Etymology
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From Middle English tyme, from Old French thym, from Latin thymum, from Ancient Greek θύμον (thúmon).
Pronunciation
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thyme (countable and uncountable, plural thymes)
- Any plant of the labiate genus Thymus, such as garden thyme (Thymus vulgaris), a warm, pungent aromatic, that is much used to give a relish to seasoning and soups.
Usage notes
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- In older Irish and British poems and songs, the plant was sometimes seen as a metaphor for virginity and chastity.
examples
- 17th century, A Bunch of Thyme (traditional song):
- Come all ye maidens young and fair
- And you that are blooming in your prime
- Always beware and keep your garden fair
- Let no man steal away your thyme
- 1792, Kellyburn Braes (Robert Burns Poem):
- I've got a bad wife, sir, that's a' my complaint,
- Hey, and the rue grows bonie wi' thyme;
- "For, savin your presence, to her ye're a saint,"
- And the thyme it is wither'd, and rue is in prime.
- 19th century, A Sprig of Thyme (traditional):
- Wunst I had a sprig of thyme,
- it prospered by night and by day
- till a false young man came acourtin' te me,
- and he stole all this thyme away.
Derived terms
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Translations
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- Akkadian: 𒄩𒋗𒌑 (/ḫašû/).
- Albanian: trumzë (sq), shtërmen (sq)
- Arabic: زَعْتَر (ar) m (zaʕtar), صَعْتَر m (ṣaʕtar), حَاشَا f (ḥāšā)
- Egyptian Arabic: زعتر m (záʕtar)
- Aramaic:
- Hebrew: חָשָׁא m (ḥāšā), חָאשָׁא m (ḥāšā)
- Syriac: ܚܫܐ m (ḥāšā), ܚܐܫܐ m (ḥāšā)
- Armenian: ուրց (hy) (urcʻ)
- Belarusian: чабо́р m (čabór)
- Bulgarian: ма́щерка (bg) f (mášterka)
- Catalan: farigola (ca) f, timó (ca) m, tomello (ca) m, timonet m, tomell m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 百里香 (zh) (bǎilǐxiāng), 麝香草 (zh) (shèxiāngcǎo)
- Cornish: kosfinel pl
- Czech: mateřídouška (cs) f, tymián m
- Danish: timian c
- Dutch: tijm (nl)
- Esperanto: timiano
- Estonian: liivatee
- Finnish: timjami (fi) (seasoning), ajuruoho (fi) (plant)
- French: thym (fr) m
- Galician: tomiño (gl) m, tormentelo m, tromentelo m
- Georgian: ქონდარი (kondari)
- German: Thymian (de) m
- Greek: θυμάρι (el) n (thymári)
- Ancient: θύμον n (thúmon)
- Greenlandic: tupaarnaq (kl)
- Hebrew: תימין m (timín), קוֹרָנִית f (qoranít)
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: kakukkfű (hu)
- Icelandic: timjan n
- Ido: timiano (io)
- Irish: tím f
- Italian: timo (it) m
- Japanese: タイム (ja) (taimu)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: thymum n
- Lithuanian: čiobrẽlis m, čiõbras m
- Macedonian: тимијан m (timijan), мајчина душичка f (majčina dušička), матерка f (materka)
- Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
- Manx: teim f
- Maori: tāima (mi)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: timian m
- Nynorsk: timian m
- Occitan: frigola (oc) f
- Persian: آویشن (fa) (âvišan), حاشا (fa) (hâšâ)
- Polish: tymianek (pl) m, macierzanka (pl) f
- Portuguese: tomilho (pt) m, timo (pt)
- Romanian: lămâioară (ro) f, cimbru (ro) m
- Russian: тимья́н (ru) m (timʹján), чабре́ц (ru) m (čabréc)
- Scottish Gaelic: tìom f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: тѝмија̄н m
- Latin: tìmijān (sh) m
- Slovene: tȋmijan (sl) m
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: duška f, babyduška f, babina duška f
- Spanish: tomillo (es) m
- Swedish: timjan (sv) c
- Tagalog: tomilyo
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Tatar: чабыр (çabır)
- Telugu: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: kekik (tr)
- Ukrainian: чебре́ць m (čebrécʹ)
- Urdu: حاشا (hāśā)
- Uzbek: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: húng tây
- Welsh: teim m, gruw m
- Yiddish: טימיאַן m (timyan)
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