Category:Spinach

Spin"ach, spin"age, n. Etym: [of. espinache, espinoche, f. épinard; Cf. F. spinace, sp. espinaca; all fr. Ar. isfanaj, isfinaj, aspanakh, Probably of Persian origin.] (bot.)

Defn: a common pot herb (spinacia oleracea) belonging to the family. Mountain spinach. See garden orach, under orach. -- New Zealand spinach (bot.), a coarse herb (tetragonia expansa), a poor substitute for spinach.

Note: various other pot herbs are locally called spinach.

Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Eudicots (unranked): Core eudicots Order: Caryophyllales Family: Amaranthaceae, formerly Chenopodiaceae[4] Genus: Spinacia Species: S. oleracea Binomial name: Spinacia oleracea

"Spinach" in Other Languages
In other languages, the word for spinach is: Afrikaans: spinasie Basque: espinaka Belarusian: шпинат Català / Catalan: Espinac / espinacs Armenian: Սպանախ / սպանախ አማርኛ / Amharic: ቆስጣ العربية / Arabic: سبانخ Azərbaycanca / Azerbaijani: Dirrik ispanağı / ispanaq Bân-lâm-gú / Min Nan (simplified Chinese: Poe-lêng-á (ha̍k-miâ: Spinacia oleracea) Boarisch / Bavarian: Echter Spinat Български / Bulgarian: Спанак / спанак မြန်မာဘာသာ / Burmese: ဟင်းနုနွယ် Česky / Czech: Špenát Chinese (Simplified): 菠菜 Chinese (Traditional): 菠菜 Dansk / Danish: Spinat Deutsch / German: Spinat Diné bizaad: Waaʼ Estonian: spinat Ελληνικά / Greek: Σπανάκι / σπανάκι Español / Spanish: La espinaca (Spinacia oleracea) Euskara: Ziazerba edo espinaka (Spinacia oleracea) فارسی/ Farsi: فارسی Filipino: spinach Suomi / Finnish: pinaatti Français / French: Épinard Gàidhlig / Scottish Gaelic: Bloinigean-gàrraidh Galician: espinaca ქართული / Georgian: ისპანახი (გვარი) (Spinacia) Kreyòl ayisyen / Haitian Creole: epina Hakka Chinese: Po-lîn-chhòi (菠薐菜) עברית / Hebrew: היצע וביקוש / תרד Hindi: पालक Hornjoserbsce / Upper Sorbian: Wšědny spinat Hrvatski / Croatian: špinat Magyar / Hungarian: spenót / paraj Íslenska / Icelandic : spínat Bahasa Indonesia: Horenso atau horinso (dari Bahasa Jepang "ホウレンソウ") Indonesian: bayam Ирон / East Iranian (Ossetic or Ossetian): Голмандзы Irish: spionáiste Italiano / Italian: spinaci / Lo Spinacio 日本語 / Japanese: ほうれん草 / ホウレンソウ ಕನ್ನಡ / Kannada: ಪಾಲಕ್ Kinyarwanda / Rwanda / Ruanda / Rwandan: Epinari 한국어 / Korean: 시금치 کوردی / Kurdî / Kurdish: Siyale / سپێناخ Latina: spinacia et spinachia Latvian: spināti Lëtzebuergesch / Luxembourgish: Päinetsch / Spinat Lietuvių / Lithuanian: Daržinis špinatas / špinatai Macedonia: спанаќ Bahasa Melayu / Malay: bayam (spinacia) മലയാളം / Malayalam: ചീര Maltese: spinaċi मराठी / Marathi: पालक Nederlands / Dutch: spinazie Norsk (bokmål)‬ / Norwegian: spinat Persian: اسفناج Polski / Polish: szpinak warzywny Português / Portugese: espinafre Română / Romanian: spanac Русский / Russian: шпинат / Шпинат огородный Sardu / Sardinian: Ispinacciu Српски / Srpski / Serbian: спанаћ Shqip / Albanian : spinaq / Spinaqi Slovak: špenát Slovenian: špinača Spanish: espinacas Kiswahili / Swahili: mchicha Svenska / Swedish: spenat తెలుగు / Telugu: పాల కూర Thai: ผักขม Türkçe / Turkish: ıspanak Українська / Ukrainian Urdu: والدین Tiếng Việt / Vietnamese: rau bina, rau chân vịt, còn gọi rau pố xôi, bố xôi, rau nhà chùa, bắp xôi Welsh: sbigoglys Yiddish: שפּינאַט Chinese / 汉语／漢語, 华语／華語 or 中文 / Hànyǔ, Huáyǔ, or Zhōngwén: 菠菜