Meaning

3 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.

    Mehl

    мука́muká

    бо́рошноbórošno, мука́muká

  2. (uncountable, usually)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.

  3. (uncountable, usually)Powder of other material.

    mustard flour

    мука́muká, порошо́кporošók, пыльpylʹ

More definitions
  • fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain

Examples

178 sentences
  1. Put the flour on the shelf.

    Поклади борошно на полку. — deniko

    ruПоложи муку на полку. — Selena777

    deStell das Mehl ins Regal. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. I need to buy some flour.

    Мені потрібно купити борошна. — deniko

  3. Bread is made from flour, water and yeast.

    Хліб виготовляють із борошна, води й дріжджів. — hectorvk

    ruХлеб делают из муки, воды и дрожжей. — odexed

    deBrot wird aus Mehl, Wasser und Hefe hergestellt. — mayabe

  4. He bought a lot of flour and oil.

    Він купив багато борошна та олії. — lingvokrolik

    ruОн накупил муки и масла. — sharptoothed

    deEr kaufte viel Mehl und Öl. — MUIRIEL

  5. Do we have enough flour?

    У нас достатньо борошна? — miketheknight

    ruУ нас достаточно муки? — odexed

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
ground cereal grains or other foodstuff:
Русский
By meaning 2
ground cereal grains or other foodstuff:
powder of other material:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
ground cereal grains or other foodstuff:

Origin

Spelled (until about 1830) and meaning flower in the sense of flour being the "finest port

Spelled (until about 1830) and meaning flower in the sense of flour being the "finest portion of ground grain" (compare French fleur de farine, fine fleur). Doublet of fleur, flor, and flower. Partially displaced native meal.

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