amarant

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæməɹænt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæməˌɹænt/
• Hyphenation: am‧a‧rant

amarant (plural amarants)

1. Obsolete form of amaranth.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, lines 351–357:

     With ſolemn adoration down they [the angels] caſt
     Thir Crowns inwove with Amarant and Gold;
     Immortal Amarant, a Flour which once
     In Paradiſe, faſt by the Tree of Life
     Began to bloom, but ſoon for mans offence
     To Heav'n remov'd where firſt it grew, there grows,
     And flours aloft ſhading the Fount of Life, […]

   • 1760, [James] Scott, Heaven: A Vision, Cambridge: Printed by J. Bentham, printer to the University, for W. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer; […], OCLC 731599385, stanza VII, page 8:

     Thouſands of flow'rs their ſilken webs unfold, / Amarants, immortal amarants ariſe, / Theſe beaming bright with vegetable gold, / And theſe with azure, theſe with Tyrian dyes; […]

   • 1989, Heinz Brücher, “Farinaceous Plants”, in Useful Plants of Neotropical Origin and Their Wild Relatives, Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-73313-0, →ISBN, section 1 (Amaranthus spp.), page 54:

     Such vegetable amarants have a fair content of protein and are rich in Vitamins A and C, as well as in minerals; but they contain also slight amounts of anti-nutritional factors, especially oxalates and nitrates. These leaf-producing amarants are adapted to many different ecological environments.

• Namrata

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ə.məˈɾant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ə.məˈɾan/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.maˈɾant/

From Ancient Greek ἀμάραντος (amárantos).

amarant m (plural amarants)

1. amaranth (herb of the genus Amaranthus)

• amarant blanc
• amarant gràcil

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

amarant

1. present participle of amarar

• “amarant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “amarant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “amarant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “amarant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): [ˈamarant]

amarant m anim

1. firefinch

• amarant in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• amarant in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

amārant

1. third-person plural pluperfect active indicative of amō

Internationalism; compare English amaranth. Possibly borrowed from German Amarant or French amarante, ultimately from Latin amarantus,[1][2] from Ancient Greek ἀμάραντος (amárantos).[3] First attested in 1620.[4]

• IPA^(key): /aˈma.rant/

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• Rhymes: -arant
• Syllabification: a‧ma‧rant

amarant m inan

1. amaranth (any of various herbs of the genus Amaranthus, especially Amaranthus cruentus) [from 17th c.][4]

   Hypernym: szarłat

2. amaranth (colour) [from 18th c.][4]

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3. amaranth (dye)

• amarant in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• amarant in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807-1814), “amarant”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “amarant”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “amarant”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 29
• amarant in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Borrowed from Latin amarantus.

amarant m (plural amaranți)

1. amaranth

• IPA^(key): /amaràːnt/, /amaráːnt/

amarānt m inan

1. amaranth

   Synonym: ščír

• “amarant”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran