Meanings
plural borages
- uncountableusuallyBorago officinalis, a Mediterranean plant with rough, cucumber-flavored leaves and stems, used in salads and cooked.
Synonyms: beebread, beeplant, starflower, talewort
Synonyms & antonyms
nounBorago officinalis, a Mediterranean plant with rough, cucumber-flavored leaves and stems, used in salads and cooked.
More synonyms by meaning
nounhairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Arabicأَبُو العَرَق
- Latinborra“short wool, rough hair”
- Medieval Latinborrago
- Old Frenchborage
- Middle Englishborage
- Englishborage
From Middle English borage, borrowed from Old French borage (compare French bourrache), from Medieval Latin borrago, either from Latin borra (“short wool, rough hair”) or Arabic أَبُو العَرَق (ʔabū l-ʕaraq, literally “father of sweat”).
More words from Middle English, Old French, Medieval Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic حِمْحِم
- حِمْحِم (ḥimḥim)Borago officinalis
Bulgarian пореч
- пореч (poreč)Borago officinalis
Catalan borratja
- borratjaBorago officinalis
Esperanto borago
- boragoBorago officinalis
Finnish kurkkuyrtti
- kurkkuyrttiBorago officinalis
French bourrache
- bourracheBorago officinalis
German Borretsch
- BorretschBorago officinalis
Greek μποράγο
- μποράγο (borágo)Borago officinalis
Hungarian borágó
- borágóBorago officinalis
Irish borráiste (gorm)
- borráiste (gorm)Borago officinalis
Italian borragine, borraggine
- borragineBorago officinalis
- borraggineBorago officinalis
Japanese 瑠璃萵苣
- 瑠璃萵苣 (rurijisha)Borago officinalis
Norwegian Bokmål agurkurt, hjulkrone
- agurkurtBorago officinalis
- hjulkroneBorago officinalis
- lysblomstBorago officinalis
Polish ogórecznik lekarski
- ogórecznik lekarskiBorago officinalis
Portuguese borragem
- borragemBorago officinalis
Romanian limba-mielului
- limba-mieluluiBorago officinalis
Russian огуре́чник апте́чный, бура́чник
- огуре́чник апте́чный (oguréčnik aptéčnyj)Borago officinalis
- бура́чник (buráčnik)Borago officinalis
Spanish borraja
- borrajaBorago officinalis
Swedish gurkört
- gurkörtBorago officinalis
Turkish hodan
- hodanBorago officinalis
Welsh tafod yr ych
- tafod yr ychBorago officinalis
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with borage
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Cite this entry
borage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/borage
“borage.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/borage. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “borage,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/borage.
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