chive
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English chive~cyve, from Old French chive~cive, from Latin cēpa (“onion”).
Inflected forms:
form: chives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cive
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chithe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chives
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chiving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chived
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chived
pos: verb
tags: past
form: chieve
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: chife
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: chiv
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.
pos: noun
gloss: The leaves of this plant used as a herb.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
in-plural
examples: Chive herb. (attributive use)
What a splendid pie, pizza-pizza pie / Every minute, every second, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy / Pepperoni and green peppers, mushrooms, olive, chives
gloss: The spring onion; the green onion; the scallion.
pos: noun
tags: Trinidad-and-Tobago
dialectal
gloss: To stab.
pos: verb
examples: Adieu to Haul-Cly, adieu to stopping Coaches, and adieu to all the hurry-scurry of Foot-Scampering, filing, chiving, milling, and sneaking[…]
He was as good a man as Jacky at any weapon that could be named, and if Jacky were game for a chiving (stabbing) match, he (Kavanagh) was ready for him.
After the place got well where I was chived, me and another screwed a place at Stoke Newington
gloss: To cut.
pos: verb
Related words: scallion
shallot
spring onion
Derived words: Chinese chive
civey
garlic chive
chive the darbies
chiving lay
chiving the froe
shiv
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: grasuie
lang: Arabic
word: ثُوم مُعَمَّر
roman: ṯūm muʕammar
lang: Armenian
word: սոխուկ
roman: soxuk
lang: Basque
word: tipulin
lang: Belarusian
word: скарада́
roman: skaradá
lang: Belarusian
word: рэ́занец
roman: rézanjec
lang: Catalan
word: cibulet
lang: Catalan
word: cebollí
lang: Catalan
word: porradell
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 細香蔥 /细香葱
roman: xìxiāngcōng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 蝦夷蔥 /虾夷葱
roman: xiāyícōng
lang: Czech
word: pažitka
lang: Czech
word: šnytlík
lang: Danish
word: purløg
lang: Dutch
word: bieslook
lang: Erzya
word: сятказ
roman: śatkaz
lang: Esperanto
word: ŝenoprazo
lang: Faroese
word: grønleykur
lang: Faroese
word: grasleykur
lang: Finnish
word: ruoholaukka
lang: Finnish
word: ruohosipuli
lang: French
word: ciboulette
lang: French
word: cive
lang: Galician
word: ceboliño
lang: Galician
word: cebolo
lang: German
word: Schnittlauch
lang: German
word: Binsenlauch
lang: German
word: Graslauch
lang: Greek
word: σχοινόπρασο
roman: schoinópraso
lang: Gwich'in
word: tł’oo drik
lang: Hebrew
word: עירית
roman: 'yrit
lang: Hungarian
word: metélőhagyma
lang: Hungarian
word: snidling
lang: Icelandic
word: graslaukur
lang: Indonesian
word: lokio
lang: Ingrian
word: laukkaheinä
lang: Ingrian
word: maasipuli
lang: Italian
word: erba cipollina
lang: Italian
word: cipolletta
lang: Japanese
word: チャイブ
roman: chaibu
lang: Japanese
word: 西洋浅葱
roman: seiyōasatsuki
lang: Japanese
word: 蝦夷葱
roman: ezonegi
lang: Korean
word: 차이브
roman: chaibeu
lang: Macedonian
word: власец
roman: vlasec
lang: Malay
word: kucai
lang: Norwegian
word: gressløk
lang: Polish
word: czosnek szczypiorek
lang: Polish
word: szczypiorek
lang: Polish
word: szczypior
lang: Portuguese
word: cebolinha
lang: Romanian
word: arpagic
lang: Russian
word: шни́тт-лук
roman: šnítt-luk
lang: Russian
word: скорода́
roman: skorodá
lang: Russian
word: лук-скорода́
roman: luk-skorodá
lang: Russian
word: ре́занец
roman: rézanec
lang: Russian
word: лук-ре́занец
roman: luk-rézanec
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: creamh-gàrraidh
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: вла́сац
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: дро̀бња̄к
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: шни̏тлах
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: шни̏тлинг
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vlásac
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: dròbnjāk
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: šnȉtlah
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: šnȉtling
lang: Silesian
word: szńitloch
lang: Slovak
word: pažítka
lang: Slovene
word: drobnják
lang: Spanish
word: cebolleta
lang: Spanish
word: cebollino
lang: Spanish
word: cebollana
lang: Swedish
word: gräslök
lang: Turkish
word: yaprak soğanı
lang: Welsh
word: cennin syfi
lang: Yiddish
word: שטשיפּיאָר
roman: shtshipyor