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A calque / k æ l k / or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal, word-for-word (Latin: "verbum pro verbo") translation. This list contains examples of calques in various languages.
English name Scientific name Image Mosur-Maah Lentil: Lens culinaris: Motor-Maah Pea: Pisum sativum: Dhua Mogu White lentil: Vigna mungo: Mati-Maah Urad bean: Vigna mungo: Mogu-Maah Mung bean: Vigna radiata: Rohor dail/dali Pigeon pea: Cajanus cajan: Boot-Maah Chickpea: Cicer arietinum: Motor Dail/Dali Split pea: Pisum sativum: French bean ...
In the English-speaking world, the name goji berry has been used since around 2000. [7] [16] [17] The word goji is an approximation of the pronunciation of gǒuqǐ (pinyin for 枸杞), the name for the berry-producing plant L. chinense in several Chinese dialects. [15] In Japanese, it is known as 枸杞 (kuko), usually written in kana as クコ.
The English name was adopted from the Portuguese. [9] In China, congee is known as zhou (Chinese: 粥; pinyin: zhōu; Cantonese Yale: jūk), with the first recorded reference traced back to 1000 BC during Zhou dynasty. Across Asia, various similar dishes exists with varying names.
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The young fruit of some Luffa cultivars are used as cooked vegetables or pickled or eaten raw, and the shoots and flowers are sometimes also used. [3] Like Luffa aegyptiaca , the mature fruits are harvested when dry and processed to remove all but the fruit fibre, which can then be used as a sponge or as fibre for making hats.
Flowers Tubers, with a ruler for scale. Coleus rotundifolius, synonyms Plectranthus rotundifolius and Solenostemon rotundifolius, [1] commonly known as native potato or country potato in Africa and called Chinese potato in India, is a perennial herbaceous plant of the mint family (Lamiaceae) native to tropical Africa.
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