flour
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Etymology
Spelled (until c.1830) and meaning "flower" in the sense of flour being the "finest part" of meal
The U.S. standard of identity comes from 21CFR137.105.
Noun
Wikipedia flour (uncountable)
- Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
- (US standard of identity) The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of: certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents.
- Powder of other material, e.g., wood flour produced by sanding wood.
- Obsolete form of flower.
- that nobody is wished to see my dead body. & that no murnurs walk behind me at my funeral. & that no flours be planted on my grave. — Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge.
Synonyms
Translations
ground cereal grains
- Afrikaans: blom (af)
- Ainu: アマㇺコホ (amamkoho)
- Albanian: miell (sq)
- Amharic: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: طحين (ar) (ṭaḥīn) m, دقيق (ar) (daqīq) m
- Moroccan Arabic: دگيگ (dgig) m, طحين (ṭḥin) m
- Armenian: ալյուր (hy) (alyur)
- Old Armenian: ալիւր (aliwr)
- Asturian: fariña (ast) f, farina (ast) f
- Azeri: un (az)
- Baluchi: آڑت (ářt)
- Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: мука (be) (muká) f
- Breton: bleud (br)
- Bulgarian: брашно (bg) (brašnó) n
- Burmese: မှုန့် (my) (hmoun.)
- Catalan: farina (ca) f
- Cherokee: ᎤᏣᎴᏍᏓ (chr) (utsalesda), ᎢᏒ ᏩᏂᎨ (chr) (isv wanige)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 麵粉 (cmn), 面粉 (cmn) (miànfěn)
- Corsican: farina (co) f
- Czech: mouka (cs) f
- Dalmatian: faraina f
- Danish: mel (da)
- Dutch: meel (nl), bloem (nl)
- Esperanto: faruno (eo)
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Faroese: mjøl (fo) n
- Filipino: arina
- Finnish: jauho (fi), jauhot (fi) pl
- French: farine (fr) f
- Friulian: farine f
- Galician: fariña (gl) f
- Georgian: ფქვილი (ka) (p'k'vili)
- German: Mehl (de) n
- Greek: αλεύρι (el) (alévri) n
- Ancient Greek: ἄλευρον (aleuron) n
- Gujarati: આટો (gu) (āṭo)
- Hebrew: קמח (he) (kemakh) m
- Hindi: आटा (hi) (āṭā) m
- Hungarian: liszt (hu)
- Icelandic: mjöl (is)
- Ido: farino (io)
- Indonesian: tepung (id)
- Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
- Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
- Irish: plúr (ga) m
- Italian: farina (it) f
- Japanese: 小麦粉 (ja) (こむぎこ, komugikó)
- Javanese: please add this translation if you can
- Jèrriais: flieu f
- Kannada: ಹಿಟ್ಟು (kn) (hiṭṭu)
- Kazakh: ұн (kk) (un)
- Khmer: ម្សៅ (km) (msav), ម្សៅមី (km) (msav mii)
- Kinyarwanda: ifu (rw)
- Kirundi: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 밀가루 (ko) (mil-garu), 가루 (ko) (garu)
- Kurdish:
- Kurmanji: ard (ku), arvan (ku)
- Sorani: ئارد (ku) (ard)
- Kyrgyz: ун (ky) (un)
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- Lao: ແປ້ງ (lo) (pǣ́ṅ)
- Latin: farīna (la) f
- Latvian: milti (lv) m pl (1,2)
- Lithuanian: miltai (lt) m pl
- Luxembourgish: Miel (lb) n
- Macedonian: брашно (mk) (brášno) n
- Malagasy: koba (mg)
- Malay: tepung (ms)
- Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: please add this translation if you can
- Marathi: please add this translation if you can
- Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
- Navajo: akʼáán
- Nepali: पिठो (ne) (piṭho), आटो (ne) (āṭo)
- Norwegian: mjøl (no)
- Bokmål: mel (no)
- Novial: please add this translation if you can
- Occitan: farina (oc) f
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: мѫка (mǫka) f
- Glagolitic: ⰏⰨⰍⰀ (mǫka) f
- Oriya: ଅଟା (or)
- Pashto: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: آرد (fa) (ârd)
- Polish: mąka (pl) f
- Portuguese: farinha (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਆੱਟਾ (pa) (āṭṭā), آٹا (pnb) (āṭṭā)
- Rajasthani: आटौ (āṭau)
- Romanian: făină (ro) f
- Russian: мука (ru) (muká)
- Sardinian: farína f
- Scottish Gaelic: flùr (gd) m, min (gd) f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: бра̏шно (sh) n
- Roman: brȁšno (sh) n
- Sicilian: please add this translation if you can
- Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
- Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
- Skolt Sami: jävv
- Slovak: múka (sk) f
- Slovene: moka (sl) f
- Somali: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: harina (es) f
- Swedish: mjöl (sv) n
- Tagalog: harina (tl)
- Tajik: орд (tg) (ord)
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Tatar: он (tt) (on)
- Telugu: పిండి (te) (piṅḍi)
- Thai: แป้ง (th) (bpâeng)
- Turkish: un (tr)
- Turkmen: un (tk), uun (tk)
- Ukrainian: борошно (uk) (bórošno) n, мука (uk) (muká) f
- Urdu: آٹا (ur) (āṭā) m
- Uyghur: ئۇن (ug) (un)
- Uzbek: un (uz)
- Vietnamese: bột (vi), phấn (vi)
- Volapük: please add this translation if you can
- Walloon: farene (wa) f
- Welsh: blawd (cy) m
- Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
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See also
Verb
flour (third-person singular simple present flours, present participle flouring, simple past and past participle floured)
- To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.
Translations
to apply flour to something
Anagrams
