starch

English

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology

From 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.

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4. (countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener

Derived terms

• starchy
• cornstarch
• potato starch

Translations

substance

• Albanian: niseshte f
• Arabic: نشاء (našā’)
• Armenian: օսլա (ōsla)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: midó m
• Chamicuro: almelone
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 淀粉 (zh) (diànfěn)

• Czech: škrob m
• Danish: stivelse
• Dutch: zetmeel (nl)
• Esperanto: amelo
• Finnish: tärkkelys (fi)
• French: amidon (fr) m
• Georgian: სახამებელი (saxamebeli)
• German: Stärke (de) f
• Greek: άμυλο (el) n (ámylo)
• Hebrew: עמילן (he) m (amilan)
• Hindi: स्टार्च m (sṭārca)
• Hungarian: keményítő (hu)
• Italian: amido (it) m
• Japanese: デンプン (denpun), 澱粉 (でんぷん, denpun)
• Jèrriais: amidon m
• Khmer: បិដ្ឋជាតិ (be’dtʰɑ ciet)
• Korean: 녹말 (ko) (nogmal)

• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: amylum
• Latvian: ciete, stērķele f (archaism)
• Lithuanian: krakmolo
• Macedonian: скроб m (skrob), нишесте n (níšeste)
• Malay: kanji (ms) n
• Maori: tāhi, māngaro
• Mongolian: цардуул (tsarduul)
• Norwegian: stivelse
• Persian: نشاسته (fa) (nešâste)
• Polish: skrobia f
• Portuguese: amido (pt) m, fécula (pt) f
• Romanian: amidon (ro)
• Russian: крахмал (ru) m (kraxmál)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese Sardinian: gròru, madoni

  Gallurese Sardinian: madoni

  Logudorese Sardinian: madone, midone

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

carbohydrates

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 碳水化合物 (zh) (tànshuǐhuàhéwù)

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

• Latvian: ciete f
• Macedonian: скроб m (skrob), нишесте n (níšeste)
• Polish: skrobia f
• Portuguese: amido (pt) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: скроб m, шкроб

  Roman: skrob m, škrob m

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

stiff manner

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

• Polish: sztywność f
• Serbo-Croatian: uštogljenost f

laundry stiffener

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

• Russian: крахмал (ru) m (kraxmal)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese Sardinian: gròru, madoni

  Gallurese Sardinian: madoni

  Logudorese Sardinian: madone, midone

• Sassarese Sardinian: madoni
• Serbo-Croatian: škrobilo 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
• French: amidonner (fr)
• German: stärken (de)
• Italian: inamidare, apprettare
• Macedonian: штирка (štírka)

• Polish: krochmalić (pl)
• Portuguese: engomar (pt)
• Russian: накрахмаливать (nakraxmálivat')
• Serbo-Croatian: škrobiti
• Spanish: almidonar

Adjective

starch (not comparable)

1. Stiff; precise; rigid.

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Translations

stiff

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

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

References

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

Anagrams

• charts, trachs