asarabacca

English

Asarum europaeum

Native range of Asarum europaeum

Alternative forms

• asarabacke

Etymology

From Latin asarum + baccar.

Noun

asarabacca (usually uncountable, plural asarabaccas)

1. An acrid herbaceous plant, Asarum europaeum, the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic.

   Synonyms: hazelwort, wild ginger

Related terms

• asarone

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “asarabacca”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Translations

Asarum europaeum

• Arabic: أَسَارُون (ar) (ʔasārūn)
• Azerbaijani: çobandüdüyü
• Belarusian: падале́шнік m (padaljéšnik)
• Bulgarian: копи́тник (kopítnik)
• Czech: kopytník m
• Danish: hasselurt
• Dutch: mansoor (nl) f
• Estonian: metspipar
• Finnish: taponlehti (fi), lehtotaponlehti
• French: asaret (fr) m
• German: Haselwurz m or f
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἄσαρον n (ásaron)

• Hungarian: kopotnyak, kapotnyak (hu)
• Latin: asarum n
• Lithuanian: pipirlapė
• Old English: hæselwyrt f
• Persian: اسارون (asârun)
• Polish: kopytnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: ásaro m
• Romanian: pochívnic (ro)
• Russian: копы́тень (ru) m (kopýtenʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ко̀питња̄к m

  Latin: kòpitnjāk (sh) m

• Slovak: kopytník m
• Slovene: kopȋtnik m
• Swedish: hasselört (sv)
• Ukrainian: копи́тник m (kopýtnyk), копитня́к m (kopytnják)