cumin-seed

“Zirbájah” = meat dressed with vinegar, cumin-seed

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

_Cymini sectores_: 'splitters of cumin-seed,' i.e. what we should call

A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools

Then she went away and I saw no more of her for ten days, at the end of which time, she came in to me and said, 'O black-a-vice, I will not make peace with thee, till I have punished thee for eating ragout of cumin-seed, without washing thy hands!'

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I

Thereupon I swooned away and she sprinkled the severed parts with a powder which staunched the blood; and I said, 'Never again will I eat of ragout of cumin-seed without washing my hands forty times with potash, forty times with galingale and forty times with soap!'

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I

'What makes thee think me mad?' asked I. 'O madman,' answered she, 'what made thee eat of ragout of cumin-seed, without washing thy hands?

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I

Meanwhile, they set before me a tray of food, on which was a basin containing a ragout of fricasseed fowls 'breasts dressed with cumin-seed and flavoured with sugar and rose-water, mixed with musk, and many another dish, such as amazed the wit; and by Allah, I did not hesitate, but fell upon the ragout and ate my fill of it.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I

The doctors of the law attended, and when the readers had made an end of reading, the table was spread, and amongst other things they set before us a ragout flavoured with cumin-seed.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I

Boil the lentils better, thou miserly steward; take heed lest thou chop thy fingers, when thou'rt splitting cumin-seed.

Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose

"Zirbájah" = meat dressed with vinegar, cumin-seed

Arabian nights. English

The jintan or cumin-seed (cuminum) is sometimes an ingredient in curries.

The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants