cardamom

• cardamon

Late Middle English, from Old French cardamome or Latin cardamōmum, from Ancient Greek καρδάμωμον (kardámōmon).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː.də.məm/, /ˈkɑː.də.mən/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹ.də.məm/, /ˈkɑɹ.dəˌmɑm/

cardamom (countable and uncountable, plural cardamoms)

1. The Elettaria cardamomum, an Indian herb.
2. The seed of E. cardamomum, used as a medicine and spice, especially in curry powder.
3. (uncommon, inexact) Synonym of grains of paradise, the seeds or seed capsules of Aframomum melegueta, of East Africa.

• (spice): elaichi, queen of spices

• black cardamom
• Cardamom Mountains
• green cardamom

• “cardamom, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1888.
• Weeks, Hittite Vocabulary: An Anatolian Appendix to Buck‘sDictionary of SelectedSynonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages

Borrowed from Latin cardamōmum, from Ancient Greek καρδάμωμον (kardámōmon).

cardamom m (plural cardamoms)

1. cardamom

• “cardamom” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from French cardamome.

• IPA^(key): /kar.daˈmom/

cardamom n (uncountable)

1. cardamom

• cardamom in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)