xirivia
Catalan
Etymology
From Andalusian Arabic / Arabic كَرَاوِيَا (karāwiyā, “caraway”) (because viewed as a plant caraway and parsnip are similar, of the same subfamily, Apioideae).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /ʃi.ɾiˈvi.ə/
- (Central) IPA(key): /ʃi.ɾiˈbi.ə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /t͡ʃi.ɾiˈvi.a/
Noun
xirivia f (plural xirivies)
- parsnip
- Coordinate term: pastanaga
Derived terms
- xirivia silvestre
Further reading
- “xirivia” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “xirivia”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “xirivia” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019) Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, page 295