coriander

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Etymology

From Middle English coriandre, from Anglo-Norman coriandre, from Old French corïandre, from Latin coriandrum, from Ancient Greek κορίανδρον (koríandron), of uncertain origin. Doublet of cilantro.

cognates, etc.

Compare Ancient Greek κορίαννον (koríannon), κορίαμβλον (koríamblon), Mycenaean Greek 𐀒𐀪𐁀𐀅𐀙 (ko-ri-a2-da-na), 𐀒𐀪𐀊𐀅𐀙 (ko-ri-ja-da-na), 𐀒𐀪𐀊𐀈𐀜 (ko-ri-ja-do-no), 𐀒𐀪𐀍𐀅𐀙 (ko-ri-jo-da-na), Akkadian 𒌑𒄷𒌷𒌝 (^úḫurium) Aramaic כסברה (kusbara, “coriander”), Classical Syriac ܟܽܘܣܒܰܪܬܳܐ (kūsbartā, “coriander”) and Arabic كُزْبَرَة (kuzbara).

Beekes supposes that cluster -dn- implies a Pre-Greek word, and hypothesizes that *koriaⁿdro- may have dissimilated to *koriaⁿdno-.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkɒɹiˈændə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹiˌændɚ/, /ˌkɔɹiˈændɚ/
• Rhymes: -ændə(ɹ)

Noun

coriander (usually uncountable, plural corianders)

1. (UK, Ireland) The annual herb Coriandrum sativum, used in many cuisines.
   • 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 253:

     The life of one plant would be affected by another. Rue was definitely hostile to basil, rosemary to hyssop, but coriander, dill and chervil lived on the friendliest of terms[.]

2. (US) The dried fruits thereof, used as a spice.

Synonyms

• (herb): Chinese parsley
• (spice): coriander seeds (UK)
• dhania

Meronyms

• (Coriandum sativum): cilantro (US, the leaves, when fresh); in other dialects, this, too, like the rest of the plant, is called coriander

Derived terms

• Bolivian coriander)
• coriandered
• coriander seed
• Vietnamese coriander (Persicaria odorata

Descendants

• → Japanese: コリアンダー (koriandā)

Translations

Coriandrum sativum plant

Abaza: адгьакъван (adgʲaqʷʼan) Abkhaz: акәыландыр (akʷʼəlandər) Afrikaans: koljander, dhanja Aghul: кӏашниш (kʼašniš) Akkadian: 𒊺𒇽 m (kisibirru) Arabic: كُزْبَرَة f (kuzbara), قُسْبَرَة m (qusbara), قَسْبُور m (qasbūr), كَسْبُور m (kasbūr), قَزْبُور m (qazbūr), كَزْبُور m (kazbūr), قُسْبَر m (qusbar), قُزْبَر m (quzbar), كُسْبَر m (kusbar), كُزْبَر m (kuzbar), قُزْبَرَة f (quzbara), كُسْبَرَة f (kusbara) Egyptian Arabic: كزبرة f (kuzbara) Hijazi Arabic: كُزْبَرة f (kuzbara) Moroccan Arabic: قزبور m (qazbūr) Tunisian Arabic: تَابِل m (tābil) Aramaic: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܘܠܐ m (tōlā) Classical Syriac: ܟܘܣܒܪܬܐ f (kusbarṯā), ܬܘܠܐ m (tawlā), ܓܫܢܝܙ m (gešnīz) Jewish Aramaic: כוסברתא f (kusbarṯā), גּׅידא m (giḏā) Armenian: գինձ (hy) (ginj) Old Armenian: գինձ (ginj) Assamese: ধনিয়া (dhonia) Avar: гъаранхер (ğaranxer) Azerbaijani: keşniş (az) Basque: martorri Bats: ქინძ (kinʒ) Bengali: ধনিয়া (bn) (dhoniẏa) Bulgarian: кориандър (bg) m (koriandǎr) Burmese: နံနံ (my) (namnam), နံနံပင် (namnampang) Catalan: coriandre m, celiandre (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 芫茜 (jyun4 sai1, jim4 sai1) Mandarin: 香菜 (zh) (xiāngcài), 芫荽 (zh) (yánsui, yuánsuī), 胡荽 (zh) (húsuī) Cornish: koriander m, losowen an bara f Czech: koriandr (cs) m Danish: koriander (da) Dhivehi: ކޮތަނބިރ (kotaᵐbir) Dutch: koriander (nl) m, ketoembar (nl) m, wantsenkruid n Dzongkha: འོད་སུ་ ('od su) Esperanto: koriandro Faroese: deymkorra f Finnish: korianteri (fi) French: coriandre (fr) Galician: coandro (gl) m, coriandro (gl) m Georgian: ქინძი (kinʒi) German: Koriander (de) m Greek: κόλιαντρος (el) m (kóliantros) Ancient: κορίαννον n (koríannon) Mycenaean: 𐀒𐀪𐀊𐀅𐀙 (ko-ri-ja-da-na) Gujarati: કોથમીર (kothmīr), ધાણા (dhāṇā) Hebrew: כֻּסְבָּרָה (he) f (kusbára), גָּד (he) m (gad) Hiligaynon: kulantro Hindi: धनिया (hi) m (dhaniyā) Hungarian: koriander (hu) Icelandic: kóríander (is) m or n Indonesian: ketumbar (id) Irish: lus an choire m Italian: coriandolo (it) m Japanese: コリアンダー (ja) (koriandā), 香菜 (ja) (kōsai), シャンツァイ (shantsai), パクチー (ja) (pakuchī) Kabardian: къуэнгын (qʷɛnɣən) Kannada: ಕೊತ್ತುಂಬರಿ (kn) (kottumbari) Kazakh: күнзе (künze) Khinalug: кишниш (kišniš) Korean: 고수 (ko) (gosu) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: گژنیژ (gijnîj) Northern Kurdish: gijnîj (ku) Kyrgyz: please add this translation if you can Latin: coriandrum n Laz: ქიშნიშ (kişniş), ქინძი (kinżi) Malay: ketumbar (ms) Malayalam: please add this translation if you can Maori: korianara Marathi: कोथिंबीर (kothimbīr) Mingrelian: ქინძი (kinʒi) Norwegian: koriander (no) Odia: please add this translation if you can Ossetian: киндзӕ (kinʒæ) Persian: Dari: گَشْنِیز (gašnīz) Iranian Persian: گِشْنیز (gešniz) Polish: kolendra (pl) f Portuguese: coentro (pt) m Punic: 𐤂𐤃 m (gd) Romanian: coriandru (ro) m Russian: кориа́ндр (ru) m (koriándr), кинза́ (ru) f (kinzá) Salar: dene Sanskrit: ধানেয n (dhāneya) Serbo-Croatian: korijandar (sh), korijander Sicilian: cugghiandru (scn) m Sinhalese: කොත්තමල්ලි (kottamalli) Slovak: koriander m Slovene: koriander (sl) m Spanish: cilantro (es) m, coriandro m, culantro (es) m Svan: ქინზ (kinz) Swahili: mgiligilani Swedish: koriander (sv) c Tabasaran: кӏашниш (ḳašniš) Tagalog: wansoy Tajik: кашнич (kašnič) Tamil: கொத்தமல்லி (ta) (kottamalli), கொத்துமல்லி (kottumalli), தனியா (ta) (taṉiyā) Telugu: ధనియాలు (te) (dhaniyālu), కొత్తిమీర (te) (kottimīra) Thai: ผักชี (th) Tibetan: འུ་སུ ('u su) Turkish: kişniş (tr) Turkmen: please add this translation if you can Udi: həvic Ugaritic: 𐎂𐎄 m (gd) Ukrainian: кінза́ (uk) (kinzá), коля́ндра (koljándra) Uzbek: Cyrillic: кашнич (kashnich), кинза (kinza) Latin: kashnich (uz), kinza Volapük: koriand, (older term) korien, (seed) koriandasid, (older term) korienasid, (oil) koriandasids, (older term) korienasids, (oil) koriandaleül, (older term) korienaleül Welsh: coriander m, (botany) llysiau'r bara m pl Yiddish: פֿעלד־גליאַנדער (feld-glyander), גליאַנדער (glyander)

dried seeds of Coriandrum sativum plant

Afrikaans: koljander, dhanja Brunei Malay: ketumbar Burmese: နံနံစေ့ (namnamce.) Chinese: Mandarin: 芫荽籽 (yánsuīzǐ) Finnish: korianteri (fi) French: coriandre (fr) f, graine de coriandre f Galician: coandro (gl) m German: Koriander (de) m, Koriandersamen (de) m pl Greek: Ancient: κορίαννον n (koríannon) Mycenaean: 𐀒𐀪𐀊𐀅𐀙 (ko-ri-ja-da-na) Gujarati: કોથમીર (kothmīr), ધાણા (dhāṇā) Hindi: धनिया (hi) m (dhaniyā) Indonesian: ketumbar (id) Japanese: コリアンダー (ja) (koriandā), コリアンダーシード (koriandā shīdo) Kannada: ಕೊತ್ತುಂಬರಿ ಅಥವಾ (kottumbari athavā), ಕೊತ್ತುಂಬರಿ ಬೀಜ (kottumbari bīja) Malay: ketumbar (ms) Persian: Dari: تُخْمِ گَشْنِیز (tuxm-i gašnīz) Polish: kolendra (pl) f Swahili: giligilani Tibetan: འུ་སུ ('u su) Ugaritic: 𐎂𐎄 (gd) Ukrainian: коріа́ндр (koriándr), коля́ндра (koljándra) Welsh: coriander m

References

• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κορίαννον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 754

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