an erect herb with aromatic, fleshy rootstock, producing a yellow juice used as a dye: Curcuma zedoaria (Berg.) Rosc.

Reid 1976, Reid p.c.

species of cultivated root used for making yellow dye

Headland and Headland 1974

turmeric; the rhizone yields a yellow dye, and is used for smearing the forehead of a corpse at the laying out of the dead

Richards 1981

yellowish

Rubino 2000, Carro 1956

Curcuma zedoaria, plant that yields a yellow dye

Rubino 2000, Carro 1956

not yet fully developed (rice)

Rubino 2000, Carro 1956

the zedoary, Curcuma zedoaria (Berg.) Rosc. Its rootstocks yield a yellow dye

Vanoverbergh 1972

turmeric, used in cooking; also as the symbolic representation of the clitoris in the #sunat ceremony (ritual piercing of the clitoris of girls, and circumcision for boys)

Pigeaud 1938

Curcuma zedoaria Rosc. A broad-leaved zingerberaceous herb, whose bulbs yield a yellow dye

Vanoverbergh 1933

Curcuma, turmeric

Neumann 1951

rub turmeric into something

Neumann 1951

a creeping plant used by the Betsimisaraka as a red dye

Richardson 1885

turmeric: Curcuma longa; #kuñit is associated (etymologically) with yellow (#kuniŋ)

Wilkinson 1959

turmeric

Zoetmulder 1982

yellowish?

Zoetmulder 1982

a plant: Curcuma longa

Steller and Aebersold 1959

the true #kuniɁ, used as a spice

Steller and Aebersold 1959

the curcuma plant; the roots are used as a spice, a dye, and to give a yellow tint to cooked rice: Curcuma domestica

van der Veen 1940

used to tint something yellow with curcuma

van der Veen 1940

that which is tinted yellow with curcuma

van der Veen 1940

turmeric: Curcuma domestica

Awed, Underwood and van Wynen 2004

turmeric, the root of which is used to color curry yellow

Warneck 1977

curcuma

Esser 1964

yellow

Esser 1964

turmeric: Curcuma longa

Verheijen 1977a

a plant; also, the color yellow

Morris 1984