different between saffron vs ochre
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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ochre
English
Etymology 1
From Old French ocre and its source Latin ?chra, from Ancient Greek ???? (?khra, “pale yellow”), from ????? (?khrós, “pale, ocher”) (modern Greek ????? (ochrós)).
Alternative forms
- ocher (chiefly US)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???k?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?o?k?/
- Rhymes: -??k?(r)
Noun
ochre (countable and uncountable, plural ochres)
- An earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide
- A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour
- (molecular biology, colloquial) The stop codon sequence "UAA."
- (slang) Money, especially gold.
- 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Chapter 6,[1]
- ‘What does he come here cheeking us for, then?’ cried Master Kidderminster, showing a very irascible temperament. ‘If you want to cheek us, pay your ochre at the doors and take it out.’
- 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Chapter 6,[1]
- Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus Trapezites.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Welsh: ocr
Translations
Adjective
ochre (not comparable)
- Having a yellow-orange colour.
- (archaeology) Referring to cultures that covered their dead with ochre.
Translations
Verb
ochre (third-person singular simple present ochres, present participle ochring or ochreing, simple past and past participle ochred)
- To cover or tint with ochre.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: Appleton, 1943, Chapter 14, p. 229,[2]
- […] his eye was caught by the sight of one child in a group of smaller children playing in the shallows some little distance down—a white child, so white by contrast with the others that at first he thought it must be ochred, which it could not be while playing in the water.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: Appleton, 1943, Chapter 14, p. 229,[2]
See also
- ochrous / ochreous
- kokowai
- ruddle
- Appendix:Colors
Etymology 2
From an unknown West African language, probably Igbo ??k??r??, but cf. Akan ?kr?mã and ?krakra (“broth”).
Noun
ochre (countable and uncountable, plural ochres)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of okra.
References
- ochre at OneLook Dictionary Search
- ochre in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “okra, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2004
Anagrams
- -chore, Roche, chore, ocher, roche
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