asarabacca

English

Asarum europaeum

Native range of Asarum europaeum

Alternative forms

• asarabacke

Etymology

From Latin asarum + baccar.

Noun

asarabacca (usually uncountable, plural asarabaccas)

1. An acrid herbaceous plant, Asarum europaeum, the leaves and roots of which were used for emetic and cathartic purposes.

   Synonyms: hazelwort, wild ginger

Related terms

• asarone

Translations

Asarum europaeum

• Arabic: أَسَارُون (ar) (ʔasārūn)
• Azerbaijani: çobandüdüyü
• Belarusian: падале́шнік m (padaljéšnik)
• Bulgarian: копи́тник (kopítnik)
• Czech: kopytník m
• Danish: hasselurt
• Dutch: mansoor (nl) f
• Estonian: metspipar
• Finnish: taponlehti (fi), lehtotaponlehti
• French: asaret (fr) m
• German: Haselwurz m or f
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἄσαρον n (ásaron)

• Hungarian: kopotnyak, kapotnyak (hu)
• Latin: asarum n
• Lithuanian: pipirlapė
• Old English: hæselwyrt f
• Persian: اسارون (asârun)
• Polish: kopytnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: ásaro m
• Romanian: pochívnic (ro)
• Russian: копы́тень (ru) m (kopýtenʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ко̀питња̄к m

  Latin: kòpitnjāk (sh) m

• Slovak: kopytník m
• Slovene: kopȋtnik m
• Swedish: hasselört (sv)
• Ukrainian: копи́тник m (kopýtnyk), копитня́к m (kopytnják)

References

• “asarabacca”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.