savin

See also: Savin and savin'

English

savin (Juniperus sabina)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English savyne, from Old French savine, from Latin sabīna. Compare Old English safine.

Noun

savin (countable and uncountable, plural savins)

1. The evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil.
2. The poisonous dried tips of this plant, with anthelmintic properties, used as a drug.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     th'aged Nurse her calling to her bowre, / Had gathered Rew, and Sauine, and the flowre / Of Camphara, and Calamint, and Dill, / All which she in a earthen Pot did poure [...].

3. The eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, of eastern North America.

Synonyms

• (Juniperus sabina): bastard killer, cover-shame, savin juniper

Translations

Juniperus sabina

• Abaza: дзыхӏвы (dzəḥʷə), щхъанарат (śqanarat)
• Abkhaz: аҭәы́цбӷьы (atʷə́cbğʲə)
• Albanian: jermësinë (sq) f,
• Arabic: أَبْهُل m (ʔabhul), شَبِينَة f (šabīna) (obsolete)
• Armenian: ցրդենի (hy) (cʻrdeni), ցրդի (hy) (cʻrdi)

  Old Armenian: ցիրդ (cʻird), ցրդենի (cʻrdeni), ցրդի (cʻrdi)

• Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: смрадлива хвойна f (smradliva hvojna)
• Catalan: savina de muntanya f
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: jalovec chvojka
• Dutch: zavelboom (nl) m, zevenboom (nl) m
• Finnish: rohtokataja
• French: sabine (fr) f, sabinier m
• Georgian: კაზაკური ღვია (ḳazaḳuri ɣvia), წყვედა (c̣q̇veda) (dialectal)
• German: Stinkwacholder (de) m
• Greek: please add this translation if you can

  Ancient: βράθυ n (bráthu)

• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: sabina (it) f
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: sabīna f
• Middle English: savyne
• Persian: ابهل (fa) (abhol, obhol)
• Polish: Jałowiec sabiński m, jałowiec sawina m, sawina f
• Romanian: sabină (ro) f, cetină-de-negi (ro) f
• Russian: можжеве́льник каза́цкий m (možževélʹnik kazáckij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: со̀мина f

  Latin: sòmina (sh) f

• Spanish: sabina (es) f

References

• Juniperus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Juniperus sabina on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Juniperus virginiana on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Juniperus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Sivan, Vians, Vinas, ivans, vinas

Finnish

Noun

savin

1. instructive plural of savi

Anagrams

• visan