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spinach

  • /ˈspɪnɪt͡ʃ/ UK, US
  • /ˈspɪnɪd͡ʒ/ UK, US

Rhymes with -ɪnɪtʃ, -ɪnɪdʒ

Where it comes from

From Middle English spinach, from Anglo-Norman spinache, from Old French espinoche, from Old Occitan espinarc, from Arabic إِسْفَانَاخ (ʔisfānāḵ), from Classical Persian اسپناخ (ispanāx, ispināx).

noun spinaches · spinage · spinnach

  1. countable, uncountable Any member of species Spinacia oleracea of edible plants, or its leaves. Another option is to wash spinach and other leafy greens thoroughly in running water before eating them.
  2. countable, uncountable Any of numerous plants, or their leaves, which are used for greens in the same way Spinacia oleracea is or resemble it in some way.
  3. countable, slang, uncountable Thick rough. That shot left me in the spinach!

    Similar: cabbage

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: prickly-seeded spinach, spinach plant, spinacia oleracea, greens, beet, genus spinacia, spinacia, swiss chard, chard, silverbeet, beet greens, leafy greens, malabar spinach, callaloo, pak choi, tatsoi

Translations

Every language

noun a particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea

Españolespinaca
한국어시금치 sigeumchi
日本語菠薐草 hōrensō
中文菠菜 bōcài
हिन्दीपालक pālak
Kiswahilimchicha
Portuguêsespinafre
Françaisépinards
DeutschSpinat
Italianospinacio
Ελληνικάσπανάκι spanáki
Românăspanac
Русскийшпина́т špinát
Tiếng Việtrau bina, rau chân vịt, cải bó xôi
العربيةسَبَانِخ sabāniḵ, إِسْفَانَاخ ʔisfānāḵ
עבריתתרד tered

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@misc{spinach_2026,
  title = {spinach},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/spinach},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}