Chive herb. (attributive use)
Source: wiktionary
Chive
//t͡ʃaɪv//
Synonyms for "chive" (45 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (14)
Related words (22)
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5 entriesderived
9 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
12 entriesTranslations
121 translations across 53 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- grasuie noun (plant)
Arabic
2 entries- ثُوم مُعَمَّر noun (plant)
- ثُوم مُعَمَّر noun (chives: herb)
Armenian
1 entries- սոխուկ noun (plant)
Atayal
1 entries- nigi noun (chives: herb)
Basque
1 entries- tipulin noun (plant)
Belarusian
2 entries- рэ́занец noun (plant)
- скарада́ noun (plant)
Catalan
3 entries- cebollí noun (plant)
- cibulet noun (plant)
- porradell noun (plant)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 細香蔥 /细香葱 noun (chives: herb)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 細香蔥 /细香葱 noun (plant)
- 蝦夷蔥 /虾夷葱 noun (plant)
Cornish
1 entries- kennin sevi noun (chives: herb)
Czech
3 entries- pažitka noun (plant)
- pažitka noun (chives: herb)
- šnytlík noun (plant)
Danish
2 entries- purløg noun (plant)
- purløg noun (chives: herb)
Dutch
2 entries- bieslook noun (plant)
- bieslook noun (chives: herb)
Erzya
1 entries- сятказ noun (plant)
Esperanto
2 entries- ŝenoprazo noun (plant)
- ŝenoprazo noun (chives: herb)
Estonian
1 entries- murulauk noun (chives: herb)
Faroese
2 entries- grasleykur noun (plant)
- grønleykur noun (plant)
Finnish
3 entries- ruoholaukka noun (plant)
- ruohosipuli noun (plant)
- ruohosipuli noun (chives: herb)
French
3 entries- ciboulette noun (plant)
- ciboulette noun (chives: herb)
- cive noun (plant)
Galician
3 entries- ceboliño noun (plant)
- ceboliño noun (chives: herb)
- cebolo noun (plant)
German
4 entries- Binsenlauch noun (plant)
- Graslauch noun (plant)
- Schnittlauch noun (plant)
- Schnittlauch noun (chives: herb)
Greek
2 entries- σχοινόπρασο noun (plant)
- σχοινόπρασο noun (chives: herb)
Gwich'in
1 entries- tł’oo drik noun (plant)
Hebrew
1 entries- עירית noun (plant)
Hindi
1 entries- प्याज़ noun (chives: herb)
Hungarian
2 entries- metélőhagyma noun (plant)
- snidling noun (plant)
Icelandic
2 entries- graslaukur noun (plant)
- graslaukur noun (chives: herb)
Indonesian
3 entries- bawang batak noun (chives: herb)
- lokio noun (plant)
- lokio noun (chives: herb)
Ingrian
2 entries- laukkaheinä noun (plant)
- maasipuli noun (plant)
Irish
1 entries- siobhas noun (chives: herb)
Italian
4 entries- cipolletta noun (plant)
- cipolletta noun (chives: herb)
- erba cipollina noun (plant)
- erba cipollina noun (chives: herb)
Japanese
3 entries- チャイブ noun (plant)
- 蝦夷葱 noun (plant)
- 西洋浅葱 noun (plant)
Korean
1 entries- 차이브 noun (plant)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- cyblišk noun (chives: herb)
- cybulinka noun (chives: herb)
Macedonian
2 entries- власец noun (plant)
- власец noun (chives: herb)
Malay
1 entries- kucai noun (plant)
Norwegian
2 entries- gressløk noun (plant)
- gressløk noun (chives: herb)
Persian
2 entries- تره noun (chives: herb)
- گندنا noun (chives: herb)
Polish
4 entries- czosnek szczypiorek noun (plant)
- szczypior noun (plant)
- szczypiorek noun (plant)
- szczypiorek noun (chives: herb)
Portuguese
2 entries- cebolinha noun (plant)
- cebolinha noun (chives: herb)
Romanian
2 entries- arpagic noun (plant)
- arpagic noun (chives: herb)
Russian
4 entries- лук-ре́занец noun (plant)
- лук-скорода́ noun (plant)
- ре́занец noun (plant)
- скорода́ noun (plant)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- creamh-gàrraidh noun (plant)
- creamh-gàrraidh noun (chives: herb)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- dròbnjāk noun (plant)
- dròbnjāk noun (chives: herb)
- vlásac noun (plant)
- vlásac noun (chives: herb)
Silesian
1 entries- szńitloch noun (plant)
Slovak
1 entries- pažítka noun (plant)
Slovene
2 entries- drobnják noun (plant)
- drobnják noun (chives: herb)
Spanish
4 entries- cebollana noun (plant)
- cebolleta noun (plant)
- cebollines noun (chives: herb)
- cebollino noun (plant)
Swedish
2 entries- gräslök noun (plant)
- gräslök noun (chives: herb)
Turkish
1 entries- yaprak soğanı noun (plant)
Volapük
1 entries- bebül noun (chives: herb)
Welsh
2 entries- cennin syfi noun (plant)
- cennin syfi noun (chives: herb)
Yiddish
1 entries- שטשיפּיאָר noun (plant)
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13 total sentences available.
What a splendid pie, pizza-pizza pie / Every minute, every second, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy / Pepperoni and green peppers, mushrooms, olive, chives
Source: wiktionary
1577, Raphael Holinshed et al., The Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Ireland, London: John Hunne, Book 3, Chapter 14, “Of English Saffron,” […] in the place wher he bled, Saffron was after found to grow, whereupon the people séeyng the color of the chiue as it stoode, (although I doubt not but it grewe there long before) adiudged it to come to the bloude of Crocus, and therefore they gaue it his name.
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[…] to abate, and allay the fulnesse of red, we doe not see white vsed (as a colour too remote) but rather yellow, and that so farre-forth as some doe grinde a Chiue of Saffron with Vermillion, to make it the more pleasant, whereas white in like proportion mixed, would dimne, and decay it […]
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