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- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kləʊv/
- (General American) IPA(key): /kloʊv/
- Rhymes: -əʊv
From Middle English clove, an alteration of earlier clowe, borrowed from the first component of Old French clou (de girofle) (modern French clou de girofle), from Latin clāvus (“nail”) for its shape. Also see clāva (“knotty branch, club”). Doublet of clou and clavus.
clove (countable and uncountable, plural cloves)
- (uncountable, countable) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.
- (countable) A clove tree, of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Caryophyllus aromaticus), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.
- (countable) An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.
1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, page 202:
Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod 61⁄2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. The 'Pathway' points out the etymology of the word cloves; it calls them ' claves or nails.' It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 1, page 169:
By a statute of 9 Hen. VI. it was ordained that the wey of cheese should contain 32 cloves of 7 lbs. each, i.e. 224 lbs., or 2 cwts.
spice
- Afrikaans: naeltjie (af)
- Albanian: karafil (sq) sg or m (Latn)
- Amharic: ቅርንፉድ (ḳərnəfud)
- Arabic: قَرَنْفُل (ar) m (qaranful)
- Armenian: մեխակ (hy) (mexak)
- Assamese: লং (loṅ)
- Azerbaijani: mixək (az)
- Bashkir: ҡәләмфер (qələmfer)
- Basque: iltzea
- Bengali: লবঙ্গ (bn) (loboṅgo)
- Bulgarian: карамфил (bg) m (karamfil)
- Burmese: လေးညှင်းပွင့် (my) (le:hnyang:pwang.)
- Catalan: clavell (ca) m, clavell d'espècia m, clau d'espècia f
- Chinese:
- Classical Nahuatl: Caxtīllān chīlli
- Czech: hřebíček (cs) m
- Danish: nellike (da) c, kryddernellike (da) c
- Dhivehi: ކަރަންފޫ (karan̊fū)
- Dutch: kruidnagel (nl)
- Esperanto: kariofilo
- Finnish: neilikka (fi), mausteneilikka (fi)
- French: clou de girofle (fr) m
- German: Gewürznelke (de) f
- Greek: γαρύφαλλο (el) n (garýfallo)
- Ancient: καρυόφυλλον n (karuóphullon)
- Gujarati: લવિંગ (laviṅg)
- Haitian Creole: jiwòf
- Hebrew: צִפֹּרֶן (he) f (tzippóren)
- Hindi: लौंग (lauṅg), लवंग (hi) m (lavaṅg)
- Hungarian: szegfűszeg (hu)
- Icelandic: negull m
- Indonesian: cengkih (id)
- Irish: clóbh m
- Italian: chiodo di garofano (it) m
- Japanese: クローブ (kurōbu), 丁子 (ja) (ちょうじ, chōji), 丁字 (ja) (ちょうじ, chōji)
- Javanese: ꦕꦼꦁꦏꦺꦃ (cengkéh)
- Kabardian: къэрмэфибл (kbd) (qɛrmɛfibl)
- Kannada: ಲವಂಗ (kn) (lavaṅga)
- Khmer: ក្លាំពូ (km) (klampuu)
- Korean: 정향나무 (jeonghyangnamu)
- Kurdish:
- Lao: ກ້ານພູ (kān phū)
- Latvian: krustnagliņa f
- Luxembourgish: Neelcheskapp m
- Macedonian: каранфилче (karanfilče)
- Malagasy: jirofo (mg)
- Malay: cengkih (ms)
- Malayalam: കരയാമ്പൂ (ml) (karayāmpū), ഗ്രാമ്പു (grāmpu)
- Maltese: qronfol
- Maori: korohe, rōkara
- Marathi: लवंग (lavaṅga)
- Minangkabau: cangkeh
- Nepali: ल्वाङ (lwāṅ)
- Ngazidja Comorian: karanfu
- Norman: cliou d'giroufl'ye m (Jersey), cllaou d'girouflle m (Guernsey), cllou de girouflle m (continental Normandy)
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: clavèl de giròfle (oc) m
- Odia: ଲବଙ୍ଗ (or) (labaṅga)
- Oromo: qurunfudii
- Pashto: لونګ (lawong)
- Persian: قرنفل (fa) (qaranfol)
- Polish: goździk (pl) m
- Portuguese: cravo (pt) m, cravo-da-índia (pt), cravinho (pt) m, girofle m
- Romanian: cuișoare (ro) pl
- Russian: гвозди́ка (ru) f (gvozdíka)
- Sanskrit: लवंग (sa) n (lavaṃga)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: каранфилић m, клинчић m
- Roman: karanfilić m, klinčić m
- Slovene: klinček m, nageljnova žbica f
- Somali: dhaga yare
- Spanish: clavo de olor (es) m, clavo (es) m, girofle m, jirofle m, clavillo (es) m
- Sundanese: ᮎᮨᮀᮊᮦᮂ (cengkéh)
- Swahili: karafuu
- Swedish: kryddnejlika (sv) c
- Tagalog: kalabumpako, klabos
- Tamil: கிராம்பு (ta) (kirāmpu)
- Telugu: లవంగము (te) (lavaṅgamu)
- Ternate: bualawa
- Thai: กานพลู (th) (gaan-pluu)
- Tibetan: ལི་ཤི། (li shi)
- Turkish: karanfil (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: قرنفل (karanfil)
- Ukrainian: гвозди́ка f (hvozdýka)
- Vietnamese: đinh hương
- Welsh: clof m or f, clofsen f, clowsen f
- West Flemish: kruudnoagel
- Wolof: djirofe
- Yiddish: נעגעלע n (negele)
Syzygium aromaticum
- Armenian: մեխակածառ (hy) (mexakacaṙ)
- Burmese: လေးညှင်း (my) (le:hnyang:)
- Chinese:
- Hindi: लौंग (lauṅg), लवंग (hi) m (lavaṅg)
- Japanese: チョウジノキ (chōji-no-ki), 丁子 (ja) (ちょうじ, chōji), チョウジ (chōji)
- Polish: goździkowiec korzenny (pl) m, drzewo goździkowe n
- Russian: гвозди́чное де́рево (gvozdíčnoje dérevo)
- Spanish: clavero (es) m, girofle m, jirofle m
From Middle English clove, from Old English clufu, from Proto-West Germanic *klubu, from Proto-Germanic *klubō, related to clēofan (“to cleave, split”), hence with the verbal etymology hereafter.
clove (plural cloves)
- (horticulture, cooking) One of the small bulbs formed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb.
- clove of garlic, garlic clove, clove of a sea-onion, clove of shallot, cloves of bulbs
constitutive bulb of garlic
- Albanian: thelpi m
- Arabic: فَصّ m (faṣṣ)
- Egyptian Arabic: فص m (faṣ)
- Armenian: պճեղ (hy) (pčeġ, literally “hoof”)
- Bulgarian: скили́дка f (skilídka)
- Catalan: all (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Czech: stroužek (cs) m
- Danish: fed n
- Dutch: teen (nl) m (literally “toe”)
- Finnish: kynsi (fi) (literally “nail”)
- French: gousse (fr) f
- Galician: dente (gl) (literally “tooth”)
- German: Zehe (de) f (literally “toe”), Knoblauchzehe (de) f
- Greek: σκελίδα (el) f (skelída)
- Ancient: γελγίς f (gelgís)
- Hebrew: שֵׁן שׁוּם m (shen shum), שִׁנֵּי שׁוּם m pl (shinéy shum)
- Hungarian: gerezd (hu)
- Icelandic: geiri (is) m
- Indonesian: siung (id)
- Irish: ionga (ga) f (literally “nail”)
- Italian: spicchio (it) m
- Latvian: daiva f
- Macedonian: чешне n (češne)
- Mongolian: хумс (mn) (xums, literally “nail”)
- Norman: gousse f (Jersey)
- Norwegian: fedd n
- Old English: clufu f
- Polish: ząbek (pl) n
- Portuguese: dente (pt) (literally “tooth”)
- Romanian: cățel (ro) m (literally “puppy”)
- Russian: зубо́к (ru) m (zubók, literally “tooth”), до́лька (ru) f (dólʹka, literally “segment”) (чеснока́)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: diente (es) m (literally “tooth”)
- Swedish: klyfta (sv) c
- Telugu: పాయ (te) (pāya)
- Turkish: diş (tr)
- Ukrainian: зубо́к m (zubók) (literally “little tooth”)
clove
clove (plural cloves)
- (geography) A narrow valley with steep sides, used in areas of North America first settled by the Dutch
- Mainly used in proper names, such as Kaaterskill Clove.
- “clove”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “clove”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- clove on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Inherited from Old English clufu, from Proto-West Germanic *klubu, from Proto-Germanic *klubō, related to cleven.
clove (plural cloves)
- clove (bulb of garlic)
- “clōve, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-29.
From Old French clou de girofle.
clove
- Alternative form of clowe
From Old English clofen, past participle of clēofan.
clove
- Alternative form of cloven
From Old English clēaf, 1st- and 3rd- person simple past singular of clēofan, with the vowel from the past participle.
clove