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A courgette.

Unadapted borrowing from French courgette, diminutive of courge (“vegetable marrow, marrow squash”).[1] Ultimately related to zucchini through Latin cucurbita.

• (General American) IPA(key): /kʊɚˈʒɛt/, /kɔɹˈʒɛt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kʊəˈʒɛt/, /kɔːˈʒɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

courgette (plural courgettes)

1. (UK, Ireland, uncountable) A particular variety of Cucurbita pepo, a small marrow/squash.
2. (countable, cooking) The edible fruit of this marrow/squash.

• zucchini (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US)

• courgetti

a small marrow/squash

• Afrikaans: murgpampoentjie (af)

• Arabic: كُوسَا f (kūsā), كُوسَة f (kūsa)
  Egyptian Arabic: كوسة f (kōsa, kūsa)
  Hijazi Arabic: كُوسَة f (kūsa)
  Moroccan Arabic: قرعة (qarʕa)

• Armenian: ցուկկինի (cʻukkini)

• Belarusian: кабачо́к m (kabačók)

• Bulgarian: ти́квичка f (tíkvička)

• Catalan: carabassó (ca) m, carbassó (ca) m

• Chinese:
  Cantonese: 翠玉瓜 (ceoi3 juk6 gwaa1) (Asian courgette/jade melon), 意大利青瓜 (ji3 daai6 lei6 ceng1 gwa1, literally “Italian cucumber”)
  Mandarin: 西葫蘆 / 西葫芦 (zh) (xīhúlu), 夏南瓜 (zh) (xiànánguā), (please verify) 北瓜 (zh) (běiguā)

• Cornish: pompik m

• Czech: cuketa (cs) f

• Danish: zucchini, courgette (da), squash

• Dutch: courgette (nl)

• Esperanto: kalabaseto

• Faroese: kursjetta f

• Finnish: kesäkurpitsa (fi)

• French: courgette (fr) f, zucchini (fr) m (Quebec)

• Galician: cabaciña (gl) f

• Georgian: ყაბაყი (q̇abaq̇i)

• German: Zucchini (de) f, Zucchetti f (Switzerland)

• Greek: κολοκυθάκι (el) n (kolokytháki)

• Greenlandic: squashi

• Hebrew: קישוא (he) m (kišú)

• Hungarian: cukkini (hu)

• Icelandic: kúrbítur (is) m, dvergbítur (is) m

• Indonesian: zukini

• Irish: cúirséad m

• Italian: zucchino (it) m, zucchina (it) f

• Japanese: ズッキーニ (ja) (zukkīni)

• Kazakh: кәді (kk) (kädı)

• Korean: 주키니 (jukini)

• Ladino: kalavasa

• Latvian: kabacis (lv) m

• Lithuanian: cukinija f

• Macedonian: ти́квичка f (tíkvička)

• Malay: zukini (ms)

• Maltese: ħjara f, qargħa bagħli f

• Māori: roroa

• Mazanderani: کئیچلیک (ka'ičelik)

• Navajo: naayízítsʼósí

• Pannonian Rusyn: бундавки f pl (bundavki)

• Persian: کدو سبز (fa) (kadu sabz)

• Polish: cukinia (pl) f, kabaczek (pl) m

• Portuguese: abobrinha (pt) f (Brazil), curgete f

• Quechua: sapallu

• Romanian: dovlecel (ro)

• Romansh: zucchetti m

• Russian: цукки́ни (ru) m (cukkíni), кабачо́к (ru) m (kabačók)

• Serbo-Croatian: tikvica (sh) f, tikva (sh)

• Sicilian: cucuzzeḍḍa f

• Slovak: cuketa (sk) f, cukina (sk) f

• Slovene: bučka (sl) f

• Spanish: calabacín (es) m, (Mexico) calabacita f, (Argentina, Uruguay) zapallito (es) m, (Chile) zapallo italiano m, (Peru) zapallito italiano m, zucchini (es) m (Dominican Republic, Panama, Puerto Rico)

• Swedish: zucchini (sv), squash (sv)

• Tagalog: kalabasita, kalabasin

• Tarifit: taxsašt f, taxsayt f

• Tigrinya: ዙኪኒ (zukini)

• Turkish: kabak (tr), sakız kabağı (tr)

• Ukrainian: кабачо́к (uk) m (kabačók)

• Venetan: sucàto

• Vietnamese: bí xanh

• Welsh: corbwmpen

• Winnebago: wicąwąksuksik

• Yiddish: זוקיני f (zukini), קוסעלע n (kusele)

• cucumber

• gherkin

• marrow

• pickle

• squash

• zucchini

1. ^ “courgette, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Unadapted borrowing from French courgette, diminutive formed from courge, ultimately from Latin cucurbita.

• IPA(key): /kurˈʒɛt/, /ˌkurˈʒɛ.tə/
• Hyphenation: cour‧get‧te
• Rhymes: -ɛt, -ɛtə

courgette f (plural courgettes, no diminutive)

1. a courgette, a zucchini (fruit)
2. the courgette plant, a variety of Cucurbita pepo

From courge (“vegetable marrow, marrow squash”) +‎ -ette.

• IPA(key): /kuʁ.ʒɛt/

courgette f (plural courgettes)

1. courgette (UK), zucchini (Australia, Canada, US)

• → Dutch: courgette
• → English: courgette
• → Portuguese: curgete
• “courgette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012