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Etymology
From Anglo-Norman caboche, "head", from the Picard or Norman/Old Northern French dialect of Old French. This in turn is a variant of the Old French caboce, possibly related to boce (“hump, bump”); cf. also Latin caput.
Pronunciation
Noun
A head of cabbage.
cabbage (countable and uncountable; plural cabbages)
- An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
- (uncountable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
- Cabbage is good for you.
- (countable, offensive) A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
- After the car crash, he became a cabbage.
- Used as a term of endearment.
- 2009, Tom Stoppard, Helen Rappaport, The Cherry Orchard, translation of Вишнëвый сад ("Vishniovy sad") by Anton Chekhov, published 1904, page 31:
- If you deceive me, Yasha, I don't know if my nerves could stand it. YASHA (kissing her) My little cabbage! Of course, a girl must know her place.
- (uncountable, slang) Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.
- (uncountable, slang) Money
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana leaf, the part you don't smoke but have to first extract into cannabutter and bake into spacecake to get high off.
Synonyms
- (plant): cabbage plant, cole
- (leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable): cole, greens
- (person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage): vegetable
Translations
plant
- Afrikaans: kool (af)
- Albanian: lakër (sq)
- Arabic: ملفوف (ar) (malfūf) m, كرنب (ar) (kurunb) m
- Egyptian Arabic: كرنب (kuronb) m pl
- Armenian: կաղամբ (hy) (kaġamb)
- Aromanian: verdzu (rup), cucean (rup)
- Azeri: kələm (az)
- Bashkir: кәбеҫтә (käbeθtä)
- Belarusian: капуста (be) (kapústa) f
- Bulgarian: зеле (bg) (zele) n
- Burmese: ဂေါ်ဖီထုပ် (my) (go bi dou')
- Catalan: col (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 捲心菜 (cmn), 卷心菜 (cmn) (juǎnxīncài), 高麗菜 (cmn), 高丽菜 (cmn) (gāolícài), 洋白菜 (cmn) (yángbáicài), 包心菜 (cmn) (bāoxīncài)
- Crimean Tatar: qapısta
- Czech: zelí (cs) n
- Danish: kål (da) c
- Dutch: kool (nl) m
- Esperanto: brasiko (eo)
- Estonian: kapsas (et)
- Faroese: hvítkál (fo) n
- Finnish: kaali (fi)
- French: chou (fr) m
- Friulian: cauli, brocul, verge
- Georgian: კომბოსტო (ka) (kombosto)
- German: Kohl (de) m
- Greek: κράμβη (el) (krámvi) f, λάχανο (el) (láchano) n
- Ancient: κράμβη (krambe) f
- Guernésiais: caboche f
- Hebrew: כְּרוּב (he) (kruv) m
- Hindi: गोभी (hi) (gobhī) f
- Hungarian: káposzta (hu)
- Icelandic: hvítkál (is) n
- Ido: kaulo (io)
- Indonesian: kubis (id)
- Irish: cabáiste (ga) m, cál (ga) m
- Italian: cavolo (it) m
- Japanese: キャベツ (ja) (kyabetsu)
- Jèrriais: caboche f
- Kazakh: қырыққабат (kk) (qırıqqabat), орамжапырақ (kk) (oramjapıraq), капуста (kk) (kapusta)
- Khmer: ស្ពៃក្ដោប (km) (spey kdaop)
- Kinyarwanda: ishu (rw)
- Korean: 양배추 (ko) (yangbaechu)
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- Kurdish: kebic (ku)
- Kyrgyz: капуста (ky) (kapusta)
- Kölsch: Kappes
- Lao: ກາດຫໍ່ (lo) (kȁːt hɔ̄ː), ກະລຳປີ (lo) (kálámpìː)
- Latvian: kāposts (lv) m
- Lithuanian: kopūstas (lt) m
- Macedonian: зелка (mk) (zélka) f
- Malay: kubis (ms)
- Maltese: kaboċċa (mt) f
- Mongolian: байцаа (mn) (bajtsaa)
- Navajo: chʼil łigaii, atʼééké bijish
- Norwegian: hodekål (no), kål (no) m
- Occitan: caulet (oc) m
- Persian: کلم (fa) (kalam), (rare) کرم (fa) (karam)
- Polish: kapusta (pl) f
- Portuguese: repolho (pt) m, couve (pt)
- Romanian: varză (ro) f
- Romansch: giabus (rm) m, gibus (rm) m, gibo (rm) m, baguos (rm) m, tiasta (rm) f, cavazza (rm) f
- Russian: капуста (ru) (kapústa) f
- Sardinian: càule (sc) m
- Scots: cabbitch
- Scottish Gaelic: càl (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: купус (sh) m, зеље (sh) n
- Latin: kupus (sh) m, zelje (sh) n
- Slovak: kapusta (sk) f
- Slovene: zelje (sl) n
- Sotho: khabetjhe (st)
- Spanish: col (es) f, repollo (es) m, berza (es) f
- Swedish: vitkål (sv) c, kål (sv) c
- Tajik: карам (tg) (karam)
- Taos: kùli’ína
- Tatar: кәбестә (tt) (käbestä)
- Thai: กะหล่ำปลี (th) (gà-làm bplee)
- Turkish: lahana (tr)
- Turkmen: kellem (tk), kelem (tk)
- Ukrainian: капуста (uk) (kapústa) f
- Urdu: گوبھی (ur) (gobhī) f
- Uzbek: karam (uz)
- Vietnamese: cải bắp (vi)
- Volapük: brasid (vo)
- Welsh: bresych (cy), bresychen (cy)
- Yiddish: קרויט (yi) (kroyt) n
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leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable
person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage
money
- Bulgarian: книжни пари (bg) (knižni pari)
- Russian: капуста (ru) (kapústa) f
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Verb
cabbage (third-person singular simple present cabbages, present participle cabbaging, simple past and past participle cabbaged)
- (intransitive) To form a head like that of the cabbage; as, to make lettuce cabbage.
- (intransitive) To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.
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