Noun: artichoke
| Singular | artichoke |
| Plural | artichokes |
Sample Sentences
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At the greenmarket, it’s still mostly potatoes and apples. There are no tender greens, fava beans, peas, asparagus, artichokes, sorrel, rhubarb or early strawberries.
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Those harbingers of the season are said to be full of chi, or qi, the Chinese word for life force. We’re craving them as we’re craving lighter, brighter-tasting meals, food that is greener and fresher. [2013 April 2, David Tanis, “Hurry Up, Spring”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Apr 2013, Dining & Wine:]
Nouns inflected like artichoke
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Akkadian 𒅈𒋢𒌒𒁍 (arsuppu)bor.?
3. Middle Persian xār (hʾl)
4. Middle Persian čōp (cwp)
5. Middle Persian *xār-čōpbor.?
6. Arabic خُرْشُوف (ḵuršūf)
7. Andalusian Arabicbor.
8. Old Spanish alcarchofabor.
9. Occitan artichautbor.?
10. Lombard articiochbor.
11. English artichoke
12. From Lombard articioch (cf. articiocco), from Occitan artichaut, from Old Spanish alcarchofa, from Andalusian Arabic الْخَرْشُوف (al-ḵaršúf), from Arabic الْخُرْشُوف (al-ḵuršūf), definite form of خُرْشُوف (ḵuršūf). See: Old Spanish Nouns '
alcarchofa'.
Verbs referencing "artichoke"
Spanish Nouns
alcachofa.