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a vegetable with a strong smell and flavour, made up of several layers surrounding each other tightly in a round shape, usually brown or red on the outside and white inside
I always cry when I'm chopping onions.
Fry the onion and garlic for about two minutes.
Freír la cebolla y el ajo durante unos dos minutos.
(Translation of onion from the Cambridge English-Spanish Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Translation of onion | GLOBAL English–Spanish Dictionary
onion
noun
/ˈʌnyən/ a round vegetable with many layers and a strong smell, used in cooking
cebolla
onion soup
sopa de cebolla
(Translation of onion from the GLOBAL English-Spanish Dictionary © 2020 K Dictionaries Ltd)
Examples of onion
onion
While initially unnerving, his probing questions sought to peel away the layers of knowledge like an onion.
We have only begun to peel the layers of the hermeneutic onion: on its skin, we found protest; beneath this skin, complicity.
The former may be compared with an onion > (smell of) onion and the latter with an onion > some onion.
A 50 % fall in onion price makes the control and fully fertilized treatments unprofitable and reduces net incomes by over 70 % in the other treatments.
The price series for flour, mutton, olive oil, cooking oil, onions, chickpeas, pepper, sugar, and wood were used in these calculations.
Thus, onions are a relatively high water requirement crop in terms of absolute water extracted and used on the farm (table 9).
However, some evidence suggests that household heads with college or postgraduate degrees were paying a higher price on onions, peppers and potatoes than their counterparts.
The process can be described as one of peeling an onion-layer after layer must be cautiously peeled away.
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Translations of onion
in Chinese (Traditional)
洋蔥（頭）…
in Chinese (Simplified)
洋葱（头）…
in Portuguese
cebola, cebola [feminine]…
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कांदा…
タマネギ…
soğan…
oignon [masculine], oignon…
ceba…
ui…
ஒரு வலுவான வாசனை மற்றும் சுவை கொண்ட ஒரு காய்கறி, ஒன்றுக்கொன்று இறுக்கமாக ஒரு வட்ட வடிவத்தில் சுற்றியுள்ள பல அடுக்குகளால் ஆனது, பொதுவாக வெளியில் பழுப்பு அல்லது சிவப்பு நிறத்திலும் மற்றும் உள்ளே வெள்ளை நிறத்திலும் இருக்கும்…
प्याज़…
ડુંગળી, કાંદો…
løg…
lök…
bawang…
die Zwiebel…
løk [masculine], løk…
پیاز…
цибуля, цибулина…
лук (овощ)…
ఉల్లిగడ్డ/ఉల్లిపాయి…
بَصَل…
পেঁয়াজ…
cibule…
bawang…
หัวหอม…
củ hành…
cebula…
양파…
cipolla…
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