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Hrsanei Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Looking for a word

Hi.
I am looking for a word which I don't know whether it exists in English language or not.
There are some food which are hot in nature like banana, cheese, pistache, and there are some food that are cold by nature such as yogurt.
Talking of hot, I am not referring to temperature or being spicy.I am sure that the term hot cannot be used in the above mentioned context, but I was wondering if there is any term for that.
Sorry for my weird question Emotion: smile
Thank you
Hamid
  

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You have to help me a little more. I don't know what you mean. Please provide more examples of each type.
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Hi,
The hot ones are called calefacients and cold ones infrigidants. And the natures are simply called hot and cold.
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Warm is also used to refer to hot natures.
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Thank you Behnam, that's great.
I asked my American friends, none of them know these words, I think they are medical terms and not used in everyday English.
I think warm would be a better word, but what is its opposite?
Thank you
Hamid
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If you don't mean temperature and you don't mean spiciness, what do you mean by "hot"?
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hrsaneiI think warm would be a better word, but what is its opposite?
It is cold. Some people are warm by nature and some are cold.
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I've come to the conclusion that you are referring to some superstition-based system of food classification from a non-English-speaking country. English normally borrows terms from foreign belief systems unaltered, merely transliterating and anglicizing the pronunciation. This process gave us many words from Sanskrit, like "karma" and "nirvana", "juju" from Hausa, "grigri" from Balanta, So, you te
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Behnam AHi,The hot ones are called calefacients and cold ones infrigidants. And the natures are simply called hot and cold.
Dear hrsanei,

These words have been used in Avicenna's Canon of Medicine. The terms high-calorie foods
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NikooDear hrsanei,
These words have been used in Avicenna's Canon of Medicine. The terms high-calorie foods (or as he puts it, "foods of warm nature") and low-calorie foods (foods of cold nature) roughly carry the same meanings conveyed by the Persian words "Garm" and "Sard" in the context of diets.
I don't think that's a good idea to literally translate such wor
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Behnam ADo you mean the words I mentioned do not have the meanings Hamid is looking for ?
No. I didn't mean that. On the contrary, I believe they are probably the best answer to Hamid's question.
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