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Saffron

//ˈsæfɹən// adj, name, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective

1
Having an orange-yellow colour.
"For ioyfull thoughts, vse funerall deedes"
2
Associated with Hinduism, Hindus or Hindu nationalism.
"Saffron voters will certainly respond to the Sena chief’s call to support this alliance."

Proper Noun

1
A female given name from English; a rare flower name from the saffron.
"The bad thing was she took my son Skiff with her. It's a dumb name I know, but at the time he was born all the kids were being called things like Sky and Saffron and Powie, and I was really sold on sailing."

Noun

1
A plant of species Crocus sativus, a crocus. countable, uncountable
"Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, spikenard and saffron […]"
2
a shade of yellow tinged with orange wordnet
3
A spice (seasoning) and colouring agent made from the stigma and part of the style of the plant, sometimes or formerly also used as a dye and insect repellent. countable, uncountable
"I must have saffron to colour the warden pies […]"
4
dried pungent stigmas of the Old World saffron crocus wordnet
5
An orange-yellow colour, the colour of a lion's pelt. countable, uncountable
"[…] The stately Ram Shone thro’ the Mead, in native Purple clad, Or milder Saffron […]"

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6
Old World crocus having purple or white flowers with aromatic pungent orange stigmas used in flavoring food wordnet

Verb

1
To add saffron to (a food), for taste, colour etc.
"saffroned water, saffroned rice"
2
To give a saffron colour to (something).
"My dreadful thoughts been drawen vpon my face, In blotted lines with ages iron pen, The lothlie morpheu saffroned the place, Where beuties damaske daz’d the eies of men."
3
To give a saffron colour to (something).; To dye (a fabric, garment, etc.) with a saffron-based dye.
"The other part Northern, & ful of mountaines, a very rude and homely kinde of people doth inhabite, which are called the redshankes or wilde Scottes. They be clothed with a mantel and shyrte saffroned, after the Irishe manner, going bare legged to the knée."
4
To give a saffron colour to (something).; To colour (a metal or wooden surface) with a gilding product containing saffron.
"His horse was harnished with leaden chaines, hauing the out-side guilt, or at least saffrond in stead of guilt, to decypher a holie or golden pretence of a couetous purpose […]"
5
To embellish. figuratively
"Saffroning the rest of the account are several other regionalisms: agin for against, hit for the expletive it, knowed as a preterite, and no use to say not bin' (a fascinating doubling of the negative)."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Etymology tree Aramaic צפרder. Arabic زَعْفَرَان (zaʕfarān)bor. Medieval Latin safranumbor. Old French safranbor. Middle English saffron English saffron Inherited from Middle English saffron, borrowed from Old French safran, borrowed from Medieval Latin safranum, borrowed from Arabic زَعْفَرَان (zaʕfarān), from Aramaic צפר.

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