: verdura (it) f
Ivatan: rakarakanen
Japanese: 野菜 (ja) ( やさい, yasai ) , 青物 (ja) ( あおもの, aomono ) , ベジタブル ( bejitaburu )
Javanese: janganan (jv) , sayuaran
Kalenjin: ngiek
Kapampangan: gule
Kazakh: көкөніс (kk) ( kökönis )
Khmer: បន្លែ (km) ( bɑnlɛɛ )
Kinaray-a: ulutanon
Korean: 채소 (ko) ( chaeso ) , 야채 (ko) ( yachae )
Kurdish:
Sorani: سهوزه ( sawza )
Kyrgyz: жашылча (ky) ( caşılça )
Ladino: zarzavat
Lak: ахънилсри ( aqnilsri )
Lao: ຜັກ (lo) ( phak ) , ຕາໂກ້ງ ( tā kōng ) , ສາກ ( sāk )
Latin: holus n
Latvian: dārzenis (lv) m
Lithuanian: daržovė f
Low German: Gemöös n
Luhya: chinyenyi
Luxembourgish: Geméis n
Macedonian: зе́ленчук m ( zélenčuk )
Malay: sayuran sayur-sayuran pl
Maltese: ħaxix m
Maori: huawhenua
Marathi: भाजी f ( bhājī )
Minangkabau: sayuaran sayua-sayuaran pl
Mongolian: хүнсний ногоо ( hünsnij nogoo ) , ургамал (mn) ( urgamal )
Navajo: chʼil daadánígíí
Norman: légùeume f ( continental Norman ) , lédgeunme f ( Jersey ) , légeume f ( Guernsey )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: grønnsak (no) m , f
Nynorsk: grønsak f
Occitan: legum (oc)
Pangasinan: pising
Persian: سبزی (fa) ( sabzi )
Polish: warzywo (pl) n jarzyna (pl) f
Portuguese: verdura (pt) f hortaliça (pt) f legume (pt) m
Punjabi: ਸਬਜ਼ੀ ( sabzī )
Romanian: legumă (ro) , legume f pl
Russian: о́вощ (ru) m ( óvošč )
Rusyn: зеленина f ( zelenyna ) ( Carpathian Rusyn ) , желєнява f ( željenjava ) ( Panonian Rusyn )
Sanskrit: चुच्चु (sa) ( cuccu )
Scottish Gaelic: glasraich f luibh-gàraidh f luiseanachd f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: по̀врће n pl
Roman: pòvrće (sh) n pl
Sindhi: سبزي ( sabzi )
Sinhalese: එළවළු ( eḷavaḷu )
Slovak: zelenina (sk)
Slovene: zalenjava f
Somali: khudaarta
Southern Sama: sasayulan pl
Spanish: verdura (es) f legumbre (es) m hortaliza (es) f
Swahili: mboga (sw)
Swedish: grönsak (sv) c
Tagalog: gulay
Tajik: сабзавот (tg) ( sabzavot )
Tatar: яшелчә (tt) ( yaşelçä )
Thai: พืชผัก ( pʉ̂ʉt-pàk ) , ผัก (th) ( pàk )
Tibetan: བཞེས་ཚལ ( bzhes tshal )
Turkish: sebze (tr) , zerzevat (tr) , yeşilce
Turkmen: gök önüm
Uab Meto: utan utnin pl
Ukrainian: о́воч (uk) m ( óvoč )
Urdu: سبزی f ( sabzī )
Uyghur: كۆكتات ( köktat )
Uzbek: sabzavot (uz)
Vietnamese: rau (vi) , rau cải (vi)
Volapük: härbat (vo)
Waray-Waray: utan
Welsh: llysieuyn (cy) m
West Frisian: griente (fy) c
Xhosa: umfuno imifuno pl
Yiddish: גרינס n ( grins )
Zazaki: zerzawat n
Zhuang: byaek byaekheu
edible part of such a plant
a person whose brain has been damaged
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Adjective [ edit ] vegetable (not comparable )
Of or relating to plants.
Of or relating to vegetables. Translations [ edit ]
of or relating to vegetables
Further reading [ edit ] 
vegetable on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
