The Indian flag is called the tricolour because it has stripes of three colours – saffron, white and green.
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Saffron
//ˈsæfɹən//
Synonyms for "saffron" (31 found)
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1 entriesRelated terms
13 entriesderived
41 entriesShowing 16 of 41 words.
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5 entriesrelated to
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
Translations
221 translations across 80 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- saffraan noun (spice)
Albanian
2 entries- krrokull noun (plant)
- shafran noun (plant)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- κρόκος noun (plant)
- κρόκος noun (spice)
Arabic
4 entries- زعفران noun (plant)
- زعفران noun (plant)
- زعفران noun (plant)
- زعفران noun (spice)
Armenian
4 entries- քրքում noun (plant)
- քրքում noun (spice)
- քրքում noun (dye)
- քրքում noun (colour)
Asturian
2 entries- azafrán noun (plant)
- azafrán noun (spice)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- zəfəran noun (plant)
- zəfəran noun (spice)
Bulgarian
4 entries- яркожълт adj (having an orange-yellow colour)
- шафран noun (plant)
- шафран noun (spice)
- яркожълт noun (colour)
Burmese
2 entries- ကုံကုမံ noun (plant)
- ကုံကုမံ noun (spice)
Catalan
4 entries- safrà adj (having an orange-yellow colour)
- safranera noun (plant)
- safrà noun (plant)
- safrà noun (spice)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 番紅花 /番红花 noun (spice)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 番紅花 /番红花 noun (plant)
- 藏紅花 /藏红花 noun (plant)
- 藏紅花色 /藏红花色 noun (colour)
- 西紅花 /西红花 noun (plant)
Cornish
2 entries- safran noun (plant)
- safran noun (spice)
Czech
2 entries- šafrán noun (plant)
- šafrán noun (spice)
Danish
1 entries- safran noun (plant)
Dargwa
1 entries- загӏпиран noun (plant)
Dhivehi
1 entries- ކުކުން noun (spice)
Dutch
3 entries- saffraan noun (spice)
- saffraan noun (dye)
- saffraankrokus noun (plant)
Esperanto
2 entries- safrano noun (plant)
- safrano noun (spice)
Estonian
1 entries- safran noun (plant)
Faroese
1 entries- safran noun (plant)
Finnish
4 entries- sahraminkeltainen adj (having an orange-yellow colour)
- maustesahrami noun (plant)
- sahrami noun (spice)
- sahraminkeltainen noun (colour)
French
3 entries- safran noun (plant)
- safran noun (spice)
- safran noun (colour)
Friulian
1 entries- zafaran noun (plant)
Galician
4 entries- azafrán noun (plant)
- azafrán noun (spice)
- azafrán noun (dye)
- sasafrán noun (plant)
Georgian
4 entries- ზაფრანა noun (plant)
- ზაფრანა noun (spice)
- ზაფრანის ფერი noun (colour)
- ყვითელი ყვავილი noun (spice)
German
4 entries- safranfarbig adj (having an orange-yellow colour)
- safrangelb adj (having an orange-yellow colour)
- Safran noun (plant)
- Safran noun (spice)
Greek
4 entries- βαθυκίτρινο noun (colour)
- ζαφορά noun (spice)
- κρόκος noun (plant)
- κρόκος noun (spice)
Gujarati
1 entries- કેસર noun (spice)
Hawaiian
2 entries- keloko noun (plant)
- keloko noun (spice)
Hebrew
1 entries- זְעַפְרָן noun (spice)
Hindi
4 entries- केसरिया adj (having an orange-yellow colour)
- केसरी adj (having an orange-yellow colour)
- कुंकुम noun (plant)
- कुमकुम noun (plant)
Hungarian
4 entries- sáfrány noun (plant)
- sáfrány noun (spice)
- sáfrány noun (dye)
- sáfránysárga noun (colour)
Icelandic
1 entries- saffran noun (spice)
Ido
2 entries- safrano noun (plant)
- safrano noun (spice)
Indonesian
1 entries- kuma-kuma noun (spice)
Irish
1 entries- cróch noun (spice)
Italian
4 entries- zafferano adj (having an orange-yellow colour)
- zafferano noun (plant)
- zafferano noun (spice)
- zafferano noun (dye)
Japanese
3 entries- サフラン noun (plant)
- サフラン noun (spice)
- サフラン色 noun (colour)
Kannada
3 entries- ಕೇಸರಿ noun (plant)
- ಕೇಸರಿ noun (spice)
- ಕೇಸರಿ noun (colour)
Khmer
1 entries- រមៀត noun (plant)
Lao
1 entries- ຫຍ້າຝັ່ນ noun (plant)
Latin
3 entries- crocus noun (plant)
- crocus noun (spice)
- safranum noun (plant)
Macedonian
1 entries- шафран noun (spice)
Malay
2 entries- kuma-kuma noun (spice)
- kumkuma noun (spice)
Maltese
2 entries- żagħfran noun (plant)
- żagħfran noun (spice)
Manx
3 entries- crogh noun (plant)
- crogh noun (spice)
- crogh noun (dye)
Marathi
4 entries- केसरी adj (having an orange-yellow colour)
- केशर noun (spice)
- केसर noun (plant)
- केसर noun (spice)
Mongolian
1 entries- гүргэм noun (plant)
Mycenaean Greek
1 entries- 𐁉 noun (plant)
Nepali
1 entries- केशर noun (spice)
Norwegian
1 entries- safran noun (colour)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- safran noun (spice)
- safran noun (dye)
- safrankrokus noun (plant)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- safran noun (spice)
- safran noun (dye)
- safrankrokus noun (plant)
Persian
3 entries- زعفران noun (plant)
- زعفران noun (spice)
- زعفرانی noun (dye)
Piedmontese
1 entries- safran noun (plant)
Polish
4 entries- szafranowy adj (having an orange-yellow colour)
- (kolor) szafranowy noun (colour)
- krokus noun (plant)
- szafran noun (plant)
Portuguese
4 entries- açafroado adj (having an orange-yellow colour)
- açafrão noun (plant)
- açafrão noun (spice)
- açafrão noun (dye)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਕੇਸਰ noun (spice)
Romagnol
1 entries- ẓafarân noun (plant)
Romanian
4 entries- șofrăniu adj (having an orange-yellow colour)
- șofran noun (plant)
- șofran noun (spice)
- șofran noun (dye)
Russian
4 entries- шафра́нный adj (having an orange-yellow colour)
- шафра́новый adj (having an orange-yellow colour)
- шафра́н noun (plant)
- шафра́н noun (spice)
Sanskrit
2 entries- कुङ्कुम noun (plant)
- केसर noun (spice)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- šafran noun (plant)
- šafran noun (spice)
- шафран noun (plant)
- шафран noun (spice)
Sinhalese
1 entries- කුංකුම noun (spice)
Slovak
2 entries- šafran noun (plant)
- šafrán noun (spice)
Slovene
2 entries- žafran noun (plant)
- žafran noun (spice)
Spanish
4 entries- de azafrán adj (having an orange-yellow colour)
- azafrán noun (plant)
- azafrán noun (spice)
- azafrán noun (colour)
Swahili
3 entries- mzafarani noun (plant)
- rangi ya zafarani noun (colour)
- zafarani noun (spice)
Swedish
4 entries- saffransfärgad adj (having an orange-yellow colour)
- saffransgul adj (having an orange-yellow colour)
- saffran noun (plant)
- saffran noun (spice)
Tagalog
1 entries- asapran noun (spice)
Tamil
2 entries- குங்குமப்பூ noun (plant)
- குங்குமப்பூ noun (spice)
Telugu
1 entries- కుంకుమపువ్వు noun (spice)
Thai
1 entries- หญ้าฝรั่น noun (plant)
Turkish
4 entries- safran noun (plant)
- safran noun (spice)
- safran noun (dye)
- safran noun (colour)
Urdu
4 entries- کیسری adj (having an orange-yellow colour)
- کیسریا adj (having an orange-yellow colour)
- زعفران noun (plant)
- کیسر noun (plant)
Venetan
2 entries- croco noun (plant)
- zafran noun (plant)
Vietnamese
1 entries- nghệ tây noun (plant)
Volapük
3 entries- safranayelovik adj (having an orange-yellow colour)
- safranakrok noun (plant)
- safranayelov noun (colour)
Welsh
2 entries- saffrwm noun (spice)
- saffrwn noun (spice)
Sample sentences
45 total sentences available.
Will you buy for me some saffron?
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Rich presents, too, he sends for, saved of old / from Troy, a veil, whose saffron edges shone / fringed with acanthus, glorious to behold, / a broidered mantle, stiff with figures wrought in gold. / Fair Helen's ornaments, from Argos brought, / the gift of Leda, when the Trojan shore / and lawless nuptials o'er the waves she sought.
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They praise the boy, his glowing looks divine, / the words he feigned, the royal gifts he brought, / the robe, the saffron veil with bright acanthus wrought.
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