horehound

English

Alternative forms

• hoarhound

Etymology

From Middle English horehoune, from Old English hārhūne, hārehūne.

Noun

horehound (countable and uncountable, plural horehounds)

1. A herb, , of the mint family, traditionally used as a cough remedy and to make a type of hard candy.

Derived terms

• black horehound

Translations

Marrubium vulgare

• Arabic: فَرَاسِيُون m (farāsiyūn)
• Bulgarian: пчелник m (pčelnik)
• Cherokee: ᏪᏌ ᎤᏂᎩᏍᏗ (wesa unigisdi)
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: hurtanminttu (fi)
• French: marrube (fr) m
• Galician: marroxo m, alcar m
• German: Andorn (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: μαυρόμαρσον n (maurómarson), φαράσιον n (pharásion), πράσιον n (prásion)

• Hungarian: orvosi pemetefű
• Italian: marrubio m, marrobio m
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• Latin: marrubium n
• Middle English: horehoune
• Navajo: azeeʼ ndootʼeezhí łibáhígíí
• Polish: szanta (pl) f
• Portuguese: marroio (pt) m
• Romanian: unguraș (ro) m, voronic m
• Russian: ша́ндра f (šándra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тетр̀љан m, ма̀руља f, о̀ча̄јница f

  Latin: tetr̀ljan (sh) m, màrulja (sh) f, òčājnica (sh) f

• Spanish: marrubio (es) m
• Swedish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: ша́ндра f (šándra)

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Middle English

Noun

horehound

1. Alternative form of horehoune