horehound

English

Alternative forms

• hairhound, hoarhound

Etymology

From Middle English horehoune, from Old English hārhūne, hārehūne.

Noun

horehound (countable and uncountable, plural horehounds)

1. Any plant of the genus Marrubium.
2. Any plant of the genus Ballota.
3. A herb (Marrubium vulgare), of the mint family, traditionally used as a cough remedy and to make a type of hard candy.

Synonyms

• (plant of the genus Marrubium): marrubium
• (Marrubium vulgare): common horehound, white horehound, common hoarhound

Derived terms

• black horehound
• common horehound
• white horehound

Translations

plant of the genus Marrubium

• Catalan: malrubí m
• Finnish: hurtanminttu (fi)
• Latin: marrubium n
• Polish: szanta (pl) f
• Swedish: kransborre c

plant of the genus Ballota

• Bulgarian: черна капела f (černa kapela)
• Finnish: porro (fi)

Marrubium vulgare

• Albanian: kapinok (sq) m
• Arabic: فَرَاسِيُون m (farāsiyūn), شَنَّار (šannār) (obsolete), حَشِيشَة الْكَلْب f (ḥašīša(t) al-kalb), عُشْبَة الْكَلْب f (ʕušba(t) al-kalb), صُوف الْأَرْض m (ṣūf al-ʔarḍ)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܣܕܢ ܐܪܥܐ m (*parāsīyon), ܣܕܢ ܐܪܥܐ m (saddān ʔarʕā)

• Bulgarian: пчелник m (pčelnik)
• Cherokee: ᏪᏌ ᎤᏂᎩᏍᏗ (wesa unigisdi)
• Chinese:

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• Dutch: malrove f
• Estonian: ürt-penimünt
• Finnish: hurtanminttu (fi), valkohurtanminttu (fi)
• French: marrube (fr) m
• Galician: marroxo m, alcar m
• German: Andorn (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: μαυρόμαρσον n (maurómarson), φαράσιον n (pharásion), πράσιον n (prásion)

• Hungarian: orvosi pemetefű (hu)
• Italian: marrubio m, marrobio m
• Latin: marrubium n
• Middle English: horehoune
• Navajo: azeeʼ ndootʼeezhí łibáhígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: borremynte m or f

• Ottoman Turkish: پاموق اوتی (pamuk otu)
• Persian: گندنای کوهی (gandana-i kuhi), فراسیون سفید (farâsiyun-e sefid), فراسیون ابیض (farâsiyun-e abyaz), شنار (fa) (šanâr) (obsolete), انجیده (anjide)
• Polish: szanta zwyczajna f
• Portuguese: marroio (pt) m
• Romanian: unguraș (ro) m, voronic m
• Russian: ша́ндра f (šándra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тетр̀љан m, ма̀руља f, о̀ча̄јница f

  Latin: tetr̀ljan (sh) m, màrulja (sh) f, òčājnica (sh) f

• Spanish: marrubio (es) m
• Swedish: kransborre c
• Ukrainian: ша́ндра f (šándra)

Middle English

Noun

horehound

1. Alternative form of horehoune