borago

Derived from Old French bourrache, from Medieval Latin borrago, perhaps from Arabic أَبُو الْعَرَق‎ (ʔabū l-ʕaraq, “father of roughness”).

• IPA^(key): [boˈraɡo]
• Rhymes: -aɡo
• Hyphenation: bo‧ra‧go

borago (uncountable, accusative boragon)

1. borage

• borrāgō

From Arabic أَبُو الْعَرَق‎ (ʔabū l-ʕaraq).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /boˈraː.ɡoː/, [bɔˈräːɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /boˈra.ɡo/, [boˈräːɡo]

borāgō f (genitive borāginis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) Borago officinalis, borage

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• Italian: borragine, borraggine
• Old French: borage
  • French: bourrache
  • → English: borage
  • → Irish: borráiste
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: borratja
    • → Spanish: borraja
• Old Galician-Portuguese: *borragẽ
  • Galician: borraxe
  • Portuguese: borragem
• Sicilian: vurràjina
• → Bulgarian: пореч (poreč)
• → Middle Dutch: borage
  • Dutch: bernagie
• → Greek: μποράγο (borágo)
• → Polish: burak
  • → Belarusian: бура́к (burák)
  • → Russian: буря́к (burják)
  • → Ukrainian: буря́к (burják)
  • → Yiddish: בוריק‎ (burik)
• → Middle Low German: boragie, borraghe
• → Middle High German: boretsch, buretsch
  • German: Borretsch
• → Slovak: borága