mejorana

mejorana (plural mejoranas)

1. Synonym of mejoranera (“musical instrument”)

From older mayorana, majorana, from Medieval Latin maiorana, q.v. (compare French marjolaine, Italian maggiorana and Portuguese manjerona).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /mexoˈɾana/ [me.xoˈɾa.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: me‧jo‧ra‧na

mejorana f (plural mejoranas)

1. marjoram (Origanum majorana)

   Synonyms: mayorana, almoraduj

2. mastic thyme, Spanish wood marjoram, Thymus mastichina

• Origanum majorana on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
• Thymus mastichina on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

• “mejorana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28