kailan

• gailan, gai-lan, gai lohn, gai-lon, kai-lan

Borrowed from Cantonese 芥蘭／芥兰 (gaai3 laan4-2).

kailan (uncountable)

1. Brassica oleracea var. alboglabra, a long, blue-green vegetable with thick, glossy stems and leaves typically eaten in Chinese and particularly Cantonese cooking.

• Chinese broccoli, Chinese kale

• See also Thesaurus:dim sum

• Kai-lan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Brassica oleracea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• Kalina, kalian

From Malay kailan, from Late Classical Malay کايلن‎ (kailan), from Cantonese 芥蘭／芥兰 (gaai3 laan4-2, “kailan”).

• IPA^(key): /ka.i.lan/
• Hyphenation: ka‧i‧lan

kailan (first-person possessive kailanku, second-person possessive kailanmu, third-person possessive kailannya)

1. kailan, Brassica oleracea var. alboglabra.

• “kailan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

• kelan – colloquial
• caylan – obsolete, Abecedario orthography

From ka- +‎ ilan.

• Hyphenation: ka‧i‧lan
• IPA^(key): /kaʔiˈlan/, [kɐ.ʔɪˈlan]
• IPA^(key): /kajˈlan/, [kaɪ̯ˈlan] (colloquial)
• IPA^(key): /ˈkelan/, [ˈke.lɐn] (colloquial)
• IPA^(key): /kejˈlan/, [keɪ̯ˈlan] (Batangas)

kailán (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜁᜎᜈ᜔, plural kai-kailan)

1. (interrogative) when

• ikailan

• “kailan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018