haricot

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhæɹ.ɪ.kəʊ/, /ˈɑːɹ.ɪ.kəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhæɹ.ɪ.koʊ/, /ˈɑːɹ.ɪ.koʊ/, /ˈhɛɹ.ɪ.koʊ/

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Borrowed from French haricot (“bean”).

haricot (plural haricots)

1. Synonym of common bean.

• haricot bean

From French haricot, from Middle French haricot, a deverbal derivation of Old French harigoter (“to tear up, shred, slice up, slice into pieces”), from Frankish *hariōn (“to ruin, lay waste, ravage, plunder, destroy”), from Proto-Germanic *harjōną (“to plunder, lay waste, harry”). Cognate with Middle High German verheeren (“to harry”), Old English herġian (“to lay waste, ravage, plunder”). More at harry.

haricot (plural haricots)

1. A stew of lamb and vegetables.

• Torahic, Torchia, chariot

• zarico (Haiti, Louisiana, Missouri)
• z-haricot (Louisiana)

(Sense 1) From Middle French haricot, a deverbal derivation of Old French harigoter (“to shred, slice up, slice into pieces”), from Frankish *hariōn (“to ruin, lay waste, ravage, plunder, destroy”), from Proto-Germanic *harjōną (“to plunder, lay waste, harry”). Cognate with Middle High German verheeren (“to harry”). More at harry.

(Sense 2) Origin uncertain. Influenced in form by the 'stew' word above, if not originally identical to it; in that case possibly from Mexican Spanish ayacotli, ayacote, or possibly from Calicut.

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /a.ʁi.ko/

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): /a.ri.ko/, [a.ɾi.ko]
• Rhymes: -o
• Homophone: haricots

haricot m (plural haricots)

1. (cooking) A stew of lamb and vegetables.
2. (vegetable) A bean; a green bean (also known as a string bean or snap bean).

   Synonym: fève f (North America)

3. (botany) The plant from which the green bean is cultivated: the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris).
4. (medicine, surgery) A kidney dish.

• Louisiana French does not feature the so-called aspirated h, so liaison is permissible, if not expected, before the word haricot. For example: un haricot [ɛ̃‿naɾiko], les haricots [le‿zaɾiko]. See the alternative forms z-haricot and zarico as well as English zydeco.

• Louisiana Creole: ariko, zadiko, zariko, zaydiko
• → Sango: ariköo

• “haricot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• “haricot”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse
• Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “haricot”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette
• Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (2009; →ISBN; →ISBN)

• chariot, torchai

Borrowed from French haricot.

haricot m (plural haricots)

1. (Jersey) bean