- 1孜然（種子香料；台灣有人把「小茴香」拿來叫它，但小茴香常是茴香，味道不同）
Cumin is a plant, and also the small brown seeds we dry and cook with. The seeds smell warm and a little sweet-earthy, not hot like . You will meet them a lot in Indian food (inside curry powder) and in Mexican food (inside taco spice), and also in North African and Middle Eastern cooking. Cooks use the whole seeds or grind them into powder. In the kitchen, "cumin" almost always means the spice, not the living plant. Though actually, cumin and look a bit like each other on a shelf, and tired mix them up — they may be distant cousins, but they do not taste the same. Cumin is the deeper, earthier one. It is a normal food word, not a fancy one.
組成From Middle English comyn, from Old English cymen (cognate with Old High German kumin) and Old French cummin, both from Latin cuminum, from Ancient Greek κύμινον (kúminon), a Semitic borrowing going back to Akkadian kamūnu, "cumin". Possibly related to caraway.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cuminnoun/ˈkjuːmɪn/
- 1
The flowering plant Cuminum cyminum, in the family Apiaceae.
- Cumin is native to the region from the eastern Mediterranean to India.
- 2
Its aromatic long seed, used as a spice, notably in Indian, Middle Eastern, and Mexican cookery.
- Cumin was often an ingredient of such love potions since it produced the effect of retention in whoever ate it.
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