| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | Polish term or phrase: | czarnuszka | | English translation: | fennel flower, black cumin, onion seed, love-in-a-mist, black seed, Nigella seed, devil-in-the-bush | | Entered by: | Jacek Krankowski |
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| Polish to English translations [PRO] | | Polish term or phrase: czarnuszka | | none of my polish friends can tell me what this is! I think it's a spice |
| | | fennel seed | Explanation:
Tasted great on the bread they make in Highland Park, NJ!
Hope that helps,
Jacek |
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3 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1 | fennel seed
Explanation:
Tasted great on the bread they make in Highland Park, NJ!
Hope that helps,
Jacek
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39 mins confidence: | Fennel flower OR Onion seed
Explanation:
czarnuszka = Nigella sativa = Fennel flower = Onion seed
pls see:
http://www.btsnet.com.pl/majkowscy/kuchnia/zielnik/czarnuszk...
http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/~katzer/engl/generic_frame.ht...
(here you'll find synonyms in several languages)
What is known as fennel seed, it's the seed of anothe plant, Foeniculum vulgare:
... Fennel Seed ... General Description Fennel Seed is the oval, green or yellowishbrown dried fruit of Foeniculum vulgare, a member of the parsley family. ...
www.culinarycafe.com/Spices_Herbs/Fennel_Seed.html
Fennel seed (Foeniculum vulgare). Actions: Carminative, aromatic,
antispasmatic, stimulant, stomachic, rubefacient, galactogogue, expectorant. ...
www.herbalalternatives.com/fennel.html
|   Natalie
Poland
Local time: 14:28
Native speaker of:  Russian
PRO pts in pair: 1916
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9 hrs confidence: | Nigella seed OR Black seed OR wild onion seed
Explanation:
Nigella seed OR Black seed OR wild onion seed OR black cumin seed
czarnuszka=Nigella sativa
"What is Black seed (Nigella sativa)
... Black Cumin (Nigella sativa) Seed is rich in nutritional values. Monosaccharides
(single molecule sugars) in the form of glucose, rhamnose, xylose, and ...
www.blackseedusa.com/What is Black seed2.htm
"... NIGELLA SEED. Nigella is also known as black caraway, black cumin, or wild onion seed, and is one of the five spices in Bengali five spices. ... "
www.exoticspice.co.uk/spices/nigella/home.htm
"Nigella sativa
... Nigella seed or black cumin is especially known in Turkey, Tunesia, Greece, India
en Egypt. In India it's called kalonji. Usage: Into curry's, meat dishes ... "
www.xs4all.nl/~margjos/nlnaan.htm
Reference: http://www.exoticspice.co.uk/spices/nigella/home.htm
Reference: http://www.xs4all.nl/~margjos/nlnaan.htm
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3 days12 mins confidence: | all of the above PLUS: love-in-a-mist
Explanation:
love-in-a-mist =Nigella damascena
(How poetic!)
The above term is provided by the Ecological Dictionary (K. Czekierda)
See also:
Love-in-a-mist: Botanical name: Nigella damascena. "The botanical name comes from the Latin niger (black). Its seeds are black, and the flower was used mostly for them, which in the Middle East were put in cakes and bread. According to the Bible scholar Harold Moldenke, "Egyptian ladies eat them to produce stoutness, which is considered an attribute to beauty in these lands"
www.floraglo.com/html/myths.htm
www.khojagroup.com/spices/blackcumin.html provides a picture and uses the following synonyms:
Devil-in-the-bush,
Fennel flower,
Onion seed,
Nigella,
Black Cumin
Hope that helps,
Jacek
P.S. My original "fennel seed" can be found in a Polish-English dictionary. It seems that the deeper we dig the more options we will get...
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3 days17 hrs confidence: | Natalie was the first to come up with a correct answer
Explanation:
The problem with it is that there are as many as 16 species within the Nigella genus, 3 of which are known in Poland:
c. damascenska (Nigella damascena): Love-in-a-mist
c. siewna (N. sativa): Common fennel flower, Black cumin
c. polna (N. arvensis): Fennel flower
(English-Polish Agricultural Dictionary)
From another source:
czarnuszka siewna (Nigella sativa): (GB) black cumin; (US) garden
fennelflower
(Slownik roslin uzytkowych, Z. Podbielkowski)
Hope that helps,
Jacek
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