English Explanatory Dictionary

kimchi

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A Korean dish made of vegetables, such as cabbage or radishes, that are salted, seasoned, and stored in sealed containers to undergo lactic acid fermentation.
  2. A Korean person.

Pronunciation

En-au-kimchi.ogg

Word forms

kimchi kimchis kimchee kim chee gimchee gimchi

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 김치 (gimchi), ultimately composed within Korea of Chinese-derived morphemes 沉 (MC drim, “submerged, soaked”) and 菜 (MC tshojH, “vegetable”), i.e. "fermented vegetable". Doublet of kimuchi.

Derived words

kimchi-jjigae kimslaw

Translations

Arabic: كِمْتْشي Armenian: կիմչի Bulgarian: ки́мчи Chinese Cantonese: 泡菜 Chinese Mandarin: 韓式泡菜 /韩式泡菜 Chinese Mandarin: 韓國泡菜 /韩国泡菜 Chinese Mandarin: 辛奇 Chinese Mandarin: 泡菜 Chinese Mandarin: 高麗棒子 /高丽棒子 Chinese Mandarin: 韓棒子 /韩棒子 Chinese Mandarin: 棒子 Czech: kimči Esperanto: kimĉio Esperanto: koreaĉo Finnish: kimchi French: kimchi German: Kimchi Hebrew: קִימְצִ׳י Indonesian: kimci Italian: kimchi Japanese: キムチ Japanese: チョン Khmer: គីមឈី Korean: 김치 Korean: 짠지 Korean: 짐치 Korean: 김치남 Korean: 김치녀 Latvian: kimči Macedonian: ки́мчи Navajo: gímchi Polish: kimchi Polish: Koreaniec Polish: skośnooki Polish: Korejczyk Portuguese: kimchi Russian: кимчхи́ Russian: кимчи́ Spanish: kimchi Swedish: kimchi Thai: กิมจิ Thai: เกาหี Thai: เกาเหลา Vietnamese: kim chi
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