spinach

• spinage (obsolete)
• spinnach (obsolete)

From Middle English spinach, from Anglo-Norman spinache, from Old French espinoche, from Old Occitan espinarc, from Arabic إِسْفَانَاخ (ʔisfānāḵ), from Classical Persian اسپناخ (ispanāx, ispināx).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈspɪnɪt͡ʃ/, /ˈspɪnɪd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪnɪtʃ, -ɪnɪdʒ

spinach (countable and uncountable, plural spinaches)

2. A particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea, or its leaves.
   • 2021 July 1, Gregory McNamee, “Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye – and science”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Another option is to wash spinach and other leafy greens thoroughly in running water before eating them.

3. Any of numerous plants, or their leaves, which are used for greens in the same way Spinacia oleraceae is or resemble it in some way.

• Popeye

• Chapins

• spinage, spynache, spynage, spinoch, spynoch, spinarge, spynarche

From Anglo-Norman spinache, from Old Occitan espinarc, from Arabic إِسْفَانَاخ (ʔisfānāḵ), from Persian اسپناخ (espanâx).

• IPA^(key): /ˈspinatʃ(ə)/, /ˈspinadʒ(ə)/, /ˈspinartʃ(ə)/

spinach (plural spinoches)

1. spinach (Spinacia oleracea)

• English: spinach

• “spinache, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 24 June 2018.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspi.nax/
• Rhymes: -inax
• Syllabification: spi‧nach

spinach m

1. locative plural of spin

spinach f

1. locative plural of spina