farina

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
2. (countable, uncountable) A particular grade of wheat meal, commonly used as hot breakfast cereal in North America.
3. (countable, uncountable) A powdery, pale yellow, crystalline secretion consisting of flavonoids in Primula and other species.
4. (countable, uncountable) Hot breakfast cereal made from prepared farina in milk.

Synonyms

flour

meal

pollen

powder

starch

cereal

potato starch

Translations

farine

harina

nişasta

harinero

zetmeel

Mehl

irmik

farina

نشاؤ

Pulverisierung

نَشَاء

Stärke

Staub

فارينا

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fəˈɹiːnə/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin farīna (“flour, meal”), from far (“kind of grain”).