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Коринтски стафиди

English translation: currants

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Bulgarian term or phrase:Коринтски стафиди
English translation:currants
Entered by: Mihail Mateev

16:46 Mar 8, 2005
Bulgarian to English translations [PRO]
Food & Drink
Bulgarian term or phrase: Коринтски стафиди
Raisins of Corinth?
Mihail Mateev
Bulgaria
Local time: 21:35
currants
Explanation:
"Dried currants" bear no relation to the red, white, and black berries of the currant bush that make jelly for the English and creme de cassis for the French. In the context of dried fruits, currants are very small raisins originally imported from Greece, where the name "raisins of Corinth" was corrupted to "currant."


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Note added at 12 mins (2005-03-08 16:59:07 GMT)
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Raisins of Corinth не е грешка. То даже така е по-провилно, но думата отдавна е влязла в английския и доста се е трансформирала.

А иначе това си е просто едни сорт грозде.

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Note added at 18 mins (2005-03-08 17:04:31 GMT)
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Ето ги значенията и етимологията на currant:

Currant
(Cur\"rant) n. [F. corinthe (raisins de Corinthe raisins of Corinth) currant from the city of Corinth in Greece, whence, probably, the small dried grape (1) was first imported, the Ribes fruit (2) receiving the name from its resemblance to that grape.]


1. A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; — used in cookery.

2. The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.

3. (Bot.) A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum.

http://www.bootlegbooks.com/Reference/Webster/data/381.html
Websters Revised Unabridged Dictionary 1913
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Antonina Zaitseva
Ireland
Local time: 19:35
Grading comment
благодаря! и за обясненията!:)
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Summary of answers provided
5Corinth Raisins
Andrei Vrabtchev
4currants
Antonina Zaitseva


  

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Коринтски стафиди
Corinth Raisins


Explanation:
mozhe i Raisins of Corinth


    Reference: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Raisins+of+Corinth
    Reference: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Corinth+Raisins+
Andrei Vrabtchev
Bulgaria
Local time: 21:35
Native speaker of: Native in BulgarianBulgarian, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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Коринтски стафиди
currants


Explanation:
"Dried currants" bear no relation to the red, white, and black berries of the currant bush that make jelly for the English and creme de cassis for the French. In the context of dried fruits, currants are very small raisins originally imported from Greece, where the name "raisins of Corinth" was corrupted to "currant."


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Note added at 12 mins (2005-03-08 16:59:07 GMT)
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Raisins of Corinth не е грешка. То даже така е по-провилно, но думата отдавна е влязла в английския и доста се е трансформирала.

А иначе това си е просто едни сорт грозде.

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Note added at 18 mins (2005-03-08 17:04:31 GMT)
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Ето ги значенията и етимологията на currant:

Currant
(Cur\"rant) n. [F. corinthe (raisins de Corinthe raisins of Corinth) currant from the city of Corinth in Greece, whence, probably, the small dried grape (1) was first imported, the Ribes fruit (2) receiving the name from its resemblance to that grape.]


1. A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; — used in cookery.

2. The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.

3. (Bot.) A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum.

http://www.bootlegbooks.com/Reference/Webster/data/381.html
Websters Revised Unabridged Dictionary 1913


    Reference: http://www.sallys-place.com/food/columns/fussell/dried_fruit...
Antonina Zaitseva
Ireland
Local time: 19:35
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Native speaker of: Native in BulgarianBulgarian, Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 8
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благодаря! и за обясненията!:)
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