Galangal root
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Etymology
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From Middle English galyngale , from Old French galingal , from Arabic خَلَنْجَان ( ḵalanjān ) , from Persian قولنجان ( qulenjân, qulanjân ) , from Sanskrit कुलञ्जन ( kulañjana ) , perhaps from Chinese 高良薑 / 高良姜 (gāoliángjiāng ), from 高涼 / 高凉 ( Gāoliáng ) (a prefecture or county in China) + 薑 / 姜 ( jiāng , “ ginger ” ) .
Pronunciation
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galangal (countable and uncountable , plural galangals )
Any of several east Asian plants of genera Alpinia and Kaempferia in the ginger family, used as a spice, but principally Alpinia galanga .
2008 , Carol Selva Rajah, David Thompson, Heavenly Fragrance [1] , page 144 :The refreshing aroma of galangal acts in combination with and as a contrast to lemongrass in many recipes in this book.
2023 July 15, Rachel Cooke, “No, Nigella – dinner parties are great. Deliveroo just doesn’t cut it”, in The Observer [2] , →ISSN :Another time, she dined in Hampstead, where she was fed a version of stargazy pie with a whole squid where the eel should have been. It was flavoured, for the full medieval effect, with galangal , which her hostess described as “kind of like frankincense”.
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Translations
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any of several plants of the ginger family
Arabic: خَوْلَنْجَان m ( ḵawlanjān )
Assamese: please add this translation if you can
Bengali: please add this translation if you can
Burmese: ပတဲကော (my) ( pa.tai:kau: )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 高良薑 / 高良姜 (zh) ( gāoliángjiāng )
Czech: galgán m , galgant m
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: laos (nl)
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: galanga (fi)
French: galangue (fr) , galanga (fr) m
German: Galgant (de) m
Greek: χαυλιτζάνι ( chavlitzáni )
Ancient: γάλαγγα ( gálanga ) , ζέρνα f ( zérna ) , κύπειρον n ( kúpeiron )
Gujarati: કોલિંજન ( koliñjan )
Hindi: कुलंजन (hi) ( kulañjan )
Indonesian: laos (id) , lengkuas (id)
Italian: galanga (it)
Japanese: please add this translation if you can
Khmer: មើមខ្ញី ( məəm kɲəy ) , រំដេង (km) ( rumdeeng )
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Lao: ຂ່າ (lo) ( khā )
Malay: lengkuas (ms)
Norman: han m
Ottoman Turkish: قولغان ( kolgan ) , خولنجان ( havlincan )
Persian: خسرو دارو ( xesru dâru ) , خسرودارو ( xesrudâru ) , خولنجان (fa) ( xawlenjân, xulenjân ) , خاولنجان ( xâwlanjân ) , قولنجان ( qulanjân, qulenjân )
Polish: gałgan (pl) m , galgant m
Portuguese: galanga f
Russian: галанговый ко́рень m ( galangovyj kórenʹ ) , калга́н (ru) m ( kalgán ) , галга́н m ( galgán ) , галгант m ( galgant ) , галанга f ( galanga )
Sanskrit: वनार्द्रका (sa) f ( vanārdrakā ) , कुलञ्ज (sa) m ( kulañja ) , गन्धमूल (sa) m ( gandhamūla ) , तीक्ष्णमूल (sa) m ( tīkṣṇamūla )
Serbo-Croatian: galgant m , galgan m , galanga (sh) f
Slovak: galgan m , galgant m
Slovene: galgant m , galgan m , galanga f
Spanish: galangal m
Swedish: galanga (sv)
Tagalog: langkawas
Thai: ข่า (th) ( kàa )
Turkish: havlıcan (tr)
Ukrainian: калга́н m ( kalhán )
Vietnamese: riềng (vi) , củ riềng
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