sainfoin

English

sainfoin

Etymology

From French sainfoin, from sain (“healthy, healthful”) + foin (“hay”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsænfɔɪn/, /ˈseɪnfɔɪn/

Noun

sainfoin (countable and uncountable, plural sainfoins)

1. A perennial herb of the genus Onobrychis with pale pink flowers, especially Onobrychis viciifolia (syn. Onobrychis sativa).
   • 1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 143:

     I saw a breath of wind emerge from the furthest horizon, bowing over the heads of corn in distant fields, pouring like a flood over all that vast expanse, and finally come to rest, warm and rustling, among the clover and sainfoin at my feet […]

Derived terms

• Spanish sanfoin (Onobrychis iberica)

Translations

perennial herbs

• Abaza: щхахӏвра (śxaḥʷra)
• Armenian: կորնգան (hy) (korngan)
• Azerbaijani: esparset, xaşa
• Bulgarian: еспарзета f (esparzeta)
• Catalan: trepadella f
• Esperanto: onobriko
• French: sainfoin (fr) m
• Georgian: ესპარცეტი (esṗarceṭi), ყორანგალი (q̇orangali), საბეგველა (sabegvela)
• German: Esparsette (de) f
• Hungarian: baltacim (hu)
• Ido: esparseto (io)
• Kabardian: дарииху (kbd) (darijixʷu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: qurînge

• Macedonian: гра́орка f (gráorka), еспарзе́та f (esparzéta)
• Persian: اسپرس (fa) (espers)
• Polish: sparceta f
• Portuguese: sanfeno m
• Romanian: sparcetă (ro) f
• Russian: эспарце́т (ru) m (esparcét)
• Spanish: pipirigallo (es) m, esparceta f
• Turkish: korunga (tr)

Anagrams

• sinfonia

French

Etymology

From sain + foin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃.fwɛ̃/

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Noun

sainfoin m (plural sainfoins)

1. sainfoin

   Synonym: fenasse

Derived terms

• sainfoin à deux coupes
• sainfoin commun
• sainfoin d’Espagne
• sainfoinnière

 

Further reading

• “sainfoin” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie françoise, 4th Edition (1762).
• “sainfoin” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).
• “sainfoin” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “sainfoin” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “sainfoin” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
• “sainfoin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.