The refreshing aroma of galangal acts in combination with and as a contrast to lemongrass in many recipes in this book.
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Galangal
//ɡəˈlæŋɡəl//
Synonyms for "galangal" (5 found)
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59 translations across 35 languages.
Ancient Greek
3 entries- γάλαγγα noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
- ζέρνα noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
- κύπειρον noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Arabic
1 entries- خَوْلَنْجَان noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Burmese
1 entries- ပတဲကော noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Catalan
1 entries- galanga noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 高良薑 /高良姜 noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Czech
2 entries- galgant noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
- galgán noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Dutch
1 entries- laos noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Finnish
1 entries- galanga noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
French
2 entries- galanga noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
- galangue noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
German
1 entries- Galgant noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Greek
1 entries- χαυλιτζάνι noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Gujarati
1 entries- કોલિંજન noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Hindi
1 entries- कुलंजन noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Indonesian
2 entries- laos noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
- lengkuas noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Italian
1 entries- galanga noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Khmer
2 entries- មើមខ្ញី noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
- រំដេង noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Lao
1 entries- ຂ່າ noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Malay
1 entries- lengkuas noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Norman
1 entries- han noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- خولنجان noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
- قولغان noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Persian
4 entries- خاولنجان noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
- خسرو دارو noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
- خسرودارو noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
- خولنجان noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Polish
2 entries- galgant noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
- gałgan noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Portuguese
1 entries- galanga noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Russian
4 entries- галанга noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
- галанговый ко́рень noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
- галга́н noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
- галгант noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Sanskrit
4 entries- कुलञ्ज noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
- गन्धमूल noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
- तीक्ष्णमूल noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
- वनार्द्रका noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- galanga noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
- galgan noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
- galgant noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Slovak
2 entries- galgan noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
- galgant noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Slovene
3 entries- galanga noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
- galgan noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
- galgant noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Spanish
1 entries- galangal noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Swedish
1 entries- galanga noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Tagalog
1 entries- langkawas noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Thai
1 entries- ข่า noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Turkish
1 entries- havlıcan noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Ukrainian
1 entries- калга́н noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Vietnamese
1 entries- riềng noun (any of several plants of the ginger family)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
Another time, she dined in Hampstead, where she was fed a version of stargazy pie with a whole squid where the eel should have been. It was flavoured, for the full medieval effect, with galangal, which her hostess described as “kind of like frankincense”.
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