carrot

carrot

English

Carrots

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English karette and Middle French carotte, both from Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek καρῶτον (karôton). Doublet of carotte and related to caraway. Displaced native Old English mōre.

• Noun sense of "motivational tool" refers to carrot and stick.
• Verb sense in felt manufacture refers to the orange colour of drying furs.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: kâr'ət, IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹ.ət/; enPR: kĕr'ət, IPA^(key): /ˈkɛɹ.ət/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kâr'ət, IPA^(key): /ˈkæɹ.ət/

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• Rhymes: -æɹət
• Homophones: carat, karat
• (weak vowel merger) Homophone: caret
• Hyphenation: car‧rot

Noun

carrot (countable and uncountable, plural carrots)

1. A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, especially the subspecies sativus in the family Apiaceae.
2. A shade of orange similar to the flesh of most carrots (also called carrot orange).

   carrot:  

3. (figurative) Any motivational tool; an incentive to do something.
   • 2022 August 7, Coral Davenport; Lisa Friedman, “Five Decades in the Making: Why It Took Congress So Long to Act on Climate”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:

     Essentially, lawmakers replaced the sticks with carrots.

4. (UK, slang, derogatory) Someone from a rural background.
5. (UK, slang) A police officer from somewhere within the British Isles, but specifically outside of Greater London.
6. (slang) A redhead; a ginger-haired person

Synonyms

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Derived terms

• baby carrot
• baby-cut carrot
• Camberwell carrot
• carrot-and-stick
• carrot and stick
• carrot bag
• carrot cake
• carrot cruncher
• carrotless
• carrotlike
• carrot-top
• carrot top
• carrot-topped
• carrot weevil
• carroty
• deadly carrot
• like peas and carrots
• stick and carrot
• stick-and-carrot

 

Translations

Daucus carota ssp. sativus

Abkhaz: ажьаҷыркәа (ažačʼərkʷʼa) Adyghe: пхъы (pχə) Afrikaans: wortel (af) Alabama: assikchi laana Albanian: karotë (sq) f Alviri-Vidari: (Vidari) گزر‎ (gazer) Amharic: ካሮት (karot) Apache: Western Apache: bikéghad ágoleʼí Arabic: جَزَر‎ m (jazar) Egyptian Arabic: جزرة‎ f (gazara), جزر‎ m (gazar) Hijazi Arabic: جُزَر‎ m (juzar) Libyan Arabic: سفناري‎ m (sfənnāri), سفنارية‎ m (sfənnāriyya) Moroccan Arabic: خيزو‎ m (xīzzo), زرودية‎ m (zrūdiyya), جعدة‎ m (jaʕda) Aragonese: azanoria f Aramaic: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܓܸܙܵܪܵܐ‎ m (gizara) Classical Syriac: ܓܙܪܐ‎ m (gezzārā) Arapaho: yeneinit Armenian: գազար (hy) (gazar), ստեպղին (hy) (stepłin) Aromanian: morcuvu m Assamese: গাজৰ (gazor) Asturian: cenahoria (ast) f, zanahoria (ast) f Avar: ламадур (lamadur) Azerbaijani: kök (az), yerkökü Baluchi: گزرک‎ (gizirk, gazirk) Bashkir: кишер (kişer) Basque: azenario (eu) Bavarian: gelbe ruam Belarusian: мо́рква f (mórkva) Bengali: গাজর (bn) (gajôrô) Bhojpuri: गाजर m (gājar) Breton: karotezenn (br) f Brunei Malay: lubak mirah Bulgarian: мо́рков (bg) m (mórkov) Burmese: မုန်လာဥဝါ (my) (munlau.wa), မုန်လာဥနီ (my) (munlau.ni) Buryat: морхооб (morxoob) Catalan: pastenaga (ca) f, pastanaga (ca) f, carrota (ca) f, safanòria (ca) f Cebuano: sanahorya Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⴰⴼⴻⵙⵏⴰⵅⵜ f (tafesnaxt) Central Dusun: lubak Chechen: жӏонка (žˀonka) Cherokee: ᎠᏓᎵᏥᏍᏗᏍᎩ (adalitsisdisgi) Cheyenne: anonévee'tose Chichewa: kaloti class 1a/2 Chinese: Cantonese: 紅蘿蔔, 红萝卜 (hung4 lo4 baak6), 胡蘿蔔, 胡萝卜 (wu4 lo4 baak6) Dungan: хуонлуәбу (huonluəbu) Mandarin: 胡蘿蔔／胡萝卜 (zh) (húluóbo), 紅蘿蔔／红萝卜 (zh) (hóngluóbo) Min Nan: 紅菜頭 (zh-min-nan), 红菜头 (âng-chhài-thâu), 紅蘿蔔, 红萝卜 (âng-lâ-pa̍k), 紅蘿蔔仔, 红萝卜仔 (âng-lo̍k-po̍k-á), 番蘿蔔, 番萝卜 (hoan-lô͘-po̍k), 蘿蔔, 萝卜 (nâ-po̍k), 山蘿蔔, 山萝卜 (soaⁿ-lô-po̍k), 蘿蔔菜, 萝卜菜 (lâ-pa̍k-chhài), lîn-jín, ji̋n-jín, li̋n-jím, li̋n-chín, li̋n-jín, jîn-jîn Chuvash: кишӗр (kiš̬ĕr) Classical Nahuatl: Caxtīllān camohtli Cornish: karetys f Cree: ᐅᐢᑳᑖᐢᐠ (oskaataask) Crimean Tatar: markof Czech: mrkev (cs) f Dakota: phąǧí Danish: gulerod (da) c Dargwa: набадари (nabadari) Dhivehi: ކެރެޓް‎ (kereṭ) Dongxiang: tuma Dutch: wortel (nl) m, peen (nl) f Erzya: пурька (purʹka) Esperanto: karoto (eo) Estonian: porgand (et) Evenki: моркопка (morkopka) Faroese: gularót f Fijian: kareti (fj) Finnish: porkkana (fi) French: carotte (fr) f Friulian: caròtule f Galician: cenoria (gl) f Georgian: სტაფილო (sṭapilo) German: Möhre (de) f, Mohrrübe (de) f, Karotte (de) f, Rüebli n (Swiss), gelbe Rübe (de) f (regional) Alemannic German: Rüebli n Pennsylvania German: Gehlrieb f Greek: καρότο (el) n (karóto) Ancient: καρῶτον n (karôton), καρωτόν n (karōtón) (later, Koine) Greenlandic: kuloruuju, musaq, gulerodi Gujarati: ગાજર (gu) m or n (gājar) Haitian Creole: karòt Halkomelem: xáwéq Hawaiian: kāloke Hebrew: גזר‎ (he) m (gezer) Hindi: गाजर (hi) m (gājar), गज़र m (gazar) Hungarian: sárgarépa (hu), répa (hu) Hunsrik: Gellebrieb f Icelandic: gulrót (is) f Ido: karoto (io) Indonesian: wortel (id) Irish: cairéad m, meacan dearg m Italian: carota (it) f Japanese: ニンジン (ja) (ninjin), 人参 (ja) (にんじん, ninjin) Kabardian: пхъы (pχə) Kabuverdianu: sinóra Kalmyk: шар луувң (shar luuvng), марку (marku) Kannada: ಗಜ್ಜರಿ (kn) (gajjari), ಕೆಂಪು ಮೂಲಂಗಿ (kn) (kempu mūlaṅgi) Karachay-Balkar: быхы (bıxı) Karakalpak: geshir Kashmiri: गाज़्रुर f (gāzrur) Kazakh: сәбіз (kk) (säbız) Khasi: kajor m Khmer: ការ៉ុត (kaarot) Komi-Permyak: гӧрдкушман (gördkušman) Korean: 당근 (ko) (danggeun) Kumyk: чыта (çıta), къызыл чыта (qızıl çıta) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: گوێزەر‎ (ku) (gwêzer) Northern Kurdish: gêzer (ku) f Kyrgyz: сабиз (ky) (sabiz), зардек (ky) (zardek) Ladino: safanórya f, karota f Lak: къур (q:ur) Lao: ຫົວກາລົດ (lo) (hūa kā lot) Latin: daucum n, carōta f Latvian: burkāns m Leonese: acenoria f Lezgi: газар (gazar) Ligurian: caròttoa f Limburgish: moeër f, moer (li) m Lithuanian: morka (lt) f Lombard: caròtola f Low German: Wortel f Luganda: kalati Luhya: please add this translation if you can Luxembourgish: Muert f, Wuerzel f Macedonian: морков m (morkov) Maithili: गाजर (gājar) Malagasy: karaoty (mg), karoty (mg) Malay: wortel (ms), karot, lobak merah Malayalam: ശീമമുള്ളങ്കിച്ചെടി (śīmamuḷḷaṅkicceṭi) Maltese: zunnarija f, karrota f Manx: carradje m Maori: kāreti, u(w)hikaramea Marathi: गाजर n (gājar) Mazanderani: گزر‎ (gazer) Mi'kmaq: enmapejit Moksha: пурьхкя (purʹxkja) Mongolian: шар лууван (šar luuvan), лууван (mn) (luuvan) Navajo: chąąshtʼezhiitsoh Neapolitan: pastenaca Nepali: गाजर् (gājar) Nogai: пыхы (pıxı) Norman: cârotte f North Frisian: wochel Northern Sami: rušpi Norwegian: gulrot c Occitan: pastenaga (oc) f, carròta (oc) f Ojibwe: okaadaakoons, okaadaak Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: мръкꙑ (mrŭky) Old English: mōre f Oriya: ଗାଜର (or) (gajôrô) Ossetian: (Digor): ӕпхӕ (æpxæ) (Iron): уырыдзы (wyryʒy) Papiamentu: karòt Persian: هویج‎ (fa) (havij), گزر‎ (fa) (gazar), زردک‎ (fa) (zardak) (Dari) Picard: càrote f Plautdietsch: Jalmäa f Polish: marchewka (pl) f, marchew (pl) f Portuguese: cenoura (pt) f Punjabi: ਗਾਜਰ (pa) f (gājar) Quechua: sanawrya Rohingya: please add this translation if you can Romagnol: please add this translation if you can Romanian: morcov (ro) m, carotă (ro) f Romansch: risch melna f, rischmelna f, carotta f, riebla f, ragisch cotschna f, carota f Russian: морко́вь (ru) f (morkóvʹ), (colloquial) морко́вка (ru) f (morkóvka), (regional) морква́ (ru) f (morkvá), мо́рква (ru) f (mórkva) Rwanda-Rundi: ikaroti class 9/6 Samoan: taloti Sanskrit: गाजरम् (sa) n (gājaram), गृञ्जनकम् n (gṛñjanakam), गार्जर (sa) m (gārjara) Sardinian: fostinaja m, frustinaca f Scottish Gaelic: curran m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: мрква f, шаргарепа f Roman: mrkva (sh) f, šargarepa (sh) f Shor: марқоп (marqop) Sicilian: carota (scn) f Sindhi: گَجَرَ‎ f (gājara) Slovak: mrkva (sk) f Slovene: korenje (sl) n, korenček m inan, mŕkev f (Eastern) Somali: dabacase m, karooto f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: marchwej f Upper Sorbian: morchej f Sotho: sehwete (st) class 9/10 Southern Altai: моркоп (morkop) Spanish: zanahoria (es) f Swahili: karoti class 9/10 Swedish: morot (sv) c Tabasaran: кьучӏ (q̇uč̣) Tachawit: xizzu (shy) Tagalog: asanorya, asinorya, karot Tajik: сабзӣ (tg) (sabzī), бехӣ (bexī) Tamil: காரட் (ta) (kāraṭ) Tatar: кишер (tt) (kişer) Telugu: కారెట్ (kāreṭ) Thai: แครอท (kɛɛ-rɔ̀t), แคร์รอต (th) (kɛɛ-rɔ̀t) Tibetan: ལ་ཕུག་དམར་པོ (la phug dmar po) Tigrinya: ካሮቲ (karoti) Tiwi: rani f Tofa: моърһооқ (moʺrhooq) Tswana: segwete Turkish: havuç (tr) Turkmen: käşir Tuvan: please add this translation if you can Udi: кӏаьзаьр (ḳäzär) Udmurt: ӵужкушман (čužkušman) Ukrainian: мо́рква f (mórkva) Urdu: گاجر‎ m (gājar), گزر‎ m (gazar) Uyghur: سەۋزە‎ (sewze) Uzbek: sabzi (uz) Venetian: cavaƚón m Vietnamese: cà rốt (vi), ca rốt Vilamovian: mien f Volapük: dauk (vo) Võro: põrgnas Walloon: raecene (wa) f, carote (wa) f Wappo: síṭukh Waray-Waray: karot Welsh: moron (cy) f pl West Flemish: karote f West Frisian: woartel (fy) c Wolof: karoot Xhosa: umnqathe class 3/4 Yakut: моркуоп (morkuop) Yiddish: מייער‎ m (meyer), מער‎ f (mer) Yoruba: kárọ́ọ̀tì Zealandic: peeë f Zhuang: lauxbaeghoengz Zulu: ikhalothi (zu) class 5/6, ukherothi class 1a/2a

shade

Finnish: porkkananpunainen, porkkanankeltainen Greek: καροτί (el) (karotí)

motivational tool

Bulgarian: морков (bg) m (morkov) Czech: cukr (cs) m Danish: gulerod (da) c Finnish: porkkana (fi) Russian: пря́ник (ru) m (prjánik) Swedish: morot (sv) c

See also

• 🥕
• Queen Anne's lace

References

• carrot in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Verb

carrot (third-person singular simple present carrots, present participle carroting, simple past and past participle carroted)

1. (transitive) To treat (an animal pelt) with a solution of mercuric nitrate as part of felt manufacture.

Derived terms

• carroting

Anagrams

• trocar