courgette

English

A courgette.

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French courgette, diminutive of courge (“vegetable marrow, marrow squash”). Ultimately related to zucchini through the original Latin cucurbita.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kʊɚˈʒɛt/, /kɔɹˈʒɛt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kʊəˈʒɛt/, /kɔːˈʒɛt/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

courgette (plural courgettes)

1. (British, Ireland, uncountable) A particular variety of Cucurbita pepo, a small marrow/squash.
2. (countable, cooking) The edible fruit of this marrow/squash.

Synonyms

• zucchini (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US)

Translations

a small marrow/squash

• Afrikaans: murgpampoentjie (af)
• Arabic: كُوسَا f (kūsā), كُوسَة f (kūsa)

  Egyptian Arabic: كوسة f (kōsa, kūsa)

  Hijazi Arabic: كُوسَة f (kūsa)

  Moroccan Arabic: قرعة (qarʕa)

• Armenian: ցուկկինի (cʻukkini)
• Belarusian: кабачо́к m (kabačók)
• Bulgarian: ти́квичка f (tíkvička)
• Catalan: carabassó m, carbassó m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 翠玉瓜 (ceoi³ juk⁶ gwaa¹) (Asian courgette/jade melon), 意大利青瓜 (ji³ daai⁶ lei⁶ ceng¹ gwa¹, literally “Italian cucumber”)

  Mandarin: 西葫蘆／西葫芦 (zh) (xīhúlu), 夏南瓜 (xiànánguā), ^{(please verify)} 北瓜 (zh) (běiguā)

• Cornish: pompik m
• Czech: cuketa (cs) f
• Danish: zucchini, courgette (da), squash
• Dutch: courgette (nl)
• Esperanto: kalabaseto
• Faroese: kursjetta f
• Finnish: kesäkurpitsa (fi)
• French: courgette (fr) f, zucchini (fr) m (Quebec)
• Galician: cabaciña (gl) f
• Georgian: ყაბაყი (q̇abaq̇i)
• German: Zucchini (de) f, Zucchetti f (Switzerland)
• Greek: κολοκυθάκι (el) n (kolokytháki)
• Greenlandic: squashi
• Hebrew: קישוא (he) m (kišú)
• Hungarian: cukkini (hu)
• Icelandic: kúrbítur (is) m, dvergbítur (is) m
• Irish: cúirséad m
• Italian: zucchino (it) m, zucchina (it) f
• Japanese: ズッキーニ (zukkīni)
• Kazakh: кәді (kk) (kädı)
• Korean: 주키니 (jukini)
• Ladino: kalavasa
• Latvian: kabacis (lv) m
• Lithuanian: cukinija f
• Macedonian: ти́квичка f (tíkvička)
• Maltese: ħjara f, qargħa bagħli f
• Maori: roroa
• Navajo: naayízítsʼósí
• Persian: کدو سبز (fa) (kadu sabz)
• Polish: cukinia (pl) f, kabaczek (pl) m
• Portuguese: abobrinha (pt) f (Brazil), curgete f
• Quechua: sapallu
• Romanian: dovlecel (ro)
• Romansch: zucchetti m
• Russian: цукки́ни (ru) m (cukkíni), кабачо́к (ru) m (kabačók)
• Serbo-Croatian: tikvica (sh) f, tikva (sh)
• Sicilian: cucuzzeḍḍa f
• Slovak: cuketa (sk) f, cukina (sk) f
• Slovene: bučka (sl) f
• Spanish: calabacín (es) m, (Mexico) calabacita f, (Argentina, Uruguay) zapallito m, (Chile) zapallo italiano m, (Peru) zapallito italiano m, zucchini m (Dominican Republic, Panama, Puerto Rico)
• Swedish: zucchini (sv), squash (sv)
• Tagalog: kalabasita, kalabasin
• Tarifit: taxsašt f, taxsayt f
• Tigrinya: ዙኪኒ (zukini)
• Turkish: kabak (tr)
• Ukrainian: кабачо́к (uk) m (kabačók)
• Venetian: sucàto
• Vietnamese: bí xanh
• Welsh: corbwmpen
• Yiddish: זוקיני f (zukini), קוסעלע n (kusele)

See also

• cucumber
• gherkin
• marrow
• pickle
• squash
• zucchini

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French courgette, diminutive formed from courge, ultimately from Latin cucurbita.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kurˈʒɛt/, /ˌkurˈʒɛ.tə/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: cour‧get‧te
• Rhymes: -ɛt, -ɛtə

Noun

courgette f (plural courgettes)

1. A courgette, a zucchini (fruit).
2. The courgette plant, a variety of Cucurbita pepo

French

Etymology

From courge (“vegetable marrow, marrow squash”) +‎ -ette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuʁ.ʒɛt/

• audio

  (file)

• Audio (Paris)

  (file)

Noun

courgette f (plural courgettes)

1. courgette (UK), zucchini (Australia, Canada, US)

Descendants

• → Dutch: courgette
• → English: courgette
• → Portuguese: curgete

Further reading

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