farina n : fine meal made from cereal grain especially wheat; often used as a cooked cereal or in puddings

English

Noun

1. 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.

French

Verb

1. Form of Third-person singular past historic, fariner

Italian

Noun

1. flour, meal

Related terms

• farinaceo
• farinata
• farinoso
• infarinare
• sfarinarsi

Latin

Noun

farina

1. dough

Farina, from the Italian word for "flour", may refer to:

Food

• Farina (food), cereal meal
• Farina di granturco (Italian for "cornmeal"), used to make polenta

People/characters

• Allen "Farina" Hoskins, one of the African-American characters in the Our Gang (Little Rascals) short films of the 1930s
• Battista "Pinin" Farina, an Italian automobile stylist
• Dennis Farina, an American actor
• Frank Farina, an Australian football player and former manager of the Socceroos
• Giuseppe "Nino" Farina, Grand Prix racer and first Formula One World Drivers Champion
• Johann Maria Farina, born in Italy 1685, died in Cologne in 1766, the creator of Eau de Cologne
• Mark Farina, American house music DJ and producer, also known for his Mushroom Jazz series
• Mimi Baez Fariña, sister of Joan Baez, and wife of Richard Fariña, also a folk music performer
• Richard Fariña, noted American author and folk music performer, and husband of Mimi Fariña
• Neo & Farina, trance production and DJ duo David Lambie and Tristan Jones
• William Farina, an American essayist and author

Other

• Farina, Illinois, a village in the United States
• Farina, South Australia, a town in Australia
• Farina (novel), an 1857 novel by George Meredith
• Farina Gegenueber, the world's oldest fragrance company in Cologne, Germany, who originated the term "Eau de Cologne"
• Farina (Pearls Before Swine), a character in the comic strip Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis
• Farina, a fictional pegasus knight from the game Fire Emblem

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