farina
Syllables: fa·ri·na/fəˈɹiːnə/
farina noun: a fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
Noun
farina (countable and uncountable, plural farinas)
- A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
- A particular grade of wheat meal, commonly used as hot breakfast cereal in North America.
- A powdery, pale yellow, crystalline secretion consisting of flavonoids in Primula and other species.
- Hot breakfast cereal made from prepared farina in milk.
- Synonyms:
- cream of wheat
Proper noun capitalized: Farina
Farina (plural Farinas)
- A surname from Italian.
farina meaning in Tamil, Odia and Arabic
farina in Tamil
- மாவு உணவு, மாவுப் பொருள் உணவு
farina in Odia
- the farina or pollen of a flower
- ପରାଗ parāga
farina in Arabic
- fine flour
- نَشَاء našāʔ
Synonyms of farina
Forms of farina
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | farinas |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Farinas |
Origin of farina
Borrowed from Latin farīna (“flour, meal”), from far (“kind of grain”).
Borrowed from Italian Farina.
Words that rhyme with farina
37 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- semolina
- subpoena
- cantina
- falanghina
- galena
- latina
- piscina
- Thumbelina
- Tryphena
- Afro-Latina
- Antiochena
- Apamena
- Argentina
- Atropatena
- Ballymena
- barracudina
- Brangelina
- Damascena
- Dina
- doubting Thomasina
- gmina
- Halyna
- Jelena
- Laodicena
- Malaspina
- marina
- Media Atropatena
- okina
- Palmyrena
- Rina
- Sheena
- spirulina
- Thomasina
- Tumblrina
- verbena
- Vojvodina
- Xena
Questions about farina
- What does farina mean?
- Farina means a fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
- What is farina in Tamil?
- Farina in Tamil is மாவு உணவு, மாவுப் பொருள் உணவு. See Farina meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is farina?
- Farina can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce farina?
- Farina is pronounced /fəˈɹiːnə/.
- What is the plural of farina?
- The plural of farina is farinas.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: farina (page history and authors); Farina (page history and authors); farina (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ପରାଗ (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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