madder

Etymology 1
From, , , from , , , from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 / 🇨🇬), from , cognate with 🇨🇬, and compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A herbaceous plant,, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye (alizarin) obtained from the root.
 * 2) The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye.
 * 3) A dye made from the plant.
 * 4) A deep reddish colour, like that of the dye.

Synonyms

 * common madder, dyer's madder

Translations

 * Afar:
 * Akkadian: 𒁍𒉿𒌈
 * Albanian: bimë ngjyruese,, rrojbë
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic: فُوَّة صَبْغِيَّة, فُوَّة
 * Aramaic:
 * Jewish: פּוּתָא, פּוּאֲתָא
 * Syriac: ܦܽܘܬܳܐ
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: boyaqotu
 * Belarusian: марэ́на, мару́на
 * Breton: gwrizienn-ruz
 * Bulgarian: брош
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Chuvash:
 * Czech: mořena
 * Danish: krap
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: punavärvik, krapp
 * Finnish:, aitovärimatara,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German: Färberkrapp, Färberröte,
 * Greek:, ερυθρόδανο
 * Gujarati:
 * Harari:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hittite: 𒊺𒉿𒁕
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: madar
 * Italian:, garanza
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ڕۆنیاس
 * Northern Kurdish: soring
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin: rubia
 * Latvian: madara
 * Macedonian: броќ
 * Malayalam:
 * Norwegian: krapp
 * Old Norse: maðra
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ruiva-dos-tintureiros, ruiva, granza, garança
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бро̏ћ
 * Roman: brȍć
 * Slovak: marena
 * Slovene: brošč
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian: čerwjenka
 * Spanish: rubia roja
 * Swedish: krappar
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Tibetan:
 * Tigre:
 * Tigrinya:
 * Turkish:
 * Ugaritic: 𐎔𐎆𐎚
 * Ukrainian: маре́на
 * Uzbek:
 * Welsh: cochwraidd, gwreiddrudd


 * Finnish: värimataran juuri
 * Georgian:
 * German: Krappwurzel
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:


 * Akkadian: 𒁍𒉿𒌈
 * Armenian:
 * Finnish: alitsariini,, alitsariinipunainen
 * Georgian:
 * German: Krapprot, Krappfarbstoff,, Alizarinrot
 * Hittite:
 * Irish:
 * Italian: alizarina
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: rubia
 * Portuguese:, garança
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: rojo de alizarina
 * Welsh: madr


 * Finnish: alitsariinipunainen
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German: Krapprot
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian: rosso di robbia
 * Japanese:
 * Persian: روناسی
 * Romanian: roz pal
 * Spanish: rojo turco

Adjective

 * 1) Of a deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German: krapprot
 * Indonesian:
 * Japanese: 茜色の
 * Romanian: roz pal
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: rojo turco

Verb

 * 1)  To dye with madder.

Etymology 2
Inflected forms.

Etymology 3
From.

Noun

 * 1) * c.1720 Jonathan Swift (translation from the Irish) "O'Rourke's Feast":
 * Usequebaugh to our feast - In pails was brought up,
 * A hundred at least, - And the madder our cup,
 * O there is the sport!
 * O there is the sport!