lemongrass

English

Lemongrass growing

Prepared lemongrass

Etymology

lemon +‎ grass

Pronunciation

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Noun

lemongrass (usually uncountable, plural lemongrasses)

1. One of various species of grass of the genus Cymbopogon, especially Cymbopogon citratus, which have a lemon-like taste and aroma, and are used in cooking, for tea, and for fragrance.
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     You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.

2. (colloquial, US) Sourgrass, Oxalis pes-caprae.

Translations

species of grass of the genus Cymbopogon

• Arabic: إِذْخِر‎ m (ʾiḏḵir)
• Armenian:

  Old Armenian: վաղամեռուկ (vałameṙuk)

• Assamese: গান্ধবিৰিণা (gandhobirina), গন্ধবিৰিণা (gondhobirina)
• Brunei Malay: sarai
• Burmese: စပါးလင် (my) (ca.pa:lang)
• Central Melanau: sarai
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 香茅 (hoeng¹ maau⁴)

  Mandarin: 香茅 (zh) (xiāngmáo), 檸檬草, 柠檬草 (níngméngcǎo), 檸檬香茅, 柠檬香茅 (níngméng xiāngmáo)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: citroengras (nl) n
• Dzongkha: ཧུམ་ཅུང་རྩྭ་ (hum cung rtswa)
• Esperanto: citronherbo
• Finnish: sitruunaruoho, sitrusheinä (fi)
• French: citronnelle (fr) f, herbe citron f, schénanthe (fr) f
• German: Zitronengras (de) n, Lemongras n
• Indonesian: serai (id)
• Isan: ซิงไค
• Italian: citronella f

• Japanese: レモングラス (remongurasu)
• Khmer: គ្រៃ (krɨy), ស្លឹកគ្រៃ (sləkkrɨy)
• Korean: 레몬그래스 (remon'geuraeseu)
• Lao: ສິງໄຄ (lo) (sing khai)
• Malay: serai
• Portuguese: capim-limão m, erva-do-príncipe f
• Russian: лимо́нное со́рго n (limónnoje sórgo), цимбопого́н (ru) m (cimbopogón), лимо́нная трава́ f (limónnaja travá), цитроне́лла f (citronɛ́lla)
• Shan: ၶႃးႁွမ် (shn) (kháa hǒam)
• Slovene: limonska trava f
• Southern Thai: ไคร
• Spanish: té de limón m, caña de limón f, zacate de limón m, hierbaluisa f
• Swahili: mchaichai
• Swedish: citrongräs n
• Tagalog: tanglad, tanlad, nugo
• Telugu: నిమ్మగడ్డి (te) (nimmagaḍḍi)
• Thai: ตะไคร้ (th) (dtà-krái)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: sả (vi)
• West Coast Bajau: sarei

Cymbopogon citratus

• Estonian: harilik sidrunhein
• Finnish: intiansitrusheinä

• Swedish: västindiskt citrongräs n

See also

• sourgrass
• citronella grass

See also

• citronella

Further reading

• Cymbopogon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cymbopogon on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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Spanish

Noun

lemongrass m (uncountable)

1. lemongrass

   Synonyms: hierba de limón, hierbaluisa, limonaria, cedrón, paja cedrón, malojillo