blanc

Significat (anglès)

Adj

1. white color
2. blank, unused
3. blank, without expression

Noun

1. white (color)
2. silence while in a dialog
3. empty space, on a leaf of paper or in a form
4. (informal) white wine
5. white person, person with a white complexion
6. albumen, egg white
7. white meat
8. correction fluid, whiteout, Tippex

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/blɑ̃/

Etimologia (anglès)

Inherited from Middle French blanc, from Old French blanc, from Early Medieval Latin blancus, a borrowing of Frankish *blank, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”).
Akin to Old High German blanch (“bright, white”) (German blank (“polished, naked”)), Old Norse blankr (“white”) (Danish blank (“bright, shiny”)), Dutch blank (“white, shining”). More at blink, blank.

Sents

La tour est peinte en blanc et le toit de la lanterne est noire .

The tower is painted white and the roof of the lantern is black.

C’est pourquoi je dis que l’on mange notre pain blanc .

That's why I say we eat our white bread.

Le riz basmati existe en brun ou en blanc .

Basmati rice comes in brown or white.

À l'origine , dans l'imprimerie au plomb , ce blanc latéral était fixe .

Originally, in lead printing, this side white was fixed.

Ce hérisson à ventre blanc est originaire des régions côtières d'Afrique du nord .

This white-bellied hedgehog is native to the coastal regions of North Africa.