sumac

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈs(j)uːmæk/|/ˈʃuː-/    美 /ˈsuːˌmæk/|/ˈsu-/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhus and certain other genera in Anacardiaceae. uncountable,usually
    — The Rhamnus of Maderaspatan, and the Trifoliate Sumachs from the Coaſt of Africa, are altogether new.
  2. Alternative form of soumak. alt-of,alternative,uncountable
  3. Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Rhus and certain other genera in Anacardiaceae.; particularly, one of species Rhus coriaria (tanner's sumac) uncountable,usually
    — .
  4. 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. uncountable,usually
  5. A sour spice popular in the Eastern Mediterranean, made from the berries of tanner's sumac. uncountable,usually
    — The spices used in this bread are zaatar and sumack. [...] Sumack is a spice derived from the berries of a bush that grows wild in all Mediterranean areas. The berries are dried and crushed to form a coarse purple-red powder. It has a sour taste.
动词 v.
  1. To apply a preparation of sumac to (an object), for example, to a piece of leather to tan it. transitive
    — After this operation, the goods muſt be winched and well planked, or otherwiſe cleaned; they are then, according to the quality of them, to be ſumached, and then ſnitchelled off, and waſhed.

词形变化

sumacs plural shumac alternative shumack alternative sumach alternative sumack alternative sumacs present,singular,third-person sumacing participle,present sumacking participle,present sumaced participle,past sumaced past sumacked participle,past sumacked past shumac alternative sumach alternative

词汇关系

下位词
skunkbush
衍生词
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 sumac stem borer sumac wax swamp sumac Swedish sumac sweet sumac tanner's sumac three-leaf sumac trailing sumac Transvaal sumac upland sumac velvet sumac Venetian sumac Virginian sumac West Indian sumac white sumac winged sumac

词源

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.
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