alfalfa
See also: Alfalfa
English
Etymology
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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.
Descendants
- → Irish: alfalfa
- → Welsh: alffalffa
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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑlfɑlfɑ/, [ˈɑ̝lfɑ̝lfɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -ɑlfɑlfɑ
- Syllabification(key): al‧fal‧fa
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 alfalfainrare | ||
| 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. | |||
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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
Declension
Declension of alfalfa
Fourth declension
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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
- IPA(key): /alˈfal.fa/
- Rhymes: -alfa
- Hyphenation: al‧fàl‧fa
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alˈfalfa/ [alˈfal.fa]
- Rhymes: -alfa
- Syllabification: al‧fal‧fa
Etymology 1
From Arabic الْفَصْفَصَة (al-faṣfaṣa).
Derived terms
Verb
alfalfa
- inflection of alfalfar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “alfalfa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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