bok choy

English

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bok choy

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Alternative forms

• bak choy, bokchoi, bok choi, pak choi, baicai, pe-tsai, petsai, patchoi

Etymology

Borrowed from Cantonese 白菜 (baak⁶ coi³, “white vegetable”). Doublet of pechay.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: bŏk'choi', IPA^(key): /ˌbɒkˈt͡ʃɔɪ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪ

Noun

bok choy (uncountable)

1. Chinese cabbage, Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis, an East Asian leafy vegetable related to the Western cabbage.
   • 1998 October, T. R. Reid, “Feeding the Planet”, in National Geographic‎, number 4, page 75:

     A new highway near Hong Kong has the right-of-way where a farmer now squeezes in a patch of bok choy. In the past decade development has overrun much of China's arable land.

Synonyms

• (Chinese cabbage): Chinese chard, Chinese mustard, celery mustard, spoon cabbage

Coordinate terms

• napa cabbage, Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis; tatsoi

Translations

Chinese cabbage, Brassica rapa chinensis

Afrikaans: pak-choi, paksoi Arabic: كُرُنْب صِينِيّ m (kurunb ṣīniyy), بُوك تْشُوي m (buk tšuy) Burmese: မုန်ညင်းဖြူ (munnyang:hpru) Chinese: Cantonese: 白菜 (baak6 coi3) Hokkien: 白菜 (pe̍h-chhài) Mandarin: 小白菜 (zh) (xiǎo báicài) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: pinaattikiinankaali, paksoi French: pe-tsaï (fr) m, chou chinois (fr) m, chou de Pékin m German: Chinakohl (de) m, Pekingkohl m, Japankohl m, Selleriekohl m, Pok Choi, Senfkohl Greek: μποκ τσόι n (bok tsói) Hebrew: כרוב סיני Hungarian: kínai kel (hu) Italian: cavolo cinese m, pe-tsai m Japanese: 青梗菜 (ja) (チンゲンサイ, chingensai) Kannada: ಬಾಯ್ ಚಾಯ್ (bāy cāy) Khmer: ស្ពៃតឿ (spɨytɨə) Korean: 배추 (ko) (baechu) / 백채(白菜) (baekchae) Lao: please add this translation if you can Latvian: pakčojs m, Āzijas kāposts m Lü: ᦕᧅᦂᦱᧆᦃᦱᧁ (ṗhakk̇aadẋaaw) Maltese: kaboċċa Ċiniża Mongolian: юуцай (juucaj) Navajo: Binááʼ Ádaałtsʼózí bichʼil łigaií Polish: kapusta właściwa chińska f Portuguese: couve-chinesa f Romanian: bok choy (ro), varză chinezească f Russian: петса́й m (petsáj), бокчо́й m (bokčój), пеки́нская капу́ста (ru) f (pekínskaja kapústa) Spanish: berro chino m, repollo chino m, col china f Swedish: sellerikål c Tagalog: petsay Thai: กวางตุ้ง (th) (gwaang-dtûng) Tibetan: པད་ཚལ (pad tshal) Turkish: pakçoy Uyghur: بەسەي (besey) Vietnamese: cải thìa (vi)

References

• bok choy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Brassica rapa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons