azafrán

Asturian

Noun

azafrán m (plural azafranes)

1. saffron (plant)
2. saffron (spice)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic اَلزَّعْفَرَان (az-zaʕfarān, “the saffron”). Cognate with English saffron.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /aθaˈfɾan/ [a.θaˈfɾãn]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /asaˈfɾan/ [a.saˈfɾãn]

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• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: a‧za‧frán

Noun

azafrán m (plural azafranes)

1. saffron crocus (Crocus sativus)
2. (spices) saffron
3. (dyes) saffron
4. (Philippines) turmeric (Curcuma longa)
   • 1879, José Felipe del Pan, Diccionario de la administración, del Comercio y de la vida práctica en Filipinas, page 150:

     AZAFRÁN. Curcuma longa. Planta con la que los indios tiñen de amarillo que no es muy firme. Su raíz cruda la comen los que adolecen de jaqueca, y les aprovecha.

     TURMERIC. Curcuma longa. Plant with which the Indians use as yellow dye that is not firm. Its raw root is eaten by those who suffer from headaches, and they take advantage of it.

Derived terms

• azafranar (verb)

 

See also

• azafrán on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

Further reading

• “azafrán”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28