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Webster 1913 Edition
Alfalfa
Al-fal′fa
,Noun.
[Sp.]
(Bot.)
The lucern (
Medicago sativa
), a leguminous plant having bluish purple cloverlike flowers, and cultivated for fodder; – so called in California, Texas, etc. Definition 2024
alfalfa
alfalfa
English
Noun
alfalfa (countable and uncountable, plural alfalfas)
- (uncountable) A plant, principally of Medicago sativa, grown as a pasture crop.
- (countable) A type or breed of this plant.
Synonyms
Translations
Medicago sativa
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Finnish
Noun
alfalfa
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 |
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| 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 | |
| instructive | — | alfalfoin | |
| abessive | alfalfatta | alfalfoitta | |
| comitative | — | alfalfoineen | |
Synonyms
Irish
Etymology
Borrowing from English alfalfa, from Spanish, from Arabic الْفِصْفِصَة (al-fiṣfiṣa, “fresh fodder”) and الْفَصْفَصَة (al-faṣfaṣa, “(same)”), from Persian اسپست (espest, aspest), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭮𐭯𐭮𐭲 (aspast).
Noun
alfalfa m (genitive singular alfalfa)
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. | |||
References
- "alfalfa" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.