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Three leeks

From Middle English leke, leek, lek, from Old English lēac (“a garden herb, leek, onion, garlic”), from Proto-West Germanic *lauk, from Proto-Germanic *lauką, *laukaz (“leek, onion”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend”).

Cognate with Dutch look (“garlic, leek”), German Low German Look (“leek”), German Lauch (“leek, allium”), Danish løg (“onion”), Swedish lök (“onion”), Icelandic laukur (“onion, leek, garlic”). See garlic.

• enPR: lēk, IPA(key): /liːk/
• Homophone: leak
• Rhymes: -iːk

leek (plural leeks)

1. A vegetable of variety Allium ampeloprasum, having edible leaves and an onion-like bulb but with a milder flavour than the onion.
2. Any of several species of Allium, broadly resembling the domesticated plant in appearance in the wild.

• (Allium ampeloprasum): broadleaf wild leek, the Cambrian symbol (literary), garden leek, scallion (US, Scotland)

• Asian leek (Allium fistulosum)

• broadleaf wild leek (Allium ampeloprasum, Allium atroviolaceum)

• eat the leek

• garden leek (Allium ampeloprasum, syn. Allium porrum)

• green leek

• green leek parrot

• houseleek (Sempervivum)

• leek-green

• leekish

• leeklike

• leek moth (Acrolepiopsis assectella)

• leek orchid (Prasophyllum spp.)

• leek rust (Puccinia allii)

• leeky

• lily leek (Allium moly)

• meadow leek

• narrowleaf wild leek (Allium tricoccum var. burdickii)

• Persian leek (Allium ampeloprasum cultivar)

• rose leek

• sand leek (Allium scorodoprasum)

• swallow the leek

• threecorner leek (Allium triquetrum)

• wild leek

• → Māori: riki

vegetable

• Abkhaz: апрасқьиа (apʼraskja)

• Afrikaans: prei

• Albanian: preshi, presh (sq)

• Arabic: كُرَّاث (kurrāṯ)
  Egyptian Arabic: كرات m pl (kurāt)
  Hijazi Arabic: كُرَّاث m pl (kurrāt)
  North Levantine Arabic: بَراصِيا

• Armenian: պրաս (hy) (pras)
  Middle Armenian: քուռաթ (kʻuṙatʻ)
  Old Armenian: պրաս (pras)

• Aromanian: prash n

• Asturian: puerru (ast) m

• Basque: porru (eu)

• Bats: პრას (ṗras)

• Bulgarian: праз m (praz)

• Catalan: porro (ca) m

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 韭蔥 / 韭葱 (zh) (jiǔcōng)

• Czech: pórek m, pór zahradní m

• Danish: porre c

• Daur: sors

• Dutch: prei (nl) m, porrei m

• Egyptian: (jꜣqt f)

• Esperanto: poreo

• Estonian: porrulauk (Allium porrum), lauk (et) (hypernym)

• Ewe: agumetaku n

• Faroese: purra f

• Finnish: purjo (fi), purjosipuli (fi)

• French: poireau (fr) m, porrée f, porreau (fr) m, poirée (fr) f, poirette (fr) f, asperge du pauvre (fr) f

• Galician: porro (gl) m, allo porro (gl) m

• Georgian: პრასი (ṗrasi), პრასა (ṗrasa)

• German: Porree (de) m, Lauch (de) m, Breitlauch m, Winterlauch m

• Greek: πράσο (el) n (práso)
  Ancient Greek: πράσον n (práson)

• Haitian Creole: powo

• Hawaiian: leka

• Hebrew: כרישה (he)

• Hindi: गंदना (hi) (gandnā)

• Hungarian: póréhagyma (hu), póré (hu)

• Icelandic: blaðlaukur (is) m, púrra (is) f, púrrulaukur m

• Ido: porelo (io)

• Indonesian: prei (id)

• Irish: cainneann f
  Old Irish: cainnenn f

• Italian: porro (it) m

• Japanese: 葱 (ja) (ねぎ, negi)

• Khmer: ខ្ទឹមស្លឹក (km) (ktɨm slǝk), ស្លឹកខ្ទឹម (slǝk ktɨm)

• Korean: 파 (ko) (pa)

• Kurdish:
  Central Kurdish: کەوەری فەرەنگی (kewerî ferengî)
  Northern Kurdish: qurad (ku), kurat (ku)

• Ladino: prasa, puerro

• Latin: porrum n, ulpicum n

• Latvian: puravs

• Laz: პრასკჲა (p̌rasǩya)

• Low German: Porree m

• Luxembourgish: Porrett f

• Macedonian: праз (mk) m (praz)

• Maltese: kurrata f

• Māori: riki

• Middle English: lek

• Mongolian: жууцай (mn) (žuucaj)

• Nahuatl:
  Classical Nahuatl: huēyi caxtīllān xonacatl

• Norman: pouothé m

• Norwegian: purre, purreløk

• Occitan: pòrre (oc) m

• Ojibwe: zhigaagawanzh

• Old Church Slavonic: прасъ (prasŭ), празъ (prazŭ)

• Old English: lēac n

• Papiamentu: siboyo largu

• Persian: تره‌فرنگی (tare-farangi)

• Plautdietsch: Luak f

• Polish: por (pl) m

• Portuguese: porro (pt) m, alho-porro (pt) m, alho-poró (pt) m (Brazil), alho-francês m

• Proto-Norse: ᛚᚨᚢᚲᚨᛉ m (laukaʀ)

• Romanian: praz (ro) m

• Russian: лук-поре́й (ru) m (luk-poréj), поре́й (ru) m (poréj)

• Scottish Gaelic: creamh-gàrraidh m

• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: пoрилук m, празилук m, праса f
  Latin: poriluk (sh) m, praziluk (sh) m, prasa (sh) f

• Slovak: pór m

• Slovene: por (sl) m, pôr (sl)

• Spanish: puerro (es) m, porro (es) m, poro (es) m

• Swedish: purjolök (sv) c

• Tagalog: kutsay (Allium tuberosum)

• Thai: กระเทียมต้น (grà tiam dtôn)

• Tibetan: སྙུག་ཚོང (snyug tshong)

• Turkish: pırasa (tr)
  Ottoman Turkish: پراصه (prasa)

• Ukrainian: цибуля-поре́й f (cybulja-poréj), поре́й m (poréj)

• Urdu: کراث (kurrās)

• Vietnamese: tỏi tây (vi)

• Walloon: porete (wa) f, porea (wa) m, poret m

• Welsh: cenhinen f

• Yiddish: פּאָרע־ציבעלע (pore-tsibele)

• garlic

• leak

• Thrips tabaci

• Kele, elke, keel, lekë

• IPA(key): /leːk/

• Hyphenation: leek

• Rhymes: -eːk

• Homophone: Leek

From Latin lāicus (“layman, laic”), from Ancient Greek λαϊκός (laïkós, “of the people”), from λαός (laós, “the people”).

leek m (plural leken, diminutive leekje n)

1. layman, non-clergyman
   Antonyms: clericus, geestelijke
   In de middeleeuwen was er een duidelijk verschil tussen geestelijken en leken. ― In the Middle Ages, there was a clear distinction between clergy and laymen.
   Hij is een leek in kerkelijke zaken. ― He is a layman in ecclesiastical matters.
2. layman, non-expert, amateur
   Antonyms: deskundige, expert, professional
   Als leek op dit gebied, kan ik je niet veel advies geven. ― As a layman in this field, I can't give you much advice.
   Veel leken vinden het moeilijk om dit te begrijpen. ― Many amateurs find it difficult to understand this.

• lekenapostolaat
• lekenpersoneel
• lekenrechter
• lekenstand

leek (comparative leker, superlative leekst)

1. (obsolete) lay, worldly, secular, profane

From Middle Dutch leke, from Old Dutch *leke, from Old Norse lœkr, from Proto-Germanic *lōkiz. Cognate with Dutch laak, English lake.

leek ? (plural leken, diminutive leekje n)

1. small body of water, like a pool; gave rise to place names

Local dialect in the Dutch region Betuwe, from Latin lapathum (“kind of sorrel”).

leek ? (plural leken, diminutive leekje n)

1. (botany) the plant Rumex crispus
   Synonym: krulzuring
2. (by extension) related plants of that genus: sorrel, dock

• koeleek

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

leek

1. singular past indicative of lijken

leek

1. inflection of leken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• keel, leke

From Proto-Finnic *leekki, cognate to Finnish liekki and Karelian liekki. Possibly the same root as in Votic lõõkkua (“to move, to sway”) and Finnish liekkua.

leek (genitive leegi, partitive leeki)

1. blaze, flame, fire
   Mu korter on leekides.
   My apartment is up in flames.

• leegiheitja

leek

1. alternative form of lek