Alicante Saffron, Autumn Crocus, Crocus, Gatinais Saffron, Hay Saffron Karcom, Stima
Croci, Zaffer.
French : safran
German : safron
Italian : zafferano
Spanish : azafran
Indian : kesar, kesram, khesa, zafran
Saffron is known by different names in various Indian languages. In Sanskrit, the
plant is named as Keshara, Kunkuma, Aruna, Asra and Asrika. The Hindi and Punjabi
names of the plant are Zaffran and Kesar and it is called as Zaffran in Bengali.
The Gujarati speaking people know the plant as Keshar, while in Kannada it is called
as Kunkuma Kesari. In Kashmiri, saffron is known as Kong and the Marathi speaking
people call it as Kesar and Kesara. While it is called as Kungumapu in Tamil, the
Telugu name of saffron is Kunkumapuva. In Urdu it is popular as Zaffran and Jafranekar.