vegetable · vegetable, cabbage (someone in a vegetative state) · legume; pod
çekim: çoğul légumes
köken: Borrowed from Latin legūmen (cf. older form lesgum); was once feminine and became masculine by the 17th century. Replaced the Old French leün, which was inherited from the same source. Compare Italian and Portuguese legume, Catalan llegum, Spanish legumbre.
aile: bac à légumes, bouillon de légumes, coupe-légumes, coupe-légume, eau de légumes, épluche-légumes, épluche-légume, éplucher des vieux légumes, extrait de légumes, fruits et légumes
Manger des légumes est très bon pour la santé.
Depuis qu'il a eu un accident de voiture, il ressemble à un vrai légume.
Le fruit de la vesce est un légume au sens strict.
vegetable (edible material derived from a plant) · vegetable (person whose body or brain has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment)
çekim: çoğul vegetais
köken: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin vegetālis, from Latin vegetō.
a vegetable · a vegetable (severely physically or mentally impaired person (unable to take care of themselves, with a dull-seeming existence))
çekim: çoğul grönsaker · tamlayan grönsaks
köken: Compound of grön (“fresh, green”) + sak (“[food] item”), as in not dried or in other ways preserved. Originally likely referring to the quality of the food (fresh vegetables, fruits, herbs, etc.), later becoming the specific food type (vegetables). First attested in 1765.
vegetable (herbaceous plants with juicy edible parts; cucumber, tomato, lettuce, cabbage, potato, etc.) · vegetable (the juicy edible parts of those plants)