kummel

See also: kümmel and Kümmel

English

Alternative forms

• kümmel

Etymology

From German Kümmel.

Noun

kummel (countable and uncountable, plural kummels)

1. A German caraway liqueur.
   • 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 140:

     ‘The best kümmel comes in those bear-shaped bottles. It comes from Russia.’

Translations

liqueur

• Galician: kummel m, licor de Ribadeo m
• Polish: alasz (pl) m

Dutch

Etymology

18th-century borrowing from German Kümmel, which see. Doublet of komijn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʏ.məl/

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• Hyphenation: kum‧mel
• Rhymes: -ʏməl

Noun

kummel m (uncountable)

1. caraway (Carum carvi)

   Synonym: karwij

2. kummel (caraway-based spirits)

Related terms

• komijn (“cumin”)

French

Etymology

From German Kümmel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.mɛl/

• Audio:

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Noun

kummel m (plural kummels)

1. kummel

Further reading

• “kummel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Swedish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Swedish kumbel, from Old Norse kumbl, from Proto-Germanic *kumblą.

Noun

kummel n

1. cairn

Declension

Declension of kummel

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	kummel	kummels
	definite	kumlet	kumlets
plural	indefinite	kummel	kummels
	definite	kumlen	kumlens

Derived terms

• gravkummel
• stenkummel

See also

• båk
• varde

Etymology 2

Dialectal variant of kol (“coal”) mule (“mouth”). Cognate of Danish kulmule.

Noun

kummel c

1. (zoology) European hake, Merluccius merluccius

Declension

Declension of kummel

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	kummel	kummels
	definite	kummeln	kummelns
plural	indefinite	kumlar	kumlars
	definite	kumlarna	kumlarnas

Further reading

• kummel in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• kummel in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• kummel in Svenskt nautiskt lexikon (1920)