Meaning

5 senses
  1. To add saffron to (a food), for taste, colour etc.

    saffroned water, saffroned rice

  2. To give a saffron colour to (something).

  3. To give a saffron colour to (something).

    To dye (a fabric, garment, etc.) with a saffron-based dye.

  4. To colour (a metal or wooden surface) with a gilding product containing saffron.

    Or warts, or wheales, it hangs upon her skinne.

  5. (figuratively)To embellish.

Examples

10 sentences
  1. Will you buy some saffron for me?

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  2. This rice has too much saffron.

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  3. Will you buy for me some saffron?

    ruТы не купишь мне немного шафрана?

    deKannst du für mich etwas Safran kaufen?

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  4. My pepper is as good as your saffron.

    ruМой перец так же хорош, как твой шафран.

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  5. The most expensive spice in the world is saffron.

    ruСамая дорогая пряность в мире — шафран.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

Inherited from Middle English saffron, borrowed from Old French safran, borrowed from Medi

Inherited from Middle English saffron, borrowed from Old French safran, borrowed from Medieval Latin safranum, borrowed from Arabic زَعْفَرَان (zaʕfarān), from Aramaic צפר.

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Forms

saffrons, saffroning, saffroned, saffroned
Base formsaffron · to saffron
3rd person singularsaffrons
Present participlesaffroning
Past simplesaffroned
Past participlesaffroned

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysaffron
he, she, itsaffrons

Past simpleLesson

all personssaffroned

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave saffroned
he, she, ithas saffroned

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill saffron

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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