How to say "garlic" in Japanese

• にんにくCommon
  nounThe ordinary word for garlic as a foodstuff and as the plant Allium sativum; this is what you want in everyday cooking, shopping, and botanical contexts.
  にんにくは強つよいにおいを放はなつ。↗

  Garlic gives off a strong odor.
• ガーリック
  nounA loanword glossed simply as garlic, but a less common choice; it tends to flavour menu items and product names rather than serve as the everyday word, so にんにく is usually the safer pick.

Use 「にんにく」 for garlic itself, whether cooking, shopping, or describing the plant; 「ガーリック」 is a rarer loanword that mainly appears in imported-flavour contexts such as menu and recipe labels.

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• にんにくgarlic (Allium sativum)
• ガーリックgarlic