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saffron
English
Etymology
From Middle English saffron, from Old French safran, from Medieval Latin safr?num, from Arabic ??????????? (za?far?n).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sæf??n/
Noun
saffron (countable and uncountable, plural saffrons)
- The plant Crocus sativus, a crocus.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Song of Songs 4.13-14,[1]
- Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, spikenard and saffron […]
- 2009, D. H. Sanaeinejad, S. N. Hosseini, Regression Models for Saffron Yields in Iran, Daoliang Li, Chunjiang Zhao (editors), Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture II, Volume 1, page 510,
- Usually the maximum temperature for October, November and December in the southern parts of Khorassan–the main saffron growing area of the Iran-does not exceed 20°C, while the minimum temperature reaches 0°C.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Song of Songs 4.13-14,[1]
- A spice (seasoning) and colouring agent made from the stigma and part of the style of the plant, sometimes or formerly also used as a dye and insect repellent.
- Synonym: kesar
- c. 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, Act IV, Scene 3,[2]
- I must have saffron to colour the warden pies […]
- 1658, Thomas Muffet, The Theatre of Insects, [1634, Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrum], quoted in 2008, Anna Suranyi, The Genius of the English Nation: Travel Writing and National Identity in Early Modern England, page 117-118,
- The Irish and Ireland people (who are frequently troubled with lice, and such as will fly, as they say, in summer) anoint their shirts with saffron, and to very good purpose, to drive away the lice, but after six months they wash their shirts again, putting fresh saffron into the lye.
- 2011, Mathew Attokaran, Natural Food Flavors and Colorants, unnumbered page,
- Saffron is often called the “golden spice.”
- An orange-yellow colour, the colour of a lion's pelt.
- Synonym: saffron yellow
- 1728, James Thomson, Spring, London: A. Millar & G. Strahan, p. 18,[5]
- […] The stately Ram
- Shone thro’ the Mead, in native Purple clad,
- Or milder Saffron […]
- 1915, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of the Island, Chapter 7,[6]
- […] the girls locked up Echo Lodge again and went away in the perfect half hour that follows the rose and saffron of a winter sunset.
- 2011, Seth Hunter, The Winds of Folly, unnumbered page,
- The classical shades of Antiquity were the most prevalent, but along with the Venetian reds and Egyptian blues, the saffrons and ochres and indigos, were more delicate hues: of pink and cream and lilac, like shells littered upon the shore.
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (safuran)
- ? Korean: ??? (sapeuran)
Translations
Adjective
saffron
- Having an orange-yellow colour.
- The saffron robe of a Buddhist monk.
- 1624, Thomas Heywood, Gynaikeion: or, Nine Bookes of Various History. Concerninge women inscribed by the names of the nine Muses, London, Book 3, “A Funerall Oade vpon the death of Anna Panareta” p. 123,[8]
- Now Hymen change thy saffron weedes
- To roabe and habit sable:
- For ioyfull thoughts, vse funerall deedes
- Since nothing’s firme or stable;
- 1794, Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, London: G.G. & J. Robinson, Volume 1, Chapter 9, p. 256,[9]
- The sun was now set; but, under the dark branches of the almond trees, was seen the saffron glow of the west, spreading beyond the twilight of middle air.
- 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Chapter 40,[10]
- […] it was half-past four, and the gray day was dying gloriously, its western clouds all broken into narrowing purple strata before a wide-spreading saffron clearness […]
- 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Part 1, Chapter 2,[11]
- The jacket was brown but had turned saffron where it had been soaked by Lal’s sweat.
Translations
Verb
saffron (third-person singular simple present saffrons, present participle saffroning, simple past and past participle saffroned)
- To add saffron to (a food), for taste, colour etc.
- saffroned water, saffroned rice.
- 1559, Peter Morwen (translator), The Treasure of Euonymus by Conrad Gesner, London: John Day, “Of certain other Aromatical wynes,” p. 407,[12]
- Saffrond wyne bryngeth mirthe, and taketh away Melancholines […]
- 1884, Robert Browning, “Two Camels” in Ferishtah’s Fancies, London: Smith, Elder, p. 70,[13]
- Well-saffroned was that barley-soup!
- To give a saffron colour to (something).
- 1593, Michael Drayton, Idea the Shepheards Garland, London: Thomas Woodcocke, Second Eglog, p. 6,[14]
- My dreadful thoughts been drawen vpon my face,
- In blotted lines with ages iron pen,
- The lothlie morpheu saffroned the place,
- Where beuties damaske daz’d the eies of men.
- c. 1594, Michael Drayton, Peirs Gaueston Earle of Cornwall His Life, Death, and Fortune, London: Nicholas Ling and John Busby,[15]
- Or like the twifold-twynned Geminy,
- In their star-gilded gyrdle strongly tyed,
- Chayn’d by their saffrond tresses in the sky,
- Standing to guard the sun-coche in his pride.
- 1917, Charles V. H. Roberts, “The Call of the Country” in Collected Poems, New York: The Torch Press, p. 20,[16]
- We accept the perfect stillness of the ground,
- And the vision of a sunset-saffroned sea.
- To dye (a fabric, garment, etc.) with a saffron-based dye.
- 1580, John Stow, The Chronicles of England, London: Ralph Newberie, “A briefe Description of Englande, Scotlande, Wales, and Cornwall,” p. 9,[17]
- The other part Northern, & ful of mountaines, a very rude and homely kinde of people doth inhabite, which are called the redshankes or wilde Scottes. They be clothed with a mantel and shyrte saffroned, after the Irishe manner, going bare legged to the knée.
- 1582, Richard Stanyhurst (translator), The First Foure Bookes of Virgil his Aeneis, Leiden: John Pates, Book 4, p. 82,[18]
- Thee next day foloing lustring Aurora lay shymring,
- Her saffrond mattresse leauing to her bedfelo Tithon.
- 1638, uncredited translator, Historie Naturall and Experimentall, of Life and Death by Francis Bacon, London: William Lee and Humphrey Mosley, p. 244,[19]
- The same Irish, use to weare Saffroned Linnen, and Shirts; Which though it were, at first, devised to prevent Vermine, yet, howsoever, I take it, to be very usefull for Lengthening of Life […]
- 1580, John Stow, The Chronicles of England, London: Ralph Newberie, “A briefe Description of Englande, Scotlande, Wales, and Cornwall,” p. 9,[17]
- To colour (a metal or wooden surface) with a gilding product containing saffron.
- 1594, Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller, London: C. Burby,[20]
- His horse was harnished with leaden chaines, hauing the out-side guilt, or at least saffrond in stead of guilt, to decypher a holie or golden pretence of a couetous purpose […]
- 1633, John Donne, “Elegie” in Poems, London: John Marriot, p. 149,[21]
- And like vile stones lying in saffrond tinne,
- 1594, Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller, London: C. Burby,[20]
- Or warts, or wheales, it hangs upon her skinne.
- 1593, Michael Drayton, Idea the Shepheards Garland, London: Thomas Woodcocke, Second Eglog, p. 6,[14]
- (figuratively) To embellish.
Translations
See also
- autumn crocus
- crocein
- crocoite
- crocus
- curcuma
- kumkum
- colchicum
- crocus bag
- crocus sack
- turmeric
- Appendix:Colors
Further reading
- Crocus sativus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Crocus sativus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Crocus sativus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Middle English
Alternative forms
- saffroun, safroun, safferon, safryn, saffryn, safran, safron, safurroun, saferowne, saffren, safur, safer, saffyron, saffran, saferon, saffrin
Etymology
c. 1200, borrowed from Old French safran, from Medieval Latin safranum, from Arabic ??????????? (za?far?n);as a colour adjective from the late 14th century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?safr?n/, /?safru?n/, /?safr?n/
Noun
saffron (uncountable)
- saffron (the plant Crocus sativus)
- saffron (yellow powder used in cooking, pharmaceuticals, and dyes)
- c. 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin, ed., Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: N. Trübner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, volume I, OCLC 374760, page 11:
- Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke […] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt […]
- c. 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin, ed., Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: N. Trübner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, volume I, OCLC 374760, page 11:
- saffron (the colour of the powder)
Descendants
- English: saffron
- ? Japanese: ???? (safuran)
- ? Korean: ??? (sapeuran)
- Scots: sefron
References
- “saf(f)r?un, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-24.
Adjective
saffron
- Yellow; the colour of saffron.
- (rare) Resembling saffron in taste.
Descendants
- English: saffron
- Scots: sefron
References
- “saffr?un, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-24.
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mobile
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin m?bilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from move? (“move”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m??ba?l/, /?m??b??l/
- (US) IPA(key): /?mo?b?l/, /?mo?bil/, /?mo?ba?l/, sculpture always IPA(key): /?mo?bil/
Adjective
mobile (comparative more mobile, superlative most mobile)
- Capable of being moved, especially on wheels.
- Antonyms: fixed, immobile, sessile, stationary
- Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.
- Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.
- Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
- Synonyms: excitable, fickle
- Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.
- (biology) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
mobile (plural mobiles)
- (art) A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other.
- (telephony, Britain) Ellipsis of mobile phone
- Synonym: cell phone
- (uncountable, Internet) The internet accessed via mobile devices.
- Something that can move.
Translations
Related terms
Further reading
- mobile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- mobile in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- mobile at OneLook Dictionary Search
- mobile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- mobile phone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- mobile (sculpture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- bemoil, emboil, emboli
Danish
Adjective
mobile
- definite of mobil
- plural of mobil
Finnish
Etymology
< English mobile
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mobile/, [?mo?bile?] (nalle-type declension)
- IPA(key): /?mobile?/, [?mo?bile?(?)] (hame-type declension)
- Rhymes: -obile
- Syllabification: mo?bi?le
Noun
mobile
- mobile (kinetic sculpture)
Declension
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin m?bilis. Doublet of meuble.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?.bil/
Adjective
mobile (plural mobiles)
- mobile
- moving
- movable
Derived terms
Noun
mobile m (plural mobiles)
- (physics) moving body
- mobile (decoration)
- motive (for an action, for a crime)
- mobile phone; Ellipsis of téléphone mobile
- Synonyms: cell, téléphone cellulaire, cellulaire, téléphone mobile, téléphone portable, portable
Further reading
- “mobile” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
mobile
- inflection of mobil:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Etymology
Probably borrowed from Latin m?bilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?.bi.le/
- Rhymes: -?bile
Adjective
mobile (plural mobili)
- movable, mobile
- Antonym: immobile
- moving
Noun
mobile m (plural mobili)
- (in the singular) piece of furniture (item of furniture)
- (in the plural) furniture
- Synonyms: mobilia, mobilio, arredamento
- (heraldry) charge
- mobile (cellular phone)
- Synonyms: cellulare, telefonino
- Antonym: fisso
Related terms
Anagrams
- emboli
Latin
Adjective
m?bile
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of m?bilis
References
- mobile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
mobile
- definite singular of mobil
- plural of mobil
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
mobile
- definite singular of mobil
- plural of mobil
Swedish
Adjective
mobile
- absolute definite natural masculine form of mobil.
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