flour

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈflaʊ.ə/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [ˈflaʊ̯.ə]
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• /ˈflæʊ.ə/ Australian, New Zealand, /aʊ̯/-fronting
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• [ˈflæʊ̯.ə] Australian, New Zealand, /aʊ̯/-fronting
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• /ˈflaː.ə/ General South African, /aʊ̯/-monophthongization
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• [ˈflaː.ə] General South African, /aʊ̯/-monophthongization
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• Canadian, General-American, Standard: /ˈflaʊ.ɚ/
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• Canadian, General-American, Standard: [ˈflaʊ̯.ɚ] ~ [ˈflaʊ̯.ɹ̩]
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• /ˈflæʊ.ɚ/ Southern US, Mid-Atlantic, New York City, /aʊ̯/-fronting
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• [ˈflæʊ̯.ɚ] ~ [ˈflæʊ̯.ɹ̩] Southern US, Mid-Atlantic, New York City, /aʊ̯/-fronting
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• Scotland: /ˈflaʊ.əɾ/
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• Scotland: [ˈflaʊ̯.əɾ]
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• /ˈflaː.ɚ/ Pittsburgh, /aʊ̯/-monophthongization
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• [ˈflaː.ɚ] ~ [ˈflaː.ɹ̩] Pittsburgh, /aʊ̯/-monophthongization
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• India: /flaː(r)/
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• Singapore: /ˈflɑː/
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• Singapore: [ˈfläː]
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• /ˈflɐɹ/ educated
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• [ˈflɐɹ] educated
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• /ˈflɑɹ/ educated
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• [ˈflɑɹ] educated
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• rhymes with -aʊə(ɹ)
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• homophone: flower (for people who pronounce flour as two syllables or flower as one)
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• CMU ARPABET: F L AW1 ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: F L AW1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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. The U.S. standard of identity comes from 21CFR137.105.

304 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: meel — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Ainu: アマㇺコホ (amamkoho) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Albanian: miell — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Aleut: mukax̂ — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Southern Altai: кулур (kulur) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Southern Altai: ун (un) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Amharic: ዱቄት (duḳet) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Chungli Ao: am — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Arabic: طَحِين (ṭaḥīn) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Arabic: دَقِيق (daqīq) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Arabic: دَقيق (dagīg) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Arabic: دجيج (dgig) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Arabic: طحين (ṭḥin) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Aramaic: ܩܡܚܐ (qamḥɑ) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Armenian: ալյուր (alyur) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Old Armenian: ալիւր (aliwr) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Aromanian: fãrinã — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Assamese: আটা (ata) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Asturian: fariña — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Asturian: farina — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Azerbaijani: un — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Baluchi: آڑت (ářt) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Bashkir: он (on) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Basque: irin — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Bats: ჰ̡აჲრუ̆ (h̡ayrŭ) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Bats: ჰ̡აჲრი̆ (h̡ayrĭ) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Belarusian: мука́ (muká) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Bengali: আটা (aṭa) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Bengali: ময়দা (moẏoda) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Bhojpuri: आटा (āṭā) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Breton: bleud — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Bulgarian: брашно́ (brašnó) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Burmese: မှုန့် (hmun.) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Burmese: ဂျုံမှုန့် (gyumhmun.) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Buryat: гурил (guril) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Carpathian Rusyn: мука́ (muká) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Catalan: farina — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Cebuano: harina — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Cherokee: ᎢᏌ (isa) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Cherokee: ᎤᏣᎴᏍᏓ (utsalesda) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Cherokee: ᎢᏒ ᏩᏂᎨ (isv wanige) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Chichewa: ufa — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Chinese Cantonese: 麵粉 /面粉 — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Chinese: мян (mian) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Chinese Mandarin: 麵粉 /面粉 (miànfěn) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Chuvash: ҫӑнӑх (śănăh) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• East Circassian: хьэжыгъэ (ḥɛžəğɛ) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• West Circassian: хьаджыгъэ (ḥadžəğɛ) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Maore Comorian: ngano — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Cornish: bleus — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Corsican: farina — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Crimean Tatar: un — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Czech: mouka — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Dalmatian: faraina — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Danish: mel — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Daur: golii — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Dongxiang: ghurun — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Dutch: meel — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Dutch: bloem — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Egyptian: nD-H_SPACE:nw-U9:Z2ss (nḏ) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Emilian: faréṅna — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Erzya: почт (počt) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Esperanto: faruno — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Estonian: jahu — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Evenki: бурдук (burduk) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Ewe: wɔ́ — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Fala: fariña — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Faroese: mjøl — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Finnish: jauho — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• French: farine — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Saterland Frisian: Meel — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• West-Frisian: moal — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Friulian: farine — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Galician: fariña — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Galician: óleo — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Georgian: ფქვილი (pkvili) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• German: Mehl — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Greek: αλεύρι (alévri) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Ancient Greek: ἄλευρον (áleuron) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Mycenaean Greek: 𐀕𐀩𐀄𐀫 (me-re-u-ro) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Mycenaean Greek: 𐀎 (ju) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Greenlandic: qajuusat — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Guinea-Bissau Creole: forinha — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Gujarati: આટો (āṭo) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Gujarati: લોટ (loṭ) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Haitian Creole: farin — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Hebrew: קֶמַח (kémakh) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Hindi: आटा (āṭā) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Hungarian: liszt — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Icelandic: mjöl — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Ido: farino — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Indonesian: tepung — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Interlingua: farina — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Irish: plúr — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Old Irish: men — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Istriot: fareîna — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Italian: farina — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Japanese: 穀粉 (kokufun) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Japanese: 小麦粉 (komugiko) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Japanese: メリケン粉 (merikenko) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Javanese: glepung — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Old Javanese: gĕlĕpung — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Kaingang: farĩnh — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Kalmyk: һуйр (ğuyr) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Kannada: ಹಿಟ್ಟು (hiṭṭu) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Karipúna Creole French: fahin — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Kazakh: ұн (ūn) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Eastern Khanty: рак (rak) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Khmer: ម្សៅ (msaw) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Komi-Permyak: пызь (pyź) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Komi-Zyrian: пызь (pyź) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Korean: 밀가루 (milgaru) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Korean: 가루 (garu) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Kristang: farinya — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Kumyk: ун (un) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Central Kurdish: ئارد (ard) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Northern Kurdish: ar — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Northern Kurdish: ard — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Northern Kurdish: arvan — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Kyrgyz: ун (un) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Ladino: farina — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Lao: ແປ້ງ (pǣng) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Latin: farīna — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Latvian: milti — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Laz: მქვერი (mkveri) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Lezgi: гъуьр (ġür) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Ligurian: faænn-a — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Limburgish: blom — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Lithuanian: miltai — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Lombard: farinna — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Low German: Meel — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Luxembourgish: Miel — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Macedonian: брашно (brašno) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Maguindanao: tapung — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Malagasy: koba — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Malay: tepung — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Brunei Malay: tapung — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Malayalam: മാവു (māvu) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Maltese: dqiq — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Manchu: ᡠᡶᠠ (ufa) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Māori: parāoa — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Maranao: tapong — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Maranao: arina — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Marathi: पीठ (pīṭh) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Mari: ложаш (ložaš) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Marwari: आटौ (āṭau) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Mauritian Creole: lafarinn — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Megleno-Romanian: fărină — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Middle English: flour — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Middle English: mele — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Mingrelian: ქვირი (kviri) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Mirandese: farina — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Mohawk: othè꞉seraʼ — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Moksha: почф (počf) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Mongolian: гурил (guril) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Mongolian: ᠭᠤᠯᠢᠷ (ɣulir) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Khiamniungan Naga: wâ — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Nahuatl: textli — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Nanai: опа (opa) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Navajo: akʼáán — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Nepali: पिठो (piṭho) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Nepali: आटो (āṭo) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Norman: flieu — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Norman: flleur — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Norwegian Bokmål: mel — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Norwegian Bokmål: mjøl — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Occitan: farina — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Odia: ଅଟା (aṭā) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Church Slavic: мѫка (mǫka) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Church Slavic: брашьно (brašĭno) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Church Slavic: ⰿⱘⰽⰰ (mǫka) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Church Slavic: ⰱⱃⰰⱎⱐⱀⱁ (brašĭno) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Old English: melu — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Old Tupi: uí — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Pannonian Rusyn: мука (muka) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Pashto: اوړه (orha) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Dari: آرْد (ārd) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Iranian Persian: آرْد (ârd) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Piedmontese: farin-a — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Plautdietsch: Mäl — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Polish: mąka — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Portuguese: farinha — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Korlai Creole Portuguese: fari — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Punjabi: ਆੱਟਾ (āṭṭā) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Punjabi: آٹا (pnb) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Quechua: ullpu — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Quechua: haku — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Quechua: kuta — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Rohingya: fáki — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Rohingya: atha — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Romagnol: faròina — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Romani: arro — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Romanian: făină — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Romansh: farina — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Russian: мука́ (muká) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Rwanda-Rundi: ifu — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Skolt-Sami: jävv — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Santali: ᱯᱤᱴᱷᱟ (piṭha) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Sardinian: farína — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Scottish Gaelic: flùr — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Scottish Gaelic: min — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Serbo-Croatian: бра̏шно — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Serbo-Croatian: brȁšno — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Sherpa: ཕེ (phe) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Sicilian: farina — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Silesian: myjl — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Silesian: mōnka — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Silesian: mōłka — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Sindhi: اَٽو (aṭo) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Sinhalese: පිටි (piṭi) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Slovak: múka — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Slovene: moka — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Somali: daqiiq — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Lower Sorbian: muka — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Upper Sorbian: muka — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Upper Sorbian: mučka — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Spanish: harina — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Spanish: farina (disused) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Spanish: fariña — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Spanish: granillo — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Spanish: chuno — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Spanish: soma — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Sumerian: 𒍥 (zid) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Svan: ფექ (pek) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Svan: ფაქუ̂ (pakû) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Swedish: mjöl — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Tagalog: harina — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Tagalog: arina — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Tajik: орд (ord) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Talysh: ordə — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Tamil: மாவு (māvu) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Tarifit: arn — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Tat: ard — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Tatar: он (on) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Telugu: పిండి (piṇḍi) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Thai: แป้ง (bpɛ̂ɛng) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Tokelauan: falaoa — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Tibetan: ཕྱེ (phye) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Tumbuka: ufu — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Turkish: un — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Turkmen: un — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Turkmen: uun — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Udmurt: пызь (pyź) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎎𐎈 (qmḥ) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Ukrainian: бо́рошно (bórošno) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Ukrainian: мука́ (muká) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Urdu: آٹا (āṭā) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Uyghur: ئۇن (un) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Uzbek: un — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Venetan: fior — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Venetan: farina — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Veps: jauh — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Vietnamese: bột — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Vietnamese: phấn — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Vilamovian: māł — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Vilamovian: maoł — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Volapük: lemeil — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Võro: jauh — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Võro: jahu — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Votic: javo — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Walloon: farene — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Walloon: fleur — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Welsh: blawd — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Welsh: can — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Woiwurrung: noorrong — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Wolaytta: xiilliya — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Yaghnobi: орта (orta) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Yakut: бурдук (burduk) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Yiddish: מעל (mel) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Zazaki: ardi (diq) — ground cereal grains or other foodstuff
• Dongxiang: ghurun — powder of other material
• Estonian: jahu — powder of other material
• Finnish: jauho — powder of other material
• Finnish: jauhe — powder of other material
• Greek: σκόνη (skóni) — powder of other material
• Korean: 가루 (garu) — powder of other material
• Middle English: flour — powder of other material
• Russian: мука́ (muká) — powder of other material
• Russian: порошо́к (porošók) — powder of other material
• Russian: пыль (pylʹ) — powder of other material
• Scottish Gaelic: min — powder of other material
• Walloon: poude — powder of other material
• Aromanian: nfãrinedz — to apply flour to something
• Bulgarian: набрашнявам (nabrašnjavam) — to apply flour to something
• Catalan: enfarinar — to apply flour to something
• Czech: pomoučit — to apply flour to something
• Czech: posypat moukou — to apply flour to something
• Finnish: jauhottaa — to apply flour to something
• French: fariner — to apply flour to something
• French: enfariner — to apply flour to something
• Friulian: infarinâ — to apply flour to something
• German: bemehlen — to apply flour to something
• Greek: αλευρώνω (alevróno) — to apply flour to something
• Hungarian: belisztez — to apply flour to something
• Indonesian: tepung terigu — to apply flour to something
• Irish: plúraigh — to apply flour to something
• Italian: infarinare — to apply flour to something
• Portuguese: enfarinhar — to apply flour to something
• Quechua: hak'uchay — to apply flour to something
• Sicilian: nfarinari — to apply flour to something
• Spanish: enharinar — to apply flour to something
• Swedish: mjöla — to apply flour to something
• Turkish: unlamak — to apply flour to something
• Venetan: infarinar — to apply flour to something