starch

English

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Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /stɑɹtʃ/
• (UK) IPA: /stɑːtʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tʃ

Etymology

Old English stearc (“stark, strong, rough”). See also stark. Compare German Stärke.

Noun

starch (countable and uncountable; plural starches)

1. (uncountable) A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as 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. (nutrition, countable) Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.
3. (uncountable, figuratively) A stiff, formal manner; formality.
4. (countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener

Derived terms

• starchy
• cornstarch
• potato starch

Translations

substance

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: نشاء (ar) (našā’)
• Armenian: օսլա (hy) (òsla)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: midó (ca)
• Chamicuro: almelone
• Chinese: 淀粉 (cmn) (diànfěn)
• Czech: škrob (cs) m
• Danish: stivelse (da)
• Dutch: zetmeel (nl)
• Esperanto: amelo (eo)
• Finnish: tärkkelys (fi)
• French: amidon (fr) m
• Georgian: სახამებელი (ka) (saxamebeli)
• German: Stärke (de) f
• Greek: άμυλο (el) (ámilo) n
• Hebrew: עמילן (he) (amilan) m
• Hindi: स्टार्च (hi) (sṭārca) m
• Hungarian: keményítő (hu)
• Italian: amido (it) m
• Japanese: デンプン (ja) (denpun), 澱粉 (ja) (でんぷん, denpun)
• Khmer: បិដ្ឋជាតិ (km) (be’dtʰɑ ciet)
• Korean: 녹말 (ko) (nogmal)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can

• Latin: amylum (la)
• Latvian: ciete (lv)
• Lithuanian: krakmolo (lt)
• Macedonian: скроб (mk) (skrob) m, нишесте (mk) (níšeste) n
• Malay: kanji (ms) n
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: stivelse (no)
• Persian: نشاسته (fa) (nešâste)
• Polish: skrobia (pl) f
• Portuguese: amido (pt) m, fécula (pt) f
• Romanian: amidon (ro)
• Russian: крахмал (ru) (kraxmál) m
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese Sardinian: gròru, madoni

  Gallurese Sardinian: madoni

  Logudorese Sardinian: madone, midone

• Sassarese Sardinian: madoni
• Serbo-Croatian: škrob (sh) m
• Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: almidón (es) m
• Swedish: stärkelse (sv) c
• Thai: แป้งมัน (bpâeng man), แป้ง (bpâeng)
• Turkish: nişasta (tr)
• Vietnamese: tinh bột (vi)

carbohydrates

• Czech: škrob (cs) m
• Danish: stivelse (da)
• Dutch: zetmeel (nl) n
• Finnish: tärkkelys (fi)
• French: amidon (fr) m
• Hebrew: עמילן (he) (`amilan) m
• Italian: amido (it) m

• Macedonian: скроб (mk) (skrob) m, нишесте (mk) (níšeste) n
• Polish: skrobia (pl) f
• Portuguese: amido (pt) m, carbohidrato (pt) m, carboidrato (pt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:

  Roman: skrob (sh) m, škrob (sh) m

• Spanish: almidón (es) m
• Swedish: stärkelse (sv)

stiff manner

• Finnish: jäykkyys (fi)
• French: rigidité (fr) f
• German: Steifheit (de) f

• Polish: sztywność (pl) f
• Serbo-Croatian: uštogljenost (sh) f

laundry stiffener

• Catalan: midó (ca)
• Dutch: stijfsel (nl) n
• Finnish: tärkki (fi)
• French: apprêt (fr) m, empois (fr) m
• Italian: appretto (it) m, amido (it) m
• Macedonian: штирак (mk) (štírak) m
• Polish: krochmal (pl) m
• Portuguese: engomar (pt) m

• Sardinian:

  Campidanese Sardinian: gròru, madoni

  Gallurese Sardinian: madoni

  Logudorese Sardinian: madone, midone

• Sassarese Sardinian: madoni
• Serbo-Croatian: škrobilo (sh) n
• Spanish: almidón (es) m

Verb

starch (third-person singular simple present starches, present participle starching, simple past and past participle starched)

1. To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.

   She starched her blouses.

Translations

apply laundry starch

• Catalan: emmidonar (ca)
• Finnish: tärkätä (fi)
• French: amidonner (fr)
• German: stärken (de)
• Italian: inamidare (it), apprettare (it)

• Macedonian: штирка (mk) (štírka)
• Polish: krochmalić (pl)
• Portuguese: engomar (pt)
• Russian: накрахмаливать (ru) (nakraxmalivatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: škrobiti (sh)
• Spanish: almidonar (es)

Adjective

starch (not comparable)

1. Stiff; precise; rigid.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Killingbeck to this entry?)

Translations

stiff

• Dutch: stijf (nl), precies (nl), rigide (nl)
• Finnish: jäykkä (fi)

• Portuguese: duro (pt), preciso (pt), rígido (pt)
• Serbo-Croatian: uštogljeno (sh)

References

• starch in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• charts, trachs