Parsley

Pars′ley

(pärs′ly̆)

,

Noun.

[OE.

persely

,

persil

, F.

persil

, L.

petroselinum

rock parsley, Gr.

πετροσέλινον

;

πέτροσ

stone +

σέλινον

parsley. Cf.

Celery

.]

(Bot.)

An aromatic umbelliferous herb (

Carum Petroselinum

), having finely divided leaves which are used in cookery and as a garnish.

As she went to the garden for

parsley

, to stuff a rabbit.

Shakespeare

Fool’s parsley

.

See under

Fool

.

–

Hedge parsley

,

Milk parsley

,

Stone parsley

,

names given to various weeds of similar appearance to the parsley.

–

Parsley fern

(Bot.)

,

a small fern with leaves resembling parsley (

Cryptogramme crispa

).

–

Parsley piert

(Bot.)

,

a small herb (

Alchemilla arvensis

) formerly used as a remedy for calculus.

Parsley

P`ARSLEY

,

Noun.

[L. petroselinon; Gr. a stone, and parsley; stone-parsley, a plant growing among rocks.] A plant of the genus Apium. The leaves of parsley are used in cookery, and the root is an aperient medicine.

parsley

English

Noun

parsley ‎(usually uncountable, plural parsleys)

(countable, uncountable) A bright green, biennial herb, Petroselinum crispum or Petroselinum neapolitanum having either flat or curled leaves.
(uncountable) The leaves of this plant used in Middle Eastern, European, and American cooking.

Derived terms

parsley fern
parsley frog
parsley piert
stone parsley

Translations

herb

Albanian: majdanoz (sq)
Arabic: مَقْدُونِس m ‎(maqdūnis), بَقْدُونِس m ‎(baqdūnis), مَعْدُونِس m ‎(maʿdūnis)

Egyptian Arabic: بقدونس m ‎(baʿdūnis)

Hijazi Arabic: بَقْدونِس m ‎(bagdūnis)

Moroccan Arabic: معدنوس m ‎(maʿdnus)
Armenian: մաղադանոս (hy) ‎(maładanos), կարոս (hy) ‎(karos), ազատքեղ (hy) ‎(azatkʿeł)
Azeri: cəfəri (az), maydanoz (az)
Basque: perrexil (eu)
Belarusian: пятру́шка f ‎(pjatrúška)
Bulgarian: магдано́з (bg) m ‎(magdanóz)
Catalan: julivert (ca) m
Chinese:

Cantonese: 番茜 ‎(faan¹ sai¹)

Mandarin: 歐芹 (zh), 欧芹 (zh) ‎(ōuqín), 荷蘭芹 (zh), 荷兰芹 (zh) ‎(hélánqín), 香菜 (zh) ‎(xiāngcài)
Crimean Tatar: mağdanoz
Czech: petržel (cs) f, petrželka f
Danish: persille (da) c
Dutch: peterselie (nl)
Esperanto: petroselo
Estonian: petersell
Finnish: persilja (fi)
French: persil (fr) m
Friulian: persembul m
Galician: perexil m
Georgian: ოხრახუში ‎(oxraxuši)
German: Petersilie (de) f
Greek: μαϊντανός (el) m ‎(maïntanós), πετροσέλινο (el) n ‎(petrosélino)
Hebrew: פֶּטְרוֹזִילְיָה (he) f ‎(petrozílya)
Hungarian: petrezselyem (hu)
Icelandic: steinselja
Indonesian: peterseli (id)
Irish: peirsil f
Italian: prezzemolo (it) m
Japanese: パセリ (ja) ‎(paseri)
Kashubian: piotrëszka f
Kazakh: ақжелкен ‎(aqjelken)
Korean: 파슬리 (ko) ‎(paseulli)

Kyrgyz: петрушка ‎(petruşka)
Latin: petroselinum n or petroselinon n
Latvian: pētersīlis m
Lithuanian: petražolė f
Macedonian: ма́гдонос m ‎(mágdonos)
Malay: pasli
Maori: pāhiri
Mongolian: яншуй (mn) ‎(janšuj)
Neapolitan: petrosino m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: persille (no) m, f
Occitan: jolverd (oc) m
Persian: جعفری (fa) ‎(ja'fari)
Polish: pietruszka (pl) f
Portuguese: salsa (pt) f, perrexil
Romanian: pătrunjel (ro) m
Romansch: peterschigl m
Russian: петру́шка (ru) f ‎(petrúška)
Sardinian: pedrusìmula, padrusímula, pedrusèmini, perdusèmene, pedrusímulu
Scottish Gaelic: pairseil f, pearsal m
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: першин m, першун m

Roman: peršin (sh) m, peršun (sh) m
Sicilian: pitrusinu (scn) m
Slovak: petržlen m
Slovene: peteršilj (sl) m
Spanish: perejil (es) m
Swedish: persilja (sv)
Tagalog: perehil
Tajik: ҷаъфарӣ ‎(jaʾfarī)
Turkish: maydanoz (tr)
Turkmen: petruşka
Ukrainian: петру́шка (uk) f ‎(petrúška)
Uzbek: petrushka (uz)
Venetian: parsèmoło, persémoło, parsìmoƚo
Vietnamese: mùi tây
Volapük: pärjid (vo)
Walloon: pierzin (wa) m
Yiddish: פּעטרעשקע f ‎(petreshke)

Anagrams

parleys, players, replays, sparely

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