saffron
Meaning of saffron
noun
- an orange-yellow flavouring, food colouring, and dye made from the dried stigmas of a crocus.
- an autumn-flowering crocus with reddish-purple flowers, native to warmer regions of Eurasia. Enormous numbers of flowers are required to produce a small quantity of the large red stigmas used for the spice.
Middle English: from Old French safran, based on Arabic za‘farān .
Information about saffron
- It is a name.
- The plural form of saffron is: saffrons.
- Languages in which saffron is used:
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Hyphenation of saffron
saf-fron
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- saffron is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Translation of saffron
- Spanish: azafrán
- French: safran
- Portuguese: açafrão
- Italian: zafferano
- German: Safran, safranfarben, safrangelb
Anagrams of saffron
Words that rhyme with saffron
Efron, Heffron, chaffron, ensaffron, chamfron, demichamfron, chanfron
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