pomegranate
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English pome-garnet, pome-garnete, pome garnate, pome granat, pome-granate (“pomegranate fruit; pomegranate tree; pomegranate seeds (?)”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman pome gernate, pomme gernette, Middle French pomme granade, pomme granate, pomme grenade, and Old French pome grenade, pome grenate, pomme grenate [and other forms] (modern French grenade), probably from Italian pomogranato, pomo granato (though apparently first attested later), and then either:
* from Italian pomo (“fruit, pome; apple”) + Latin (mālum) grānātum, (mālo)grānātum (“pomegranate”); or
* directly from Medieval Latin pōmum garnātum, pōmum grānātum (“pomegranate”), from Latin pōmum (“fruit; fruit tree”) + grānātum (“pomegranate”). Pōmum is possibly ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂po-h₁ém-os (“taken off”) (in the sense of being picked off a plant), from *h₂epó (“away; off”) + *h₁em- (“to distribute; to take”); while grānātum is derived from grānātus (“having many grains or seeds”), from grānum (“grain, seed, small kernel”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂- (“to mature, grow old”) + *-nós (suffix forming verbal adjectives)) + -ātus (suffix forming adjectives indicating the possession of a quality or thing from nouns).
Displaced earlier Old English æppelcyrnel (literally: apple + kernel), itself a calque of the Latin term. The adjective is derived from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: pomegranates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more pomegranate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pomegranate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The fruit of the Punica granatum, about the size of an orange with a thick, hard, reddish skin enclosing many seeds, each with an edible pink or red pulp tasting both sweet and tart.
pos: noun
examples: Here the blue fig with luſcious juice o'erflows, / With deeper red the full pomegranate glows, / The branch here bends beneath the weighty pear, / And verdant olives flouriſh round the year.
In the walls of the cells, elevated on seven steps of Parian marble, various statutes stood in niches, and those walls were ornamented with the pomegranate consecrated to Isis.
Another goblet! quick! and stir / Pomegranate juice and drops of myrrh / And calamus therein!
The seeds of the pomegranate, for example, were widely used to prevent conception in the ancient world and they are still used in India, East Africa, and the Pacific.
Persephone is taken to the underworld by Hades to be his queen. She willingly eats a seed of pomegranate and is forced to spend every winter with her husband in the land of the dead, symbolizing the yearly decay and revival of vegetation. […] In Judaism, the number of seeds in a pomegranate is said to be the exact number of mitzvah, or spiritual duties required of a devout Jew.
The pomegranate is a subtropical fruit about the size of a large apple.
The grilled leeks are then drizzled with a gorgeous, ruby-red pomegranate vinaigrette.
gloss: The shrub or small tree that bears the fruit.
pos: noun
examples: I finish'd this day with a walke in the greate garden of the Thuilleries, which is rarely contrived for privacy, shade, or company, by groves, plantations of tall trees, especialy that in yᵉ middle, being of elmes, another of mulberys. There is a labyrinth of cypresse, noble hedges of pomegranates, fountaines, fishponds, and an aviary.
On her fair cheek’s unfading hue, / The young pomegranate’s blossoms strew / Their bloom in blushes ever new— […]
The pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) originates from Persia, and is cultivated in western and central Asia and in the Mediterranean region; it is also grown commercially in California. […] The predominant parasitic nematodes affecting pomegranate are the root knot nematodes, M.^([Meloidogyne]) incognita, M. acrita and M. javanica (McSorley, 1981).
The pomegranate is the tree of knowledge in some myths. In others, it is linked with the underworld,[…].
In this experiment, the average Zn concentration of leaf in four pomegranate cultivars was between 12.0 and 19.8mg/kg in the control (Fig. 2a).
gloss: A dark red or orange-red colour, like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit.
pos: noun
gloss: A person of British descent, especially one who has (recently) immigrated to Australia; a pom, a pommy.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
colloquial
derogatory
obsolete
gloss: Of a colour like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit; dark red or orange-red.
pos: adj
examples: Many people would think Miss Wilcox, standing there in her blue merino dress and pomegranate ribbon, a very agreeable woman.
Related words: grenade
grenadine
Derived words: pom
pomegranateade
pomegranatelike
pomegranate-like
pomegranate melon
pomegranate molasses
pomegranate water
pommy
pomrita
pomtini
Socotra pomegranate
Translations:
lang: Akkadian
word: 𒉡𒌫𒈠
lang: Albanian
word: shegë
lang: Amharic
word: ሩማን
roman: ruman
lang: Amharic
word: ሮማን
roman: roman
lang: Arabic
word: جُلَّنَار
roman: jullanār
lang: Arabic
word: رُمَّان
roman: rummān
lang: Arabic
word: رمان
roman: rummān
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܐܲܪܡܘܼܢܬܵܐ
roman: ārmunta
lang: Aramaic
word: רִימֹּונֵא
roman: rīmmōnā
lang: Aramaic
word: רוּמָּנֵא
roman: rummānā
lang: Aramaic
word: ܪܝܡܘܢܐ
roman: rīmmōnā
lang: Aramaic
word: ܪܘܡܢܐ
roman: rummānā
lang: Armenian
word: նռնենի
roman: nṙneni
lang: Assamese
word: ডালিম গছ
roman: dalim gos
lang: Azerbaijani
word: nar
lang: Bulgarian
word: нар
roman: nar
lang: Catalan
word: magraner
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 石榴樹 /石榴树
roman: shíliúshù
lang: Danish
word: granatæble
lang: Dutch
word: granaatappel
lang: Finnish
word: granaattiomena
lang: Finnish
word: granaattiomenapuu
lang: French
word: grenadier
lang: Galician
word: milgranda
lang: Galician
word: milgrandeira
lang: Ge'ez
word: ሮማን
roman: roman
lang: Georgian
word: ბროწეული
roman: broc̣euli
lang: Georgian
word: ბროწეულის ხე
roman: broc̣eulis xe
lang: German
word: Granatapfel
lang: German
word: Grenadine
lang: Greek
word: ροδιά
roman: rodiá
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ῥόα
roman: rhóa
lang: Gujarati
word: દાડમ
roman: dāḍam
lang: Hindi
word: अनार
roman: anār
lang: Hindi
word: दाड़िम
roman: dāṛim
lang: Hindi
word: रक्तबीज
roman: raktabīj
lang: Hungarian
word: gránátalma
lang: Hungarian
word: gránátalmafa
lang: Hungarian
word: gránátalma-fa
lang: Ido
word: grenadiero
lang: Irish
word: crann pomagránaite
lang: Istriot
word: pumoingranà
lang: Italian
word: melagrano
lang: Italian
word: melogranato
lang: Italian
word: melograno
lang: Japanese
word: 石榴
lang: Japanese
word: 柘榴
roman: zakuro
lang: Kannada
word: ದಾಳಿಂಬೆ
roman: dāḷimbe
lang: Khmer
word: ឌាឌិម
roman: diədɨm
lang: Khmer
word: ទទឹម
roman: tɔɔtɔtɨm
lang: Korean
word: 석류나무
roman: seongnyunamu
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: darhinar
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: hinar
lang: Latin
word: punica malus
lang: Lezgi
word: нар
roman: nar
lang: Lithuanian
word: granatas
lang: Macedonian
word: ка́линка
roman: kálinka
lang: Malagasy
word: ampongabendanitra
lang: Malay
word: delima
lang: Malayalam
word: മാതളനാരകം
roman: mātaḷanārakaṁ
lang: Māori
word: pamakaranete
lang: Norwegian
word: granateple
lang: Okinawan
word: 石榴
roman: zakura
lang: Persian
word: انار
roman: anâr
lang: Polish
word: granatowiec
lang: Portuguese
word: romãzeira
lang: Portuguese
word: romeira
lang: Romanian
word: rodier
lang: Romanian
word: rodiu
lang: Russian
word: грана́т
roman: granát
lang: Russian
word: грана́товое де́рево
roman: granátovoje dérevo
lang: Sanskrit
word: दाडिम
roman: dāḍima
lang: Sanskrit
word: दाडिम्ब
roman: dāḍimba
lang: Sanskrit
word: दालिम
roman: dālima
lang: Sanskrit
word: डालिम
roman: ḍālima
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: помагра̀ната
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: гранат
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: мограњ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: мо̀рскӣ ши́пак
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: на̏р
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pomagrànata
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: granat
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: mogranj
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: mòrskī šípak
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: nȁr
lang: Shor
word: анар
lang: Sicilian
word: macchia dû granatu
lang: Spanish
word: granado
lang: Sumerian
word: 𒉡𒌫𒈠
lang: Swahili
word: mkomamanga
lang: Swedish
word: granatäppelträd
lang: Telugu
word: దానిమ్మ
roman: dānimma
lang: Thai
word: ทับทิม
roman: táp-tim
lang: Tigre
word: ሮማን
roman: roman
lang: Tigrinya
word: ሮማን
roman: roman
lang: Turkish
word: nar
lang: Ugaritic
word: 𐎍𐎗𐎎𐎐
roman: lrmn
lang: Ukrainian
word: грана́т
roman: hranát
lang: Ukrainian
word: грана́тове де́рево
roman: hranátove dérevo
lang: Venetan
word: pomogranà
lang: Venetan
word: pomoingranà
lang: Venetan
word: malgaragno
lang: Venetan
word: margragno
lang: Vietnamese
word: lựu
lang: Vietnamese
word: thạch lựu
lang: Welsh
word: pomgranadwydden
lang: Welsh
word: grawnafallen
lang: Zazaki
word: henar (diq)
lang: Zazaki
word: henawér