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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:galangalWikipedia

Alternative forms

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• galingale, galanga

Etymology

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From Middle English galyngale, from Old French galingal, from Arabic خَلَنْجَان (ḵalanjān), from Persian قولنجان (qulenjân, qulanjân), from Sanskrit कुलञ्जन (kulañjana), perhaps from Chinese 高良薑／高良姜 (gāoliángjiāng), from 高涼 / 高凉 (Gāoliáng) (a prefecture or county in China) + 薑 / 姜 (jiāng, “ginger”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ɡəˈlæŋɡəl/

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Noun

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galangal (countable and uncountable, plural galangals)

1. Any of several east Asian plants of genera Alpinia and Kaempferia in the ginger family, used as a spice, but principally Alpinia galanga.
   • 2008, Carol Selva Rajah, David Thompson, Heavenly Fragrance‎[1], page 144:The refreshing aroma of galangal acts in combination with and as a contrast to lemongrass in many recipes in this book.
   • 2023 July 15, Rachel Cooke, “No, Nigella – dinner parties are great. Deliveroo just doesn’t cut it”, in The Observer‎[2], →ISSN: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”.

Hyponyms

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• greater galangal (Alpinia galanga)
• lesser galangal (Alpinia officinarum)

Translations

[edit] any of several plants of the ginger family

Arabic: خَوْلَنْجَان m (ḵawlanjān) Assamese: please add this translation if you can Bengali: please add this translation if you can Burmese: ပတဲကော (my) (pa.tai:kau:) Chinese: Mandarin: 高良薑 / 高良姜 (zh) (gāoliángjiāng) Czech: galgán m, galgant m Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: laos (nl) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: galanga (fi) French: galangue (fr), galanga (fr) m German: Galgant (de) m Greek: χαυλιτζάνι (chavlitzáni) Ancient: γάλαγγα (gálanga), ζέρνα f (zérna), κύπειρον n (kúpeiron) Gujarati: કોલિંજન (koliñjan) Hindi: कुलंजन (hi) (kulañjan) Indonesian: laos (id), lengkuas (id) Italian: galanga (it) Japanese: please add this translation if you can Khmer: មើមខ្ញី (məəm kɲəy), រំដេង (km) (rumdeeng) Korean: please add this translation if you can Lao: ຂ່າ (lo) (khā) Malay: lengkuas (ms) Norman: han m Ottoman Turkish: قولغان (kolgan), خولنجان (havlincan) Persian: خسرو دارو (xesru dâru), خسرودارو (xesrudâru), خولنجان (fa) (xawlenjân, xulenjân), خاولنجان (xâwlanjân), قولنجان (qulanjân, qulenjân) Polish: gałgan (pl) m, galgant m Portuguese: galanga f Russian: галанговый ко́рень m (galangovyj kórenʹ), калга́н (ru) m (kalgán), галга́н m (galgán), галгант m (galgant), галанга f (galanga) Sanskrit: वनार्द्रका (sa) f (vanārdrakā), कुलञ्ज (sa) m (kulañja), गन्धमूल (sa) m (gandhamūla), तीक्ष्णमूल (sa) m (tīkṣṇamūla) Serbo-Croatian: galgant m, galgan m, galanga (sh) f Slovak: galgan m, galgant m Slovene: galgant m, galgan m, galanga f Spanish: galangal m Swedish: galanga (sv) Tagalog: langkawas Thai: ข่า (th) (kàa) Turkish: havlıcan (tr) Ukrainian: калга́н m (kalhán) Vietnamese: riềng (vi)

Further reading

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• galangal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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