different between shumac vs sumac

English

Noun

shumac (plural shumacs)

1. Dated spelling of sumac.

Verb

shumac (third-person singular simple present shumacs, present participle shumacing or shumacking, simple past and past participle shumaced or shumacked)

1. (dated) Alternative spelling of sumac

Anagrams

• Muchas, as much, cumsha, cushma, much as, sumach

Somali

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (šam?a).

Noun

shumac m

1. candle

English

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English sumac, asimac, simak, sumak, symak (“portions of the shrub Rhus coriaria, chiefly used for medicinal purposes”), from Anglo-Norman sumak, symak, and Old French sumac, or directly from its etymon Medieval Latin sumach, sumac, from Arabic ???????? (summ?q), from Classical Syriac ?????? (summ?q?, “red; sumac”). The English word is cognate with Italian sommaco, sommacco, Occitan simac, Portuguese sumagre, Spanish zumaque.

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s(j)u?mæk/, /??u?-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?su??mæk/, /?su-/
• Hyphenation: su?mac

Noun

sumac (usually uncountable, plural sumacs)

1. Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhus and other genera in Anacardiaceae, particularly the elm-leaved sumac, Sicilian sumac, or tanner's sumac (Rhus coriaria).
3. Dried and chopped-up leaves and stems of a plant of the genus Rhus, particularly the tanner's sumac (see sense 1), used for dyeing and tanning leather or for medicinal purposes.
4. A sour spice popular in the Eastern Mediterranean, made from the berries of tanner's sumac.

Alternative forms

• shumac (dated)
• shumack (obsolete)
• sumach
• sumack (obsolete)

Hyponyms

• skunkbush (Rhus trilobata)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

sumac (third-person singular simple present sumacs, present participle sumacing or sumacking, simple past and past participle sumaced or sumacked)

1. (transitive) To apply a preparation of sumac to (an object), for example, to a piece of leather to tan it.

Alternative forms

• shumac
• sumach

Translations

References

Further reading

• sumac on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• sumac (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Anacardiaceae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Anacardiaceae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• CUSMA, Camus, MUSCA, Musca, USMCA, camus, musac

Catalan

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (summ?q).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /su?mak/

Noun

sumac m (plural sumacs)

1. sumac (tree)
2. sumac (spice)

Further reading

• “sumac” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Old French

Noun

sumac m (oblique plural sumas, nominative singular sumas, nominative plural sumac)

1. sumac

Descendants

• ? English: sumac
• French: sumac

Romanian

Etymology

From French sumac.

Noun

sumac m (uncountable)

1. sumac

Declension