choucroute

Borrowed from French choucroute. Doublet of sauerkraut.

choucroute (uncountable)

1. sauerkraut

From Alsatian Alemannic German surkrut, Surkrut, Sürkrut (standard German Sauerkraut). The first part of the word was modified by folk etymology to French chou (“cabbage”). Since -croute (krut, German Kraut) is that part of the Germanic word that indeed means “cabbage”, the French form quite literally is “cabbage-cabbage”.

• IPA^(key): /ʃu.kʁut/

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• Rhymes: -ut

choucroute f (usually uncountable, plural choucroutes)

1. sauerkraut (a dish made by fermenting finely chopped cabbage)

• aucun rapport avec la choucroute
• pédaler dans la choucroute

• → Catalan: xucrut
• → Portuguese: chucrute
• → Spanish: chucrut

• “choucroute”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.