rutabaga

rutabaga

English

Alternative forms

• ruta-baga

Etymology

1799, borrowed from Swedish rotabagge, a dialectal word from Västergötland, from rot (“root”) +‎ bagge (“lump, bunch”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹutəˌbeɪɡə/

Noun

rutabaga roots

rutabaga (usually uncountable, plural rutabagas)

1. (now Canada, US) The swede, or Swedish turnip; the European plant Brassica napus var. napobrassica
2. (now Canada, US) The edible root of this plant
   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     Sometimes your royal dogs tear down our thatch,
     And then we seek the shelter of a ditch;
     Hog-wash or grains, or ruta-baga, none
     Has yet been ours since your reign begun.

Synonyms

• swede, Swedish turnip

Translations

plant

Belarusian: бручка f (bručka) Breton: irvin-saoz (br) (collective) Bulgarian: брюква f (brjukva) Czech: tuřín (cs) m Danish: kålroe Dutch: koolraap (nl) f Esperanto: napo Finnish: lanttu (fi) French: rutabaga (fr) m, chou-navet (fr) m German: Kohlrübe (de) f Hungarian: karórépa (hu) Icelandic: gulrófa (is) f, rófa (is) f Italian: ravizzone (it) f Japanese: カブハボタン (kabuhabotan) Korean: 무 (ko) (mu), 나복 (nabok) Macedonian: жолто цвекло n (žolto cveklo) Norman: suidiche f Norwegian: Bokmål: kålrot m or f Nynorsk: kålrot f Polish: brukiew (pl) f Portuguese: rutabaga (pt) f Russian: брю́ква (ru) f (brjúkva) Scottish Gaelic: snèap f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: репа Roman: repa (sh) Slovak: kvaka Spanish: nabo sueco m Swedish: kålrot (sv) c, rotabagge m (dialectal, Västergötland) Turkish: şalgam (tr)

edible root

Armenian: շաղգամ (hy) (šałgam), գոնգեղ (hy) (gongeł) Belarusian: бручка f (bručka) Breton: irvin-saoz (br) (collective) Bulgarian: брюква f (brjukva) Chinese: Mandarin: 大頭菜／大头菜 (zh) (dàtóucài) Czech: tuřín (cs) m Danish: kålroe Dutch: koolraap (nl) f Esperanto: napo Estonian: kaalikas (et) Faroese: kálrót f Finnish: lanttu (fi) French: rutabaga (fr) m, chou-navet (fr) m Georgian: მიწამხალა (mic̣amxala) German: schwedische Rübe f, Kohlrübe (de) f, Steckrübe (de) f Greek: γουλί (el) n (goulí) Icelandic: gulrófa (is) f, rófa (is) f Irish: svaeid m Italian: ravizzone (it) f Japanese: カブハボタン (kabuhabotan), カブカンラン (kabukanran), ルタバガ (rutabaga) Kazakh: тарна (tarna) Komi-Zyrian: галанка (galanka) Korean: 무 (ko) (mu), 나복 (nabok) Latgalian: grīziņs Latvian: kālis (lv) Macedonian: жолто цвекло n (žolto cveklo) Maori: tuwīti tānapu, tuwīti Navajo: tséyaa hataałí Norman: suidiche f Norwegian: Bokmål: kålrot m or f Nynorsk: kålrot f Polish: brukiew (pl) f Portuguese: rutabaga (pt) f, colza (pt) f, nabo da Suécia m, couve-nabiça f, couve-nabo (pt) f Romanian: nap suedez m, nap (ro) Russian: брю́ква (ru) f (brjúkva) Scots: swade Scottish Gaelic: turnip, neep, snèap f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: репа Roman: repa (sh) Slovak: kvaka f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: kulawa f, kulawka f Spanish: colinabo m, nabo sueco m Swedish: kålrot (sv) c, rotabagge m (dialectal, Västergötland) Tagalog: nabikol, kolinabo Turkish: şalgam (tr) Welsh: swedsen (cy) f, rwden f (North Wales) Yiddish: ברוקווע‎ f (brukve)

References

1. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “rutabaga”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁy.ta.ba.ɡa/

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Noun

rutabaga m (plural rutabagas)

1. swede, rutabaga (yellow root of Brassica napus)

Further reading

• “rutabaga”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish rotabagge, a dialectal word from Västergötland, from rot (“root”) +‎ bagge (“lump, bunch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ru.taˈba.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Hyphenation: ru‧ta‧bà‧ga

Noun

rutabaga f (plural rutabaghe)

1. Synonym of navone (“oilseed rape”)

Further reading

• rutabaga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Portuguese

Noun

rutabaga f (plural rutabagas)

1. rutabaga (Brassica napus, a plant with an edible root)

   Synonyms: colza, nabo da Suécia, couve-nabiça, couve-nabo