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spin⋅ach

  [spin-ich]
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–noun
1. a plant, Spinacia oleracea, cultivated for its edible, crinkly or flat leaves.
2. the leaves.
Origin:
1520–30; < MF espinache, espinage < OSp espinaca, alter. of Ar isfānākh, perh. < Pers

Related forms:
spin⋅ach⋅like, adjective
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spin·ach   (spĭn'ĭch)   
n.  
  1. A widely cultivated southwest Asian plant (Spinacia oleracea) having succulent edible leaves.
  2. The leaves of this plant, eaten as a vegetable.

[Middle English, from Old French espinache, from Medieval Latin spināchium, from Arabic 'isfānāḫ, from Persian espenāj, espenākh.]
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Spinach

Spin"ach\, Spinage \Spin"age\, n. [OF. espinache, espinoche, F. ['e]pinard; cf. F. spinace, Sp. espinaca; all fr. Ar. isf[=a]n[=a]j, isfin[=a]j, aspan[=a]kh, probably of Persian origin.] (Bot.) A common pot herb (Spinacia oleracea) belonging to the Goosefoot family.

Mountain spinach. See Garden orache, under Orache.

New Zealand spinach (Bot.), a coarse herb (Tetragonia expansa), a poor substitute for spinach.

Note: Various other pot herbs are locally called spinach.
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Language Translation for : spinach
Spanish: espinaca,
German: der Spinat,
Japanese: ほうれん草
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spinach 
1530, from M.Fr. espinache (Fr. épinard), from O.Prov. espinarc, which perhaps is via Catalan espinac, from Andalusian Arabic isbinakh, from Arabic isbanakh, from Pers. aspanakh "spinach." But OED is not convinced the Middle Eastern words are native, and based on the plethora of Romanic forms pronounces the origin "doubtful." Old folk etymology connected the word with L. spina (see spine) or with M.L. Hispanicum olus. For pronunciation, see cabbage. In 1930s Amer.Eng. colloq. it had a sense of "nonsense, rubbish," based on a famous "New Yorker" cartoon of Dec. 8, 1928.
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