parsley
/ˈpɑː(ɹ)sli/
parsley noun: a bright green, biennial herb, Petroselinum crispum, having many cultivars.
Noun
parsley (usually uncountable, plural parsleys)
- A bright green, biennial herb, Petroselinum crispum, having many cultivars.
- Though the parsley seemed to have died, outside it started to regenerate. New crimped leaves came free from the sprigs and spread.2022, Sara Baume, Seven Steeples, Tramp Press, page 100
- The leaves of this plant used in Middle Eastern, European, and American cooking.
- Any herb resembling parsley, such as cilantro (Chinese parsley) or chervil (French parsley).
Verb
parsley (third-person singular simple present parsleys, present participle parsleying, simple past and past participle parsleyed)
- To add parsley to.
- Put a layer of mashed potato on one side and also on the other after peppering, salting and finely-chopped parsleying it to taste.1923, William Teignmouth Shore, My Cook Book, page 46
Proper noun capitalized: Parsley
Parsley (countable and uncountable, plural Parsleys)
- A surname from Old French.
- An unincorporated community in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States.
parsley meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
parsley in Hindi
- अजमोद
parsley in Tamil
- வேர்க்கோசு
parsley in Urdu
- اجمودا
parsley in Bengali
- পার্সলে, পার্সলি
More languagesFewer languages
- parsley in Telugu
- పార్స్లీ, పార్స్లి, పార్స్లీకి
- parsley in Malayalam
- പാർസ്ലി
- parsley in Kannada
- ಪಾರ್ಸ್ಲಿ, ಪಾರ್ಸ್ಲೀ, ಪಾರ್ಸ್ಲಿಗೆ
- parsley in Punjabi
- ਜਵੈਣ javaiṇ
- parsley in Odia
- ପାର୍ସ୍ଲି, ପାର୍ସଲେ, ପାର୍ସଲେକୁ
- parsley in Nepali
- पार्सले
- parsley in Tagalog
- perehil
- parsley in Arabic
- مَقْدُونِس maqdūnis, بَقْدُونِس baqdūnis, مَعْدُونِس maʕdūnis
- parsley in Malay
- pasli
- parsley in Indonesian
- peterseli
- parsley in Persian
- جعفری ja'fari, شومخ šumax
- parsley in Thai
- ผักชีฝรั่ง pàk-chii-fà-ràng
- parsley in Vietnamese
- mùi tây
Examples of parsley in a sentence
- To make nut roast, you have to blitz the nuts in the food processor before adding the parsley and breadcrumbs.
- Serve mushroom Bourguignon over polenta, noodles or mashed potatoes, topped with fried mushrooms and parsley.
- Off the heat, add the toasted pine nuts and roughly chopped parsley and taste for seasoning.
Forms of parsley
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | parsleys |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | parsleys |
| present participle | parsleying |
| past participle | parsleyed |
| past | parsleyed |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Parsleys |
| alternative form | Parshley |
| alternative form | Parslow |
Origin of parsley
From Middle English persely, from Old French peresil, from Latin petroselīnum, from Ancient Greek πετροσέλῑνον (petrosélīnon, “parsley”), from πέτρος (pétros, “rock, stone”) + σέλῑνον (sélīnon, “celery”). Displaced Old English petersiliġe, which goes back to the same root.
Altered form, later assimilated by folk etymology to the herb name parsley, of the medieval family name Passelewe, from Old French passer (“to pass”) + la (“the”) + ewe (“water”), probably a nickname for a ferryman or a person who travelled overseas.
Words formed from parsley
- bastard parsley
- beaked parsley
- black parsley
- bur parsley
- Chinese parsley
- common parsley
- corn parsley
- cow parsley
- dog parsley
- flat-leaved parsley
- fool's parsley
- French parsley
- garden parsley
- Hamburg parsley
- hedge parsley
- hemlock parsley
- horse parsley
- Italian parsley
- milk parsley
- mountain parsley
- parsley fern
- parsley frog
- parsley haw
- parsley-leaved hawthorn
- parsleylike
- parsley piert
- poison parsley
- root parsley
- sea parsley
- spring parsley
- square parsley
- stone parsley
- turnip-rooted parsley
- Welsh parsley
Phrases with parsley
Questions about parsley
- What does parsley mean?
- Parsley means a bright green, biennial herb, Petroselinum crispum, having many cultivars.
- What is parsley in Hindi?
- Parsley in Hindi is अजमोद. See Parsley meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is parsley?
- Parsley can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce parsley?
- Parsley is pronounced /ˈpɑː(ɹ)sli/.
- What is the plural of parsley?
- The plural of parsley is parsleys.
Words near parsley in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: parsley (page history and authors); Parsley (page history and authors); parsley (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); parsley (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); parsley (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); parsley (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); parsley (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); parsley (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); parsley (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); parsley (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); parsley (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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