water chestnut

English

Chinese water chestnut corms, Eleocharis dulcis

Wikispecies

Noun

water chestnut (countable and uncountable, plural water chestnuts)

1. (uncountable) Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis), grown for its edible corm, used in Asian cooking.
2. (countable) A corm of a plant of this species.
3. A water caltrop (Trapa natans).

Usage notes

• The usage of water chestnut for the water caltrop is best avoided, so as to prevent confusion

Translations

Eleocharis dulcis

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 馬蹄／马蹄 (yue) (ma⁵ tai^4-2)

  Hakka: 馬薺／马荠 (mâ-chhì)

  Hokkien: 馬薺／马荠 (zh-min-nan) (bé-chî)

  Mandarin: 荸薺／荸荠 (zh) (bíqí), 馬蹄／马蹄 (zh) (mǎtí), 葧薺／葧荠 (zh) (bóqí), 鳧茨／凫茨 (fúcí), 鳧茈／凫茈 (zh) (fúcí), 地栗 (dìlì), 烏芋／乌芋 (zh) (wūyù)

• Danish: vandkastanje c
• Finnish: vesikastanja
• French: châtaigne d’eau chinoise (fr) f
• German: Wasserkastanie f
• Hindi: सिंघाड़ा (siṅghāṛā)
• Irish: castán uisce m
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 白慈姑
• Korean: 남방개 (nambanggae)
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: болотница сладкая f (bolotnica sladkaja)
• Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: castaña de agua china f
• Swedish: vattenkastanj (sv) c
• Tagalog: apulid
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: năn ngọt

corm of this species

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 馬蹄／马蹄 (yue) (ma⁵ tai^4-2)

  Hakka: 馬薺／马荠 (mâ-chhì)

  Hokkien: 馬薺／马荠 (zh-min-nan) (bé-chî)

  Mandarin: 荸薺／荸荠 (zh) (bíqí), 馬蹄／马蹄 (zh) (mǎtí), 葧薺／葧荠 (zh) (bóqí), 鳧茨／凫茨 (fúcí), 鳧茈／凫茈 (zh) (fúcí), 地栗 (dìlì), 烏芋／乌芋 (zh) (wūyù)

• Finnish: vesikastanja
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: vattenkastanj (sv) c
• Zhuang: maxdaez, lwgcid, lwgcwd

water caltrop — see water caltrop