name
Meaning 1
A female given name from English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
nigella
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
-
/naɪˈd͡ʒɛlə/
-
Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
-
rhymes with -ɛlə
noun
Meaning 2
Any plant of the genus Nigella of about twelve species of annual flowering plants, the blooms of which are generally blue in colour but also found in shades of pink, white and pale purple.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The seeds of the plant Nigella sativa, used as a culinary spice.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
any plant of the genus Nigella
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: flower
Narrower terms: love-in-a-mist, Nigella damascena, fennel flower, Nigella hispanica, black caraway, nutmeg flower, Roman coriander, Nigella sativa
History
Etymology
A 19th-century flower name from nigella. Compare also the male given name Nigel.
Borrowed from translingual Nigella, from Late Latin nigella. Doublet of nielle.
Across languages
Translations
42 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: شُونِيز (šūnīz) — plant of the genus Nigella
- Armenian: սոնիճ (sonič) — plant of the genus Nigella
- Belarusian: чарнушка (čarnuška) — plant of the genus Nigella
- Bulgarian: челебитка (čelebitka) — plant of the genus Nigella
- Bulgarian: че́рен кимио́н (čéren kimión) — plant of the genus Nigella
- Bulgarian: че́рен суса́м (čéren susám) — plant of the genus Nigella
- Czech: černucha — plant of the genus Nigella
- Estonian: mustköömen — plant of the genus Nigella
- Finnish: neito — plant of the genus Nigella
- French: nigelle — plant of the genus Nigella
- Galician: mourillón — plant of the genus Nigella
- German: Schwarzkümmel — plant of the genus Nigella
- Ancient Greek: μελάνθιον (melánthion) — plant of the genus Nigella
- Hebrew: קֶצַח (qétzaẖ) — plant of the genus Nigella
- Hungarian: kandilla — plant of the genus Nigella
- Hungarian: katicavirág — plant of the genus Nigella
- Latvian: melnsēklīte — plant of the genus Nigella
- Lithuanian: juodgrūdė — plant of the genus Nigella
- Marathi: काळे जिरे (kāḷe jire) — plant of the genus Nigella
- Polish: czarnuszka — plant of the genus Nigella
- Romanian: chica-voinicului — plant of the genus Nigella
- Russian: черну́шка (černúška) — plant of the genus Nigella
- Russian: черну́ха (černúxa) — plant of the genus Nigella
- Russian: калинджи (kalindži) — plant of the genus Nigella
- Russian: чёрный тмин (čórnyj tmin) — plant of the genus Nigella
- Serbo-Croatian: mačkov bȓk — plant of the genus Nigella
- Serbo-Croatian: crno sȅme — plant of the genus Nigella
- Serbo-Croatian: cȓnī kùmīn — plant of the genus Nigella
- Serbo-Croatian: cȓnī kȉm — plant of the genus Nigella
- Serbo-Croatian: crni sùsam — plant of the genus Nigella
- Slovak: černuška — plant of the genus Nigella
- Slovene: črníka — plant of the genus Nigella
- Upper Sorbian: čornucha — plant of the genus Nigella
- Spanish: ajenuz — plant of the genus Nigella
- Spanish: arañuela — plant of the genus Nigella
- Swedish: nigella — plant of the genus Nigella
- Turkish: çörekotu — plant of the genus Nigella
- Turkish: çöreotu — plant of the genus Nigella
- Turkish: siyah kimyon — plant of the genus Nigella
- Turkish: siyah susam — plant of the genus Nigella
- Ukrainian: чорну́шка (čornúška) — plant of the genus Nigella
- Ukrainian: чо́рний кмин (čórnyj kmyn) — plant of the genus Nigella