🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

搅拌

Pronunciation / Transliteration: jiǎobàn

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Stir/stɜːr/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"她决定搅拌汤,以确保成分混合得很好。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To mix a substance by moving it around with a spoon or other implement.

    "She decided to stir the soup to ensure the ingredients were well combined."
As noun
  1. 1

    A state of agitation or excitement.

    "There was a stir of excitement in the crowd as the concert began."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'stir' originates from the Old English 'styran', which means 'to disturb or agitate'. It has roots in Proto-Germanic *sturōną, and has evolved over centuries to encompass both physical and metaphorical meanings of mixing or causing movement.

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