This word is from the Spanish harina.
arina
flour
There’s a recent trend in the Philippines to move closer back to the original Spanish spellings, so you may see harina starting to be considered standard spelling these days.
puting harina
white flour
If you browse textbooks and cookbooks from as recently as two decades ago, the natively Tagalized arina was the preferred standard spelling.
Gumamit ng puting arina.
Use white flour.
KAHULUGAN SA TAGALOG
arína: maputî at pinulbong lamáng-ugat, mais, o bigas
