flour

English

flour

Alternative forms

• flower (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈflæwɚ/
• SAMPA: /flaU@r/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aʊə(r)
• Homophone: flower

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)

1. Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
   1. (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.
2. Powder of other material, e.g., wood flour produced by sanding wood.

Synonyms

• (U.S. standard of identity): plain flour, wheat flour, white flour

Translations

ground cereal grains

Afrikaans: blom (af) Ainu: アマㇺコホ (amamkoho) Albanian: miell (sq) Aleut: mu-kak Ancient Greek: ἄλευρον (aleuron) n. Arabic: طحين (ar) (Tahiin) m., دقيق (ar) (daqiiq) m. Armenian: ալյուր (hy) (alyur) Old Armenian: ալիւր (aliwr) Azeri: un (az) Bosnian: brašno (bs) n. Breton: bleud (br) Bulgarian: брашно (bg) (brašno) n. Catalan: farina f. Chinese: Mandarin: 麵粉 (cmn), 面粉 (cmn) (miànfěn) Corsican: farina (co) f. Croatian: brȁšno (hr) n. Czech: mouka (cs) f. Danish: mel (da) Dutch: meel (nl), bloem (nl) Esperanto: faruno (eo) Faroese: mjøl (fo) n. Filipino: arina Finnish: jauho (fi), jauhot (fi) pl. French: farine (fr) f. Georgian: ფქვილი (ka) (p'k'vili) German: Mehl (de) n. Greek: αλεύρι (el) (alévri) n. Hebrew: קמח (he) (kemakh) m. Hindi: आटा (hi) (āṭā) m. Hungarian: liszt (hu) Icelandic: mjöl (is) Ido: farino (io) Indonesian: tepung (id) Irish: plúr (ga) m. Italian: farina (it) f. Japanese: 小麦粉 (ja) (こむぎこ, komugikó) Kannada: ಹಿಟ್ಟು (kn) (hiṭṭu)

Kinyarwanda: ifu Korean: 밀가루 (ko) (mil-garu), 가루 (ko) (garu) Kurdish: ئارد (ku) Latin: farīna (la) f. Latvian: milti (lv) m. pl. (1,2) Lithuanian: miltai (lt) m. pl. Luxembourgish: Miel (lb) n. Macedonian: брашно (brášno) n. Malagasy: koba (mg) Navajo: akʼáán Norwegian: mjøl (no) Bokmål: mel (no) Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: мѫка (mǫka) f. Glagolitic: ⰏⰨⰍⰀ (mǫka) f. Persian: آرد (fa) (ârd) Polish: mąka (pl) f. Portuguese: farinha (pt) f. Romanian: făină (ro) f. Russian: мука (ru) (muká), порошок (ru) (porošók) m. (2), пыль (ru) (pyl’) f. (2) Scottish Gaelic: flùr (gd) m., min (gd) f. Serbian: Cyrillic: брашно n. Roman: brašno n. Skolt Sami: jävv Slovak: múka (sk) f. Slovene: moka (sl) f. Spanish: harina (es) f. Swedish: mjöl (sv) n. Tagalog: harina (tl) Telugu: పిండి (pinDi) Thai: แป้ง (th) (bpâeng) Turkish: un (tr) Ukrainian: борошно (uk) (borošno) n. Urdu: اٹا (ur) (āṭā) m. Uyghur: ئۇن (ug) Vietnamese: bột (vi), phấn (vi) Welsh: blawd (cy) m.

powder of other material

Greek: σκόνη (el) (skóni) f. Korean: 가루 (ko) (garu)

Scottish Gaelic: min (gd) f.

See also

• bran
• meal

Verb

flour (third-person singular simple present flours, present participle flouring, simple past and past participle floured)

1. To apply flour to something; to cover with flour.

Translations

to apply flour to something

Finnish: jauhottaa (fi) French: fariner (fr), enfariner (fr) German: bemehlen Greek: αλευρώνω (el) (alevróno)

Hungarian: belisztez (hu), belisztez (hu) Indonesian: tepung terigu Swahili: unga (sw) Swedish: mjöla (sv)

Anagrams

• fluor
• four L

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Anglo-Norman

Noun

flour f. (oblique plural flours, nominative singular flour, nominative plural flours)

1. Alternative form of flur.

   Ce fust en esté quant la flour [v]erdist e doint bon odour.

   It was in the summer that the flowers bloomed and gave off a good odor.

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Cornish

Alternative forms

• flowr

Pronunciation

• IPA: [fluːɹ]

Noun

flour m. (plural flourys)

1. flower

Synonyms

• bleujen, blejan
• flowren

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Occitan

Alternative forms

• flor

Noun

flour f. (plural flours)

1. (Mistralian) flower

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Old French

Noun

flour f. (oblique plural flours, nominative singular flour, nominative plural flours)

1. Alternative form of flor.

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) flur
• (Sursilvan) flura

Etymology

From Latin flōs, flōrem, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“flower, blossom”).

Noun

flour f. (plural flours)

1. (Surmiran) flower

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Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfluːr/

Noun

flour (plural flours)

1. a flower
2. a bouquet (bunch of flowers)
3. (uncountable) Wheat flour

Verb

tae flour (third-person singular simple present flours, present participle flourin, simple past flourt, past participle flourt)

1. to embroider