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rutabaga

noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • US: /ˈɹutəˌbeɪɡə/
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  • CMU ARPABET: R UW1 T AH0 B EY0 G AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The swede, or Swedish turnip; the European plant Brassica napus var. napobrassica

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Canada, US, uncountable, usually

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The edible root of this plant

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Canada, US, uncountable, usually

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: swede, swedish turnip, yellow turnip

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: turnip

4

noun

Meaning 4

a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: turnip cabbage, swede, Swedish turnip, rutabaga plant, Brassica napus napobrassica

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: turnip plant

History

Etymology

First attested in 1799, borrowed from Swedish rotabagge, a dialectal word from Västergötland, from rot (“root”) + bagge (“lump, bunch”).

Across languages

Translations

111 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Belarusian: бручка (bručka) — plant
  • Breton: irvin-saoz — plant
  • Bulgarian: брюква (brjukva) — plant
  • Czech: tuřín — plant
  • Danish: kålroe — plant
  • Danish: kålrabi — plant
  • Dutch: koolraap — plant
  • Esperanto: napo — plant
  • Finnish: lanttu — plant
  • French: rutabaga — plant
  • French: chou-navet — plant
  • German: Kohlrübe — plant
  • Hungarian: karórépa — plant
  • Icelandic: gulrófa — plant
  • Icelandic: rófa — plant
  • Ingrian: lanttu — plant
  • Italian: ravizzone — plant
  • Japanese: カブハボタン (kabuhabotan) — plant
  • Korean: 무 (mu) — plant
  • Korean: 나복 (nabok) — plant
  • Macedonian: жолто цвекло (žolto cveklo) — plant
  • Eastern Mari: ушмен (ušmen) — plant
  • Western Mari: ушман (ušman) — plant
  • Norman: suidiche — plant
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kålrot — plant
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kålrot — plant
  • Polish: brukiew — plant
  • Portuguese: rutabaga — plant
  • Russian: брю́ква (brjúkva) — plant
  • Scottish Gaelic: snèap — plant
  • Serbo-Croatian: репа — plant
  • Serbo-Croatian: repa — plant
  • Slovak: kvaka — plant
  • Spanish: nabo sueco — plant
  • Swedish: kålrot — plant
  • Swedish: rotabagge — plant
  • Turkish: şalgam — plant
  • Armenian: շաղգամ (šaġgam) — edible root
  • Armenian: գոնգեղ (gongeġ) — edible root
  • Belarusian: бручка (bručka) — edible root
  • Breton: irvin-saoz — edible root
  • Bulgarian: брюква (brjukva) — edible root
  • Catalan: colinap — edible root
  • Catalan: napicol — edible root
  • Chinese Mandarin: 大頭菜 /大头菜 (dàtóucài) — edible root
  • Czech: tuřín — edible root
  • Danish: kålroe — edible root
  • Dutch: koolraap — edible root
  • Esperanto: napo — edible root
  • Estonian: kaalikas — edible root
  • Faroese: kálrót — edible root
  • Finnish: lanttu — edible root
  • French: rutabaga — edible root
  • French: chou-navet — edible root
  • Georgian: მიწამხალა (mic̣amxala) — edible root
  • German: schwedische Rübe — edible root
  • German: Kohlrübe — edible root
  • German: Steckrübe — edible root
  • Greek: γουλί (goulí) — edible root
  • Hungarian: karórépa — edible root
  • Icelandic: gulrófa — edible root
  • Icelandic: rófa — edible root
  • Ingrian: lanttu — edible root
  • Irish: svaeid — edible root
  • Italian: ravizzone — edible root
  • Japanese: カブハボタン (kabuhabotan) — edible root
  • Japanese: カブカンラン (kabukanran) — edible root
  • Japanese: ルタバガ (rutabaga) — edible root
  • Kazakh: тарна (tarna) — edible root
  • Komi-Zyrian: галанка (galanka) — edible root
  • Korean: 무 (mu) — edible root
  • Korean: 나복 (nabok) — edible root
  • Latgalian: grīziņs — edible root
  • Latvian: kālis — edible root
  • Macedonian: жолто цвекло (žolto cveklo) — edible root
  • Māori: tuwīti tānapu — edible root
  • Māori: tuwīti — edible root
  • Māori: pōwhata — edible root
  • Navajo: tséyaa hataałí — edible root
  • Norman: suidiche — edible root
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kålrot — edible root
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kålrot — edible root
  • Polish: brukiew — edible root
  • Portuguese: rutabaga — edible root
  • Portuguese: colza — edible root
  • Portuguese: nabo da Suécia — edible root
  • Portuguese: couve-nabiça — edible root
  • Portuguese: couve-nabo — edible root
  • Romanian: nap suedez — edible root
  • Romanian: nap — edible root
  • Russian: брю́ква (brjúkva) — edible root
  • Scots: swade — edible root
  • Scottish Gaelic: turnip — edible root
  • Scottish Gaelic: neep — edible root
  • Scottish Gaelic: snèap — edible root
  • Serbo-Croatian: репа — edible root
  • Serbo-Croatian: repa — edible root
  • Slovak: kvaka — edible root
  • Lower Sorbian: kulawa — edible root
  • Lower Sorbian: kulawka — edible root
  • Spanish: colinabo — edible root
  • Spanish: nabo sueco — edible root
  • Swedish: kålrot — edible root
  • Swedish: rotabagge — edible root
  • Tagalog: nabikol — edible root
  • Tagalog: kolinabo — edible root
  • Turkish: şalgam — edible root
  • Welsh: swedsen — edible root
  • Welsh: rwden — edible root
  • Yiddish: שוועדישע ברוקווע (shvedishe brukve) — edible root
  • Yiddish: ברוקווע (brukve) — edible root
Real reading context

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