different between sedge vs chufa

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?d??/
• Rhymes: -?d?

Etymology 1

From Middle English segge, from Old English se??, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sak- (“marsh plant”). Cognate with Dutch zegge and German Segge, dialectal German Saher (“reeds”).

Noun

sedge (countable and uncountable, plural sedges)

1. Any plant of the genus Carex, the true sedges, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species.

   • But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.

2. Any plant of the family Cyperaceae.
3. Any of certain other plants resembling sedges, such as Gentiana rubricaulis and Andropogon virginicus.

Derived terms

• sedged
• sedge fly
• sedge frog

Translations

See also

• bulrush
• reed
• sedge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Carex on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Etymology 2

By contraction from sedge fly.

Noun

sedge (plural sedges)

1. (fishing) A dry fly used in fly fishing, designed to resemble a sedge or caddis fly.

Etymology 3

Variant spellings.

Noun

sedge (plural sedges)

1. Obsolete spelling of siege
2. Alternative spelling of segge
3. A flock of herons, cranes, or bitterns.

References

• sedge at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• edges

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chufa, possibly from Latin c?phi (“gallingale perfume”), from Ancient Greek ???? (kûphi, “a kind of Egyptian incense”), from Egyptian k?pt (“incense”), a nominal derivative of k?p (“to cense”).

Noun

chufa (countable and uncountable, plural chufas)

1. Cyperus esculentus, a species of sedge native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere having small edible tubers (tiger nuts).
   • 2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables, Harvard Common Press (?ISBN), page 119:

     Chufa is most popular in two places in the Mediterranean, Spain and Egypt (especially around Damietta). In Spain, especially in the region of Valencia, chufa is used to make a drink called horchata.

Synonyms

• chufa sedge, yellow nutsedge, tigernut sedge, earthalmond

Translations

Further reading

• Cyperus esculentus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cyperus esculentus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Cyperus esculentus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• fauch

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese chufa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). Back-formation from chufar (“to brag”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??ufa?/

Noun

chufa m (plural chufas)

1. mockery; joke; witty
2. flattery, praise
3. boast, brag

References

• “chufa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “chufa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “chufa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “chufa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “chufa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??ufa/, [?t??u.fa]

Etymology 1

Not completely certain. Suggested from Latin c?phi (“gallingale perfume”), but the continuity of this word is doubtful. Perhaps instead the same word as trufa.

Noun

chufa f (plural chufas)

1. chufa

   Synonyms: cuca, alcatufa

2. tiger nut (edible tuber of that plant)

Descendants

• ? English: chufa

Etymology 2

Noun

chufa f (plural chufas)

1. (colloquial) slap in the face

   Synonyms: bofetada, tortazo

2. (archaic, colloquial) lie

   Synonyms: burla, mofa, mentira

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

chufa

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of chufar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of chufar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of chufar.

Further reading

• “chufa” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.