گوبھی

Borrowed from Portuguese couve (“cabbage”), from Latin caulis (“stalk, stem”). Cognate with Punjabi گوبھی (gobhī), Marathi कोबी (kobī), Bengali কপি (kopi), Assamese কবি (kobi), Manipuri ꯀꯣꯕꯤ (kobi).

Some believe a derivative from Sanskrit गोजीह्विका (gojīhvikā), but it is unlikely.

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɡoː.bʱiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: گو‧بھی

گوبھی • (gobhī) f

1. cabbage

   Synonym: (less ambiguous) بَنْد گوبھی (band gobhī)

2. cauliflower

   Synonym: (less ambiguous) پُھول گوبھی (phūl gobhī)

• → Burmese: ဂေါ်ဖီ (gauhpi)
• → English: gobi, gobhi
• → Pashto: ګوبي
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਗੋਭੀ (gobhī)

  Shahmukhi script: گوبھی (gobhī)

• “گوبھی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “گوبھی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “گوبهی”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.