kimchi

See also: kim chi

English

Borrowed from Korean 김치 (gimchi), derived from 침채 (chimchae) in the late Koryo dynasty.

Kimchi

kimchi (usually uncountable, plural kimchis)

A Korean dish made of vegetables, such as cabbage or radishes, that are salted, seasoned, and stored in sealed containers to undergo lactic acid fermentation.
(slang, ethnic slur, derogatory) A Korean person.
- 1994, Richard Marcinko, Rogue Warrior II: Red Cell, Pocket Books, page 238:
  How did I know the kimchis were trying to smuggle the crate out of Japan?
- 2007, Pamela Goyan Kittler and Kathryn Sucher, Food and Culture, Cengage Learning, page 5:
  In the United States, Germans are sometimes called "krauts" ... Koreans "kimchis," and poor white Southerners "crackers"...
- 2011, Gerald M. Weinberg, Freshman Murders, Weinberg & Weinberg:
  ... he doesn't know the difference between Ping-Pongs and Kimchis.

Korean dish

Chinese:
Cantonese: 泡菜 (paau³ coi³)

Mandarin: 韓式泡菜, 韩式泡菜 (Hán shì pàocài), 辛奇 (xīnqí), 泡菜 (zh) (pàocài)
Esperanto: kimĉio
Finnish: kimchi (fi)
French: kimchi (fr) m
German: Kimchi n
Hebrew: קִימְצִ'י‎ m (kimchí)
Italian: kimchi m

ethnic slur for Koreans

Chinese:
Mandarin: 高麗棒子 (zh), 高丽棒子 (zh) (Gāolí bàngzi), 韓棒子 (zh), 韩棒子 (zh) (Hánbàngzi)
Esperanto: koreaĉo

kimchi

Inflection of kimchi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		kimchi	kimchit
genitive		kimchin	kimchien
partitive		kimchiä	kimchejä
illative		kimchiin	kimcheihin
		singular	plural
nominative		kimchi	kimchit
accusative	nom.	kimchi	kimchit
accusative	gen.	kimchin	kimchit
genitive		kimchin	kimchien
partitive		kimchiä	kimchejä
inessive		kimchissä	kimcheissä
elative		kimchistä	kimcheistä
illative		kimchiin	kimcheihin
adessive		kimchillä	kimcheillä
ablative		kimchiltä	kimcheiltä
allative		kimchille	kimcheille
essive		kimchinä	kimcheinä
translative		kimchiksi	kimcheiksi
instructive		—	kimchein
abessive		kimchittä	kimcheittä
comitative		—	kimcheineen

kimchi m (plural kimchis)

kimchi m (plural kimchis)

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