blanka
Esperanto
Etymology
Common Romance (French blanc, Italian bianco, Spanish blanco). Perhaps also influenced by Polish biały, Russian бе́лый (bélyj).
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - IPA(key): /ˈblanka/
- Hyphenation: blan‧ka
Derived terms
- blanka nano (“white dwarf”)
- blanki (“to be blank; to be white”)
- blanko (“white color”)
- blankulo (“white person”)
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from Esperanto blanka, English blank, French blanc, German blank, Italian bianco, Spanish blanco.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈblan.ka/
Derived terms
- blankajo (“white object”)
- blankatra (“whitish”)
- blanke (“in white”, adverb)
- blankeskar (“to turn white”)
- blankigar (“to whiten”)
- blanko (“white person”)
Ladino
Swedish
Verb
blanka
- to polish, to make shining (blank), to shine shoes or other leather items; to groom (brush) animals
- I stallet blankade Petter seldonen
- In the stable, Petter polished the harnesses
- Hela huset vändes upp och ner, flygeln målades om, korna i ladugården blankades, trädgårdslanden snyggades upp
- The whole house was turned around, the wing was repainted, the cows in the barn were brushed, the garden patch was shaped up
- I stallet blankade Petter seldonen
- to erase all text; to blank
- (finance) To sell valuable papers one doesn't own, in the hope that the price will drop sufficiently to allow the trader to buy them back, while still making net money on the transaction.
- Då blankades teknikaktierna för fullt, vilket gick lätt att räkna hem.
- (cooking) to finish off a sauce by adding fat (?)
- Mot slutet silades såsen av, och blankades med lite smör för att ge den en lite avrundad mjukhet.
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