English Explanatory Dictionary

sumac

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhus and certain other genera in Anacardiaceae.
  2. particularly, one of species Rhus coriaria (tanner's sumac)
  3. Dried and chopped-up leaves and stems of a plant of the genus Rhus, particularly tanner's sumac (see sense 1), used for dyeing and tanning leather or for medicinal purposes.
  4. A sour spice popular in the Eastern Mediterranean, made from the berries of tanner's sumac.
verb
  1. To apply a preparation of sumac to (an object), for example, to a piece of leather to tan it.
noun
  1. Alternative form of soumak.

Pronunciation

/ˈs(j)uːmæk/ /ˈʃuː-/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sumac1.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sumac2.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sumac3.wav /ˈsuːˌmæk/ /ˈsu-/

Word forms

sumac sumacs shumac shumack sumach sumack sumacing sumacking sumaced sumacked

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English sumac, asimac, simak, sumak, symak (“portions of the shrub Rhus coriaria, chiefly used for medicinal purposes”), from Anglo-Norman sumak, symak, and Old French sumac, or directly from its etymon Medieval Latin sumach, sumac, from Arabic سُمَّاق (summāq), from Classical Syriac ܣܘܡܩܐ (summāqā, “red; sumac”). The English word is cognate with Italian sommaco, sommacco, Occitan simac, Portuguese sumagre, Spanish zumaque. The verb is derived from the noun.

Synonyms

elm-leaved sumac Sicilian sumac

Derived words

African sumac American sumac Australian sumac black sumac Chinese sumac climbing sumac coral sumac desert sumac dwarf sumac dyer's sumac elm-leaved sumac evergreen sumac flameleaf sumac fragrant sumac hairy sumac Indian sumac Japanese sumac Kearney sumac Kearney's sumac laurel sumac lemonade sumac lemonberry sumac lemon sumac littleleaf sumac Mearn's sumac Michaux's sumac Müller's sumac panicled sumac pink-flowering sumac poison sumac Potanin sumac prairie sumac prairie flameleaf sumac Punjab sumac red sumac rock sumac scarlet sumac shining sumac Sicilian sumac skunkbush sumac smooth sumac sleek sumac species staghorn sumac stag's horn sumac stinking sumac sugar sumac sumacade sumac cellophane bee sumac cellophane-cuckoo bee sumac flea beetle sumac flowerbud gall midge sumac gall aphid sumac gall pithead sumac-grass aphid sumac leafblotch miner sumac leafrolling weevil sumac leaftier moth sumac needles sumac speckled lanternfly

Translations

Afrikaans: sumak Albanian: shqeme Arabic: سُمَّاق Aramaic: ܣܘܡܩܐ Aramaic: ܐܘܓܐ Armenian: աղտոր Azerbaijani: сумаг Azerbaijani: sumaq Basque: zumake Bulgarian: шмак Catalan: sumac Cheyenne: no'aneonó'e Chinese Mandarin: 鹽膚木屬 /盐肤木属 Czech: škumpa Danish: sumak Dutch: sumak Esperanto: sumako Estonian: sumahh Finnish: sumakki French: sumac Old French: sumac Galician: sumagre Georgian: თუთუბო German: Sumach German: Rhus Greek: σουμάκι Greek: ρούδι Ancient Greek: ῥοῦς Hebrew: אוג Hindi: सुमाक़ Hungarian: szömörce Ido: sumako Indonesian: sumac Irish: sumach Italian: sommacco Japanese: 漆の木 Japanese: ウルシノキ Korean: 붉나무속 Central Kurdish: سماق Northern Kurdish: simaq Lithuanian: žagrenis Malay: sumac Navajo: kʼįįʼ Norwegian Bokmål: sumakslekta Norwegian Nynorsk: sumakslekta
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