bok choy

English

baby bok choy

bok choy

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/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ɔɪ

Noun

bok choy (uncountable)

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: kinakål (sv) 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

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