Etymology

kiamchay

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Today it means: salted / pickled Chinese mustard greens (Brassica juncea) Full definition →

Hokkien 鹹菜 /咸菜
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The story

  1. Hokkien · borrowed from鹹菜 /咸菜
  2. English todaykiamchay

From Hokkien 鹹菜 /咸菜 (kiâm-chhài, literally “salted vegetable”).

Words from the same roots

Hokkien鹹菜 all →

kiam chye

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.