English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] (1350-1400) Middle English Latin vegetabilis “ able to live and grow ” ), derived from Latin vegetare “ to enliven ” )
Pronunciation [ edit ] vegetable (plural vegetables
Any plant .
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.
The edible part of such a plant.
( figuratively ) A person whose brain (or, infrequently, body ) has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a brain-dead person.
Translations [ edit ]
a plant raised for some edible part of it
Arabic: خضر f pl khuDar ), خضار m pl khuDaar ), خضراوات f pl xuḍrawat )
Egyptian Arabic: خضار m pl xuḍaar )
Armenian: բանջարեղեն banǰarełen )
Asturian: verdura f
Bashkir: йәшелсә yäšelsä )
Belarusian: гародніна f haródnina ), агародніна f aharódnina )
Bengali: সবজি shobji )
Bikol Central: gulay
Breton: legumaj (br)
Bulgarian: зеленчук m zelenčuk )
Capiznon: kautanan
Catalan: verdura (ca) f hortalissa f ( pod vegetable ) llegum m
Cebuano: utanon
Chamorro: Gollai siha
Chinese:
Mandarin: 蔬菜 (zh) (shūcài ), 青菜 (zh) (qīngcài )
Czech: zelenina (cs)
Danish: grøntsag (da) c grønsag (da) c
Dutch: groente (nl) f gewas (nl) n
Esperanto: legomo (eo)
Finnish: vihannes (fi)
French: légume (fr) m
Galician: vexetal m verdura (gl) f
Georgian: ბოსტნეული bostneuli )
German: Gemüse (de) n
Greek: λαχανικό (el) n lachanikó )
Greenlandic: grøntsagi
Guernésiais: legeume f
Hebrew: יֶרֶק (he) (yerek )
Hiligaynon: kautanan
Hindi: सब्ज़ी (hi) f sabzī )
Hungarian: zöldség (hu)
Ilocano: nateng
Indonesian: sayuran (id) , sayur-sayuran pl
Interlingua: legumine
Irish: glasra (ga) m
Italian: verdura (it) f
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
Kinaray-a: ulutanon
Korean: 채소 (ko) (chaeso )
Kurdish:
Sorani: سهوزه sawza )
Ladino: zarzavat
Lak: ахънилсри aqnilsri )
Latin: holus n
Lithuanian: daržovė f
Luhya: chinyenyi
Luxembourgish: Geméis n
Macedonian: зеленчук m zélenčuk )
Malay: sayuran sayur-sayuran pl
Maori: huawhenua
Minangkabau: sayuaran sayua-sayuaran pl
Mongolian: хүнсний ногоо hünsnij nogoo ), ургамал urgamal )
Navajo: chʼil daadánígíí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: grønnsak (no) m , f
Nynorsk: grønsak f
Occitan: legum (oc) , legums pl
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: овощ (ru) m óvošč )
Rusyn: зеленина f zelenina ) ( Carpathian Rusyn ) желєнява f želeňava (želenjava) ) ( Panonian Rusyn )
Scottish Gaelic: glasraich f luibh-gàraidh f luiseanachd f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: поврће n pl
Roman: povrće n pl
Sindhi: سبزي sabzi )
Slovak: zelenina
Slovene: zalenjava f
Southern Sama: sasayulan pl
Spanish: verdura (es) f legumbre (es) m hortaliza (es) f
Swahili: mboga (sw)
Swedish: grönsak (sv) c
Tagalog: gulay
Turkish: sebze (tr)
Uab Meto: utan utnin pl
Ukrainian: овоч (uk) m óvoč )
Urdu: سبزی f sabzī )
Uyghur: كۆكتات köktat )
Vietnamese: rau (vi)
Volapük: härbat (vo)
West Frisian: griente (fy) c
Xhosa: umfuno imifuno pl
Zhuang: byaek
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
Japanese: 野菜 のyasai no ), 植物 のshokubutsu no ), ベジタブルな bejitaburu-na ) ( colloquial ) 菜 〜sai- ), 野菜 〜yasai- ), 植物 〜shokubutsu- )
Macedonian: зеленчуков m zelénčukov )
Portuguese: leguminoso
Related terms [ edit ] External links [ edit ] 
Vegetable on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
