rutabaga

English

Alternative forms

• ruta-baga

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹutəˌbeɪɡə/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

rutabaga roots

rutabaga (usually uncountable, plural rutabagas)

1. (now Canada, US) The swede, or Swedish turnip; the European plant Brassica napus var. napobrassica
   • 2007, James Wilcox, Hunk City:

     They were both too hungry to wait for the yams and rutabagas to bake, so tonight they would have the frozen White Castle minicheeseburgers that Mr. Van Buren had won a year's supply of just before he passed away.

2. (now Canada, US) The edible root of this plant
   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     Sometimes your royal dogs tear down our thatch,
     And then we seek the shelter of a ditch;
     Hog-wash or grains, or ruta-baga, none
     Has yet been ours since your reign begun.

   • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

     Chipper […] understood how his entire dinner might be scarfabl' in no time, his duties discharged and his freedom regained, and he actually picked up his fork and made a pass at the craggy wad of rutabaga […]

Synonyms

• swede, Swedish turnip

Translations

plant

• Belarusian: бручка f (bručka)
• Breton: irvin-saoz (br) (collective)
• Bulgarian: брюква f (brjukva)
• Czech: tuřín (cs) m
• Danish: kålroe, kålrabi c
• Dutch: koolraap (nl) f
• Esperanto: napo
• Finnish: lanttu (fi)
• French: rutabaga (fr) m, chou-navet (fr) m
• German: Kohlrübe (de) f
• Hungarian: karórépa (hu)
• Icelandic: gulrófa (is) f, rófa (is) f
• Ingrian: lanttu
• Italian: ravizzone (it) f
• Japanese: カブハボタン (kabuhabotan)
• Korean: 무 (ko) (mu), 나복 (nabok)
• Macedonian: жолто цвекло n (žolto cveklo)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: ушмен (ušmen)

• Norman: suidiche f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kålrot m or f

  Nynorsk: kålrot f

• Polish: brukiew (pl) f
• Portuguese: rutabaga (pt) f
• Russian: брю́ква (ru) f (brjúkva)
• Scottish Gaelic: snèap f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: репа

  Roman: repa (sh)

• Slovak: kvaka
• Spanish: nabo sueco m
• Swedish: kålrot (sv) c, rotabagge m (dialectal, Västergötland)
• Turkish: şalgam (tr)

edible root

• Armenian: շաղգամ (hy) (šaġgam), գոնգեղ (hy) (gongeġ)
• Belarusian: бручка f (bručka)
• Breton: irvin-saoz (br) (collective)
• Bulgarian: брюква f (brjukva)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大頭菜／大头菜 (zh) (dàtóucài)

• Czech: tuřín (cs) m
• Danish: kålroe
• Dutch: koolraap (nl) f
• Esperanto: napo
• Estonian: kaalikas (et)
• Faroese: kálrót f
• Finnish: lanttu (fi)
• French: rutabaga (fr) m, chou-navet (fr) m
• Georgian: მიწამხალა (mic̣amxala)
• German: schwedische Rübe f, Kohlrübe (de) f, Steckrübe (de) f
• Greek: γουλί (el) n (goulí)
• Icelandic: gulrófa (is) f, rófa (is) f
• Ingrian: lanttu
• Irish: svaeid m
• Italian: ravizzone (it) f
• Japanese: カブハボタン (kabuhabotan), カブカンラン (kabukanran), ルタバガ (rutabaga)
• Kazakh: тарна (tarna)
• Komi-Zyrian: галанка (galanka)
• Korean: 무 (ko) (mu), 나복 (nabok)
• Latgalian: grīziņs
• Latvian: kālis (lv)
• Macedonian: жолто цвекло n (žolto cveklo)
• Maori: tuwīti tānapu, tuwīti
• Navajo: tséyaa hataałí
• Norman: suidiche f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kålrot m or f

  Nynorsk: kålrot f

• Polish: brukiew (pl) f
• Portuguese: rutabaga (pt) f, colza (pt) f, nabo da Suécia m, couve-nabiça f, couve-nabo (pt) f
• Romanian: nap suedez m, nap (ro)
• Russian: брю́ква (ru) f (brjúkva)
• Scots: swade
• Scottish Gaelic: turnip, neep, snèap f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: репа

  Roman: repa (sh)

• Slovak: kvaka f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kulawa f, kulawka f

• Spanish: colinabo (es) m, nabo sueco m
• Swedish: kålrot (sv) c, rotabagge m (dialectal, Västergötland)
• Tagalog: nabikol, kolinabo
• Turkish: şalgam (tr)
• Welsh: swedsen (cy) f, rwden f (North Wales)
• Yiddish: שוועדישע ברוקווע f (shvedishe brukve), ברוקווע f (brukve)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁy.ta.ba.ɡa/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

rutabaga m (plural rutabagas)

1. swede, rutabaga (yellow root of Brassica napus)

Further reading

• “rutabaga”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish rotabagge, a dialectal word from Västergötland, from rot (“root”) +‎ bagge (“lump, bunch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ru.taˈba.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Hyphenation: ru‧ta‧bà‧ga

Noun

rutabaga f (plural rutabaghe)

1. Synonym of navone (“oilseed rape”)

Further reading

• rutabaga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁu.taˈba.ɡɐ/ [hu.taˈba.ɡɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁu.taˈba.ɡɐ/ [hu.taˈba.ɡɐ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁu.taˈba.ɡɐ/ [χu.taˈba.ɡɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁu.taˈba.ɡa/ [hu.taˈba.ɡa]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁu.tɐˈba.ɡɐ/ [ʁu.tɐˈβa.ɣɐ]

• Hyphenation: ru‧ta‧ba‧ga

Noun

rutabaga f (plural rutabagas)

1. rutabaga (Brassica napus, a plant with an edible root)

   Synonyms: colza, nabo da Suécia, couve-nabiça, couve-nabo