cilantro

English

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cilantro

Etymology

From Spanish cilantro, from Late Latin coliandrum, from Latin coriandrum (“coriander”). Doublet of coriander and culantro.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɪˈlæntɹəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɪˈlɑntɹoʊ/

Noun

cilantro (usually uncountable, plural cilantros)

1. (US) The stems and leaves of the coriander plant, Coriandrum sativum, used as a seasoning and garnish in cooking.

Synonyms

• (herb): Chinese parsley, coriander

Translations

leaves of the coriander plant

• Arabic: كُزْبَرَة f (kuzbara)
• Brunei Malay: daun ketumbar
• Burmese: နံနံ (my) (namnam), နံနံရွက် (namnam-rwak)
• Catalan: coriandre m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 芫茜 (jyun⁴ sai¹, jim⁴ sai¹)

  Mandarin: 香菜 (zh) (xiāngcài), 芫荽 (zh) (yánsui, yuánsuī), 胡荽 (zh) (húsuī)

• Czech: koriandr (cs) m
• Dutch: koriander (nl) m
• Esperanto: koriandro
• Finnish: korianteri (fi)
• French: coriandre (fr)
• Galician: coandro (gl) m, coriandro (gl) m
• Georgian: ქინძი (kinʒi)
• German: Koriander (de) m, Korianderkraut n
• Italian: coriandolo (it) m
• Japanese: パクチー (ja) (pakuchī), 香菜 (ja) (こうさい, kōsai), シャンツァイ (shantsai)
• Kannada: ಕೊತ್ತುಂಬರಿ (kn) (kottumbari), ಕೊತ್ತುಂಬರಿ ಎಲೆಗಳು (kottumbari elegaḷu)
• Korean: 고수 (ko) (gosu)
• Lao: ຜັກຊີ (phak sī)
• Latin: coriandrum n
• Lü: ᦕᧅᦌᦲ (ṗhaksii)
• Malay: daun ketumbar
• Northern Thai: ᨹ᩠ᨠᨪᩥ
• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can

  Bokmål: koriander (no) m

• Old English: celendre f
• Persian: گشنیز (fa) (gešniz)
• Polish: kolendra (pl) f
• Portuguese: coentro (pt) m
• Romanian: coriandru (ro) m
• Russian: кинза́ (ru) f (kinzá)
• Serbo-Croatian: korijandar (sh), korijander
• Sicilian: cugghiànniru m
• Slovene: koriánder (sl) m
• Spanish: cilantro (es) m, coriandro m
• Swedish: koriander (sv)
• Thai: ผักชี (th)
• Tibetan: བསོད་ནམས་དཔལ་འཛོམས (bsod nams dpal 'dzoms)
• Turkish: kişniş (tr)
• Ukrainian: кінза́ (uk) (kinzá), коля́ндра (koljándra)
• Welsh: coriander m, llysiau'r bara m pl

Anagrams

• Coltrain, contrail, cortinal, crotalin

Spanish

Alternative forms

• coriandro (rare)
• culantro (rare, regional, obsolete)

Etymology

From earlier culantro, from Latin coriandrum (compare French coriandre, Italian coriandolo, Portuguese coentro) from Ancient Greek κορίαννον (koríannon, “coriander”), κορίανδρον (koríandron).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θiˈlantɾo/ [θiˈlãn̪.t̪ɾo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /siˈlantɾo/ [siˈlãn̪.t̪ɾo]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -antɾo
• Syllabification: ci‧lan‧tro

Noun

cilantro m (plural cilantros)

1. coriander, cilantro

Usage notes

• Unlike the English term borrowed from it, the Spanish term refers to both the plants and the seeds.

Related terms

• culantrillo

 

Descendants

• → English: cilantro

Further reading

• “cilantro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28