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noun, feminine

ciboule

/si.bul/

noun, feminine/si.bul/plural: ciboules

scallion, spring onion (Allium fistulosum)

Related: ciboulette, ciboulot

Inherited from Middle French ciboule, from Old French cibole, borrowed from Occitan cibola, itself from Late Latin cēpulla~caepulla, diminutive of Latin cēpa~caepa (“onion”), whence the inherited French cive (“chive”).