ramsons

English

Etymology

From Middle English ramsons, ramsens, rampsons, ramesones, ramsouns, plural of Middle English ramson, ramsen (“wild garlic”), reinterpreted as a singular form, from Old English hramsan, nominative plural of Old English hramsa (“wild garlic”), from Proto-Germanic *hramusô (“onion; leek”), from Proto-Indo-European *kremus-, *kermus- (“wild garlic; onion”).

Noun

1. A wild relative of chives, Allium ursinum, having edible leaves and roots.

Synonyms

• (wild garlic): buckrams, wild garlic, broad-leaved garlic, wood garlic, bear garlic, bear's garlic

Translations

Allium ursinum

• Ainu: プクサ (pukusa)
• Armenian: արջասխտոր (hy) (arǰasxtor)
• Basque: hartz-baratxuri
• Danish: ramsløg n
• Estonian: karulauk
• Finnish: karhunlaukka (fi)
• French: ail des ours (fr) m
• Georgian: ღანძილი (ɣanʒili)
• German: Bärlauch (de) m, Rams m (Bavarian)
• Hungarian: medvehagyma (hu)
• Irish: creamh m or f pl
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• Italian: aglio orsino m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ramsløk m

• Portuguese: alho selvagem m, alho-dos-ursos m
• Romanian: leurdă (ro) f
• Russian: черемша́ (ru) f (čeremšá)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: źiwy kobołk m

• Southern Altai: калма (kalma)
• Spanish: ajo de oso m
• Swedish: ramslök c
• Welsh: garlleg yr arth, craf m pl

Further reading

• Allium ursinum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Allium ursinum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Allium ursinum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• ramsons at USDA Plants database

Anagrams

• Ransoms, Rosmans, Rossman, ransoms