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名詞

kesar (複数形 kesars)

1. Obsolete form of kaiser.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto VII, stanza 5, page 273:

     But moſt were ſtampt, and in their metal bare
     The antique ſhapes of kings and keſars ſtraung & rare.

   • 1922 October, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, “[Poem] VIII”, in Last Poems, London: Grant Richards Ltd., OCLC 31583861, stanza 3, lines 5–6, page 23:

     Now no more of winters biting,
     Filth in trench from fall to spring,
     Summers full of sweat and fighting
     For the Kesar or the King.

語源 2

Borrowed from Hindustani केसर / کیسر‎ (kesar, “saffron”), from Sanskrit केसर (késara).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪsə(ɹ)/

名詞

kesar (uncountable)

1. (South Asia, cooking) Saffron.

   kesar milk

   • 2001, Arun Kaul, Kesar: The cultural geography of Kashmir, page 228:

     The newly emerging Muslim middle class would offer ‘kesar’ tea after marriages or other formal feasts, replacing the traditional tea leaves with kesar strands. […] Over the years Pampur’s apiculture, claimed by many to create the best medicinal honey in the region, that is, kesar honey, has also prospered.