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 Latin) IPA^(key): [bɔˈraː.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [boˈraː.ɡo]

borāgō f (genitive borāginis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) Borago officinalis, borage

Third-declension noun.

• 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