emmer

See also: Emmer and ëmmer

English

Etymology

First used in 1908; borrowed from German Emmer, from Middle High German emeri, from Old High German amari, derivative of amar(o), which in turn gave rise to the obsolescent German synonym Amelkorn (“amelcorn”). Further etymology unknown.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛmɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛmə/
• Rhymes: -ɛmə(ɹ)

Noun

emmer (countable and uncountable, plural emmers)

1. A species of wheat, Triticum dicoccon, one of a group of hulled wheats that are important food grains. [from 1908]

   Synonym: farro

   Coordinate terms: spelt, einkorn wheat

   Hypernym: hulled wheat

   • 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 9, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:

     Emmer Wheat or Farro Emmer wheat, T. turgidum dicoccum, was probably the second wheat to be cultivated. It grew in warmer climates than einkorn, and became the most important cultivated form from the Near East through northern Africa and Europe until early Roman times, when it was superseded by durum and bread wheats. But pockets of emmer cultivation survived in parts of Europe, and emmer is now widely available under its Italian name, farro.

Synonyms

• (species of wheat): Triticum dicoccon, Triticum dicoccon subsp. dicoccon

Derived terms

• wild emmer (Triticum dicoccoides (a hybrid of Triticum urartu and a wild goatgrass. such as Aegilops searsii or Aegilops speltoides))

Translations

Triticum dicoccon

• Armenian: հաճար (hy) (hačar), աճար (hy) (ačar), էմեր (ēmer), երկհատիկ ցորեն (erkhatik cʿoren)
• Asturian: escanda f
• Bulgarian: двузърнест лимец m (dvuzǎrnest limec)
• Danish: emmer (da)
• Dutch: emmertarwe (nl) m, tweekoren n
• Egyptian: (bdt)
• French: amidonnier (fr) m
• Galician: farro (gl) m
• Georgian: ასლი (ka) (asli)

• German: Emmer (de) m, Zweikorn n
• Italian: farro dicocco m, farro medio m
• Latin: far, alica f
• Persian: گندم دودانه‎ (gandom-e dodāne)
• Polish: pszenica płaskurka f
• Portuguese: farro (pt) m
• Russian: э́ммер (ru) m (émmer), пшени́ца двузерня́нка f (pšeníca dvuzernjánka)
• Spanish: farro (es) m, trigo almidonero m

See also

• Appendix:Grains

Further reading

• emmer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• memer

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch emmer, from Middle Dutch ember, from Old Dutch ēmer, from Proto-West Germanic *ambrī.

Noun

emmer (plural emmers, diminutive emmertjie)

1. bucket (container)

Descendants

• Xhosa: i-emele

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Dutch

emmer

Pronunciation

• emmer

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.mər/, [ˈɛ.mər]
• Hyphenation: em‧mer
• Rhymes: -ɛmər

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch ember, from Old Dutch ēmer, from Proto-West Germanic *ambrī.

Noun

emmer m (plural emmers, diminutive emmertje n)

1. bucket (container)

Derived terms

• melkemmer
• putemmer
• wateremmer

Descendants

• Afrikaans: emmer

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Emmer.

Noun

emmer m (uncountable)

1. emmer, Triticum dicoccon

   Synonym: tweekoren

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

emmer

1. first-person singular present indicative of emmeren
2. imperative of emmeren

Anagrams

• remme

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Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adverb

emmer

1. always
2. at least, in any case
3. at all costs
4. ever

Alternative forms

• immer

Descendants

• Dutch: immer

Etymology 2

Noun

emmer m

1. Alternative form of ammer

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• “emmer (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “emmer (III)”, in Middelniederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page III