clove

Etymology 1
From, an alteration of earlier , borrowed from the first component of (modern 🇨🇬), from  for its shape. Also see. .

Noun

 * 1)  A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.
 * 2)  A, of the species  (syn. ), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.
 * 3)  An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ቅርንፉድ
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: قرنفل
 * Hijazi Arabic: قُرُنْفُل
 * Moroccan Arabic: قرنفل
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: লং
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: ҡәләмфер
 * Basque: iltzea
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:, clavell d'espècia, clau d'espècia
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 丁香
 * Mandarin:
 * Classical Nahuatl: Caxtīllān chīlli
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dhivehi: ކަރަންފޫ
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kariofilo
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: καρυόφυλλον
 * Gujarati: લવિંગ
 * Haitian Creole: jiwòf
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: लौंग,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: negull
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: clóbh
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: クローブ, ,
 * Javanese: ꦕꦼꦁꦏꦺꦃ
 * Kabardian:
 * Kannada:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 정향나무
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Lao: ກ້ານພູ
 * Luxembourgish: Neelcheskapp
 * Macedonian: каранфилче
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:, ഗ്രാമ്പു
 * Maltese: qronfol
 * Maori: korohe, rōkara
 * Marathi: लवंग
 * Minangkabau: cangkeh
 * Nepali: ल्वाङ
 * Ngazidja Comorian: karanfu
 * Norman: cliou d'giroufl'ye, cllaou d'girouflle , cllou de girouflle
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: nellik
 * Nynorsk: nellik
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Oromo: qurunfudii
 * Pashto: لونګ
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , , girofle
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: каранфилић, клинчић
 * Roman: karanfilić, klinčić
 * Slovene: klinček, nageljnova žbica
 * Somali: dhaga yare
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sundanese: ᮎᮨᮀᮊᮦᮂ
 * Swahili: karafuu
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kalabumpako, klabos
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Ternate: bualawa
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ལི་ཤི།
 * Turkish:
 * Ottoman Turkish: قرنفل
 * Ukrainian: гвозди́ка
 * Vietnamese: đinh hương
 * Welsh: clof, clofsen, clowsen
 * West Flemish: kruudnoagel
 * Wolof: djirofe
 * Yiddish: נעגעלע


 * Armenian:
 * Burmese:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 丁子香,
 * Hindi: लौंग,
 * Japanese: チョウジノキ,, チョウジ
 * Polish:, drzewo goździkowe
 * Russian: гвозди́чное де́рево

Etymology 2


From, from , from , from , related to , hence with the verbal etymology hereafter.

Noun

 * 1)  One of the small bulbs formed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb.

Translations

 * Albanian: thelpi
 * Arabic: فَصّ
 * Egyptian Arabic: فص
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: скили́дка
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 粒, 瓣
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: fed
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: γελγίς
 * Hebrew: שֵׁן שׁוּם, שִׁנֵּי שׁוּם
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Latvian: daiva
 * Macedonian: чешне
 * Mongolian:
 * Norman: gousse
 * Norwegian: fedd
 * Old English: clufu
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: че̏шањ, че̏н , чесно, чехно
 * Roman:, čȅn , česno,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: зубо́к

Etymology 4
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  A narrow valley with steep sides, used in areas of North America first settled by the Dutch

Usage notes

 * Mainly used in proper names, such as .

Etymology 1
Inherited from, from , from , related to.

Noun

 * 1) clove bulb of garlic

Etymology 2
From.

Etymology 3
From, past participle of.

Etymology 4
From, 1st- and 3rd- person simple past singular of , with the vowel from the past participle.