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From French sainfoin, from sain (“healthy, healthful”) + foin (“hay”).
sainfoin (countable and uncountable, plural sainfoins)
- A perennial herb of the genus Onobrychis with pale pink flowers, especially Onobrychis viciifolia (syn. Onobrychis sativa).
- 1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 143:
- I saw a breath of wind emerge from the furthest horizon, bowing over the heads of corn in distant fields, pouring like a flood over all that vast expanse, and finally come to rest, warm and rustling, among the clover and sainfoin at my feet […]
- 1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 143:
perennial herbs
- Abaza: щхахӏвра (śxaḥʷra)
- Armenian: կորնգան (hy) (korngan)
- Azerbaijani: esparset, xaşa
- Bulgarian: еспарзета f (esparzeta)
- Catalan: trepadella f
- Esperanto: onobriko
- French: sainfoin (fr) m
- Georgian: ესპარცეტი (esṗarceṭi), ყორანგალი (q̇orangali), საბეგველა (sabegvela)
- German: Esparsette (de) f
- Hungarian: baltacim (hu)
- Ido: esparseto (io)
- Kabardian: дарииху (kbd) (darijixʷu)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: qurînge
- Macedonian: гра́орка f (gráorka), еспарзе́та f (esparzéta)
- Persian: اسپرس (fa) (espers)
- Polish: sparceta f
- Portuguese: sanfeno m
- Romanian: sparcetă (ro) f
- Russian: эспарце́т (ru) m (esparcét)
- Spanish: pipirigallo (es) m, esparceta f
- Turkish: korunga (tr)
sainfoin m (plural sainfoins)
- “sainfoin” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie françoise, 4th Edition (1762).
- “sainfoin” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).
- “sainfoin” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “sainfoin” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “sainfoin” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
- “sainfoin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.