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Etymology
From, , , borrowed from et al. and , from , accusative of , which had also been borrowed into Old English as ,  (> 🇨🇬, ). Also displaced and the inherited term.

Noun

 * 1) A monocotyledonous plant (Allium cepa), allied to garlic, used as vegetable and spice.
 * 2) The bulb of such a plant.
 * 3) * 1962 (quoting 1381 text), & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., , Ann Arbor, Mich.:, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242:
 * dorrẹ&#773;, dōrī adj. & n. cook . glazed with a yellow substance; pome(s ~, sopes ~.  1381 Pegge Cook. Recipes p. 114: For to make Soupys dorry. Nym onyons  Nym wyn  toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.
 * 1)  The genus as a whole.
 * 2)  A ball.
 * 3)  A person from Bermuda or of Bermudian descent.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: ахыц
 * Adyghe: бжьыны
 * Afrikaans:
 * Alabama: kasooma
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ሽንኩርት
 * Ankave: anianɨ'
 * Arabic: بَصَل
 * Egyptian Arabic: بصل, بصلة (singulative)
 * Gulf Arabic: بُصَل
 * Moroccan Arabic: بصل, بصلة (singulative)
 * Aramaic: בוצלא
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: tseapã
 * Assamese: পিয়াঁজ, পনৰু
 * Asturian: cebolla
 * Avar: пер
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: һуған
 * Basque: tipula
 * Belarusian: цыбу́ля, лук
 * Bengali:
 * Bezhta: хагъо
 * Bikol Central: sibulyas
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Buryat: һонгино
 * Catalan:
 * Central Sierra Miwok: siwo·ja-
 * Chakma:
 * Chamicuro: sewoyo
 * Chechen: хох
 * Chichewa: anyezi
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 洋蔥, 洋葱
 * Dungan: цун, пиязы
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Min Nan: 北蔥, 北葱, 蔥頭, 葱头
 * Wu: 洋蔥, 洋葱
 * Chukchi: майъоԓяԓгын
 * Chuvash: сухан
 * Coptic: ⲙϫⲱⲗ
 * Cree: wiheekaskosis
 * Crimean Tatar: soğan
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: capula
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi: ފިޔާ
 * Dongxiang: sunguna
 * Dutch: ,
 * Erzya: чурька
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Evenki: эӈуктэ
 * Ewe: sabala
 * Farefare: albarsa, geene
 * Faroese: leykur
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: civole, cevole
 * Gagauz: suan, suvan
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ხახვი
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: Bölle
 * Central Franconian: Öllisch
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κρόμμυον
 * Greenlandic: uanitsoq
 * Gujarati: ડુંગળી
 * Hausa:
 * Hawaiian: ʻakaʻakai
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: पियाज़, कांदा
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Zwiwel
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: cibolla
 * Irish: oinniún
 * Italian:
 * Ivatan: bulias, bulyas
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese:
 * Kabardian: бжьыны
 * Kalmyk: мәңгрсн
 * Kannada:
 * Kapampangan: sibuyas
 * Karachay-Balkar: сохан
 * Kazakh:
 * Khakas: муксун
 * Khmer:
 * Kikuyu: gĩtũngũrũ


 * Korean:
 * Kumyk: согъан
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:
 * Latin: caepa, cēpa
 * Latvian: sīpols
 * Lithuanian: svogūnas
 * Low German: Sipel
 * Lule Sami: løhkka
 * Macedonian: кромид
 * Malay: bawang
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: basla
 * Manchu: ᡝ᠊ᠯᡠ
 * Manx: unnish
 * Maori: aniana
 * Marathi: कांदा
 * Mari:
 * Eastern Mari: шоган
 * Moksha: шурьхкя
 * Mongolian:
 * Moore: albasle, gebre
 * Nahuatl:
 * Nanai: элу
 * Navajo: tłʼohchin
 * Nepali:
 * Norman: ouongnon, ouagniaon
 * Northern Sami: lávki
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Ojibwe: zhigaagawanzh
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: лоукъ
 * Old East Slavic: лукъ
 * Oriya:
 * Ossetian: хъӕдындз
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Zippel
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਪਿਆਜ਼
 * Quechua: siwulla
 * Rohingya: fiañs
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: tschagula, tschavola , tschaguola , tschiguolla
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:, ,
 * Sardinian: chepudha, chibudha, chipudha, cibudha, ciudha, gibudha
 * Scots: ingan
 * Scottish Gaelic: uinnean
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: лу̏к, цр̑ни лу̏к, цр̀венӣ лу̏к
 * Roman:, cȓni lȕk, cr̀venī lȕk
 * Sicilian:
 * Sinhalese: ලූණු, ලූනු
 * Skolt Sami: luukk
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai: согоно, согон
 * Southern Sami: lööke
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, gullök
 * Tagalog: sibuyas
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཙོང
 * Tigrinya: ሽጉርቲ
 * Tok Pisin: anian
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: sogan
 * Tuvan: согуна
 * Udmurt: сугон
 * Ukrainian:, лук
 * Urdu: پیاز, کاندا
 * Uyghur: پىياز
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: séoła, zéoła, ziola
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Vilamovian: cwypuł
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: wynwyn
 * West Frisian: sipel
 * Western Panjabi: ,
 * Wolof:
 * Yakut: луук
 * Yiddish: ציבעלע
 * Zealandic: juun
 * Zhuang: yangzcoeng


 * Assamese: পিয়াঁজ, পনৰু
 * Basque: tipula
 * Bikol Central: sebolyas
 * Catalan:
 * Coptic: ⲙϫⲱⲗ
 * Danish:
 * Dzongkha: སྒོགཔ
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κρόμμυον
 * Hebrew:
 * Irish: oinniún
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh:
 * Latin: caepa, cēpa
 * Macedonian: главица


 * Malay: bawang
 * Maltese: basla
 * Marathi: कांदा
 * Navajo: tłʼohchin
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: lauk
 * Plautdietsch: Zippel
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: uinnean
 * Slovene: čebulica
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Tagalog: sibuyas
 * Tok Pisin: anian
 * Ukrainian: лу́ковиця,
 * Walloon:


 * Finnish: ,


 * Japanese: ネギ属