Saffron

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A plant of species Crocus sativus, a crocus.

   “Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, spikenard and saffron […]”

2. isim A spice (seasoning) and colouring agent made from the stigma and part of the style of the plant, sometimes or formerly also used as a dye and insect repellent.

   “I must have saffron to colour the warden pies […]”

3. isim An orange-yellow colour, the colour of a lion's pelt.

   “[…] The stately Ram Shone thro’ the Mead, in native Purple clad, Or milder Saffron […]”

4. sıfat Having an orange-yellow colour.

   “For ioyfull thoughts, vse funerall deedes”

5. sıfat Associated with Hinduism, Hindus or Hindu nationalism.

   “Saffron voters will certainly respond to the Sena chief’s call to support this alliance.”

6. fiil To add saffron to (a food), for taste, colour etc.

   “saffroned water, saffroned rice”

7. fiil To give a saffron colour to (something).

   “My dreadful thoughts been drawen vpon my face, In blotted lines with ages iron pen, The lothlie morpheu saffroned the place, Where beuties damaske daz’d the eies of men.”

8. fiil To dye (a fabric, garment, etc.) with a saffron-based dye.

   “The other part Northern, & ful of mountaines, a very rude and homely kinde of people doth inhabite, which are called the redshankes or wilde Scottes. They be clothed with a mantel and shyrte saffroned, after the Irishe manner, going bare legged to the knée.”

9. fiil To colour (a metal or wooden surface) with a gilding product containing saffron.

   “His horse was harnished with leaden chaines, hauing the out-side guilt, or at least saffrond in stead of guilt, to decypher a holie or golden pretence of a couetous purpose […]”

10. fiil To embellish.

    “Saffroning the rest of the account are several other regionalisms: agin for against, hit for the expletive it, knowed as a preterite, and no use to say not bin' (a fascinating doubling of the negative).”

11. özel isim A female given name from English; a rare flower name from the saffron.

    “The bad thing was she took my son Skiff with her. It's a dumb name I know, but at the time he was born all the kids were being called things like Sky and Saffron and Powie, and I was really sold on sailing.”