different between myrrh vs frankincense

English

Etymology

From Middle English mirre, from Old English myrre, from Latin myrrha, from Ancient Greek ????? (múrrha), from Semitic. Compare Arabic ????? (murr, “myrrh”, literally “bitterness”), Hebrew ??? \ ???? (m?r, “myrrh”, literally “bitterness”). Compare ????? : maror.

Pronunciation

• enPR: mûr, IPA^(key): /m??/
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [m??(?)]
  • (US) IPA^(key): [m?]
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: murr, murre

Noun

myrrh (usually uncountable, plural myrrhs)

1. A red-brown resinous material, the dried sap of a tree of the species Commiphora myrrha.
   • 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, p. 98)

     The glories of Mary held his soul captive: spikenard and myrrh and frankincense, symbolising the preciousness of God's gifts to her soul, rich garments, symbolising her royal lineage, her emblems, the lateflowering plant and lateblossoming tree, symbolising the agelong gradual growth of her cultus among men.

2. (Scotland) The herb chervil.

Derived terms

• myrrhic
• myrrhine
• myrrhlike

Translations

Further reading

• myrrh on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Old French franc encens (“noble incense”).

Noun

frankincense (countable and uncountable, plural frankincenses)

1. A type of incense obtained from the Boswellia thurifera tree.

Synonyms

• olibanum

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