borage

English

Borago officinalis

borage stalks used for cooking

Etymology

From Middle English borage, borrowed from Old French borage (compare French bourrache), from Medieval Latin borrago, either from Latin borra (“short wool, rough hair”) or Arabic أَبُو العَرَق (ʔabū l-ʕaraq, literally “father of sweat”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒɹɪdʒ

Noun

borage (usually uncountable, plural borages)

1. Borago officinalis, a Mediterranean plant with rough, cucumber-flavored leaves and stems, used in salads and cooked.

Synonyms

• (Borago officinalis): beebread, beeplant, starflower, talewort

Translations

Borago officinalis

• Arabic: حمحم m (ḥimḥim)
• Aragonese: borraina
• Armenian: գաղտրիկ (hy) (gaġtrik)
• Bulgarian: пореч m (poreč)
• Catalan: borratja (ca)
• Esperanto: borago
• Finnish: kurkkuyrtti
• French: bourrache (fr) f
• Galician: borraxe (gl) f, soaxe (gl) f
• German: Borretsch (de) m
• Greek: μποράγο n (borágo)
• Irish: borráiste (gorm) m
• Italian: borragine f, borraggine f
• Japanese: ルリジサ (rurijisa)
• Macedonian: лиси́чинка f (lisíčinka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: agurkurt (no) m or f, hjulkrone m or f, lysblomst m

• Polish: ogórecznik lekarski (pl) m
• Portuguese: borragem
• Romanian: limba-mielului (ro) f
• Russian: огуре́чник апте́чный m (oguréčnik aptéčnyj), бура́чник (ru) m (buráčnik)
• Slovene: borága f
• Spanish: borraja f
• Swedish: gurkört (sv) c
• Volapük: (plant) boragaplan, borag

Further reading

• borage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Borago officinalis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Abrego, agbero, gerboa