sesame

See also: sésame

English

sesame seeds

Etymology

1425; Middle English sisamie, from Middle French sisame, learned borrowing from Latin sīsamum, variant of sēsama, from Ancient Greek σήσαμον (sḗsamon, “sesame seed”), from Old Aramaic שושמא‎ (šūššmā), shortening of שומשומא‎ (šumššumā), from Akkadian (Assyrian) [script needed] (šamaššammū), [script needed] (šamaššammi, literally “oil plant”), compound of [script needed] (šaman, “oil”) and [script needed] (šammu, “plant”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛzəmi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛsəmi/
• Rhymes: -ɛsəmɪ
• Hyphenation: ses‧a‧me

Noun

sesame (countable and uncountable, plural sesames)

1. A tropical Asian plant (Sesamum indicum) bearing small flat seeds used as food and as a source of oil.
2. The seed of this plant.

Synonyms

• (plant): beniseed, gingelly
• (seed): sesame seed

Derived terms

• open sesame
• sesame grass

Translations

plant

• Arabic: سِمْسِم‎‎ m (simsim)
• Armenian: շուշմա (hy) (šušma), քնջութ (hy) (kʿnǰutʿ)
• Bulgarian: сусам m (susam)
• Burmese: နှမ်း (my) (hnam:)
• Buryat: гүнжэд (günžed)
• Catalan: sèsam m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 芝麻 (zh) (zhīma), 胡麻 (zh) (húmá)

• Danish: sesam (da) c
• Daur: bal (black), cigaa bal (white)
• Dutch: sesam (nl) c
• Faroese: sesam n
• Finnish: seesami (fi)
• French: sésame (fr) m
• Galician: sésamo m
• Georgian: სეზამი (sezami), ქუნჯუტი (kunǯuṭi)
• German: Sesam (de) m
• Greek: σουσαμιά (el) f (sousamiá)
• Hindi: तिल (hi) m (til)
• Hungarian: szezám (hu)
• Italian: sesamo (it) m
• Japanese: 胡麻 (ja) (ごま, goma)
• Khmer: ល្ង (km) (lngɔɔ)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can

• Lao: ງາ (ngā)
• Macedonian: сусам m (susam)
• Malay: bijan, lenga
• Mongolian: гүнжид (mn) (günžid)
• Persian: کنجد‎‎ (fa) (konjed)
• Polish: sezam (pl) m
• Portuguese: sésamo m, gergelim (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਤਿਲ (pa) m (til)
• Romanian: susan (ro) m, sesam (ro) m
• Russian: сеза́м (ru) m (sezám), сим-си́м m (sim-sím), кунжу́т (ru) m (kunžút)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сусам m

  Roman: susam m

• Shan: ငႃး (ŋaa4)
• Spanish: sésamo (es) m
• Tagalog: linga
• Tajik: кунҷид (tg) (kunjid)
• Thai: งา (th) (ngaa)
• Turkish: susam (tr)
• Urdu: تل‎‎ m (til)
• Vietnamese: mè (vi), vừng
• Volapük: sesam

seed

• Arabic: سِمْسِم‎‎ m (simsim)
• Armenian: շուշմա (hy) (šušma), քնջութ (hy) (kʿnǰutʿ)
• Bulgarian: сусам m (susam)
• Catalan: sèsam m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 芝麻 (zi¹ maa⁴)

  Mandarin: 芝麻 (zh) (zhīmá)

• Dutch: sesam (nl) c, sesamzaad (nl) n
• Faroese: sesamfræ n
• Finnish: seesaminsiemen (fi)
• German: Sesam (de), Sesamsamen
• Greek: σουσάμι (el) n (sousámi)
• Hungarian: szezámmag
• Japanese: 胡麻 (ja) (ごま, goma)
• Khmer: ល្ង (km) (lngɔɔ)
• Korean: 참깨 (ko) (chamkkae)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: کونجی‎‎ (ku)

• Lao: ງາ (ngā)

• Macedonian: сусам m (susam)
• Persian: کنجد‎‎ (fa) (konjed)
• Polish: sezam (pl) m
• Portuguese: sésamo m, gergelim (pt) m
• Romanian: susan (ro) m, sesam (ro) m
• Russian: сеза́м (ru) m (sezám), сим-си́м m (sim-sím)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сусам m

  Roman: susam m

• Spanish: ajonjolí (es) m
• Tagalog: linga
• Tajik: кунҷид (tg) (kunjid)
• Telugu: నువ్వులు (te) (nuvvulu)
• Thai: งา (th) (ngaa)
• Turkish: susam (tr)
• Vietnamese: mè (vi), vừng (vi)
• Volapük: sesamasid, sesamasids

Anagrams

• Maeses, Meases, ameses, meases