hyssop

English

Hyssopus officinalis

Etymology

Via Latin hȳsōpum, from Ancient Greek ὕσσωπος (hússōpos), of Semitic origin.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhɪ.səp/

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Noun

hyssop (countable and uncountable, plural hyssops)

1. Any of several aromatic bushy herbs, of the genus Hyssopus, native to Southern Europe and once used medicinally.
   • 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 253:

     The life of one plant would be affected by another. Rue was definitely hostile to basil, rosemary to hyssop, but coriander, dill and chervil lived on the friendliest of terms[.]

2. Any of several similar plants:
   1. Agastache foeniculum, blue giant hyssop.
3. (obsolete, US) The sagebrush (Artemisia spp.).
4. (biblical) A plant used used for sprinkling of blood or water in purification rituals and at Passover, Origanum syriacum.

Derived terms

• anise hyssop (Agastache foeniculum)
• bastard hyssop (Teucrium pseudo-hyssopus)
• giant hyssops (Agastache spp.)
• hedge hyssops (Gratiola spp.)
• nettle-leaf giant hyssop
• water hyssops (Bacopa spp.)
• wild hyssops (Agastache cana, Hyssopus spp., or Verbena officinalis)
• yellow-flowered water hyssop

 

Translations

herb of the genus Hyssopus

• Aghwan: 𐔵𐕒𐕗𐔰 (zoṗa)
• Arabic: زوفا f (zufa)
• Aramaic: אֵזוֹבָא m (ˀēzōḇā), ܐ‍ܣ‍ܘܦܘܣ (esōppā)
• Armenian: զոպա (hy) (zopa)
• Azerbaijani: çödükotu
• Bulgarian: исоп m (isop)
• Czech: yzop (cs)
• Danish: isop
• Esperanto: hisopo (eo)
• Faroese: ýsopur m
• Finnish: iisoppi (fi)
• German: Ysop (de) m, Josefskraut n, Isop, Eisop
• Greek: ύσσωπος (el) m (ýssopos)

  Ancient: ὕσσωπος m (hússōpos)

• Hebrew: אֵזוֹב (he)
• Ido: hisopo (io)
• Latin: hysopum n
• Maori: hīhopa
• Navajo: tsékʼi naʼałchʼízhii
• Persian: زوفا (fa) (zufâ)
• Portuguese: hissopo (pt) m
• Romanian: isop (ro) m
• Russian: иссо́п (ru) m (issóp)
• Slovak: yzop (sk) m
• Slovene: ožepek m
• Spanish: hisopo (es) m
• Swedish: isop

Agastache foeniculum

• Finnish: yrtti-iiso

sagebrush — see sagebrush

Biblical plant

• Finnish: iisoppi (fi)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} issopo m
• Serbo-Croatian: blagovanj m, miloduh (sh) m

References

• Hyssopus officinalis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hyssopus (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hyssopus (Lamiaceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• phossy, sposhy