sesame

See also: sésame

English

Wikipedia

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 (šumššemā), from Akkadian (Assyrian) [script?] (šamaššammū)[script?], [script?] (šamaššammi)[script?], literally ‘oil plant’, compound of [script?] (šaman, “oil”)[script?] and [script?] (šammu, “plant”)[script?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛsəmi/

Noun

sesame (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
• (seed): sesame seed

Derived terms

• open sesame
• sesame grass

Translations

plant

• Arabic: سمسم m (símsim)
• Armenian: շուշմա (šušma)
• Bulgarian: сусам m (susam)
• Burmese: နှမ်း (my) (hnan:)
• Catalan: sèsam m
• Chinese:

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

• Danish: sesam (da) c
• Dutch: sesam (nl) c
• Faroese: sesam n
• Finnish: seesami (fi)
• French: sésame (fr) m
• German: Sesam (de) m
• Greek: σουσαμιά (el) f (sousamiá)
• Hindi: तिल (til)
• Hungarian: szezám (hu)
• Italian: sesamo m

• Japanese: 胡麻 (ごま, goma)
• Macedonian: сусам m (súsam)
• Malay: bijan, lenga
• Persian: کنجد (fa) (konjed, konjod)
• Polish: sezam (pl) m
• Portuguese: sésamo m, gergelim (pt) m
• Russian: сезам (ru) m (sezám), сим-сим m (sim-sím), кунжут (ru) m (kunžút)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сусам m

  Roman: susam m

• Spanish: sésamo (es) m
• Tajik: кунҷид (kunjid)
• Turkish: susam (tr)
• Urdu: تل (til)
• Vietnamese: mè (vi), cây vừng, hạt vừng
• Volapük: sesam

seed

• Arabic: سمسم m (símsim)
• Bulgarian: сусам m (susam)
• Catalan: sèsam m
• Chinese:

  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 (ごま, goma)
• Korean: 참깨 (ko) (cham-kkae)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: کونجی (ku)

• Macedonian: сусам m (súsam)
• Persian: کنجد (fa) (konjed, konjod)
• Polish: sezam (pl) m
• Portuguese: sésamo m, gergelim (pt) m
• Russian: сезам (ru) m (sezám), сим-сим m (sim-sím)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сусам m

  Roman: susam m

• Spanish: ajonjolí (es) m
• Tajik: кунҷид (kunjid)
• Turkish: susam (tr)
• Vietnamese: mè (vi)
• Volapük: sesamasid, sesamasids

Anagrams

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