name
Meaning 1
A surname from Old French.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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Standard Lemma guide
parsley
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈpɑː(ɹ)sli/
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name
Meaning 2
An unincorporated community in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States.
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noun
Meaning 3
A bright green, biennial herb, Petroselinum crispum, having many cultivars.
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Usage: countable, uncountable, usually
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noun
Meaning 4
The leaves of this plant used in Middle Eastern, European, and American cooking.
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Usage: uncountable, usually
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noun
Meaning 5
Any herb resembling parsley, such as cilantro (Chinese parsley) or chervil (French parsley).
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Usage: broadly, uncountable, usually
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verb
Meaning 6
To add parsley to.
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Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 7
aromatic herb with flat or crinkly leaves that are cut finely and used to garnish food
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Broader terms: herb
noun
Meaning 8
annual or perennial herb with aromatic leaves
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Petroselinum crispum
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: herb, herbaceous plant
Narrower terms: Italian parsley, flat-leaf parsley, Petroselinum crispum neapolitanum, Hamburg parsley, turnip-rooted parsley, Petroselinum crispum tuberosum
History
Etymology
Altered form, later assimilated by folk etymology to the herb name parsley, of the medieval family name Passelewe, from Old French passer (“to pass”) + la (“the”) + ewe (“water”), probably a nickname for a ferryman or a person who travelled overseas.
From Middle English persely, from Old French peresil, from Latin petroselīnum, from Ancient Greek πετροσέλῑνον (petrosélīnon, “parsley”), from πέτρος (pétros, “rock, stone”) + σέλῑνον (sélīnon, “celery”). Displaced Old English petersiliġe, which goes back to the same root.
Across languages
Translations
134 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: majdanoz — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Arabic: مَقْدُونِس (maqdūnis) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Arabic: بَقْدُونِس (baqdūnis) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Arabic: مَعْدُونِس (maʕdūnis) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Arabic: بقدونس (baʕdūnis) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Arabic: بَقْدُونِس (bɐqdunɪs) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Arabic: بَقْدونِس (bagdūnis) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Iraqi Arabic: كرفس (krafus) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Arabic: معدنوس (mʕadnūs) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Tunisian Arabic: معدنوس (maʕdnūs) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Armenian: մաղադանոս (maġadanos) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Armenian: կարոս (karos) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Armenian: ազատքեղ (azatkʻeġ) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Azerbaijani: cəfəri — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Azerbaijani: bağdanus — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Basque: perrexil — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Belarusian: пятру́шка (pjatrúška) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Bulgarian: магдано́з (magdanóz) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Catalan: julivert — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Chinese Cantonese: 番茜 (faan1 sai1) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Chinese Mandarin: 歐芹 /欧芹 (ōuqín) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Chinese Mandarin: 荷蘭芹 /荷兰芹 (hélánqín) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Cornish: persil — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Crimean Tatar: mağdanoz — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Czech: petržel — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Czech: petrželka — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Danish: persille — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Dutch: peterselie — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Esperanto: petroselo — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Estonian: petersell — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Finnish: persilja — plant Petroselinum crispum
- French: persil — plant Petroselinum crispum
- West-Frisian: piterseelje — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Friulian: persembul — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Galician: perexil — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Galician: pirixel — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Georgian: ოხრახუში (oxraxuši) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- German: Petersil — plant Petroselinum crispum
- German: Petersilie — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Greek: μαϊντανός (maïntanós) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Greek: πετροσέλινο (petrosélino) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Ancient Greek: πετροσέλινον (petrosélinon) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Hebrew: פֶּטְרוֹזִילְיָה (petrozílya) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Hungarian: petrezselyem — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Hunsrik: Petersilje — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Icelandic: steinselja — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Indonesian: peterseli — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Irish: peirsil — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Italian: prezzemolo — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Japanese: パセリ (paseri) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Karelian: petruška — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Kashubian: piotrëszka — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Kazakh: ақжелкен (aqjelken) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Kazakh: ақжелек (aqjelek) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Korean: 파슬리 (paseulli) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Central Kurdish: جافری (cafrî) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Central Kurdish: مەعدەنووس (me'denûs) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Northern Kurdish: bextenîz — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Kyrgyz: петрушка (petruşka) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Ladino: pirishil — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Ladino: pereshil — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Ladino: prishil — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Latin: petroselinum n or petroselinon — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Latvian: pētersīlis — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Lithuanian: petražolė — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Low German: Petersill — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Macedonian: ма́гдонос (mágdonos) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Malay: pasli — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Maltese: tursin — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Māori: pāhiri — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Middle English: persely — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Mongolian: яншуй (janšuj) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Neapolitan: petrosino — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Norwegian Bokmål: persille — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Norwegian Nynorsk: persille — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Occitan: jolverd — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Old English: petersiliġe — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Pannonian Rusyn: петрушка (petruška) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Persian: جعفری (ja'fari) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Persian: شومخ (šumax) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Plautdietsch: Peetasselj — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Polish: pietruszka — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Portuguese: perrexil — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Portuguese: salsa — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Portuguese: salsinha — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Punjabi: ਜਵੈਣ (javaiṇ) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Quechua: q'umir qhura — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Romanian: pătrunjel — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Romansh: peterschigl — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Russian: петру́шка (petrúška) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Sardinian: pedrusìmula — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Sardinian: padrusímula — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Sardinian: pedrusèmini — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Sardinian: perdusèmene — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Sardinian: pedrusímulu — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Scottish Gaelic: pairseil — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Scottish Gaelic: pearsal — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Serbo-Croatian: першин — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Serbo-Croatian: першун — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Serbo-Croatian: peršin — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Serbo-Croatian: peršun — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Sicilian: pitrusinu — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Sicilian: puḍḍisinu — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Slovak: petržlen — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Slovene: peteršilj — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Spanish: perejil — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Swedish: persilja — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Tagalog: perehil — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Tajik: ҷаъфарӣ (ja'fari) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Turkish: maydanoz — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Turkish: madenüs — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Turkmen: petruşka — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Ukrainian: петру́шка (petrúška) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Uzbek: petrushka — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Venetan: parsèmoło — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Venetan: persémoło — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Venetan: parsìmoƚo — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Vietnamese: mùi tây — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Volapük: pärjid — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Walloon: pierzin — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Welsh: persli — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Welsh: perllys — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Yiddish: פּעטרעשקע (petreshke) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Yiddish: פּעטרישקע (petrishke) — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Zazaki: baxdinoz — plant Petroselinum crispum
- Bulgarian: магданоз (magdanoz) — leaves of this plant used in cooking
- Finnish: persilja — leaves of this plant used in cooking
- French: persil — leaves of this plant used in cooking
- German: Petersil — leaves of this plant used in cooking
- German: Petersilie — leaves of this plant used in cooking
- German: Petersilienkraut — leaves of this plant used in cooking
- Polish: pietruszka — leaves of this plant used in cooking
- Polish: natka pietruszki — leaves of this plant used in cooking
- Russian: петрушка (petrushka) — leaves of this plant used in cooking