different between cabbage vs kimchi

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæb?d?/
• Hyphenation: cab?bage
• Homophones: CABG (one pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -æb?d?

Etymology 1

From Middle English caboche, cabage (“cabbage”; “a certain fish”), a borrowing from Anglo-Norman caboche (“head”), a northern variant of caboce, of uncertain origin. Some authorities derive it from Latin caput (“head”), others from ca- (said to be an expressive prefix) + boce (“hump; bump”)..

Noun

cabbage (countable and uncountable, plural cabbages)

1. An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
2. (uncountable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.

   Cabbage is good for you.

3. (countable, offensive) A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.

   After the car crash, he became a cabbage.

4. Used as a term of endearment.
5. (uncountable, slang) Money.
6. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
7. The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
8. The cabbage palmetto (Sabal palmetto), a palm of the southeastern US coasts and nearby islands.
9. Leftover scraps of fabric.

Synonyms

• (plant): cabbage plant, cole
• (leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable): cole, greens
• (person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage): vegetable

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: kabisi
• ? Abenaki: kabij

Translations

Verb

cabbage (third-person singular simple present cabbages, present participle cabbaging, simple past and past participle cabbaged)

1. (intransitive) To form a head like that of the cabbage.

2. (intransitive, slang) To do nothing; to idle; veg out.

See also

• brassica
• broccoflower
• broccoli
• broccolini
• Brussels sprouts
• cabbage tree
• carbage
• cauliflower
• Chinese cabbage
• Chinese broccoli, Chinese kale
• collard greens
• kale
• kohlrabi
• sauerkraut
• red cabbage

Etymology 2

Unclear. Perhaps from Dutch *kabbassen, from Old French cabasser (“put into a basket”), from cabas. Alternatively, perhaps from an earlier word *carbage (“shred”), a potential variant of *garbage (“wheat straw”).

Noun

cabbage (uncountable)

1. (uncountable, slang) Scraps of cloth which are left after a garment has been cut out, which tailors traditionally kept.

Verb

cabbage (third-person singular simple present cabbages, present participle cabbaging, simple past and past participle cabbaged)

1. (transitive) To purloin or embezzle; to pilfer, to steal.
   • 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull

     Your tailor […] cabbages whole yards of cloth.

Synonyms

• (purloin): embezzle, pilfer, purloin, steal

References

English

Alternative forms

• kimchee, kim chee, gimchee

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean ?? (gimchi). See there for an explanation of the etymology on the Korean side, but ultimately from Sino-Korean ?? (“soaked vegetables”). Doublet of kimuchi.

Pronunciation

Noun

kimchi (usually uncountable, plural kimchis)

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. (slang, ethnic slur, derogatory) A Korean person.
   • 1994, Richard Marcinko, Rogue Warrior II: Red Cell, Pocket Books, page 238:

     How did I know the kimchis were trying to smuggle the crate out of Japan?

   • 2007, Pamela Goyan Kittler and Kathryn Sucher, Food and Culture, Cengage Learning, page 5:

     In the United States, Germans are sometimes called "krauts" ... Koreans "kimchis," and poor white Southerners "crackers"...

   • 2011, Gerald M. Weinberg, Freshman Murders, Weinberg & Weinberg:

     ... he doesn't know the difference between Ping-Pongs and Kimchis.

Translations

Finnish

Etymology

From Korean

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kimt?i/, [?kimt??i]
• Syllabification: kim?chi

Noun

kimchi

1. kimchi

Declension

French

Etymology

From Korean

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kimt.?i/

Noun

kimchi m (plural kimchis)

1. kimchi

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean ?? (gimchi). See there for more information.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kimt??i/, [?k?m.t??i]

Noun

kimchi m (plural kimchis)

1. kimchi