marjoram

See also: Marjoram

English

The marjoram plant.

Alternative forms

• marjorum, marierom (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French majorane, from Medieval Latin maiōrana, q.v..

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːd͡ʒ(ə)ɹəm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹd͡ʒəɹəm/

Noun

marjoram (countable and uncountable, plural marjorams)

1. A herb of the mint family, Origanum majorana, having aromatic leaves.

   Synonym: (obsolete) amaracus

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 99”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […]‎^[1], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     The Lillie I condemned for thy hand, / And buds of marierom had ſtolne thy haire

2. The leaves of this plant used in flavouring food.

Derived terms

• sweet marjoram
• wild marjoram

 

Translations

plant

• Arabic: مَرْدَقُوش m (mardaqūš), مَرْزَنْجُوش m (marzanjūš)

  Hijazi Arabic: بَرْدَقوش m (bardaqūš, bardagūš)

• Armenian:

  Middle Armenian: մարզնկօշ (marznkōš)

  Old Armenian: մարզգոշ (marzgoš)

• Bulgarian: риган m (rigan)
• Catalan: marduix m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 墨角蘭／墨角兰 (mòjiǎolán)

• Czech: majoránka (cs) f
• Dutch: echte marjolein (nl) f
• Finnish: maustemeirami
• French: marjolaine (fr) f
• German: Majoran (de) m
• Greek: ματζουράνα (el) f (matzourána)

  Ancient: ἀμάρακον m (amárakon), σάμψουχον n (sámpsoukhon)

• Hungarian: majoránna (hu)
• Hunsrik: Maairon m
• Ido: majorano (io)
• Irish: oragán cumhra m
• Italian: maggiorana (it) f
• Kannada: ಮರುಗ (kn) (maruga)
• Korean: 마저럼 (majeoreom)
• Latin: amāracus (classical); maiorana, majorana (medieval)
• Macedonian: ма́јоран m (májoran)
• Norman: marjolaine f
• Old English: cyninges wyrt f, wurmille f
• Ottoman Turkish: ككلیك اوتی (keklik otu)
• Polish: majeranek (pl) m
• Portuguese: manjerona (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਮਰੂਆ m (marūā)
• Romanian: maghiran (ro) m
• Russian: майора́н (ru) m (majorán)
• Serbo-Croatian: majòrān (sh) f, majorána (sh) f, màžurān f, mažurána (sh) f
• Slovene: majaron (sl) m
• Spanish: mejorana (es) f, mayorana f, almoraduj (es)
• Tagalog: mehorana
• Turkish: mercanköşk (tr)
• Welsh: penrhudd yr ardd f
• Yiddish: מײַראַן m (mayran), מאַיאָראַן m (mayoran)

culinary herb

• Arabic: مَرْدَقُوش m (mardaqūš), مَرْزَنْجُوش m (marzanjūš)
• Bulgarian: риган m (rigan)
• Catalan: marduix m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 墨角蘭／墨角兰 (mòjiǎolán)

• Czech: majoránka (cs) f
• Danish: merian (da)
• Dutch: marjolein (nl)
• Finnish: meirami (fi)
• French: marjolaine (fr) f
• German: Majoran (de) m
• Greek: ματζουράνα (el) f (matzourána)

  Ancient: ἀμάρακος m (amárakos), σάμψουχον n (sámpsoukhon)

• Hungarian: majoránna (hu)
• Hunsrik: Maairon m
• Irish: oragán cumhra m
• Italian: maggiorana (it) f
• Korean: 마저럼 (majeoreom)
• Latin: amāracus (classical); maiorana, majorana (medieval)
• Macedonian: ма́јоран m (májoran)
• Norman: marjolaine f
• Polish: majeranek (pl) m
• Portuguese: manjerona (pt) f
• Romanian: maghiran (ro) m
• Russian: майора́н (ru) m (majorán)
• Serbo-Croatian: majòrān (sh) f, majorána (sh) f, màžurān f, mažurána (sh) f
• Slovene: majaron (sl) m
• Spanish: mejorana (es) f, mayorana f
• Swedish: mejram (sv)
• Tagalog: mehorana
• Turkish: mercanköşk (tr)
• Welsh: penrhudd yr ardd f
• Yiddish: מײַראַן m (mayran), מאַיאָראַן m (mayoran)

Further reading

• marjoram on Wikipedia.Wikipedia