watercress

English

Nasturtium officinale

Etymology

From Middle English water cresse, water-kresse, watercrasse, water cars, equivalent to water +‎ cress. Cognate with West Frisian waterkers (“watercress”), Dutch waterkers (“watercress”), Swedish vattenkrasse (“watercress”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔːtəkɹɛs/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔtəɹkɹɛs/

Noun

watercress (countable and uncountable, plural watercresses)

1. A perennial European herb, Nasturtium officinale, that grows in freshwater streams; used in salads and as a garnish.
2. A similar plant, Nasturtium microphyllum.

Derived terms

• fool's watercress
• watercressed
• watercressing
• watercressy

 

Translations

Nasturtium officinale

• Arabic: قُرَّة f (qurra), حُرْف (ar) m (ḥurf)
• Aragonese: berro m
• Armenian: ջրկոտեմ (hy) (ǰrkotem), հորփ կոտեմ (horpʻ kotem)

  Middle Armenian: ջրկոտեմ (ǰrkotem)

• Bulgarian: кресон m (kreson), пореч m (poreč)
• Catalan: creixen (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 西洋菜 (sai¹ joeng⁴ coi³)

  Mandarin: 西洋菜 (zh) (xīyángcài), 豆瓣菜 (zh) (dòubàncài)

• Czech: potočnice f, řeřicha (cs) f, potočnice lékařská
• Danish: tykskulpet Brøndkarse
• Dutch: witte waterkers (nl) f
• Esperanto: akvokreso
• Finnish: vesikrassi (fi)
• French: cresson de fontaine (fr) m
• Galician: agrón (gl) m, berro (gl) m
• German: Brunnenkresse (de) f, Echte Brunnenkresse f, Wasserkresse f
• Hebrew: גרגיר הנחלים
• Hungarian: vízitorma (hu)
• Irish: biolar m
• Japanese: クレソン (kureson), オランダガラシ (orandagarashi)
• Kabuverdianu: algriom
• Korean: 물냉이 (mullaeng'i), 크레송 (keuresong)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: کووزەڵە (kûzelle)

• Latin: nasturtium n
• Malay: selada air
• Maori: kōwhitiwhiti, wātakirihi
• Navajo: táłkááʼ dah yikał
• Norman: cresson m
• Persian: ترتیزک (fa) (tartizak), شاهی (fa) (šâhi)
• Polish: rukiew (pl) f, rukiew wodna (pl) f
• Portuguese: agrião (pt) m
• Romanian: năsturel (ro) m, creson (ro) n, cardama (ro) f
• Russian: жеру́ха (ru) f (žerúxa), водяно́й кре́сс m (vodjanój kréss), брункре́сс m (brunkréss)
• Serbo-Croatian: drèzga (sh) f, derezga f (Chakavian), pòtočārka (sh) f, dragušac (sh) m, grbač (sh) m (obsolete), vodena kresa f
• Slovak: žerucha (sk) f
• Slovene: vodna kreša
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: studnina krjasa f

  Upper Sorbian: lěkarska ropucha f

• Spanish: berro (es) m
• Swedish: källfräne, källkrasse c, vattenkrasse c
• Tagalog: kangkong
• Vietnamese: cải xoong
• Welsh: berwr y dŵr f pl, berwr y ffynnon f pl
• West Frisian: wyt wetterleppeltsje
• Yiddish: וואַסערכריין m (vaserkhreyn), זשערעכע f (zherekhe)

Nasturtium microphyllum

• Catalan: creixen (ca) m
• Czech: potočnice f
• Dutch: slanke waterkers (nl) f
• Esperanto: akvokreso, nasturcio
• Finnish: pikkuvesikrassi
• Galician: agrón (gl)
• German: Bastard-Brunnenkresse f
• Japanese: クレソン (kureson)
• Mandarin: 西洋菜 (zh) (xīyángcài)
• Norwegian: brønnkarse
• Ossetian: дудгӕ (dudgæ)
• Persian: آبتره
• Polish: rukiew drobnolistna f
• Portuguese: agrião (pt) m
• Romanian: năsturel (ro) m, creson (ro) n
• Scottish Gaelic: biolar
• Spanish: berro (es) m, cresón m, berro de agua (es) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Ido: ^{(please verify)} kreso (io)
• Italian: nasturzio (it) m, ^{(please verify)} crescione d'acqua
• Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} cải xoong

Further reading

• watercress on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “watercress”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.