spinach

English

spinach leaves (Spinacia oleracea)

Alternative forms

• spinage (obsolete)
• spinnach (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English spinach, from Anglo-Norman spinache, from Old French espinoche, from Old Occitan espinarc, from Arabic إِسْفَانَاخ (ʔisfānāḵ), from Classical Persian اسپناخ (ispanāx, ispināx).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈspɪnɪt͡ʃ/, /ˈspɪnɪd͡ʒ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪnɪtʃ, -ɪnɪdʒ

Noun

spinach (countable and uncountable, plural spinaches)

1. A particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea, or its leaves.
2. Any of numerous plants, or their leaves, which are used for greens in the same way Spinacia oleraceae is or resemble it in some way.

Derived terms

• African spinach (various nightshade, legume, and Cucurbitaceae species)
• Botany Bay spinach (Tetragonia tetragonioides)
• buffalo spinach (Basella alba)
• Cape spinach (Emex australis)
• Ceylon spinach (Basella alba)
• Chinese spinach (Amaranthus dubius)
• cholesterol spinach (Gynura nepalensis)
• climbing spinach (vine spinach (Basella alba)
• creeping spinach (Basella alba)
• Cuban spinach (Claytonia perfoliata, syn. Montia perfoliata)
• Egyptian spinach
• French spinach (Atriplex spp., Chenopodium rubrum)
• gammon and spinach
• Lincolnshire spinach (Blitum bonus-henricus, syn. Chenopodium bonus-henricus)
• Malabar spinach (Basella alba)
• Mollucan spinach (Gynura nepalensis)
• mountain spinach (Atriplex hortensis)
• mustard spinach (Brassica juncea)
• Navajo spinach (Cleome serrulata)
• New Zealand spinach (Tetragonia tetragonioides, syn. Tetragonia expansa)
• Okinawan spinach (Gynura bicolor)
• perpetual spinach (Beta vulgaris)
• red spinach (Amaranthus dubius; Trianthema triquetra)
• red vine spinach (Basella alba)
• sand and spinach
• Sissoo spinach (Alternanthera sessilis, syn. Alternanthera sissoo)
• spinach beet (Beta vulgaris)
• spinach dip
• spinach dock (Rumex acetosa)
• spinach mustard
• strawberry spinach (Chenopodium capitatum)
• tree spinach (Cnidoscolus aconitifolius, Cnidoscolus chayamansa)
• vine spinach (Basella alba)
• water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica)
• wild spinach (various nightshade, legume, and Cucurbitaceae species)

Translations

a particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea

• Afrikaans: spinasie
• Albanian: spinaqi
• Amharic: ቆስጣ (qosṭa)
• Arabic: سَبَانِخ (ar) m (sabāniḵ), إِسْفَانَاخ m (ʔisfānāḵ)

  Egyptian Arabic: سبانخ f pl (sabāniḵ)

  Moroccan Arabic: سبناخ (subnāḵ), بقولة (baqqūla)

• Armenian: սպանախ (hy) (spanax)

  Middle Armenian: սպանախ (spanax), շոմին (šomin), ծմել (cmel)

• Aromanian: spãnac n
• Assamese: পালেং শাক (palêng xak), পালেং (palêng)
• Azerbaijani: ispanaq
• Belarusian: шпіна́т m (špinát)
• Bole: alayyapo
• Bulgarian: спанак (bg) m (spanak)
• Catalan: espinac (ca) m
• Central Dusun: sansam
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 菠菜 (bo¹ coi³)

  Mandarin: 菠菜 (zh) (bōcài)

• Czech: špenát (cs) m
• Danish: spinat (da) c
• Dutch: spinazie (nl) m
• Duwai: alayaho
• Dzongkha: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: spinaco (eo)
• Faroese: spinat n
• Finnish: pinaatti (fi)
• French: épinards (fr) m pl
• Galician: espiñaca f, espinaca (gl) f
• Georgian: ისპანახი (isṗanaxi)
• German: Spinat (de) m
• Greek: σπανάκι (el) n (spanáki)

  Ancient: σπανακόν n (spanakón), σπάναξ m (spánax)

• Greenlandic: spinatit
• Gujarati: પાલક f (pālak)
• Hausa: alayyaho (ha)
• Hawaiian: ʻīnika
• Hebrew: תרד (he) m (tered)
• Hindi: पालक (hi) (pālak)
• Hungarian: spenót (hu), paraj (hu)
• Hunsrik: Spinaat m
• Icelandic: spínat (is) n
• Ido: spinato (io)
• Indonesian: bayam (id)
• Interlingua: spinacia
• Irish: spionáiste m
• Italian: spinacio (it) m
• Japanese: 菠薐草 (ja) (ほうれんそう, hōrensō)
• Javanese: ꦧꦪꦼꦩ꧀ (bayem)
• Kannada: ಪಾಲಕ್ (pālak)
• Karekare: alayyaho
• Kazakh: асжапырақ (asjapyraq)
• Korean: 시금치 (ko) (sigeumchi)
• Kumyk: испанакъ (ispanaq)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئەسپەناخ (espenax), سپێناخ (spênax)

  Northern Kurdish: spînax (ku) f, siyale

• Kyrgyz: шпинат (şpinat)
• Latin: blitum n, spinacia
• Latvian: spināti pl
• Luxembourgish: Päinetsch m
• Macedonian: спанаќ m (spanaḱ)
• Malagasy: lalada
• Malay: bayam
• Maltese: spinaċi f, bqajla f
• Manchu: ᠪᡠᠯᠠ
  ᠰᠣᡤᡳ (bula sogi)
• Maori: rengarenga, rengamutu, kōkihi
• Marathi: पालक n (pālak)
• Navajo: waaʼ
• Norman: bette f
• Norwegian: spinat (no)
• Occitan: espinac (oc) m
• Persian: اسفناج (fa) (esfenâj)
• Plautdietsch: Spinnat m
• Polish: szpinak (pl) m
• Portuguese: espinafre (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਪਾਲਕ f (pālak)
• Romanian: spanac (ro) n
• Romansch: spinat m
• Russian: шпина́т (ru) m (špinát)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: спанаћ m, шпинат m

  Roman: spanać m, špinat (sh) m

• Slovak: špenát m
• Slovene: špinača f
• Spanish: espinaca (es) f
• Swahili: mchicha (sw)
• Swedish: spenat (sv) c
• Sylheti: ꠢꠣꠉ (hag)
• Tachawit: abitas (shy)
• Tagalog: espinaka
• Tajik: исфаноҷ (isfanoj)
• Thai: ปวยเล้ง (th) (bpuai-léng)
• Tigrinya: ስፒናቺ (səpinači)
• Turkish: ıspanak (tr), ısmalak
• Turkmen: ysmanak
• Ukrainian: шпина́т m (špynát)
• Uzbek: ismaloq (uz)
• Vietnamese: rau bina, rau chân vịt
• Volapük: spinad
• Walloon: spinasse (wa) f, spinåd (wa) m
• Xhosa: isipinatshi class 7/8
• Yiddish: שפּינאַט m (shpinat), שפּינאַק m (shpinak)

See also

• Popeye

Anagrams

• Chapins

Middle English

Alternative forms

• spinage, spynache, spynage, spinoch, spynoch, spinarge, spynarche

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman spinache, from Old Occitan espinarc, from Arabic إِسْفَانَاخ (ʔisfānāḵ), from Persian اسپناخ (espanâx).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspinatʃ(ə)/, /ˈspinadʒ(ə)/, /ˈspinartʃ(ə)/

Noun

spinach (plural spinoches)

1. spinach (Spinacia oleracea)

Descendants

• English: spinach

References

• “spinache, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-24.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspi.nax/
• Rhymes: -inax
• Syllabification: spi‧nach

Noun

spinach m

1. locative plural of spin

Noun

spinach f

1. locative plural of spina