okra

• okry (Southern US vern.); ochro, ochroe (Caribbean); okro
• (obsolete): ochre, ockro, ocra, ocro, occra, occro, ochra, ocre, okero, okwa, ookroo

From an unknown West African language, probably Igbo ọ́kụ̀rụ̀ but cf. Akan ŋkrũmã and ŋkrakra (“broth”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊkɹə/, /ˈɒkɹə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊkɹə/
• Rhymes: -oʊkɹə, -əʊkɹə, -ɒkɹə

okra (countable and uncountable, plural okras)

1. The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus.
   • 1679, Thomas Trapham, A Discourse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica..., pp. 59–60:

     ...as a food easy of digestion may well be admitted likewise the young Ocra an agreeable Food as well for the species as individual, dressed variously according to pleasure...

   • 1940, Farmers' Bulletin, No. 232, p. 7:

     Select young okra, wash thoroughly, remove the stems, and wipe the okra dry.

   • 1997, Lisette Verlander & al., The Cookin' Cajun Cooking School Cookbook, p. 25:

     Wash and dry okra, remove stems, and slice in one-inch rounds. (If using frozen okra, do not wash.) Heat two tablespoons oil in a heavy saucepan other than black iron. Saute okra in oil and vinegar, stirring often until ropiness is gone.

   • 2006, Francis N. Wiltz, In the Kitchen with Papa Wiltz, p. 1:

     I hated cooking okra because it was so slimy when you first start.

2. The flowering mallow plant Abelmoschus esculentus itself, now commonly grown in the tropics and warmer parts of the temperate zones.
   • 1707, Hans Sloane, A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados..., Vol. I, p. 222:

     Ocra, this has a round green stem, which rises straight up to ten or twelve foot high.

   • 1989, Ib Libner Nonnecke, Vegetable Production, p. 610:

     Okra does not do well in tight, waterlogged soils, but will tolerate a soil pH range of from 6.0 to 7.5.

   • 2011, Leon Neel & al., The Art of Managing Longleaf: A Personal History of the Stoddard-Neel Approach, p. 36:

     We planted some truck crops like watermelons and okra, which was risky.

• (edible capsules): pod vegetable
• (plant): abelmosk, mallow

• bhindi (Indian contexts), gumbo (esp. in stews), ladyfinger
• (edible capsules): ladies' fingers

• African okra, autumnal okra, bun okra, Chinese okra, musk okra, ornamental okra, West African okra, wild okra, Yorka okra, Okra mosaic virus

• Abelmoschus esculentus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• “okra, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

• Kora, kora

From English okra, probably from Igbo ọkụrụ.

• Hyphenation: ok‧ra

okra

1. okra (Abelmoschus esculentus)
2. the pods of this plant

• arko, karo, orka

• Hyphenation: ok‧ra

Hyphenation: ọk‧rọ

okra

1. ochre (having a yellow-orange colour)

• okrankeltainen
• okranvärinen

okra

1. ochre (pigment)
2. ochre (color)

The pigment is usually called keltamulta when used as pigment for house paints, whereas artists and archaeologists seem to prefer okra.

• (pigment): keltamulta
• (color): okrankeltainen, okranväri, okraväri

okra

1. okra, Abelmoschus esculentus

• akro-, rako

ok +‎ -ra

• IPA^(key): [ˈokrɒ]
• Hyphenation: ok‧ra

okra

1. sublative singular of ok

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔːkra/
• Rhymes: -ɔːkra

okra (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative okraði, supine okrað)

1. (intransitive) to practice usury

• orka

okra f (plural okras)

1. okra

okra

1. okra