leek

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Perhaps of pre-Anglo-Saxon (non-Old English) origin and instead from Celtic; compare Welsh llech and Irish leac (“stone”), both from Proto-Celtic *ɸlikkā. Recorded as Lec in 1086 (DB).

From Middle English leke, leek, lek, from Old English lēac (“a garden herb, leek, onion, garlic”), from Proto-West Germanic *lauk, from Proto-Germanic *lauką, *laukaz (“leek, onion”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend”). Cognate with Dutch look (“garlic, leek”), German Low German Look (“leek”), German Lauch (“leek, allium”), Danish løg (“onion”), Norwegian Bokmål løk (“onion”), Norwegian Nynorsk lauk (“onion”), Swedish lök (“onion”), Icelandic laukur (“onion, leek, garlic”). See garlic.

132 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: апрасқьиа (apʼraskja) — vegetable
• Afrikaans: prei — vegetable
• Albanian: preshi — vegetable
• Albanian: presh — vegetable
• Arabic: كُرَّاث (kurrāṯ) — vegetable
• Arabic: كرات (kurāt) — vegetable
• Arabic: كُرَّاث (kurrāt) — vegetable
• Arabic: بَراصِيا — vegetable
• Armenian: պրաս (pras) — vegetable
• Middle Armenian: քուռաթ (kʻuṙatʻ) — vegetable
• Old Armenian: պրաս (pras) — vegetable
• Aromanian: prash — vegetable
• Asturian: puerru — vegetable
• Azerbaijani: kəvər soğanı — vegetable
• Basque: porru — vegetable
• Bats: პრას (ṗras) — vegetable
• Bulgarian: праз (praz) — vegetable
• Catalan: porro — vegetable
• Chinese Mandarin: 韭蔥 /韭葱 (jiǔcōng) — vegetable
• Czech: pórek — vegetable
• Czech: pór zahradní — vegetable
• Danish: porre — vegetable
• Daur: sors — vegetable
• Dutch: prei — vegetable
• Dutch: porrei — vegetable
• Egyptian: i-A-q:t-M2:Z2ss (jꜣqt) — vegetable
• Esperanto: poreo — vegetable
• Estonian: porrulauk — vegetable
• Estonian: lauk — vegetable
• Ewe: agumetaku — vegetable
• Faroese: purra — vegetable
• Finnish: purjo — vegetable
• Finnish: purjosipuli — vegetable
• French: poireau — vegetable
• French: porrée — vegetable
• French: porreau — vegetable
• French: poirée — vegetable
• French: poirette — vegetable
• French: asperge du pauvre — vegetable
• Galician: porro — vegetable
• Galician: allo porro — vegetable
• Georgian: პრასი (ṗrasi) — vegetable
• Georgian: პრასა (ṗrasa) — vegetable
• German: Porree — vegetable
• German: Lauch — vegetable
• German: Breitlauch — vegetable
• German: Winterlauch — vegetable
• Greek: πράσο (práso) — vegetable
• Ancient Greek: πράσον (práson) — vegetable
• Haitian Creole: powo — vegetable
• Hawaiian: leka — vegetable
• Hebrew: כרישה — vegetable
• Hindi: गंदना (gandnā) — vegetable
• Hungarian: póréhagyma — vegetable
• Hungarian: póré — vegetable
• Icelandic: blaðlaukur — vegetable
• Icelandic: púrra — vegetable
• Icelandic: púrrulaukur — vegetable
• Ido: porelo — vegetable
• Indonesian: prei — vegetable
• Irish: cainneann — vegetable
• Old Irish: cainnenn — vegetable
• Italian: porro — vegetable
• Japanese: 葱 (negi) — vegetable
• Khmer: ខ្ទឹមស្លឹក (ktɨm slǝk) — vegetable
• Khmer: ស្លឹកខ្ទឹម (slǝk ktɨm) — vegetable
• Korean: 파 (pa) — vegetable
• Central Kurdish: کەوەری فەرەنگی (kewerî ferengî) — vegetable
• Northern Kurdish: qurad — vegetable
• Northern Kurdish: kurat — vegetable
• Ladino: prasa — vegetable
• Ladino: puerro — vegetable
• Latin: porrum — vegetable
• Latin: ulpicum — vegetable
• Latvian: puravs — vegetable
• Laz: პრასკჲა (p̌rasǩya) — vegetable
• Low German: Porree — vegetable
• Luxembourgish: Porrett — vegetable
• Macedonian: праз (praz) — vegetable
• Maltese: kurrata — vegetable
• Māori: riki — vegetable
• Middle English: lek — vegetable
• Mongolian: жууцай (žuucaj) — vegetable
• Classical Nahuatl: huēyi caxtīllān xonacatl — vegetable
• Norman: pouothé — vegetable
• Norwegian: purre — vegetable
• Norwegian: purreløk — vegetable
• Occitan: pòrre — vegetable
• Ojibwe: zhigaagawanzh — vegetable
• Old Church Slavonic: прасъ (prasŭ) — vegetable
• Old Church Slavonic: празъ (prazŭ) — vegetable
• Old English: lēac — vegetable
• Papiamentu: siboyo largu — vegetable
• Persian: ترهفرنگی (tare-farangi) — vegetable
• Plautdietsch: Luak — vegetable
• Polish: por — vegetable
• Portuguese: porro — vegetable
• Portuguese: alho-porro — vegetable
• Portuguese: alho-poró — vegetable
• Portuguese: alho-francês — vegetable
• Proto-Norse: ᛚᚨᚢᚲᚨᛉ (laukaʀ) — vegetable
• Romanian: praz — vegetable
• Russian: лук-поре́й (luk-poréj) — vegetable
• Russian: поре́й (poréj) — vegetable
• Scottish Gaelic: creamh-gàrraidh — vegetable
• Serbo-Croatian: пoрилук — vegetable
• Serbo-Croatian: празилук — vegetable
• Serbo-Croatian: праса — vegetable
• Serbo-Croatian: poriluk — vegetable
• Serbo-Croatian: praziluk — vegetable
• Serbo-Croatian: prasa — vegetable
• Slovak: pór — vegetable
• Slovene: por — vegetable
• Slovene: pôr — vegetable
• Spanish: puerro — vegetable
• Spanish: porro — vegetable
• Spanish: poro — vegetable
• Swedish: purjolök — vegetable
• Tagalog: kutsay — vegetable
• Thai: กระเทียมต้น (grà tiam dtôn) — vegetable
• Tibetan: སྙུག་ཚོང (snyug tshong) — vegetable
• Turkish: pırasa — vegetable
• Ottoman Turkish: پراصه (prasa) — vegetable
• Ukrainian: цибуля-поре́й (cybulja-poréj) — vegetable
• Ukrainian: поре́й (poréj) — vegetable
• Urdu: کراث (kurrās) — vegetable
• Vietnamese: tỏi tây — vegetable
• Walloon: porete — vegetable
• Walloon: porea — vegetable
• Walloon: poret — vegetable
• Welsh: cenhinen — vegetable
• Yiddish: פּאָרע־ציבעלע (pore-tsibele) — vegetable