arugula

English

An arugula plant

Etymology

Probably from a Southern Italian dialect word equivalent to Standard Italian rucola, whence also, since c. 1967, English rucola. Also cognate to rocket (“plant”), eruca, roquette.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: əʹro͞ogələ, IPA^(key): /əˈɹuɡələ/
• (General American, less common) enPR: əʹro͝ogələ IPA^(key): /əˈɹʊɡələ/
• enPR: əʹro͝ogələ, IPA^(key): /əˈɹʊɡələ/
• Hyphenation: a‧ru‧gu‧la

Noun

arugula (countable and uncountable, plural arugulas)

1. A yellowish-flowered Mediterranean herb of the mustard family with flavoured leaves, often eaten in salads, that has a distinct, peppery flavor, of three species:
   1. Eruca sativa, sometimes Eruca vesicaria subsp. sativa
   2. Eruca vesicaria
   3. Diplotaxis tenuifolia

Synonyms

• (herb): rugola, rugula, garden rocket, rocket
• (Eruca sativa): garden rocket, rocket, eruca, rocketsalad, salad rocket, rucola, rucoli, rugula, colewort, roquette
• (Diplotaxis tenuifolia): perennial wall-rocket

Translations

herb

• Arabic: جَرْجِير m pl (jarjīr)

  Egyptian Arabic: جرجير m pl (gargīr)

  Hijazi Arabic: جَرْجِير m pl (jarjīr)

• Armenian: ճարճրուկ (hy) (čarčruk), ռուկոլա (ṙukola)
• Catalan: ruca (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 芝麻菜 (zhīmácài)

• Czech: rukola f
• Danish: rucola c, sennepskål c
• Dutch: raketsla (nl) f, rucola (nl) m or f
• Finnish: rucola (fi) (commercial), sinappikaali (fi) (botany)
• French: roquette (fr) f
• German: Rauke (de) f; (now also, especially commercial) Rucola (de) f
• Greek: ρόκα (el) f (róka)

  Ancient: εὔζωμον n (eúzōmon)

• Hungarian: borsmustár (hu)
• Icelandic: klettasalat n
• Indonesian: arugula
• Irish: ruachán m
• Italian: rucola (it) f, ruchetta f
• Japanese: ロケット (ja) (roketto), ルッコラ (rukkora)
• Latin: ērūca f
• Lithuanian: gražgarstė f
• Macedonian: рукола f (rukola)
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Maltese: rukola f
• Occitan: roqueta (oc) f
• Persian: تره‌تیزک، ترتیزک (tare-tizak, tartizak), شاهی (fa) (šâhi), کیکیز (kikiz)
• Polish: rukola (pl) f
• Portuguese: rúcula (pt) f
• Romanian: rucolă f, aragulă f, ruchetă f
• Russian: ру́ккола (ru) f (rúkkola)
• Slovene: rukola f
• Spanish: rúcula (es) f, oruga (es) f, roqueta f, jaramago m, ruca (es) f
• Swedish: rucola (sv) c, senapskål (sv) c
• Turkish: roka (tr)
• Welsh: berwr m, arfog (cy) m
• Yiddish: אַרוגולע f (arugule), כמו־⁠שאַלאַטן pl (kmoy-shalatn)

See also

• mesclun

Further reading

• arugula on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “arugula”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• augural

Indonesian

Etymology

From English arugula, probably from Italian rucola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abonəmɛn/
• Hyphenation: aru‧gu‧la

Noun

arugula (uncountable)

1. (cooking) arugula

Further reading

• “arugula” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.