kimchi

kimchi

See also: kim chi

English

Alternative forms

• kimchee, kim chee, gimchee, gimchi

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 김치 (gimchi), ultimately composed within Korea of Chinese-derived morphemes 沉 (“submerged, soaked”) and 菜 (“vegetable”), i.e. "fermented vegetable". Doublet of kimuchi.

Kimchi

Pronunciation

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Noun

kimchi (usually uncountable, plural kimchis)

1. A Korean dish made of vegetables, such as cabbage or radishes, that are salted, seasoned, and stored in sealed containers to undergo lactic acid fermentation.
2. (countable, slang, ethnic slur, derogatory) A Korean person.
   • 1994, Richard Marcinko, Rogue Warrior II: Red Cell, Pocket Books, page 238:

     How did I know the kimchis were trying to smuggle the crate out of Japan?

   • 2007, Pamela Goyan Kittler and Kathryn Sucher, Food and Culture, Cengage Learning, page 5:

     In the United States, Germans are sometimes called "krauts" ... Koreans "kimchis," and poor white Southerners "crackers"...

   • 2011, Gerald M. Weinberg, Freshman Murders, Weinberg & Weinberg:

     ... he doesn't know the difference between Ping-Pongs and Kimchis.

Translations

Korean dish

Armenian: կիմչի (kimčʿi) Chinese: Cantonese: 泡菜 (paau3 coi3) Mandarin: 韓式泡菜／韩式泡菜 (Hán shì pàocài), 辛奇 (zh) (xīnqí), 泡菜 (zh) (pàocài) Esperanto: kimĉio Finnish: kimchi (fi) French: kimchi (fr) m German: Kimchi n Hebrew: קִימְצִ'י‎ m (kimchí) Indonesian: kimci Italian: kimchi (it) m Japanese: キムチ (ja) (kimuchi) Khmer: គីមឈី (kiimchii) Korean: 김치 (ko) (gimchi), 짠지 (ko) (jjanji) (dialectal), 짐치 (jimchi) (dialectal) Latvian: kimči m pl Macedonian: ки́мчи n (kímči) Navajo: gímchi Polish: kimchi (pl) n Portuguese: kimchi m Russian: кимчхи́ (ru) f or n (kimčxí), кимчи́ (ru) f or n (kimčí) Spanish: kimchi m Swedish: kimchi (sv) c Thai: กิมจิ (th) (gim-jì) Vietnamese: kim chi

ethnic slur for Koreans

Chinese: Mandarin: 高麗棒子／高丽棒子 (zh) (Gāolí bàngzi), 韓棒子／韩棒子 (zh) (Hánbàngzi) Esperanto: koreaĉo Japanese: チョン (ja) (chon) Korean: 김치남 (gimchinam), 김치녀 (gimchinyeo) Polish: Koreaniec m, skośnooki (pl) m

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Finnish

Etymology

From Korean.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkimtʃi/, [ˈkimt̪ʃi]
• Syllabification^(key): kim‧chi

Noun

kimchi

1. kimchi

Declension

Inflection of kimchi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		kimchi	kimchit
genitive		kimchin	kimchien
partitive		kimchiä	kimchejä
illative		kimchiin	kimcheihin
		singular	plural
nominative		kimchi	kimchit
accusative	nom.	kimchi	kimchit
	gen.	kimchin
genitive		kimchin	kimchien
partitive		kimchiä	kimchejä
inessive		kimchissä	kimcheissä
elative		kimchistä	kimcheistä
illative		kimchiin	kimcheihin
adessive		kimchillä	kimcheillä
ablative		kimchiltä	kimcheiltä
allative		kimchille	kimcheille
essive		kimchinä	kimcheinä
translative		kimchiksi	kimcheiksi
instructive		—	kimchein
abessive		kimchittä	kimcheittä
comitative		—	kimcheineen

Possessive forms of kimchi (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	kimchini	kimchimme
2nd person	kimchisi	kimchinne
3rd person	kimchinsä

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French

Etymology

From Korean.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kimt.ʃi/

Noun

kimchi m (plural kimchis)

1. kimchi

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 김치 (gimchi).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkim.t͡ʂi/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -imt͡ʂi
• Syllabification: kim‧chi

Noun

kimchi n (indeclinable)

1. kimchi (Korean dish)

Further reading

• kimchi in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kimchi in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 김치 (gimchi). See there for more information.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkimt͡ʃi/ [ˈkĩm.t͡ʃi]
• Rhymes: -imtʃi
• Syllabification: kim‧chi

Noun

kimchi m (plural kimchis)

1. kimchi