amarant

See also: Amarant

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæməɹænt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæməˌɹænt/
• Hyphenation: am‧a‧rant

Noun

amarant (plural amarants)

1. Obsolete form of amaranth.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, lines 351–357:

     With ſolemn adoration down they [the angels] caſt
     Thir Crowns inwove with Amarant and Gold;
     Immortal Amarant, a Flour which once
     In Paradiſe, faſt by the Tree of Life
     Began to bloom, but ſoon for mans offence
     To Heav'n remov'd where firſt it grew, there grows,
     And flours aloft ſhading the Fount of Life, […]

   • 1760, [James] Scott, Heaven: A Vision, Cambridge: Printed by J. Bentham, printer to the University, for W. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer; […], OCLC 731599385, stanza VII, page 8:

     Thouſands of flow'rs their ſilken webs unfold, / Amarants, immortal amarants ariſe, / Theſe beaming bright with vegetable gold, / And theſe with azure, theſe with Tyrian dyes; […]

   • 1989, Heinz Brücher, “Farinaceous Plants”, in Useful Plants of Neotropical Origin and Their Wild Relatives, Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-73313-0, →ISBN, section 1 (Amaranthus spp.), page 54:

     Such vegetable amarants have a fair content of protein and are rich in Vitamins A and C, as well as in minerals; but they contain also slight amounts of anti-nutritional factors, especially oxalates and nitrates. These leaf-producing amarants are adapted to many different ecological environments.

Anagrams

• Namrata

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ə.məˈɾant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ə.məˈɾan/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.maˈɾant/

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ἀμάραντος (amárantos).

Noun

amarant m (plural amarants)

1. amaranth (herb of the genus Amaranthus)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

amarant

1. present participle of amarar

Further reading

• “amarant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “amarant” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “amarant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “amarant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Czech

Amarant

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [amarant]

Noun

amarant m anim

1. firefinch

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	amarant	amaranti
genitive	amaranta	amarantů
dative	amarantovi	amarantům
accusative	amarantem	amaranty
vocative	amarante	amaranti
locative	amarantovi	amarantech
instrumental	amarantem	amaranty

Further reading

• amarant in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• amarant in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Latin

Verb

amārant

1. third-person plural pluperfect active indicative of amō

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amaràːnt/, /amaráːnt/

Noun

amarānt m inan

1. amaranth

Inflection

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	amaránt
gen. sing.	amaránta
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	amaránt	amaránta	amaránti
accusative	amaránt	amaránta	amaránte
genitive	amaránta	amarántov	amarántov
dative	amarántu	amarántoma	amarántom
locative	amarántu	amarántih	amarántih
instrumental	amarántom	amarántoma	amaránti

Synonyms

• ščír

Further reading

• “amarant”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran