parboil

English

Etymology

From Middle English parboyle, from Old French parbouillir (“to boil thoroughly”), from Medieval Latin perbulliō, from Latin per (“thoroughly”) bulliō (“I 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.

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.

Related terms

• parbake
• parcook
• parfry
• blanch

Translations

partially boil

• Bulgarian: попарвам (bg) (poparvam), бланширам (bg) (blanširam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 煮成半熟 (zhǔ chéng bànshú)

• Czech: předvařit
• Dutch: blancheren (nl)
• Finnish: kiehauttaa (fi), ryöpätä (fi)
• French: blanchir (fr)
• Galician: aferventar (gl)
• German: blanchieren (de), ankochen
• Italian: sbollentare (it)
• Norman: parbouoilli
• Polish: podgotowywać impf, podgotować pf
• Portuguese: parboilizar (pt)
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: sancochar (es)
• Swedish: förvälla (sv)
• Thai: ลวก (th) (lûuak)

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