"parboil" meaning in English

See parboil in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: parboils [present, singular, third-person], parboiling [participle, present], parboiled [participle, past], parboiled [past]
Etymology: From Middle English parboyle, from Old French parbouillir (“to boil thoroughly”), from Medieval Latin perbulliō, from Latin per (“thoroughly”) + bulliō (“I 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. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|parboyle}} Middle English parboyle, {{der|en|fro|parbouillir||to boil thoroughly}} Old French parbouillir (“to boil thoroughly”), {{der|en|ML.|perbulliō}} Medieval Latin perbulliō, {{der|en|la|per||thoroughly}} Latin per (“thoroughly”), {{m-g|to boil partially}} “to boil partially”, {{m-g|to boil thoroughly}} “to boil thoroughly” Head templates: {{en-verb}} parboil (third-person singular simple present parboils, present participle parboiling, simple past and past participle parboiled)
  1. To boil food briefly so that it is partly cooked. Wikipedia link: parboil Categories (topical): Cooking Related terms: parbake, parcook, parfry, blanch Translations (partially boil): попарвам (poparvam) (Bulgarian), бланширам (blanširam) (Bulgarian), 煮成半熟 (zhǔ chéng bànshú) (Chinese Mandarin), předvařit (Czech), blancheren (Dutch), kiehauttaa (Finnish), ryöpätä (Finnish), blanchir (French), aferventar (Galician), blanchieren (German), ankochen (German), sbollentare (Italian), parbouoilli (Norman), podgotowywać [imperfective] (Polish), podgotować [perfective] (Polish), parboilizar (Portuguese), sancochar (Spanish), förvälla (Swedish), ลวก (lûuak) (Thai)
    Sense id: en-parboil-en-verb-1s9UwyGa Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Norman translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Thai translations

Inflected forms

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