turnip

Etymology
From, probably from + , from , from. The component turn may be due to the round shape of the plant as though turned on a lathe, or because it must be turned and twisted to be harvested. Cognate to. See also.

Noun

 * 1) The white root of a yellow-flowered plant,, grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.
 * 2)  The yellow root of a related plant, the swede or.
 * 3)  The white root of, also known as a daikon.
 * 4)  A large, heavy pocket watch, so called because its profile resembled the vegetable.
 * 5)  A fool or simpleton.
 * 1)  A large, heavy pocket watch, so called because its profile resembled the vegetable.
 * 2)  A fool or simpleton.

Synonyms

 * , (Cornwall, Scotland)
 * rutabaga (North America), swede (Ireland, Northern England, Scotland), tumshie (Scotland)
 * see daikon

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: لِفْت
 * Egyptian Arabic: لفت
 * Hijazi Arabic: لِفْت
 * Moroccan Arabic: لفت
 * South Levantine Arabic: لفت
 * Aragonese: napo
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: şalğam
 * Bashkir: шалҡан
 * Belarusian: рэ́па, рэ́пка
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: ря́па
 * Burmese: မုန်လာဉဝါ
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᏓᏈᏌᏂ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Chuvash: ҫарӑк
 * Cornish: ervin, ervinen, routabaga, turnypen
 * Czech: vodnice
 * Danish: majroe
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: naeris
 * Faroese: mairót, hvítarót
 * Finnish: ; rehunauris,
 * Franco-Provençal: râva
 * French:
 * Friulian: râf, râv, raùç
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:, თალგამი
 * German: Speiserübe; Mairübe, Teltower Rübchen, Herbstrübe, Wasserrübe, Stoppelrübe, Weiße Rübe, Bayrische Rübe ;, Rübsamen
 * Alemannic German: Rääbe
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: γογγυλίς
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ingrian: nagris, turnus
 * Irish: tornapa
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 蕪菜,
 * Kashmiri: گۄگٕج
 * Kazakh: lṳ
 * Komi-Zyrian: сёркни
 * Korean: 순무
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: شێلِم
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Southern Kurdish: شەلەم
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao: ຫົວຜັກເທີນິຟ
 * Latin: nāpus, rāpum
 * Latvian:
 * Ligurian: rava
 * Lithuanian: ropė
 * Low German: Rööv
 * Macedonian: ре́па, ре́пка
 * Malagasy: ,
 * Maltese: ġidra
 * Maori: kōrau, tōnapi
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: реве
 * Western Mari: ревӹ
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: niłtsínii bikétłʼóól dijoolí
 * Norman: navet
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: nepe
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: nǣp
 * Ottoman Turkish: شلغم
 * Persian:
 * Piedmontese: rava
 * Plautdietsch: Reew
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਗੋਂਗਲੂ, ਸ਼ਲਗਮ
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: snèap
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: репа
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: rapa
 * Sinhalese: එළවලු වර්ගයක්, ටර්නිප්
 * Slovak:, vodnica
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: rěpa
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: majrova,
 * Tagalog: pulang singkamas, puting singkamas
 * Tajik: шалғам
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཉུང་མ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: şalgam
 * Udmurt: сяртчы
 * Ukrainian:, рі́пка
 * Urdu: شلجم,
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian:
 * Vietnamese:, cây củ cải
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: ,


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Polish:


 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, , ,
 * Maltese:
 * Neapolitan: ,
 * Persian:
 * Urdu:

Verb

 * 1)  To plant with turnips.
 * 2)  To feed or graze (livestock) on turnips.
 * 1)  To feed or graze (livestock) on turnips.