kimchi

• kimchee, kim chee, gimchee, gimchi

Borrowed from Korean 김치 (gimchi), ultimately composed within Korea of Chinese-derived morphemes 沉 (MC drim, “submerged, soaked”) and 菜 (MC tshojH, “vegetable”), i.e. "fermented vegetable". Doublet of kimuchi.

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kimchi (usually uncountable, plural kimchis)

1. 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.
   • 2023 June 29, Violet Kim, “Korean food: 39 dishes we can’t live without”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Despite the stew’s debt to kimchi, you know it has come into its own when it’s served with kimchi as a side dish.

   • 2019 January 26, Jo Storm, Snowhook‎^[2], Dundurn, →ISBN:

     "Yeah." He gestured to the kimchi. "Well, get it in ya, then."
     "It's better hot." she said.

2. (countable, 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, 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.

From Korean.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkimtʃi/, [ˈk̟im.t̪ʃi]
• Rhymes: -imtʃi
• Syllabification^(key): kim‧chi
• Hyphenation^(key): kim‧chi

kimchi

1. kimchi

• “kimchi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Borrowed from Korean.

• IPA^(key): /kimt.ʃi/

kimchi m (plural kimchis)

1. kimchi

Unadapted borrowing from English kimchi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkim.t͡ʂi/

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• Rhymes: -imt͡ʂi
• Syllabification: kim‧chi

kimchi n (indeclinable)

1. kimchi (Korean dish made of vegetables, such as cabbage or radishes, that are salted, seasoned, and stored in sealed containers to undergo lactic acid fermentation)

• kimchi in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Korean 김치 (gimchi). See there for more information.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkimt͡ʃi/ [ˈkĩm.t͡ʃi]
• Rhymes: -imtʃi
• Syllabification: kim‧chi

kimchi m (plural kimchis)

1. kimchi

kimchi c

1. kimchi