sainfoin

sainfoin

English

sainfoin

Etymology

From French sainfoin, from sain (“healthy, healthful”) + foin (“hay”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsænfɔɪn/, /ˈseɪnfɔɪn/

Noun

sainfoin (countable and uncountable, plural sainfoins)

1. A perennial herb of the genus Onobrychis with pale pink flowers, especially Onobrychis viciifolia (syn. Onobrychis sativa).
   • 1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 143:

     I saw a breath of wind emerge from the furthest horizon, bowing over the heads of corn in distant fields, pouring like a flood over all that vast expanse, and finally come to rest, warm and rustling, among the clover and sainfoin at my feet […]

Derived terms

• Spanish sanfoin (Onobrychis iberica)

Translations

perennial herbs

Abaza: щхахӏвра (śxaḥʷra) Armenian: կորնգան (hy) (korngan) Azerbaijani: esparset, xaşa Bulgarian: еспарзета f (esparzeta) Catalan: trepadella f Esperanto: onobriko French: sainfoin (fr) m Georgian: ესპარცეტი (esṗarceṭi), ყორანგალი (q̇orangali), საბეგველა (sabegvela) German: Esparsette (de) f Hungarian: baltacim (hu) Ido: esparseto (io) Kabardian: дарииху (daariijixʷu) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: qurînge Persian: اسپرس‎ (fa) (espers) Polish: sparceta f Portuguese: sanfeno m Romanian: sparcetă (ro) f Russian: эспарце́т (ru) m (esparcét) Spanish: pipirigallo (es) m, esparceta f Turkish: korunga (tr)

Anagrams

• sinfonia

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French

Etymology

From sain + foin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃.fwɛ̃/

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Noun

sainfoin m (plural sainfoins)

1. sainfoin

   Synonym: fenasse

Further reading

• “sainfoin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.