parboil

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From Middle English parboyle, from Old French parbouillir (“to boil thoroughly”), from Medieval Latin perbulliō, from Latin per (“thoroughly”) + bulliō (“to boil”). Sense “to boil partially” (c.1440), rather than original “to boil thoroughly” is by corruption: associating the prefix with part (from Latin pars (“part”)) rather than per.

24 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: попарвам (poparvam) — partially boil
• Bulgarian: бланширам (blanširam) — partially boil
• Chinese Mandarin: 煮成半熟 (zhǔ chéng bànshú) — partially boil
• Czech: předvařit — partially boil
• Dutch: blancheren — partially boil
• Finnish: kiehauttaa — partially boil
• Finnish: ryöpätä — partially boil
• French: blanchir — partially boil
• Galician: aferventar — partially boil
• German: blanchieren — partially boil
• German: ankochen — partially boil
• Italian: sbollentare — partially boil
• Norman: parbouoilli — partially boil
• Norwegian Bokmål: forvelle — partially boil
• Polish: podgotowywać — partially boil
• Polish: podgotować — partially boil
• Portuguese: parboilizar — partially boil
• Spanish: sancochar — partially boil
• Spanish: parboilizar — partially boil
• Spanish: parboilear — partially boil
• Swedish: förvälla — partially boil
• Tamil: புழுங்கு (puḻuṅku) — partially boil
• Tamil: புழுக்கு (puḻukku) — partially boil
• Thai: ลวก (lûuak) — partially boil