alfalfa
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English
Etymology
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| *h₁éḱwos |
Etymology tree
From Spanish alfalfa, from early form alfalfez, from Arabic الْفَصْفَصَة (al-faṣfaṣa, “alfalfa, lucerne”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ælˈfælfə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
alfalfa (countable and uncountable, plural alfalfas)
- (uncountable) A plant, principally of Medicago sativa, grown as a pasture crop.
- Synonym: (British) lucerne
- 1937, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, New York: Covici Friede, page 100:
- “No place for rabbits now, but I could easy build a few hutches and you could feed alfalfa to the rabbits.”
- (countable) A type or breed of this plant.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
Medicago sativa
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Further reading
alfalfa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Medicago sativa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Medicago sativa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - alfalfa at USDA Plants database
- alfalfa at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
alfalfa
Declension
| Inflection of alfalfa (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | alfalfa | alfalfat | |
| genitive | alfalfan | alfalfojen | |
| partitive | alfalfaa | alfalfoja | |
| illative | alfalfaan | alfalfoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | alfalfa | alfalfat | |
| accusative | nom. | alfalfa | alfalfat |
| gen. | alfalfan | ||
| genitive | alfalfan | alfalfojen alfalfain rare | |
| partitive | alfalfaa | alfalfoja | |
| inessive | alfalfassa | alfalfoissa | |
| elative | alfalfasta | alfalfoista | |
| illative | alfalfaan | alfalfoihin | |
| adessive | alfalfalla | alfalfoilla | |
| ablative | alfalfalta | alfalfoilta | |
| allative | alfalfalle | alfalfoille | |
| essive | alfalfana | alfalfoina | |
| translative | alfalfaksi | alfalfoiksi | |
| abessive | alfalfatta | alfalfoitta | |
| instructive | — | alfalfoin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Synonyms
Further reading
- “alfalfa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from English alfalfa, from Spanish alfalfa.
Noun
alfalfa m (genitive singular alfalfa)
Declension
Declension of alfalfa
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Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
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| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| alfalfa | n-alfalfa | halfalfa | t-alfalfa |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “alfalfa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Italian
Etymology
From Spanish alfalfa, from Arabic الْفَصْفَصَة (al-faṣfaṣa).
Pronunciation
Noun
alfalfa f (uncountable)
- lucerne, alfalfa (Medicago sativa)
- Synonyms: erba medica, erba Spagna
Spanish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Etymology tree
From Arabic الْفَصْفَصَة (al-faṣfaṣa).
Alternative forms
Noun
alfalfa f (plural alfalfas)
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Verb
alfalfa
- inflection of alfalfar:
Further reading
- “alfalfa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014