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knoflook.

garlic (Allium sativum: the plant or its bulb, used in cooking)

8 characters2 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈknɔf.loːk/
  1. garlic (Allium sativum: the plant or its bulb, used in cooking)

    masculine · neuter
    Zit er knoflook in deze pasta?
    Er groeit hier veel knoflook.
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch knofloick, knuuflooch, a dissimilated variant of earlier Middle Dutch cloffloc (literally “clove-leek”), from Old Dutch *kloflōk, from Proto-West Germanic *klobulauk (literally “clove-leek”), equivalent to klieven + look. Compare German Knoblauch, West Frisian knyflok and English clove.

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