borage

English

Borago officinalis

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French borage (compare French bourrache), from Medieval Latin borrago, either from Latin borra (“short wool, rough hair”) or Arabic أَبُو مِن العَرَق (ʔabū min al-ʕaraq, literally “father of sweat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɒɹ.ɪdʒ/

Noun

borage (usually uncountable, plural borages)

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

Synonyms

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

Translations

Borago officinalis

• Arabic: حمحم m (ḥimḥim)
• 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: Boretsch (de) m
• Greek: μποράγο n (borágo)
• Irish: borráiste (gorm) m
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• Italian: borragine f, borraggine f
• Japanese: ルリジサ (rurijisa)
• Norwegian:

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