starch

Etymology
From, , from , from , ultimately from. Cognate with dialectal 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Related to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A widely diffused vegetable substance, found especially in seeds, bulbs and tubers, as extracted (e.g. from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) in the form of a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.
 * 2)  Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
 * 3)  A stiff, formal manner; formality.
 * 4)  Fortitude.
 * 5)  Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener.
 * 1)  Fortitude.
 * 2)  Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener.
 * 1)  Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: نَشَاء
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: মাৰ
 * Belarusian: крухма́л
 * Bulgarian: скорбяла
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: tayubong
 * Chamicuro: almelone
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 澱粉
 * Hakka: 澱粉
 * Hokkien: 澱粉
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: škrob
 * Danish: stivelse
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: amelo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Gallurese: madoni
 * Georgian: სახამებელი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἄμυλον
 * Guaraní:
 * Hebrew:
 * Higaonon: tayobong
 * Hindi: स्टार्च, कलफ़
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: amilum,
 * Ingrian: krahmala
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: デンプン,
 * Kalmyk: цавг
 * Khmer: បិដ្ឋជាតិ
 * Korean:
 * Lao: ທາດແປ້ງ
 * Latin: amylum
 * Latvian:, stērķele
 * Lithuanian: krakmolas
 * Macedonian: скроб, ни́шесте
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: lamtu
 * Maori: tāhi, māngaro
 * Mongolian:
 * Norman: amidon
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: stivelse
 * Nynorsk: stivelse
 * Occitan: empés,
 * Ojibwe: mashkawajininjiiwaji-waabishki
 * Ottoman Turkish: نشاسته
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian:
 * Campidanese: gròru, madoni
 * Logudorese: madone, midone
 * Sassarese: madoni
 * Serbo-Croatian:, шкроб
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: krahmal
 * Ukrainian: крохма́ль
 * Vietnamese:


 * Bulgarian: нишесте
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: škrob
 * Danish: stivelse
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian: скроб, нишесте
 * Maori: tāhi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: stivelse
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: скроб, шкроб
 * Roman: skrob,
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Thai:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Irish: ardnós
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: stivhet
 * Polish:
 * Serbo-Croatian:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Gallurese: madoni
 * German: Wäschestärke, Wäschesteife
 * Italian: ,
 * Macedonian: штирак
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: stivelse
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian:
 * Campidanese: gròru, madoni
 * Logudorese: madone, midone
 * Sassarese: madoni
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Turkish:, çamaşır kolası

Verb

 * 1) To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.
 * She starched her blouses.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: колосвам
 * Catalan:
 * Esperanto: ameli, amelumi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Italian: inamidare,
 * Macedonian: штирка
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak: škrobiť, naškrobiť
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ลงแป้ง

Adjective

 * 1) Stiff; precise; rigid.

Translations

 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: uštogljeno

Adjective

 * 1) strong
 * 2) loud