wormwood

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• Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈwɜːm.wʊd/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈwəːm.wɵd/
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• General-American: /ˈwɚm.wʊd/
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• New-Zealand, Wales: /ˈwøːm.wʊd/
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• Scotland: /ˈwʌɾm.wʉd/
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• Northern-Ireland: /ˈwəɾm.wʉd/
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• /ˈweːm.wʊd/ Liverpool, fair–fur merger
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• /ˈwɛːm.wʊd/ Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
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From Middle English wormwode, a folk etymology (as if worm + wood) of wermode (“wormwood”), from Old English wermōd (“wormwood, absinthe”), from Proto-West Germanic *warjamōdā (“wormwood”). Cognate with Middle Low German wermode, wermede (“wormwood”), German Wermut (“wormwood”). Doublet of vermouth.

127 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Cherokee: ᎤᏴᏍᏗ (uyvsdi) — Translations
• Navajo: Díchʼíiʼii — Translations
• Albanian: pelin i zi — Artemisia absinthium
• Albanian: pelin — Artemisia absinthium
• Arabic: حَبَق اَلرَّاعِيّ (ḥabaq ar-rāʕiyy) — Artemisia absinthium
• Arabic: صبر (ṣabr) — Artemisia absinthium
• Arabic: شيبة (šība) — Artemisia absinthium
• Armenian: օշինդր (ōšindr) — Artemisia absinthium
• Armenian: բարձվենյակ (barjvenyak) — Artemisia absinthium
• Asturian: axenxu — Artemisia absinthium
• Azerbaijani: yovşan — Artemisia absinthium
• Bashkir: әрем (ərem) — Artemisia absinthium
• Basque: asentsio — Artemisia absinthium
• Belarusian: палы́н (palýn) — Artemisia absinthium
• Bulgarian: пелин (pelin) — Artemisia absinthium
• Catalan: donzell — Artemisia absinthium
• Chinese Cantonese: 苦艾 (fu2 ngaai6) — Artemisia absinthium
• Chinese Mandarin: 苦艾 (kǔ'ài) — Artemisia absinthium
• Chinese Mandarin: 中亞苦蒿 /中亚苦蒿 (Zhōngyǎ kǔhāo) — Artemisia absinthium
• Chuvash: армути (armut̬i) — Artemisia absinthium
• Czech: pelyněk — Artemisia absinthium
• Czech: pelyněk pravý — Artemisia absinthium
• Danish: malurt — Artemisia absinthium
• Dutch: absintalsem — Artemisia absinthium
• Erzya: шурьма (šuŕma) — Artemisia absinthium
• Esperanto: absinto — Artemisia absinthium
• Estonian: koirohi — Artemisia absinthium
• Finnish: koiruoho — Artemisia absinthium
• Finnish: mali — Artemisia absinthium
• French: armoise — Artemisia absinthium
• French: absinthe — Artemisia absinthium
• Gagauz: pelin — Artemisia absinthium
• Galician: asento — Artemisia absinthium
• Galician: asente — Artemisia absinthium
• Galician: madroa — Artemisia absinthium
• Galician: alosna — Artemisia absinthium
• Georgian: ავშანი (avšani) — Artemisia absinthium
• Georgian: აბზინდა (abzinda) — Artemisia absinthium
• German: Wermut — Artemisia absinthium
• Greek: αψιθιά (apsithiá) — Artemisia absinthium
• Greek: αρτεμισία (artemisía) — Artemisia absinthium
• Ancient Greek: ἄψινθος (ápsinthos) — Artemisia absinthium
• Ancient Greek: ἀψίνθιον (apsínthion) — Artemisia absinthium
• Hebrew: ארטימיסיה (artimisía) — Artemisia absinthium
• Hebrew: לַעֲנָה (la'ana) — Artemisia absinthium
• Hungarian: fehér üröm — Artemisia absinthium
• Ido: absinto — Artemisia absinthium
• Interlingua: absinthio — Artemisia absinthium
• Irish: mormónta — Artemisia absinthium
• Middle Irish: mormónt — Artemisia absinthium
• Italian: assenzio — Artemisia absinthium
• Japanese: 苦蓬 (nigayomogi) — Artemisia absinthium
• Komi-Permyak: вӧвбӧж (vövböž) — Artemisia absinthium
• Komi-Zyrian: батӧг (batög) — Artemisia absinthium
• Komi-Zyrian: кӧинакань (köinakań) — Artemisia absinthium
• Korean: 향쑥 (hyangssuk) — Artemisia absinthium
• Ladin: scienz — Artemisia absinthium
• Latin: absinthium — Artemisia absinthium
• Latin: batypicron — Artemisia absinthium
• Lombard: medeghet — Artemisia absinthium
• Macedonian: пе́лин (pélin) — Artemisia absinthium
• Māori: taru kawa — Artemisia absinthium
• Eastern Mari: арым (arym) — Artemisia absinthium
• Eastern Mari: арымшудо (arymšudo) — Artemisia absinthium
• Western Mari: шодышуды (šodyšudy) — Artemisia absinthium
• Middle English: wormwode — Artemisia absinthium
• Norman: lianne — Artemisia absinthium
• Norman: hèrbe à puches — Artemisia absinthium
• Norman: absînthe — Artemisia absinthium
• Norwegian Bokmål: malurt — Artemisia absinthium
• Norwegian Nynorsk: malurt — Artemisia absinthium
• Ojibwe: moosewijiibik — Artemisia absinthium
• Ojibwe: moose-ojiibik — Artemisia absinthium
• Old English: wermōd — Artemisia absinthium
• Persian: افسنطین (afsentin) — Artemisia absinthium
• Persian: درمنه (daramne) — Artemisia absinthium
• Polish: piołun — Artemisia absinthium
• Portuguese: absinto — Artemisia absinthium
• Romanian: pelin — Artemisia absinthium
• Russian: полы́нь (polýnʹ) — Artemisia absinthium
• Russian: чернобы́ль (černobýlʹ) — Artemisia absinthium
• Serbo-Croatian: пелен — Artemisia absinthium
• Serbo-Croatian: пѐлин — Artemisia absinthium
• Serbo-Croatian: pelen — Artemisia absinthium
• Serbo-Croatian: pèlin — Artemisia absinthium
• Slovak: palina — Artemisia absinthium
• Slovene: pelin — Artemisia absinthium
• Spanish: ajenjo — Artemisia absinthium
• Spanish: absintio — Artemisia absinthium
• Spanish: alosna — Artemisia absinthium
• Swedish: malört — Artemisia absinthium
• Swedish: äkta malört — Artemisia absinthium
• Tagalog: ahenho — Artemisia absinthium
• Tamil: மருக்கொழுந்து (marukkoḻuntu) — Artemisia absinthium
• Tashelhit: cciba — Artemisia absinthium
• Thai: โกฏจุฬาลําพา (kot chulaalamphuaua) — Artemisia absinthium
• Turkish: pelin — Artemisia absinthium
• Tuvan: чашпан (çaşpan) — Artemisia absinthium
• Udmurt: зынпот (zynpot) — Artemisia absinthium
• Udmurt: арым (arym) — Artemisia absinthium
• Ukrainian: поли́н (polýn) — Artemisia absinthium
• Ukrainian: чорнобиль (čornobylʹ) — Artemisia absinthium
• Venetan: ménego maèstro — Artemisia absinthium
• Vietnamese: ngải cứu — Artemisia absinthium
• Walloon: foirt — Artemisia absinthium
• Walloon: absinte — Artemisia absinthium
• Welsh: y wermod — Artemisia absinthium
• Welsh: y wermod lwyd — Artemisia absinthium
• Bulgarian: обида (obida) — figurative: that which causes bitterness
• Bulgarian: огорчение (ogorčenie) — figurative: that which causes bitterness
• Finnish: rikki — figurative: that which causes bitterness
• French: fiel — figurative: that which causes bitterness
• French: amertume — figurative: that which causes bitterness
• German: Wermutstropfen — figurative: that which causes bitterness
• Greek: χολή (cholí) — figurative: that which causes bitterness
• Hebrew: לַעֲנָה (la'aná) — figurative: that which causes bitterness
• Macedonian: пе́лин (pélin) — figurative: that which causes bitterness
• Macedonian: го́рчина (górčina) — figurative: that which causes bitterness
• Portuguese: amargura — figurative: that which causes bitterness
• Russian: го́речь (górečʹ) — figurative: that which causes bitterness
• Russian: жёлчь (žolčʹ) — figurative: that which causes bitterness
• Russian: желчь (želčʹ) — figurative: that which causes bitterness
• Russian: раздражи́тельность (razdražítelʹnostʹ) — figurative: that which causes bitterness
• Slovene: pelin — figurative: that which causes bitterness
• Spanish: amargor — figurative: that which causes bitterness
• Spanish: amargura — figurative: that which causes bitterness
• Spanish: mortificación — figurative: that which causes bitterness