starch

Oznaczający (Angielski)

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.

Koncepcje

skrobia

krochmal

krochmalić

sztywność

ziarno skrobi

amidon

Synonimy

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

Tłumaczenia

almidón

amidon

amido

Stärke

amido

άμυλο

midó

zetmeel

amidonner

nişasta

inamidare

stärken

empeser

نشاء

نشا

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/stɑɹt͡ʃ/

Etymologia (Angielski)

Dziedziczone z średnioangielski: starche

Dziedziczone z staroangielski: *stierċe

Pokrewny z niderlandzki: sterk

Pokrewny z Middle Low German: sterke

Pokrewny z niemiecki: Stärke

Pokrewny z szwedzki: stärkelse

Pokrewny z islandzki: sterkja

Pokrewny z angielski: 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”).