English Explanatory Dictionary

cinnamon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A small evergreen tree native to Sri Lanka and southern India, Cinnamomum verum or Cinnamomum zeylanicum, belonging to the family Lauraceae.
  2. Several related trees, notably the Indonesian cinnamon (Cinnamomum burmanni) and Chinese cinnamon or cassia (Cinnamomum aromaticum or Cinnamomum cassia).
  3. A spice from the dried aromatic bark of the cinnamon tree, either rolled into strips or ground into a powder. The word is commonly used as trade name for spices made of any of the species above.
  4. true cinnamon, the product made of Cinnamomum verum
  5. A warm yellowish-brown color, the color of cinnamon.
adj
  1. Containing cinnamon, or having a cinnamon taste.
  2. Of a yellowish-brown color.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A female given name.

Pronunciation

/ˈsɪn.ə.mən/ /ˈsɪn.ə.mɪn/ en-us-cinnamon.ogg /ˈsɪ.mɪn/

Word forms

cinnamon cinnamons

Etymology

From Middle English synamome, from Old French cinnamone, from Latin cinnamon, cinnamomum, from Ancient Greek κιννάμωμον (kinnámōmon), later κίνναμον (kínnamon), according to Herodotus from Phoenician [Term?], cognate with Hebrew קִנָּמוֹן (qinnāmōn).

Related words

canella cassia essonite hessonite five-spice powder red-hot

Derived words

Ceylon cinnamon Chinese cinnamon cinnamaldehyde cinnamic cinnamic acid cinnamon attila cinnamon bark cinnamon bear cinnamon bread cinnamon-breasted tit cinnamon bun cinnamoned cinnamon fern Osmundastrum cinnamomeum cinnamon fungus cinnamon hummingbird cinnamonic cinnamonlike cinnamon ring cinnamonrita cinnamon roll cinnamon-rumped foliage-gleaner cinnamon shadowdragon cinnamon snail cinnamon stick cinnamon stone cinnamon sugar cinnamon teal cinnamontini cinnamon vine cinnamon wattle cinnamony Indian cinnamon Indonesian cinnamon Malabar cinnamon oil of cinnamon Saigon cinnamon Sri Lanka cinnamon true cinnamon Vietnamese cinnamon white cinnamon wild cinnamon xylocinnamon

Translations

Afrikaans: kaneelboom Afrikaans: kaneel Albanian: kanellë Arabic: قِرْفَة Arabic: قرفة Arabic: دارسين Aramaic: דרציני Aramaic: ܕܪܨܝܢܝ Aramaic: ܨܝܢܕܪܓ Armenian: դարչին Assamese: দালচেনি Azerbaijani: darçın Basque: kanela Bengali: দারচিনি Bengali: দারুচিনি Central Bikol: kanela Breton: gwez-kanell Breton: kanell Bulgarian: кане́лено дърво́ Bulgarian: кане́ла Burmese: သစ်ကြံပိုးပင် Burmese: သစ်ကြံပိုး Catalan: canyeller Catalan: caneller Catalan: canyella Catalan: canella Cebuano: kanela Chinese Mandarin: 肉桂 Chinese Mandarin: 桂皮 Cornish: kanel Cornish: kanelen Czech: skořicovník Czech: skořice Dhivehi: ފޮނި ތޮށި Dutch: kaneelboom Dutch: kaneel Esperanto: vera cinamomo Esperanto: cinamo Finnish: ceyloninkaneli Finnish: kanelipuu Finnish: kaneli French: cannelier French: cannelle Georgian: დარიჩინი German: Zimtbaum German: Zimt German: Kaneel Greek: κανέλα Gujarati: તજ Hebrew: קִנָּמוֹן Hebrew: קינמון \ קִנָּמוֹן Hindi: दालचीनी Hindi: दारचीनी Hindi: मुखशोधन Hindi: शीत Hindi: सलपत्र Hindi: सुगंधवल्कल Hindi: चोतक Hindi: चोच Hungarian: fahéjfa Hungarian: fahéj Hungarian: cimet Icelandic: kaniltré Icelandic: kanill Icelandic: kanell Indonesian: kayu manis Italian: cannella Japanese: セイロンニッケイ Japanese: シナモン Japanese: 肉桂 Javanese: ꦏꦪꦸꦩꦤꦶꦱ꧀ Kannada: ದಾಲ್ಚಿನ್ನಿ Korean: 시나몬 Korean: 실론계피나무 Korean: 계피 Latin: cinnamōmum Latin: cinnamum Malagasy: kanelina Malay: kayu manis Malay: kulit kayu manis
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