xirivia

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic / Arabic كَرَاوِيَا (karāwiyā, “caraway”) (because viewed as a plant caraway and parsnip are similar, of the same subfamily, Apioideae).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ʃi.ɾiˈβi.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ʃi.ɾiˈvi.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [t͡ʃi.ɾiˈvi.a]

Noun

xirivia f (plural xirivies)

1. parsnip

   Coordinate term: pastanaga

Derived terms

• xirivia silvestre

Further reading

• “xirivia” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “xirivia”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “xirivia” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 295