boraks

Borrowed from Dutch borax, from Arabic بَوْرَق (bawraq), from Middle Persian bwlk' (bōrag).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈboraks/ [ˈbo.raks]
• Rhymes: -oraks
• Syllabification: bo‧raks

boraks (plural boraks-boraks)

1. borax

   Synonyms: bleng, pijer, cetitet

   Synonym: tingkal (Standard Malay)

• “boraks”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Middle Persian via Medieval Latin, and French borax.

boraks m (definite singular boraksen)

1. borax

• “boraks” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• buras (dialectal)

From Middle Persian via Medieval Latin, and French borax.

boraks m (definite singular boraksen)

1. borax

• “boraks” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin borax.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.raks/

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• Rhymes: -ɔraks
• Syllabification: bo‧raks

boraks m inan (related adjective boraksowy)

1. (inorganic chemistry) borax (white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap, etc.)

• “boraks”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “boraks”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• boraks in PWN's encyclopedia

From French borax. Replaced Ottoman derivative بوراق (burak) circa 19th century.

• IPA^(key): /bo.ɾaks/

boraks (definite accusative boraksı, plural borakslar)

1. borax

   Synonym: (archaic) tenkâr