galanga
French, noun/ɡa.lɑ̃.ɡa/
galanga is spelled G-A-L-A-N-G-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written French, the 162,920th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Galanga is a French masculine noun meaning “galangal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Plantes herbacées, rhizomateuses de la famille des Zingibéracées (Zingiberaceae), Alpinia officinarum…”.
What does galanga mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinegalangal
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Plantes herbacées, rhizomateuses de la famille des Zingibéracées (Zingiberaceae), Alpinia officinarum, Alpinia galanga, Alpinia speciosa, originaires du sud-est de l’Asie et dont le rhizome est utilisé comme épice dans la cuisine de plusieurs pays d’Asie. 2. Épice extraite du rhizome de ces plantes.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of galanga
- galangas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce galanga?
- /ɡa.lɑ̃.ɡa/
- \ɡa.lɑ̃.ɡa\
- [ɡa.lɑ̃.ɡa]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to galanga
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is galanga in French?
galanga appears about once in every 26 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).