marjoram

marjoram

See also: Marjoram

English

The marjoram plant.

Alternative forms

• marjorum, marierom (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French majorane, from Medieval Latin maiōrana, q.v..

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːd͡ʒ(ə)ɹəm/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹd͡ʒəɹəm/

Noun

marjoram (countable and uncountable, plural marjorams)

1. A herb of the mint family, Origanum majorana, having aromatic leaves.

   Synonym: (obsolete) amaracus

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 99”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […]‎, London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634:

     The Lillie I condemned for thy hand, / And buds of marierom had ſtolne thy haire

2. The leaves of this plant used in flavouring food.

Translations

plant

Arabic: مَرْدَقُوش‎ m (mardaqūš), مَرْزَنْجُوش‎ m (marzanjūš) Hijazi Arabic: بَرْدَقوش‎ m (bardaqūš, bardagūš) Armenian: Middle Armenian: մարզնկօշ (marznkōš) Old Armenian: մարզգոշ (marzgoš) Bulgarian: риган m (rigan) Catalan: marduix m Chinese: Mandarin: 墨角蘭／墨角兰 (mòjiǎolán) Czech: majoránka (cs) f Finnish: maustemeirami French: marjolaine (fr) f German: Majoran (de) m Greek: ματζουράνα (el) f (matzourána) Ancient: ἀμάρακον m (amárakon), σάμψουχον n (sámpsoukhon) Hungarian: majoránna (hu) Hunsrik: Maairon m Ido: majorano (io) Irish: oragán cumhra m Italian: maggiorana (it) f Kannada: ಮರುಗ (kn) (maruga) Korean: 마저럼 (majeoreom) Latin: amāracus (classical); maiorana, majorana (medieval) Macedonian: ма́јоран m (májoran) Norman: marjolaine f Old English: cyninges wyrt f Ottoman Turkish: ككلیك اوتی‎ (keklik otu) Polish: majeranek (pl) m Portuguese: manjerona (pt) f Russian: майора́н (ru) m (majorán) Serbo-Croatian: majòrān (sh) f, majorána (sh) f, màžurān f, mažurána (sh) f Slovene: majaron (sl) m Spanish: mejorana (es) f, mayorana f, almoraduj (es) Tagalog: mehorana Turkish: mercanköşk (tr) Welsh: penrhudd yr ardd f

culinary herb

Arabic: مَرْدَقُوش‎ m (mardaqūš), مَرْزَنْجُوش‎ m (marzanjūš) Bulgarian: риган m (rigan) Catalan: marduix m Chinese: Mandarin: 墨角蘭／墨角兰 (mòjiǎolán) Czech: majoránka (cs) f Danish: merian (da) Dutch: marjolein (nl) Finnish: meirami (fi) French: marjolaine (fr) f German: Majoran (de) m Greek: ματζουράνα (el) f (matzourána) Ancient: ἀμάρακος m (amárakos), σάμψουχον n (sámpsoukhon) Hungarian: majoránna (hu) Hunsrik: Maairon m Irish: oragán cumhra m Italian: maggiorana (it) f Korean: 마저럼 (majeoreom) Latin: amāracus (classical); maiorana, majorana (medieval) Macedonian: ма́јоран m (májoran) Norman: marjolaine f Polish: majeranek (pl) m Portuguese: manjerona (pt) f Russian: майора́н (ru) m (majorán) Serbo-Croatian: majòrān (sh) f, majorána (sh) f, màžurān f, mažurána (sh) f Slovene: majaron (sl) m Spanish: mejorana (es) f, mayorana f Swedish: mejram (sv) Tagalog: mehorana Turkish: mercanköşk (tr) Welsh: penrhudd yr ardd f

Further reading

• marjoram on Wikipedia.Wikipedia