xirivia

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic / Arabic كَرَاوِيَا (karāwiyā, “caraway”) (because viewed as a plant caraway and parsnip are similar, of the same subfamily, Apioideae).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ʃi.ɾiˈβi.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ʃi.ɾiˈvi.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [t͡ʃi.ɾiˈvi.a]

xirivia f (plural xirivies)

1. parsnip

   Coordinate term: pastanaga

• xirivia silvestre

• “xirivia” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “xirivia”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “xirivia”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), “chirivía”, in Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 295