kimchi
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Korean 김치 (gimchi), ultimately composed within Korea of Chinese-derived morphemes 沉 (chén, “submerged, soaked”) and 菜 (cài, “vegetable”), i.e. "fermented vegetable". Doublet of kimuchi.
Kimchi
Pronunciation
Audio (AU) (file)
Noun
kimchi (usually uncountable, plural kimchis)
- 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.
- (countable, 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; 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.
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Translations
Korean dish
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Finnish
Etymology
From Korean.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkimtʃi/, [ˈk̟imt̪ʃi]
- Syllabification(key): kim‧chi
Declension
| Inflection of kimchi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | kimchi | kimchit | ||
| genitive | kimchin | kimchien | ||
| partitive | kimchiä | kimchejä | ||
| illative | kimchiin | kimcheihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | kimchi | kimchit | ||
| accusative | nom. | kimchi | kimchit | |
| gen. | kimchin | |||
| genitive | kimchin | kimchien | ||
| partitive | kimchiä | kimchejä | ||
| inessive | kimchissä | kimcheissä | ||
| elative | kimchistä | kimcheistä | ||
| illative | kimchiin | kimcheihin | ||
| adessive | kimchillä | kimcheillä | ||
| ablative | kimchiltä | kimcheiltä | ||
| allative | kimchille | kimcheille | ||
| essive | kimchinä | kimcheinä | ||
| translative | kimchiksi | kimcheiksi | ||
| instructive | — | kimchein | ||
| abessive | kimchittä | kimcheittä | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkim.t͡ʂi/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -imt͡ʂi
- Syllabification: kim‧chi
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkimt͡ʃi/ [ˈkĩm.t͡ʃi]
- Rhymes: -imtʃi
- Syllabification: kim‧chi
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