okra

• okry (Southern US vernacular)
• ochro, ochroe (Caribbean)
• okro
• ochre, ockro, ocra, ocro, occra, occro, ochra, ocre, okero, okree, okwa, ookroo (obsolete)

From an unknown West African language, probably Igbo ọ́kụ̀rụ̀ but cf. Akan ŋkrũmã and ŋkrakra (“broth”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɒkɹə/, /ˈəʊkɹə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊkɹə/
• Rhymes: -əʊkɹə, -ɒkɹə

okra (countable and uncountable, plural okras)

1. The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus.
   • 1679, Thomas Trapham, A Discourse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica..., pages 59–60:

     ...as a food easy of digestion may well be admitted likewise the young Ocra an agreeable Food as well for the species as individual, dressed variously according to pleasure...

   • 1940, Farmers' Bulletin, number 232, page 7:

     Select young okra, wash thoroughly, remove the stems, and wipe the okra dry.

   • 1997, Lisette Verlander et al., The Cookin' Cajun Cooking School Cookbook, page 25:

     Wash and dry okra, remove stems, and slice in one-inch rounds. (If using frozen okra, do not wash.) Heat two tablespoons oil in a heavy saucepan other than black iron. Saute okra in oil and vinegar, stirring often until ropiness is gone.

   • 2006, Francis N. Wiltz, In the Kitchen with Papa Wiltz, page 1:

     I hated cooking okra because it was so slimy when you first start.

2. The flowering mallow plant Abelmoschus esculentus itself, now commonly grown in the tropics and warmer parts of the temperate zones.
   • 1707, Hans Sloane, A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados..., volume I, page 222:

     Ocra, this has a round green stem, which rises straight up to ten or twelve foot high.

   • 1989, Ib Libner Nonnecke, Vegetable Production, page 610:

     Okra does not do well in tight, waterlogged soils, but will tolerate a soil pH range of from 6.0 to 7.5.

   • 2011, Leon Neel et al., The Art of Managing Longleaf: A Personal History of the Stoddard-Neel Approach, page 36:

     We planted some truck crops like watermelons and okra, which was risky.

• bandikai (India), bhindi (Indian contexts), gumbo (esp. in stews), ladyfinger
• (edible capsules): ladies' fingers

• (edible capsules): pod vegetable
• (plant): abelmosk, mallow

• → Irish: ocra
• → Korean: 오크라 (okeura)
• → Welsh: ocra

• Abelmoschus esculentus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• “okra, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

• Kora, akro-, kora

okra

1. okra (Abelmoschus esculentus)

Borrowed from English okra, probably from Igbo ọkụrụ.

okra

1. okra (Abelmoschus esculentus)

Borrowed from English okra, probably from Igbo ọkụrụ.

• Hyphenation: ok‧ra

okra

1. okra (Abelmoschus esculentus)

• arko, karo, orka

Borrowed from English okra, probably from Igbo ọkụrụ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈokɾa/, [ˈo.kɾa]
• Hyphenation: o‧kra

okra

1. okra (Abelmoschus esculentus)

• Audio:

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okra m (plural okra's, diminutive okraatje n)

1. okra (Abelmoschus esculentus)

• IPA^(key): /ˈokrɑ/, [ˈo̞krɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -okrɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ok‧ra
• Hyphenation^(key): ok‧ra

From Swedish ockra, from Latin ōchra, from Ancient Greek ὤχρα (ṓkhra).

okra

1. ochre (having a yellow-orange colour)

• okrankeltainen
• okranvärinen

okra

1. ochre (pigment)
2. ochre (color)

The pigment is usually called keltamulta when used as pigment for house paints, whereas artists and archaeologists seem to prefer okra.

• (pigment): keltamulta
• (color): okrankeltainen, okranväri, okraväri

• “1. okra”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

From English okra, from some West African language, probably Igbo ọ́kụ̀rụ̀.

okra

1. okra, Abelmoschus esculentus

• “2. okra”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

• akro-, rako

okra

1. okra (Abelmoschus esculentus)

ok +‎ -ra

• IPA^(key): [ˈokrɒ]
• Hyphenation: ok‧ra

okra

1. sublative singular of ok

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔːkra/
• Rhymes: -ɔːkra

okra (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative okraði, supine okrað)

1. (intransitive) to practice usury

• orka

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.kra/

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• Rhymes: -ɔkra
• Syllabification: o‧kra
• Homophone: Okra

okra f

1. okra (Abelmoschus esculentus)

   Synonym: piżmian jadalny

2. okra (edible capsules of Abelmoschus esculentus)

• okra in Polish dictionaries at PWN

okra f (plural okras)

1. okra

Borrowed from English okra.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔokɾa/ [ˈʔok.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -okɾa
• Syllabification: ok‧ra

okra (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜃ᜔ᜇ)

1. okra

• okrahan

• rako, arok, arko, karo