horehound

English

Alternative forms

hairhound, hoarhound

Etymology

From Middle English horehoune, from Old English hārhūne, hārehūne.[1]

Noun

horehound (countable and uncountable, plural horehounds)

Any plant of the genus Marrubium.
Any plant of the genus Ballota.
A herb (Marrubium vulgare), of the mint family, traditionally used as a cough remedy and to make a type of hard candy.

Synonyms

(plant of the genus Marrubium): marrubium
(Marrubium vulgare): common horehound, white horehound, common hoarhound

Derived terms

Translations

plant of the genus Marrubium

Catalan: malrubí m
Finnish: hurtanminttu (fi)
Latin: marrubium n
Polish: szanta (pl) f
Swedish: kransborre c

plant of the genus Ballota

Bulgarian: черна капела f (černa kapela)
Finnish: porro (fi)

Marrubium vulgare

Albanian: kapinok (sq) m
Arabic: فَرَاسِيُون m (farāsiyūn), شَنَّار (šannār) (obsolete), حَشِيشَة الْكَلْب f (ḥašīša(t) al-kalb), عُشْبَة الْكَلْب f (ʕušba(t) al-kalb), صُوف الْأَرْض m (ṣūf al-ʔarḍ)
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܣܕܢ ܐܪܥܐ m (*parāsīyon), ܣܕܢ ܐܪܥܐ m (saddān ʔarʕā)
Bulgarian: пчелник m (pčelnik)
Cherokee: ᏪᏌ ᎤᏂᎩᏍᏗ (wesa unigisdi)
Chinese:
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Dutch: malrove f
Estonian: ürt-penimünt
Finnish: hurtanminttu (fi), valkohurtanminttu (fi)
French: marrube (fr) m
Galician: marroxo m, alcar m
German: Andorn (de) m
Greek:
Ancient Greek: μαυρόμαρσον n (maurómarson), φαράσιον n (pharásion), πράσιον n (prásion)
Hungarian: orvosi pemetefű (hu)
Italian: marrubio m, marrobio m
Latin: marrubium n
Middle English: horehoune
Navajo: azeeʼ ndootʼeezhí łibáhígíí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: borremynte m or f
Ottoman Turkish: پاموق اوتی (pamuk otu)
Persian: گندنای کوهی (gandana-i kuhi), فراسیون سفید (farâsiyun-e sefid), فراسیون ابیض (farâsiyun-e abyaz), شنار (fa) (šanâr) (obsolete), انجیده (anjide)
Polish: szanta zwyczajna f
Portuguese: marroio (pt) m
Romanian: unguraș (ro) m, voronic m
Russian: ша́ндра f (šándra)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: тетр̀љан m, ма̀руља f, о̀ча̄јница f

Latin: tetr̀ljan (sh) m, màrulja (sh) f, òčājnica (sh) f
Spanish: marrubio (es) m
Swedish: kransborre c
Ukrainian: ша́ндра f (šándra)

References

A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students - John R. Clark Hall (2nd ed.: 1916)

Middle English

Noun

horehound

Alternative form of horehoune

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[1] A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students - John R. Clark Hall (2nd ed.: 1916)