Meaning

noun hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach

noun an herb whose leaves are used to flavor sauces and punches; young leaves can be eaten in salads or cooked

originFrom Middle English borage, borrowed from Old French borage (compare French bourrache), from Medieval Latin borrago, either from Latin borra (“short wool, rough hair”) or Arabic أَبُو العَرَق (ʔabū l-ʕaraq, literally “father of sweat”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0