chervil

English

chervil Anthriscus cerefolium

Etymology

From Middle English chervell, from Old English cerfille, from Anglo-Norman chervele (compare Jèrriais chèrfi), from Latin chaerephylla, plural of chaerephyllum, from Ancient Greek χαιρέφυλλον (khairéphullon).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɜː(ɹ)vɪl/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)vɪl

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

chervil (countable and uncountable, plural chervils)

1. (countable) A leafy herb, Anthriscus cerefolium, resembling parsley.
   • 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 253:

     The life of one plant would be affected by another. Rue was definitely hostile to basil, rosemary to hyssop, but coriander, dill and chervil lived on the friendliest of terms[.]

2. (uncountable) Leaves from the plant, used as an herb in cooking, which have a mild flavor of anise.
   • 2016, Susan Belsinger, Arthur O. Tucker, The Culinary Herbal, Timber Press, →ISBN, page 57:

     No herb, except perhaps tarragon, is quite so French as chervil, an association that is not surprising for a nation known for its celebration of fine food and the subtle use of herbs.

   • 2017, Alice Arndt, Seasoning Savvy: How to Cook with Herbs, Spices, and Other Flavorings‎^[1], CRC Press, →ISBN:

     Cook fresh chervil leaves very little, if at all. They are best when added to a dish after it has been cooked, or toward the end of the cooking time.

Synonyms

• (plant): garden chervil, French parsley
• (leaves of herb): gourmet's parsley

Derived terms

• sea chervil (Alcyonidium diaphanum)
• turnip rooted chervil (Chaerophyllum bulbosum)
• bur chervil (Anthriscus caucalis)
• wild chervil (Anthriscus sylvestris)

Translations

plant

• Catalan: cerfull m
• Esperanto: cerefolio
• Estonian: harakputk
• Finnish: maustekirveli (fi), kirveli (fi)
• Galician: cerefolio (gl) m
• Hungarian: turbolya (hu)
• Latvian: kārvele f
• Livonian: piņripskõz
• Macedonian: красулка (krasulka)
• Polish: trybula (pl) f
• Turkish: frenk maydanozu

spice

• Arabic: مَقْدُونِس إِفْرَنْجِيّ m (maqdūnis ʔifranjiyy)
• Bulgarian: кервел (kervel)
• Catalan: cerfull m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 細葉芹／细叶芹 (sai³ jip⁶ kan^4-2)

• Czech: kerblík (cs) m
• Danish: kørvel
• Dutch: kervel (nl)
• Estonian: harakputk
• Finnish: kirveli (fi)
• French: cerfeuil (fr)
• Galician: cerefolio (gl) m
• Georgian: ჭყიმი (č̣q̇imi)
• German: Kerbel (de) m

  Middle High German: kërvele

  Old High German: kerfola

• Greek: χαιρέφυλλο n (chairéfyllo), σκαντζίκι n (skantzíki), ανθρίσκος m (anthrískos), μυρώνι (el) n (myróni), φραγκομαϊντανός n (fragkomaïntanós)

  Ancient: χαιρέφυλλον n (khairéphullon), σκάνδιξ f (skándix), ἄνθρυσκον n (ánthruskon)

• Hungarian: turbolya (hu)
• Icelandic: kerfill m
• Irish: costóg f, camán gall m
• Italian: cerfoglio (it) m
• Japanese: チャービル (ja) (chābiru)
• Latin: caerefolium n, scandix f
• Latvian: kārvele f
• Livonian: piņripskõz
• Low German: karwel
• Luxembourgish: Kierwel m
• Macedonian: геревиз m (gereviz), красница f (krasnica)
• Malay: cervil
• Middle English: cherville
• Norman: chèrfi m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjørvel (no) m

• Old English: cerfille f
• Polish: trybula (pl) f
• Portuguese: cerefolho m, cerefólio (pt) m
• Romanian: hasmațuchi (ro) m
• Russian: керве́ль (ru) m (kervélʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: krbuljica, krasuljica (sh)
• Slovak: trebuľka
• Slovene: krebúljica f, práva krebúljica f
• Spanish: perifollo m, cerefolio m, perifolio m
• Svan: წჷ̄წყა (c̣ə̄c̣q̇a)
• Swedish: körvel (sv) c
• Turkish:

  Modern Turkish: frenk maydanozu

  Ottoman Turkish: فرنك معدنوسی (frenk maydanozu)

• Walloon: cierfouy (wa) m

References

• chervil on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Anthriscus cerefolium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Anthriscus cerefolium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Anthriscus cerefolium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• chilver