thyme

English

Thymus camphoratus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θύμον (thumon).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /taɪm/
• Rhymes: -aɪm
• Homophone: time

Noun

thyme (plural thymes)

1. Any plant of the labiate genus Thymus, such as the garden thyme, Thymus vulgaris, a warm, pungent aromatic, that is much used to give a relish to seasoning and soups.
2. (poetic) virginity, chastity.

Derived terms

Derived terms

thymic thymol

thymus

Related terms

Related terms

carvacrol

labiate

Translations

plant of the genus Thymus

• Arabic: زعتر (ar) (záʿtar) m, سعتر (ar) (sáʿtar) m, صعتر (ar) (ṣáʿtar) m
• Armenian: ուրց (hy) (urc’)
• Catalan: farigola (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 百里香 (cmn) (bǎilǐxiāng), 麝香草 (cmn) (shèxiāngcǎo)

• Czech: tymián (cs) m
• Dutch: thijm (nl)
• Esperanto: timiano (eo)
• Estonian: liivatee (et)
• Finnish: timjami (fi) (seasoning), ajuruoho (fi) (plant)
• French: thym (fr) m
• German: Thymian (de) m
• Greek: θυμάρι (el) (thymári) n
• Greenlandic: tupaarnaq (kl)
• Hebrew: טימין (he) (timín) m

• Hungarian: kakukkfű (hu)
• Icelandic: timjan (is) n
• Ido: timiano
• Italian: timo (it) m
• Japanese: タイム (ja) (taimu)
• Macedonian: мајчина душичка (mk) (máčina dúšička) f, матерка (mk) (máterka) f
• Polish: tymianek (pl) m
• Portuguese: tomilho (pt) m
• Romanian: cimbru (ro)
• Russian: тимьян (ru) (tim’ján) m, чабрец (ru) (čabréc) m
• Slovene: timijan (sl) m
• Spanish: tomillo (es) m
• Swedish: timjan (sv) c
• Turkish: kekik (tr)
• Vietnamese: húng tây (vi)

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Latin

Noun

thyme

1. vocative singular of thymus