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parboil

/ˈpɑː.bɔɪl/US/ˈpɑːr.bɔɪl/

parboil verb: to boil food briefly so that it is partly cooked.

Verb

parboil (third-person singular simple present parboils, present participle parboiling, simple past and past participle parboiled)

  1. To boil food briefly so that it is partly cooked.

parboil meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Thai

parboil in Tamil

partially boil
புழுங்கு puḻuṅku, புழுக்கு puḻukku

parboil in Bengali

আংশিক সিদ্ধ করা

parboil in Kannada

ಅರ್ಧಬೇಯಿಸು, ಅರೆಬೇಯಿಸು

parboil in Thai

partially boil
ลวก lûuak

Forms of parboil

third-person singular presentparboils
present participleparboiling
past participleparboiled
pastparboiled

Origin of parboil

From Middle English parboyle, from Old French parbouillir (“to boil thoroughly”), from Medieval Latin perbulliō, from Latin per (“thoroughly”) + bulliō (“to boil”). Sense “to boil partially” (c.1440), rather than original “to boil thoroughly” is by corruption: associating the prefix with part (from Latin pars (“part”)) rather than per.

Words formed from parboil

Questions about parboil

What does parboil mean?
Parboil means to boil food briefly so that it is partly cooked.
What is parboil in Tamil?
Parboil in Tamil is புழுங்கு (puḻuṅku), புழுக்கு (puḻukku). See Parboil meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is parboil?
Parboil is a verb.
How do you pronounce parboil?
Parboil is pronounced /ˈpɑː.bɔɪl/ (UK).
What is the past tense of parboil?
The past tense of parboil is parboiled.

Words near parboil in the dictionary

  1. parbakes
  2. parbaking
  3. Parbatipur
  4. parbendazole
  5. Parbhani
  6. parboil
  7. parboiled
  8. parboiler
  9. parboilers
  10. parboiling
  11. parboilings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: parboil (page history and authors); parboil (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); parboil (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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