coriander

English

Coriander seeds, dried.

Etymology

From Middle English coriandre, from Anglo-Norman coriandre, from Old French corïandre, from Latin coriandrum, from Ancient Greek κορίανδρον (koríandron), of uncertain origin. Doublet of cilantro.

cognates, etc.

Compare Ancient Greek κορίαννον (koríannon), κορίαμβλον (koríamblon), Mycenaean Greek 𐀒𐀪𐁀𐀅𐀙 (ko-ri-a2-da-na), 𐀒𐀪𐀊𐀅𐀙 (ko-ri-ja-da-na), 𐀒𐀪𐀊𐀈𐀜 (ko-ri-ja-do-no), 𐀒𐀪𐀍𐀅𐀙 (ko-ri-jo-da-na), Akkadian 𒌑𒄷𒌷𒌝 (^úḫurium) Aramaic כסברה (kusbara, “coriander”), Classical Syriac ܟܽܘܣܒܰܪܬܳܐ (kūsbartā, “coriander”) and Arabic كُزْبَرَة (kuzbara).

Beekes supposes that cluster -dn- implies a Pre-Greek word, and hypothesizes that *koriaⁿdro- may have dissimilated to *koriaⁿdno-.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkɒɹiˈændə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹiˌændɚ/, /ˌkɔɹiˈændɚ/
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /kɵrɪˈjaɳɖə(r)/
• Rhymes: -ændə(ɹ)

Noun

coriander (usually uncountable, plural corianders)

1. (UK, Ireland) The annual herb Coriandrum sativum, used in many cuisines.
   • 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 253:

     The life of one plant would be affected by another. Rue was definitely hostile to basil, rosemary to hyssop, but coriander, dill and chervil lived on the friendliest of terms[.]

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 11:

     Tobacco and the plant valerian are also considered to be anaphrodisiac in their effects, diminishing sexual inclination. Also vinegar, dried coriander, potassium bromide, cocaine, vervain, acid drinks, lemonade.

2. (US) The dried fruits thereof, used as a spice.

Synonyms

• (herb): Chinese parsley
• (spice): coriander seeds (UK)
• dhania

Meronyms

• (Coriandum sativum): cilantro (US, the leaves, when fresh); in other dialects, this, too, like the rest of the plant, is called coriander

Derived terms

• Bolivian coriander
• Burmese coriander
• coriandered
• coriander seed
• Lao coriander
• Mexican coriander
• sawtooth coriander
• spiny coriander
• Vietnamese coriander (Persicaria odorata)

Descendants

• → Japanese: コリアンダー (koriandā)

Translations

Coriandrum sativum plant

• Abaza: адгьакъван (adgʲaqʷʼan)
• Abkhaz: акәыландыр (akʷʼəlandər)
• Afrikaans: koljander, dhanja
• Aghul: кӏашниш (kʼašniš)
• Akkadian: 𒊺𒇽 m (kisibirru)
• Arabic: كُزْبَرَة f (kuzbara), قُسْبَرَة m (qusbara), قَسْبُور m (qasbūr), كَسْبُور m (kasbūr), قَزْبُور m (qazbūr), كَزْبُور m (kazbūr), قُسْبَر m (qusbar), قُزْبَر m (quzbar), كُسْبَر m (kusbar), كُزْبَر m (kuzbar), قُزْبَرَة f (quzbara), كُسْبَرَة f (kusbara)

  Egyptian Arabic: كزبرة f (kuzbara)

  Hijazi Arabic: كُزْبَرة f (kuzbara)

  Moroccan Arabic: قزبور m (qazbūr)

  Tunisian Arabic: تَابِل m (tābil)

• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܘܠܐ m (tōlā)

  Classical Syriac: ܟܘܣܒܪܬܐ f (kusbarṯā), ܬܘܠܐ m (tawlā), ܓܫܢܝܙ m (gešnīz)

  Jewish Aramaic: כוסברתא f (kusbarṯā), גּׅידא m (giḏā)

• Armenian: գինձ (hy) (ginj)

  Old Armenian: գինձ (ginj)

• Assamese: ধনিয়া (dhonia)
• Avar: гъаранхер (ğaranxer)
• Azerbaijani: keşniş (az)
• Basque: martorri
• Bats: ქინძ (kinʒ)
• Bengali: ধনিয়া (bn) (dhoniẏa)
• Bulgarian: кориандър (bg) m (koriandǎr)
• Burmese: နံနံ (my) (namnam), နံနံပင် (namnampang)
• Catalan: coriandre m, celiandre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 芫茜 (jyun⁴ sai¹, jim⁴ sai¹)

  Mandarin: 香菜 (zh) (xiāngcài), 芫荽 (zh) (yánsui, yuánsuī), 胡荽 (zh) (húsuī)

• Cornish: koriander m, losowen an bara f
• Czech: koriandr (cs) m
• Danish: koriander (da)
• Dhivehi: ކޮތަނބިރ (kotaᵐbir)
• Dutch: koriander (nl) m, ketoembar (nl) m, wantsenkruid n
• Dzongkha: འོད་སུ་ ('od su)
• Esperanto: koriandro
• Faroese: deymkorra f
• Finnish: korianteri (fi)
• French: coriandre (fr)
• Galician: coandro (gl) m, coriandro (gl) m
• Georgian: ქინძი (kinʒi)
• German: Koriander (de) m
• Greek: κόλιαντρος (el) m (kóliantros)

  Ancient: κορίαννον n (koríannon)

  Mycenaean: 𐀒𐀪𐀊𐀅𐀙 (ko-ri-ja-da-na)

• Gujarati: કોથમીર (kothmīr), ધાણા (dhāṇā)
• Hebrew: כֻּסְבָּרָה (he) f (kusbára), גָּד (he) m (gad)
• Hiligaynon: kulantro
• Hindi: धनिया (hi) m (dhaniyā)
• Hungarian: koriander (hu)
• Icelandic: kóríander (is) m or n
• Indonesian: ketumbar (id)
• Irish: lus an choire m
• Italian: coriandolo (it) m
• Japanese: コリアンダー (ja) (koriandā), 香菜 (ja) (kōsai), シャンツァイ (shantsai), パクチー (ja) (pakuchī)
• Kabardian: къуэнгын (qʷɛnɣən)
• Kannada: ಕೊತ್ತುಂಬರಿ (kn) (kottumbari)
• Kazakh: күнзе (künze)
• Khinalug: кишниш (kišniš)
• Korean: 고수 (ko) (gosu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: گژنیژ (gijnîj)

  Northern Kurdish: gijnîj (ku)

• Kyrgyz: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: coriandrum n
• Laz: ქიშნიშ (kişniş), ქინძი (kinżi)
• Low German:

  East Frisian Low Saxon: korjander m

• Malay: ketumbar (ms)
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: korianara
• Marathi: कोथिंबीर (kothimbīr)
• Mingrelian: ქინძი (kinʒi)
• Norwegian: koriander (no)
• Odia: please add this translation if you can
• Ossetian: киндзӕ (kinʒæ)
• Ottoman Turkish: كشنش (kişniş)
• Persian:

  Dari: گَشْنِیز (gašnīz)

  Iranian Persian: گِشْنیز (gešniz)

• Polish: kolendra (pl) f
• Portuguese: coentro (pt) m
• Punic: 𐤂𐤃 m (gd)
• Romanian: coriandru (ro) m
• Russian: кориа́ндр (ru) m (koriándr), кинза́ (ru) f (kinzá)
• Salar: dene
• Sanskrit: ধানেয n (dhāneya)
• Serbo-Croatian: korijandar (sh), korijander
• Sicilian: cugghiandru (scn) m
• Sinhalese: කොත්තමල්ලි (kottamalli)
• Slovak: koriander m
• Slovene: koriander (sl) m
• Spanish: cilantro (es) m, coriandro m, culantro (es) m
• Svan: ქინზ (kinz)
• Swahili: mgiligilani
• Swedish: koriander (sv) c
• Tabasaran: кӏашниш (ḳašniš)
• Tagalog: wansoy
• Tajik: кашнич (kašnič)
• Tamil: கொத்தமல்லி (ta) (kottamalli), கொத்துமல்லி (kottumalli), தனியா (ta) (taṉiyā)
• Telugu: ధనియాలు (te) (dhaniyālu), కొత్తిమీర (te) (kottimīra)
• Thai: ผักชี (th)
• Tibetan: འུ་སུ ('u su)
• Turkish: kişniş (tr)
• Turkmen: please add this translation if you can
• Udi: həvic
• Ugaritic: 𐎂𐎄 m (gd)
• Ukrainian: кінза́ (uk) (kinzá), коля́ндра (koljándra)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: кашнич (kashnich), кинза (kinza)

  Latin: kashnich (uz), kinza

• Volapük: koriand, (older term) korien, (seed) koriandasid, (older term) korienasid, (oil) koriandasids, (older term) korienasids, (oil) koriandaleül, (older term) korienaleül
• Welsh: coriander m, (botany) llysiau'r bara m pl
• Yiddish: פֿעלד־גליאַנדער (feld-glyander), גליאַנדער (glyander)

dried seeds of Coriandrum sativum plant

• Afrikaans: koljander, dhanja
• Brunei Malay: ketumbar
• Burmese: နံနံစေ့ (namnamce.)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 芫荽籽 (yánsuīzǐ)

• Dutch: korianderzaad (nl) n, koriander (nl) m
• Finnish: korianteri (fi)
• French: coriandre (fr) f, graine de coriandre f
• Galician: coandro (gl) m
• German: Koriander (de) m, Koriandersamen (de) m pl
• Greek:

  Ancient: κορίαννον n (koríannon)

  Mycenaean: 𐀒𐀪𐀊𐀅𐀙 (ko-ri-ja-da-na)

• Gujarati: કોથમીર (kothmīr), ધાણા (dhāṇā)
• Hindi: धनिया (hi) m (dhaniyā)
• Indonesian: ketumbar (id)
• Japanese: コリアンダー (ja) (koriandā), コリアンダーシード (koriandā shīdo)
• Kannada: ಕೊತ್ತುಂಬರಿ ಅಥವಾ (kottumbari athavā), ಕೊತ್ತುಂಬರಿ ಬೀಜ (kottumbari bīja)
• Malay: ketumbar (ms)
• Persian:

  Dari: تُخْمِ گَشْنِیز (tuxm-i gašnīz)

• Polish: kolendra (pl) f
• Swahili: giligilani
• Tibetan: འུ་སུ ('u su)
• Turkish: kişniş (tr), kişniş tohumu
• Ugaritic: 𐎂𐎄 (gd)
• Ukrainian: коріа́ндр (koriándr), коля́ндра (koljándra)
• Welsh: coriander m

References

• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “κορίαννον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 754

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