sesamum
sesamum noun: sesame.
Noun
sesamum (uncountable)
- sesame
- While at play for this extraordinary stake, they have a fire by them, on which a small pot of walnut oil, or oil of sesamum, is kept boiling; and when one has won a game, he chops off the end of the loser's finger, who immediately dips the stump into the boiling oil, to stem the blood; and some...1760, Robert Kerr, A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1
- The latter is called the feast of 'six sesamum acts,' for sesamum is a holy plant, and in each act of this rite it plays a part.1896, Edward Washburn Hopkins, The Religions of India
sesamum meaning in Telugu
sesamum in Telugu
- a Sesamum or gingelly seed
- తిలము tilamu
Origin of sesamum
Unadapted borrowing from Latin sēsamum. Doublet of sesame.
Questions about sesamum
- What does sesamum mean?
- Sesamum means sesame.
- What is sesamum in Telugu?
- Sesamum in Telugu is తిలము (tilamu). See Sesamum meaning in Telugu.
- What part of speech is sesamum?
- Sesamum is a noun.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sesamum (page history and authors); తిలము (Telugu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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