asafoetida

Synonyymisanakirja

asafoetida

hajupihka, luonnonhartsi.

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asafoetida rimmaa näiden kanssa:

naida, skeida, inhiboida, transkriboida, absorboida, adsorboida, masturboida, torpedoida, invalidoida, oksidoida...

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Englannin sanakirja

asafoetida (englanti > suomi)

1. hajupihka, pirunpihka

asafoetida englanniksi

1. A resinous gum from the stem and roots of genus Ferula, especially (taxlink), having a strong, unpleasant smell, with culinary and medical uses. (defdate)

2. 1638, (w), Some Yeares Travels, II:

Nigh Whormoot are Duzgun, Laztan-De, and other Townes, where is got the best Assa-Fætida through all the Orient: the tree is like our brier in height, the leaves resemble Fig leaves, the root the Radish: the vertue had need be much, it stincks so odiously.

3. 1855, (w), Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover 1964, p. 54:

half-a-dozen huge bread pills, dipped in a solution of aloes or cinnamon water, flavoured with assafœtida, which in the case of the dyspeptic rich often suffice ....

4. 1993, (w), A Dead Man In Deptford:

The letter she sent me stank of assafoetida or devil’s dung. I was charmed.

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