kesar

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪzə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪzəɹ/

kesar (plural kesars)

1. Obsolete form of Kaiser.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 5, page 273:

     But moſt were ſtampt, and in their metal bare
     The antique ſhapes of kings and keſars ſtraung & rare.

   • 1922 October, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, “[Poem] VIII”, in Last Poems, London: Grant Richards Ltd., →OCLC, stanza 3, page 23, lines 5–6:

     Now no more of winters biting,
     Filth in trench from fall to spring,
     Summers full of sweat and fighting
     For the Kesar or the King.

Borrowed from Hindustani केसर / ⁧کیسر⁩ (kesar, “saffron”), from Sanskrit केसर (késara).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪsə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪsəɹ/

kesar (uncountable)

1. (South Asia, cooking) Saffron.

   Synonym: zafrani

   kesar milk

   • 2001, Arun Kaul, “Kesar: The cultural geography of Kashmir”, in The Human Landscape, page 228:

     The newly emerging Muslim middle class would offer ‘kesar’ tea after marriages or other formal feasts, replacing the traditional tea leaves with kesar strands. […] Over the years Pampur’s apiculture, claimed by many to create the best medicinal honey in the region, that is, kesar honey, has also prospered.

• Akers, Kaser, Kears, Rakes, akers, asker, eskar, rakes, reaks, reask, saker, skare, skear