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Definition: Honey |
HoneyAdjective1. Having the color of honey. Noun1. A sweet yellow liquid produced by bees. 2. A beloved person; used as terms of endearment. Verb1. Sweeten with honey. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Honey" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the honey". |
Date "honey" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Bible | Honey (1.) Heb. ya'ar, occurs only 1 Sam. 14:25, 27, 29; Cant. 5:1, where it denotes the honey of bees. Properly the word signifies a forest or copse, and refers to honey found in woods. (2.) Nopheth, honey that drops (Ps. 19:10; Prov. 5:3; Cant. 4:11). (3.) Debash denotes bee-honey (Judg. 14:8); but also frequently a vegetable honey distilled from trees (Gen. 43:11; Ezek. 27:17). In these passages it may probably mean "dibs," or syrup of grapes, i.e., the juice of ripe grapes boiled down to one-third of its bulk. (4.) Tsuph, the cells of the honey-comb full of honey (Prov. 16:24; Ps. 19:10). (5.) "Wild honey" (Matt. 3:4) may have been the vegetable honey distilled from trees, but rather was honey stored by bees in rocks or in trees (Deut. 32:13; Ps. 81:16; 1 Sam. 14:25-29). Canaan was a "land flowing with milk and honey" (Ex. 3:8). Milk and honey were among the chief dainties in the earlier ages, as they are now among the Bedawin; and butter and honey are also mentioned among articles of food (Isa. 7:15). The ancients used honey instead of sugar (Ps. 119:103; Prov. 24:13); but when taken in great quantities it caused nausea, a fact referred to in Prov. 25:16, 17 to inculcate moderation in pleasures. Honey and milk also are put for sweet discourse (Cant. 4:11). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you see honey, you will be possessed of considerable wealth. To see strained honey, denotes wealth and ease, but there will be an undercurrent in your life of unlawful gratification of material desires. To dream of eating honey, foretells that you will attain wealth and love. To lovers, this indicates a swift rush into marital joys. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | A sweet sticky yellowish fluid made by bees and other insects from nectar collected from flowers. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Honey is a sweet and viscous fluid produced by bees and other insects from the nectar of flowers. The flavor and color of the substance is largely determined by the type of the flowers from which the nectar is gathered. Common flavours of honey include orange blossom honey, tupelo honey, clover honey, and blueberry honey. In Australia, Tasmanian leatherwood honey is considered a delicacy for its unique flavour. Manuka honey from New Zealand is said by some to have healing properties.
Similar to honey, and usually bottled and sold like honey is honeydew, which is made by the bees from the sweet secretions of aphids, scale, or other plant sap sucking insects. Honeydew from pine forests has a "piney" taste and is prized for medicinal use in Europe and Turkey.
A side-effect of bees collecting nectar and pollen to make honey is pollination, which is crucial for flowering plants.
The main uses of honey are in cooking, baking, spreading on bread or toast, and adding to various beverages such as tea. Because honey is hygroscopic (drawing moisture from the air), a small quantity of honey added to a pastry recipe will retard it from becoming stale. Raw honey also contains enzymes that help in its digestion.
Honey is also used in traditional folk medicine. It is an excellent natural preservative. Honey is, however, not always healthy. Because it is gathered from flowers in the wild, there are certain times and places when the honey produced is highly toxic. Rhododendrons and azaleas have nectar that is highly poisonous to humans although harmless to bees, producing deadly honey. In some areas of the world the hives are emptied immediately after the flowering season and cleaned of any residue to prevent accidental poisoning. There are stories that poisoned honey was used in warfare in ancient times, but they are unverifiable.
Honey (as well as other sweeteners) is also potentially extremely dangerous for infants. This is because, when mixed with the non-acidic digestive juices of an infant it creates an ideal medium for botulinum spores to grow and produce toxin. Botulinum spores are among the few bacteria that survive in honey, but also are widely present in the environment. While these spores are harmless to adults, because of stomach acidity, an infant's digestive system is not yet developed enough to destroy them, and the spores could potentially cause infant botulism. For this reason, it is advised that neither honey, nor any other sweetener, should be given to children under the age of 18 months.
Honey does not spoil. Because of its high sugar concentration, it kills bacteria by osmotically lysing them. Natural airborne yeasts can not become active in it because the moisture conent is too low. Natural, raw, honey varies from 14% to 18% moisture content. As long as the moisture content remains under 18% nothing will grow in honey. Honey was found in one of the Egyptian pyramids, estimated at several thousand years old, and it was still good.
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Synonyms: HoneySynonyms: beloved (n), dear (n), dearest (n), love (n), loved one (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Favorite | Love, dear, darling, duck, duckey, honey, sugar, jewel; mopsey, moppet, princess; sweetheart, sweetie; (love). |
Pain | Loveliness; (beauty); sunny side, bright side; sweets; (sugar); goodness; manna in the wilderness, land flowing with milk and honey; bittersweet; fair weather. |
Productiveness | Milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk and honey; second crop, aftermath; aftercrop, aftergrowth; arrish, eddish, rowen; protoplasm; fertilization. |
Prosperity | Saturnia regna, Saturnian age; golden time, golden age; bed of roses, fat city; fat of the land, milk and honey, loaves and fishes. |
Sweetness | Sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna; confection, confectionary; sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture, jam, julep; sugar-candy, sugar-plum; licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat; apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose; maple sirup, maple syrup, maple sugar; mithai, sorghum, taffy. |
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Screenplays | Some lucky boy's about to hit the honey pot. The winner will receive an evening of my company (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) Well, honey, that's just nuts (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) There's been a lamp burning in the window for ya, honey. (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur) Hello honey, I'm home (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters) Hey honey, let's see how good this guy is. What'd I win (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.) | |
Lyrics | Honey, You can have me when you want me (Honey; performing artist: Mariah Carey) Anywhere, honey, i don't care (Fly Away From Here; performing artist: Aerosmith) But I don't care for sugar honey if I can't have you (Walking On Broken Glass; performing artist: Annie Lennox) And all I'm askin' in return, honey ("Respect"; performing artist: Aretha Franklin) I deserve a try honey just once (I'll Never Break Your Heart; performing artist: Backstreet Boys) | |
Clever | What is the only food that doesn't spoil? Honey. (references; author: unknown) A pessimist is someone who looks at the land of milk and honey and sees only calories and cholesterol. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Wild Honey (1971) Honey Britches (1971) Haunts of a Honey Blonde (1968) Market in Honey Lane (1967) The Honey Pot (1967) | |
Song Titles | Taste of Honey (Instrumental) (performing artist: Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass) Don't Bet Money Honey (performing artist: Linda Scott) Honey (performing artist: Mariah Carey) Honey Don't (performing artist: Ringo Starr) Milk and Honey (performing artist: Pam Tillis) | |
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 | Liquid manure from a hog feeding operation in northeast Iowa is being pumped onto cropland with a honey wagon. Credit: Tim McCabe. |  | Marion County farmer loads manure from storage pit to a honey wagon which will be used to spread the manure on farmland. Credit: Lynn Betts. |
 | Green beans, fresh fruits and vegetables, herbs, honey, maple syrup, baked and canned goods and other wonderful things are found at the USDA Farmer's Market held on a USDA parking lot every Friday during the growing season. Credit: USDA. |  | Sweet Corn. Fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, honey, maple syrup, baked goods and other wonderful things are found at the USDA Farmers Market held on a parking lot at USDA headquarters in Washington, DC. Market day is every Friday during the growing and harvest season. Credit: USDA. |
 | ARS geneticist Tom Rinderer (right foreground) and beekeeping cooperator Steve Bernard, along with ARS associates Tony Stelzer and Warren Kelley (background, L-R) of the Baton Rouge laboratory, inspect colonies of Russian and other honey bees. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | ARS chemist Raul Rivera (left), technician Jesus Maldonado (center), and entomologist William Wilson use smoke and a specially modified hand held vacuum to collect Africanized honey bees to study the impact of parasitic mites on them. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | A family of varroa mites found at the bottom of a honey bee brood cell. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | For centuries, beekeeping has been a traditional part of Mexican agriculture and a reliable source of income in rural areas. Scientists in the United States have closely followed the arrival of Africanized honey bees and two species of parasitic mites that have created hive management problems and reduced honey production. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | The Honey Combs viewed from Leslie Gulch. Credit: Unknown. |  | Honey Combs Wilderness Study Area. OR 3-77A. Credit: Unknown. |
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| "Honey drops" by Ashvin Jetpuria Commentary: "Honey drops on breakfast Wheatbix biscuit." | "Deep Honey 2" by Gilbert Tremblay Commentary: "Close up of maple sirup because we love it so much! ;)." |
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Benjamin Franklin | A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. |
Homer | From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey. |
John Burroughs | I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey. |
Marguerite Gardiner Blessington | Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. |
Ronald Reagan | Honey, I forgot to duck. |
Rupert Brooke | Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea? |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The hive of joy opened, and each one brought her honey. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Read locusts and wild honey. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I often got honey out of hollow trees, which I mingled with water, or ate with my bread |
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Health | Honey is safe for persons 1 year of age and older. (references) | |
This is the bacterium that occurs in improperly canned foods and honey. (references) | ||
In some cases, water may have to be thickened with commercial additives to give it the consistency of syrup or honey. (references) | ||
Economic History | Yemen | Good quality U.S. honey can be shipped at competitive prices. (references) |
Yemen | U.S. exports of honey to Yemen totaled 251 MT in 2000, down from 605 MT in 1999. (references) | |
Yemen | Honey: Honey is a traditional food product, but a significant amount is imported to supplement local production. (references) | |
Trade | Switzerland | Special health certificates, stamped by the competent authorities of the country of origin, are required for the import of horses, bovine animals, farm animals, certain domestic animals, bees and eggs for hatching, as well as for meat, game, seafood, beeswax and comb honey. (references) |
Brazil | Breeder livestock (cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses and donkeys, including semen and embryos); wine and brandy, distilled spirits (rum, wodka and whiskey); fresh vegetables (asparagus, beans, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, celery, corn, garlic, lettuce, onions, peppers, potatoes and tomatoes); canned vegetables (asparagus, beans, carrots, corn, peas, tomatoes and tomato paste); frozen vegetables (beans, broccoli, carrots, corn and spinach); peanut butter or peanut flour; dairy products (butter, butter oil, ghee, anhydrous milk fat, non-fat and whole milk powder, whey powder, whey protein concentrate, lactose, non-sweetened condensed milk, fluid milk, lecithin and cheese); ice cream; meat, frozen or chilled (beef, pork and their products);wheat, wheat flour, semolina; cotton, 100% cotton yarn, 100% cotton fabrics (woven and knit unbleached/bleached/dyed, and/or printed); rice; feed grains (barley, including malting barley, white corn, yellow corn, sorghum and oats); corn products (flour, starch, corn meal, popcorn and gluten); pulses(dry beans, peas and lentils), poultry breeder stock (baby chicks, turkey pouts and hatching eggs); eggs and egg products (fresh, dry, refrigerated, frozen, albumin, etc); fresh fruits (apples, apricots, avocados, blueberries, cherries, grapes, grapefruit, kiwi, lemons, melons, nectarines, oranges, pears, plums, peaches, raspberries and tangerines); hops: hops extract; tallow: grease, lard, barley malt; potatoes(cut and chilled or frozen; flakes, granules); peanuts; commercially prepared dog and cat food, animal feed ingredients, fish food; seeds for sowing; almonds ( walnuts, pistachios, hazelnut and pecan); dry fruits, frozen fruits, canned fruits, fruit pure and fruit pulp, 100% natural fruit juice; seafood (fresh and frozen);tomato paste; alfalfa; honey; skins; nutritional beverages preparations (for human consumption); soy protein products; vegetable oils; wood; beer; cereals; preparation for breads and pizzas (powder, refrigerated of frozen); canned pickles; ready-to-eat meals; soft drinks and sodas; soups and sauces. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods. For your lexicographer, having written his dictionary, comes to be considered "as one having authority," whereas his function is only to make a record, not to give a law. The natural servility of the human understanding having invested him with judicial power, surrenders its right of reason and submits itself to a chronicle as if it were a statue. Let the dictionary (for example) mark a good word as "obsolete" or "obsolescent" and few men thereafter venture to use it, whatever their need of it and however desirable its restoration to favor -- whereby the process of improverishment is accelerated and speech decays. On the contrary, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense, has no following and is tartly reminded that "it isn't in the dictionary" -- although down to the time of the first lexicographer (Heaven forgive him!) no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary. In the golden prime and high noon of English speech; when from the lips of the great Elizabethans fell words that made their own meaning and carried it in their very sound; when a Shakespeare and a Bacon were possible, and the language now rapidly perishing at one end and slowly renewed at the other was in vigorous growth and hardy preservation -- sweeter than honey and stronger than a lion -- the lexicographer was a person unknown, the dictionary a creation which his Creator had not created him to create. God said: "Let Spirit perish into Form," And lexicographers arose, a swarm! Thought fled and left her clothing, which they took, And catalogued each garment in a book. Now, from her leafy covert when she cries: "Give me my clothes and I'll return," they rise And scan the list, and say without compassion: "Excuse us -- they are mostly out of fashion." Sigismund Smith |
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| "Honey" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 59.35% of the time. "Honey" is used about 1,389 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 59.35% | 824 | 8,492 |
| Noun (proper) | 40.58% | 563 | 11,148 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.07% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,389 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "honey" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Honey | First name Female | 2,000 | 2,688 |
| Honey | Last name | 1,000 | 9,956 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Honey" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the honey". | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "honey". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Dabbasheth | N/A | Biblical | Flowing with honey |
| Idbash | N/A | Biblical | Flowing with honey |
| Melita | N/A | Biblical | Affording honey |
| Honey | Female | English | The honey |
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Expressions using "honey": africanized honey bee ♦ as sweet as honey ♦ bee's honey ♦ comb honey ♦ golden honey plant ♦ honey agaric ♦ Honey ant ♦ honey badger ♦ honey bear ♦ honey bell ♦ honey berry ♦ Honey Brook ♦ honey bun ♦ honey buzzard ♦ honey cake ♦ honey comb ♦ Honey Creek ♦ Honey creeper ♦ honey crisp ♦ Honey easter ♦ honey eater ♦ honey extractor ♦ Honey flower ♦ honey fungus ♦ honey gland ♦ Honey Grove ♦ honey guide ♦ Honey harvest ♦ Honey kite ♦ honey locust ♦ Honey locust tree ♦ honey lotus ♦ honey mesquite ♦ Honey month ♦ honey mushroom ♦ honey pea ♦ honey plant ♦ honey pot ♦ honey sac ♦ honey sucker ♦ Honey weasel ♦ land flowing with milk and honey ♦ land of milk and honey ♦ Ling honey ♦ Maple honey ♦ milk and honey ♦ run honey ♦ sweet as honey ♦ wattled honey eater ♦ Western honey mesquite ♦ wild honey. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "honey": honey-and-curd, Honey-bag, honey-baked, honey-bearing, honey-bee, honey-bees, honey-blonde, honey-brown, honey-buzzard, honey-cakes, honey-cells, honey-coloured, honey-comb, honey-coral, honey-dew, honey-eater, honey-eaters, honey-filled, honey-glazed, honey-glistening, honey-gold, honey-guide, honey-guides, honey-hunters, honey-hunting, honey-laden, honey-lit, honey-making, Honey-man, honey-moon, Honey-mouthed, honey-pale, honey-phrased, honey-pot, honey-roast, honey-roasted, honey-scent, honey-scented, honey-stoned, honey-strokes, honey-suckle, Honey-sweet, honey-tan, honey-throated, honey-toned, honey-tongue, Honey-tongued, honey-trap, honey-traps, honey-whitish. | |
Ending with "honey": jam-or-honey, pale-honey, pollen-and-honey, what's-happening-i-don't-believe-this-honey. | |
Containing "honey": butter-and-honey-coloured. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
honey | 3,597 | raw honey | 57 |
honey bee | 851 | honey locust tree | 54 |
honey baked ham | 676 | honey bear | 54 |
honey magazine | 398 | honey recipe | 52 |
honey wilder | 175 | honey mustard recipe | 50 |
honey moon | 159 | hip hop honey | 49 |
cutey honey | 136 | honey juggs | 49 |
abc america chinois dish good honey morning news puck recipe recipe rib spareribs summer wolfgang | 96 | taste of honey | 46 |
honey pot | 95 | honey harbour | 45 |
honey dust | 94 | honey bunny | 44 |
honey i shrunk the kid | 90 | honey baked ham company | 43 |
honey comb | 76 | honey baked ham store | 43 |
honey bee picture | 74 | honey mustard dressing | 39 |
manuka honey | 71 | hole honey | 39 |
agriculture honey | 70 | honey movie | 38 |
honey west | 68 | honey plant | 38 |
sweet honey in the rock | 61 | inn at honey run | 37 |
honey locust | 61 | bunch honey lyrics pie sugar | 36 |
tupelo honey | 60 | sugar pie honey bunch | 36 |
honey mustard | 59 | honey extractor | 36 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "honey"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | heuning. (various references) | |
Albanian | shpirti im, shpirt njeriu, një mrekulli, mjaltë, ëmbëlsi (greasiness, kindness, pleasantness, suavity, sweetness, tenderness). (various references) | |
Arabic | حلو (lovely, nice, sensational, silky, sugary, sweet), حلا وة, عسل (melissa), الحبيب (darling, dear, lover, sweet, sweet heart, sweetie, sweety), رحيق الأزهار, شهدعسل. (various references) | |
Asturian | miel. (various references) | |
Aymara | misk'i (candy). (various references) | |
Basque | ezti. (various references) | |
Bavarian | hung. (various references) | |
Bemba | ubuci. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | naamóí'staan. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | скъпа (sweetheart), скъпи, сладък (cute, dulcet, euphonious, fresh, mellow, sweet, yummy), говоря гальовно, говоря лаская, нектар (nectar), меден (brazen, copper, cupreous, honeyed, honied, mellifluent, mellifluous), мед (copper, cuprum), мила (motherly, sweet), мили (dear), подслаждам (dulcify, season, sugar, sugar coat, sweeten). (various references) | |
Catalan | mel. (various references) | |
Cebuano | dugos. (various references) | |
Chamorro | anibat. (various references) | |
Chinese | 蜂蜜 . (various references) | |
Cornish | mél. (various references) | |
Czech | med (mead). (various references) | |
Danish | honning (bee honey). (various references) | |
Dutch | honing (bee honey). (various references) | |
Esperanto | mielo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | hunangur. (various references) | |
Farsi | محبوب(مج.), عسلی کردن , عسل , انگبین , شهد (Ambrosia, Molasses, Nectar, Ooze). (various references) | |
Finnish | hunaja (bee honey). (various references) | |
French | miel (bee honey). (various references) | |
Frisian | huning. (various references) | |
German | honig (bee honey). (various references) | |
Greek | μέλι (bee honey). (various references) | |
Hebrew | דבש (syrup). (various references) | |
Hungarian | méz. (various references) | |
Icelandic | hunang. (various references) | |
Indonesian | madu. (various references) | |
Italian | miele (bee honey). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 蜜 (madder, nectar), 蜂蜜 , ハトロン紙 (agreed, Armageddon, falling rapidly in big drops, good, haddock, hafnium, halation, halberd, Halley, ham, ham and eggs, ham and salad, Hamilton, Hamming, Hammond organ, hamster, Hanoi, happening, Harrier, Harry, hashed meat with rice, heart going pit-a-pat, honeymoon, Honeywell, Hubbard, hum, humming, hurricane, kraft paper, resin, rosefish, splendid, style of clothing popular in the late 1970s and resembling a Catholic school uniform, to be in harmony, to harmonize, twitterpating, wonderful). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ハニー , みつ (nectar), はちみつ. (various references) | |
Korean | 꿀. (various references) | |
Macedonian | med. (various references) | |
Manx | myrneen (boy, sweetheart, Valentine, well-beloved). (various references) | |
Maori | miere. (various references) | |
Maya | kaab (earth). (various references) | |
Mohawk | ohshehs. (various references) | |
Norwegian | honning. (various references) | |
Occitan | mèl. (various references) | |
Papago | pa-nahl sit'ol. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oneyhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mel (bee honey, mel). (various references) | |
Provencal | mèl. (various references) | |
Romanian | scumpul meu (my sweet), miere, dragã (darling, dear, drag, dredge, dredger, love, my darling, my dear, sweetheart), drag (affection, beloved, cherished, darling, dear, expensive, favorite, favourite, love, lovely, pet, precious, sake, shine, valuable). (various references) | |
Romansch | mel. (various references) | |
Romany | avgìn. (various references) | |
Ruanda | ubuki. (various references) | |
Russian | мед медовый, мед (grume, mead), милый (cunning, cute, darling, dear, good, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, nice, pleasant), милая (darling, sweetie). (various references) | |
Samoan | meli. (various references) | |
Scottish | mil. (various references) | |
Sepedi | dinose. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | meden, med, dragi (beloved, sweetheart, sweetie, sweety, true love), draga (beloved, ladylove, lass, tootsy). (various references) | |
Shona | uchi. (various references) | |
Spanish | miel (bee honey). (various references) | |
Sranan | oni (bee). (various references) | |
Swahili | asali. (various references) | |
Swazi | lú-ju. (various references) | |
Swedish | honung (propolis), älskling (beloved, darling, duck, flame, fondling, love, lovey, pet, poppet, sugar, sweet, sweetheart). (various references) | |
Thai | น้ำผึ้ง. (various references) | |
Turkish | bal. (various references) | |
Turkmen | bal. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сироп (sirup, syrup), квітковий сік (nectar), мед (mead), любий (beloved, chary, darling, dear, lovable, own, precious, pretty), лестити (adulate, bootlick, cajole, fawn on, flatter, oil one's tongue, palp, soft soap, sugar), підлизуватися (play up to, suck up). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự ngọt ngào mình yêu quý, mật ong, em yêu quý (ducky), con yêu quý (ducky), anh yêu quý. (various references) | |
Welsh | me+l. (various references) | |
Yucatec | kaab (bee). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | kuru, lal. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | mel, mel mellis, melchae, melchia, melchiae, melchias, melle, mellis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Mark Chapter 1, Verse 6 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Hn de iwannhV endedumenoV tricaV kamhlou kai zwnhn dermatinhn peri thn osfun autou kai esqiwn akridaV kai meli agrion |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et erat Iohannes vestitus pilis cameli et zona pellicia circa lumbos eius et lucustas et mel silvestre edebat |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | And Iohannes wæs ge-scryd mid olfendeshære. & fellen gyrdel wæs embe his lendene.& garstapen & wude hunig he æt. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And Joon was clothid with heeris of camels, and a girdil of skyn was about hise leendis; and he ete hony soukis, and wilde hony, and prechide, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Iohn was clothed with cammylles heer and with a gerdyll of a skyn a bout hys loynes. And he dyd eate locustes and wylde hony |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And John was clothed with camels hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he ate locusts and wild honey; |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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