blanka

Common Romance (French blanc, Italian bianco, Spanish blanco). Perhaps also influenced by Polish biały, Russian бе́лый (bélyj).

• IPA^(key): /ˈblanka/

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• Rhymes: -anka
• Hyphenation: blan‧ka

blanka (accusative singular blankan, plural blankaj, accusative plural blankajn)

1. white

   En okcidenta civilizo, nur la fianĉino devas porti blankan robon ĉe nupto.

   In Western society, only the bride should wear a white dress at a wedding.

2. blank

   La artisto fikse rigardis la blankan kanvason ĝis li trovis inspiron.

   The artist stared at the blank canvas until he found inspiration.

• blanka nano (“white dwarf”)
• blanki (“to be blank; to be white”)
• blanko (“white color”)
• blankulo (“white person”)

Borrowed from Esperanto blanka, English blank, French blanc, German blank, Italian bianco, Spanish blanco.

• IPA^(key): /ˈblan.ka/

blanka

1. white
2. (figuratively) blank

blanka (masculine blanko)

1. white

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈbɫanka/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈblanka/

blanka f

1. diminutive of blána

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “blanka”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

• blank

Learned borrowing from Latin plancus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈblaŋ.ka/

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• Rhymes: -aŋka
• Syllabification: blan‧ka
• Homophone: Blanka

blanka f

1. (architecture, military) cop, merlon (any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement)

   Synonym: ząb

• blanka in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• blanka in Polish dictionaries at PWN

blanka

1. inflection of blank:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

blanka (present blankar, preterite blankade, supine blankat, imperative blanka)

1. to polish, to make shining (blank), to shine shoes or other leather items; to groom (brush) animals

   I stallet blankade Petter seldonen

   In the stable, Petter polished the harnesses

   Hela huset vändes upp och ner, flygeln målades om, korna i ladugården blankades, trädgårdslanden snyggades upp

   The whole house was turned around, the wing was repainted, the cows in the barn were brushed, the garden patch was shaped up

2. to erase all text; to blank
3. (finance) To sell valuable papers one doesn't own, in the hope that the price will drop sufficiently to allow the trader to buy them back, while still making net money on the transaction.

   Då blankades teknikaktierna för fullt, vilket gick lätt att räkna hem.

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4. (cooking) to finish off a sauce by adding fat (?)

   Mot slutet silades såsen av, och blankades med lite smör för att ge den en lite avrundad mjukhet.

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