kailan

• gailan, gai-lan, gai lohn, gai-lon, kai-lan

Borrowed from Cantonese 芥蘭／芥兰 (gaai3 laan4-2).

kailan (uncountable)

1. Brassica oleracea var. alboglabra, a long, blue-green vegetable with thick, glossy stems and leaves typically eaten in Chinese and particularly Cantonese cooking.

• Chinese broccoli, Chinese kale

• See also Thesaurus:dim sum

• Kai-lan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Brassica oleracea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• Kalina, kalian

From Malay kailan, from Late Classical Malay کايلن (kailan), from Cantonese 芥蘭／芥兰 (gaai3 laan4-2, “kailan”).

• IPA^(key): /ka.i.lan/
• Hyphenation: ka‧i‧lan

kailan (first-person possessive kailanku, second-person possessive kailanmu, third-person possessive kailannya)

1. kailan, Brassica oleracea var. alboglabra.

• “kailan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• kelan — colloquial
• caylan — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

From ka- +‎ ilan.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /kaʔiˈlan/ [kɐ.ʔɪˈlan̪]
    • Rhymes: -an
    • Syllabification: ka‧i‧lan
  • IPA^(key): /kajˈlan/ [kaɪ̯ˈlan̪], /ˈkelan/ [ˈkɛː.lɐn̪] (colloquial)
    • Rhymes: -an
    • Syllabification: kai‧lan
• (Batangas) IPA^(key): /kejˈlan/ [keɪ̯ˈlan̪]
  • Rhymes: -an

kailán (plural kai-kailan, Baybayin spelling ᜃᜁᜎᜈ᜔)

1. (interrogative) when

• “kailan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• kanila