thyme

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) Any plant of the labiate genus, such as  , a warm, pungent aromatic, that is much used to give a relish to seasoning and soups.

Usage notes

 * In older Irish and British poems and songs, the plant was sometimes seen as a metaphor for virginity and chastity.


 * 17th century, A Bunch of Thyme (traditional song):
 * Come all ye maidens young and fair
 * And you that are blooming in your prime
 * Always beware and keep your garden fair
 * Let no man steal away your thyme
 * 1792, Kellyburn Braes (Robert Burns Poem):
 * I've got a bad wife, sir, that's a' my complaint,
 * Hey, and the rue grows bonie wi' thyme;
 * "For, savin your presence, to her ye're a saint,"
 * And the thyme it is wither'd, and rue is in prime.
 * 19th century, A Sprig of Thyme (traditional):
 * Wunst I had a sprig of thyme,
 * it prospered by night and by day
 * till a false young man came acourtin' te me,
 * and he stole all this thyme away.

Translations

 * Akkadian: 𒄩𒋗𒌑.
 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic:, صَعْتَر, حَاشَا
 * Egyptian Arabic: زعتر
 * Hijazi Arabic: زَعْتَر
 * Aramaic:
 * Hebrew: חָשָׁא, חָאשָׁא
 * Syriac: ܚܫܐ, ܚܐܫܐ
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: чабо́р
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:, , , timonet, tomell
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: kosfinel
 * Czech:, tymián
 * Danish: timian
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: timiano
 * Estonian: liivatee, tüümian
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:, tormentelo, tromentelo
 * Georgian: ქონდარი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: θύμον
 * Greenlandic:
 * Hebrew: תימין, קוֹרָנִית
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: timjan
 * Ido:
 * Irish: tím
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin: thymum
 * Lithuanian: čiobrẽlis, čiõbras
 * Macedonian: тимијан, мајчина душичка, матерка
 * Malayalam:
 * Manx: teim
 * Maori:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: timian
 * Nynorsk: timian
 * Occitan:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: tìom
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: тѝмија̄н
 * Latin:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian: duška, babyduška, babina duška
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tomilyo
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: чабыр
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: чебре́ць
 * Urdu: حاشا
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: húng tây
 * Welsh: teim, gruw
 * Yiddish: טימיאַן