choucroute

Meaning

sauerkraut (a dish made by fermenting finely chopped cabbage)

Concepts

sauerkraut

kraut

pickled cabbage

choucroute

Translations

Sauerkraut

crauti

chucrut

zuurkool

Sauerkohl

lahana turşusu

xucrut

chucrute

كُرنب مُخَمَّر

λαχανάλμη

salcrautte

ξινολάχανο

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʃu.kʁut/

Etymology

Borrowed from Swiss German: surkrut

Cognate with German: Sauerkraut

In summary

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”.