parsnip

parsnip

English

Parsnip roots

Etymology

From 16th-century parsnepe, from Middle English passenep, a modification of Old French pasnaie by influence of Middle English nepe (“turnip”), from Latin pastināca (“parsnip, carrot”), from pastinum (“two-pronged fork”) as in pastināre (“to dig up the ground”).[1]

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑɹ.snɪp/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑː.snɪp/

• Audio (RP)

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• Hyphenation: par‧snip

Noun

parsnip (plural parsnips)

1. A biennial plant, Pastinaca sativa, related to the carrot.
2. The root of the parsnip, when used as a vegetable.

Derived terms

• cow parsnip (Heracleum spp.)
• cultivated parsnip (Pastinaca sativa vars.)
• fine words butter no parsnips
• giant cow parsnip (Heracleum mantegazzianum)
• giant parsnip (Heracleum spp.)
• golden meadow parsnip (Zizia aurea)
• meadow parsnip
• parsnip chervil (Chaerophyllum bulbosum)
• poison parsnip (Pastinaca sativa)
• rough parsnip (Opopanax chironium))
• sea parsnip (Echinophora spp.)
• Victorian parsnip (Trachymene sp.)
• water parsnip (Sium spp.)
• wild parsnip (Pastinaca sativa)

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: パースニップ (pāsunippu)
• → Maori: pānipi

Translations

the plant Pastinaca sativa

Afrikaans: witwortel Arabic: جَزَر أَبْيَض‎ m (jazar ʾabyaḍ) Armenian: վայրի գազար (hy) (vayri gazar) Azerbaijani: cırhavuc, xımı Belarusian: пастарна́к m (pastarnák) Bengali: পার্সনিপ (parsônip) Bulgarian: пащърна́к (bg) m (paštǎrnák) Catalan: xirivia (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 歐防風, 欧防风 (au1 fong4 fung1) Mandarin: 歐防風／欧防风 (zh) (ōufángfēng) Czech: pastinák m, pastinák setý m Danish: pastinak c Dutch: pastinaak (nl) f Esperanto: pastinako Estonian: pastinaak Faroese: pastinakk Finnish: palsternakka (fi) French: panais (fr) m Galician: charouvía (gl) f, pastinaca (gl) f Georgian: ძირთეთრა (ʒirtetra) German: Pastinake (de) f Greek: παστινάκη f (pastináki) Hebrew: גזר לבן‎ m (gézer lavan) Hindi: गर्जरिका (garjarikā) Hungarian: pasztinák (hu) Ido: pastinako (io) Irish: meacan bán m Italian: pastinaca (it) f Japanese: パースニップ (pāsunippu) Kazakh: ботташық (bottaşyq) Korean: 파스닙 (paseunip) Latin: pastināca f Latvian: pastinaks m Lithuanian: pastarnokas m Macedonian: па́шканат m (páškanat) Maori: pānipi Norman: pânnais f (Jersey), pônais m (Guernsey) Norwegian: Bokmål: pastinakk (no) m Nynorsk: pastinakk m Persian: شقاقل‎ (fa) (šaqâqol) Polish: pasternak (pl) m Portuguese: pastinaca f, pastinaga f, cherovia f, cenoura-brava f Romanian: păstârnac (ro) m Russian: пастерна́к (ru) m (pastɛrnák) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пашка̀на̄т m, па̀стрна̄к m Roman: paškànāt (sh) m, pàstrnāk (sh) m Slovak: paštrnák m Slovene: pastinak m, rebrinec m Spanish: chirivía f Swedish: palsternacka (sv) c Tagalog: pastinaka Telugu: తినదగిన ఒకజాతి గడ్డ (tinadagina okajāti gaḍḍa) Turkish: yabani havuç (tr) Ukrainian: пастерна́к m (pasternák) Uzbek: pasternak Welsh: panasen Yiddish: פּאַסטערנאַק‎ m (pasternak)

the edible root of Pastinaca sativa

Afrikaans: witwortel Arabic: جَزَر أَبْيَض‎ (jazar ʾabyaḍ) Armenian: վայրի գազար (hy) (vayri gazar) Azerbaijani: cırhavuc, xımı Belarusian: пастарна́к m (pastarnák) Bulgarian: пащърна́к (bg) m (paštǎrnák) Catalan: xirivia (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 歐防風／欧防风 (zh) (ōufángfēng) Czech: pastinák m Dutch: pastinaak (nl) f Esperanto: pastinako Finnish: palsternakka (fi) French: panais (fr) m Galician: charouvía (gl) f German: Pastinake (de) f Greek: παστινάκι n (pastináki) Ancient: σίσαρον n (sísaron), ἐλαφόβοσκον n (elaphóboskon) Hebrew: גזר לבן‎ m (gézer lavan) Hungarian: pasztinák (hu), paszternák (hu) Icelandic: pastínakka f Ido: pastinako (io) Irish: meacan bán m, curran-geal, meacan-bàn m, meacan-bàn m Italian: pastinaca (it) f Japanese: パースニップ (pāsunippu) Korean: 파스닙 (paseunip) Latin: pastināca f Macedonian: па́шканат m (páškanat) Maori: pānipi, uhitea, pāhinipi Norman: pônais m Norwegian: pastinakk (no) Persian: زردک‎ (fa) (zardak), شقاقل‎ (fa) (šaqâqol) Plautdietsch: Postanak f Polish: pasternak (pl) m Portuguese: pastinaca f, pastinaga f, cherovia f, cenoura-brava f Romanian: păstârnac (ro) m Russian: пастерна́к (ru) m (pastɛrnák) Scottish Gaelic: curran geal m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пашка̀на̄т m, па̀стрна̄к m Roman: paškànāt (sh) m, pàstrnāk (sh) m Slovak: paštrnák m Slovene: pastinak m Spanish: chirivía f Swedish: palsternacka (sv) c Turkish: yabani havuç (tr) Ukrainian: пастерна́к m (pasternák) Welsh: panasen f Yiddish: פּאַסטערנאַק‎ m (pasternak)

References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=lP9IAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA282

Further reading

• parsnip on Wikipedia.Wikipedia