starch

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. (uncountable) 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. (countable) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
3. (uncountable) A stiff, formal manner; formality.
4. (uncountable) Fortitude.
5. (countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener.

Verb

To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.

Adj

Stiff; precise; rigid.

Concepten

zetmeel

stijfsel

appret

stijf

stijven

rigide

stijfmiddel

precies

etmeel

vormelijk

stijfmiddel

Synoniemen

amylum

glue

paste

amyl

carbohydrate

farina

flour

size

stiffen

stiffness

goo

grainy

grass

meal

mucilage

broth

primness

starch grain

sizing

starched

starchy

rice-water

starch powder

amyloid

cooked rice

cream

thick fluid

clear-starch

fruits

cereal

Vertalingen

almidón

amidon

amido

Stärke

amido

άμυλο

midó

amidonner

nişasta

inamidare

stärken

empeser

نشاء

نشا

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/stɑɹt͡ʃ/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: starche

Overgenomen van Oudengels: *stierċe

Verwant aan Nederlands: sterk

Verwant aan Middle Low German: sterke

Verwant aan Duits: Stärke

Verwant aan Zweeds: stärkelse

Verwant aan IJslands: sterkja

Verwant aan Engels: stark

In summary

From Middle English starche, sterche, from Old English *stierċe (“stiffness, rigidity, strength”), from Proto-West Germanic *starkī (“stiffness, rigidity, fortitude, strength”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sterg- (“stiff, rigid”).
Cognate with dialectal Dutch sterk (“strong”), Middle Low German sterke (“strength”), German Stärke (“strength", also "starch”), Swedish stärkelse (“starch”), Icelandic sterkja (“starch”). Related to English stark (“stiff, strong, vigorous, powerful”).