different between cabbage vs sarma

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

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (sarma).

Noun

sarma (plural sarmas)

1. A dumpling of minced meat and other ingredients wrapped in a leaf (grape or cabbage); the Turkish equivalent of dolma.

Translations

See also

• dolma
• ?????????? (s?n?t??p?)

Etymology 2

From Russian ?????? (sarmá).

Noun

sarma (uncountable)

1. A strong, cold wind that blows down the valley of the Sarma river (which acts as a natural wind tunnel), reaching hurricane strength (uprooting trees) by the time it blows across the western shore and into Lake Baikal.
   • 2011, Michael D. O'Brien, The Father's Tale: A Novel, Ignatius Press (?ISBN), page 749:

     “You see how the wind has pressed it into a hard layer?” “The sarma did it!” one of the children told Alex. “The sarma wind is mighty. It's so strong it turns ships upside down.” “Ah, that's something I didn't know. Well, we can thank the sarma for making excellent material for us." "The mountain hides our homes from the sarma," said another.

Anagrams

• Amars, Asmar, Maras, SRAAM, Samar, Samra, maars, maras, rasam, ??ram

Latvian

Pronunciation

Noun

sarma f (4th declension)

1. frost (thin ice crystals that form on plant leaves, twigs, or also on wires, cables, etc. when the air temperature is below the freezing point)

2. (figuratively) gray hair, graying hair

Declension

Synonyms

• salna

See also

• sals

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ????? (sarma).

Noun

sarma f (plural sarmale)

1. stuffed cabbage roll

Declension

See also

• g?lu?c?

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ????? (sarma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?rma/

Noun

sàrma f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. a type of food from meat rolled with leaves

Declension