different between caraway vs kummel

English

Etymology

From Middle English caraway, carewey, carwey, from Medieval Latin carui, from Arabic ??????????? (kar?wiy?), via Aramaic from Ancient Greek ???? (kar?), ????? (káron, “caraway”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæ???we?/

Noun

caraway (countable and uncountable, plural caraways)

1. A biennial plant, Carum carvi, native to Europe and Asia, mainly grown for its seed to be used as a culinary spice.
2. The seed-like fruit of the caraway plant.
3. A cake or sweetmeat containing caraway seeds.
   • 1897, Imogen Clark, Will Shakespeare's Little Lad

     I'll eat her marchpane and her caraways

   • 1916, The Country Gentleman

     the housewife of today can surely match the skill of those of three centuries ago and make "caraways” or cheesecakes

Synonyms

• Persian cumin

Translations

Further reading

• caraway on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “caraway” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “caraway”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• carewey, careway, carwey, carway, carawey, careaway, carewy, carwy, careeaway, charuwe

Etymology

From Medieval Latin carui, from Arabic ???????????? (kar?wiyy?), via Aramaic from Ancient Greek ???? (kar?), ????? (káron, “caraway”). Doublet of carvi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?karwi?/, /?kar??wi?/, /-w?i?/

Noun

caraway (uncountable)

1. Caraway or its seed.

   Synonym: carvi

Descendants

• English: caraway

References

• “carewei, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-26.

English

Alternative forms

• kümmel

Etymology

From German Kümmel.

Noun

kummel (countable and uncountable, plural kummels)

1. A German caraway liqueur.
   • 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society 2008, p. 140:

     ‘The best kümmel comes in those bear-shaped bottles. It comes from Russia.’

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kümmel, from Middle High German [Term?], from Old High German kumil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?.m?l/
• Hyphenation: kum?mel
• Rhymes: -?m?l

Noun

kummel m (uncountable)

1. caraway, Carum carvi

   Synonym: karwij

2. kummel (caraway-based spirits)

Related terms

• komijn

French

Etymology

From German Kümmel

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.m?l/

Noun

kummel m (plural kummels)

1. kummel

Further reading

• “kummel” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).