brine

English

Etymology

From Old English brȳne, from Proto-Germanic *brein- (compare West Frisian brein, Dutch brijn), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreHi- ‘to cut, maim’ (compare Old Irish ro·bria ‘may hurt, damage’, Latin friāre ‘to rub, crumble’, Slovenian bríti ‘to shave, shear’, Albanian brej ‘to gnaw’, Sanskrit bhrīņā́ti ‘they injure, hurt’).

Pronunciation

• enPR: brīn, IPA: /braɪn/, X-SAMPA: /braIn/
• Rhymes: -aɪn

Noun

brine (uncountable)

1. salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling

   Do you want a can of tuna in oil or in brine?

2. the sea or ocean; the water of the sea

Derived terms

• briny

Translations

salt water

• Bulgarian: саламура (bg) (salamúra) f 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鹽水 (cmn), 盐水 (cmn) (yánshuǐ), 鹹水 (cmn), 咸水 (cmn) (xiánshuǐ)

• Czech: lák (cs) m
• Dutch: pekel (nl) m
• Esperanto: peklakvo (eo)
• Finnish: suolavesi (fi), suolaliuos (fi), suolaliemi (fi)
• French: saumure (fr) f
• German: Sole (de) f, Salzbrühe (de) f
• Greek: άλμη (el) (almi) f 
• Icelandic: pækill (is) m
• Italian: salamoia (it) f
• Japanese: 塩水 (ja) (しおみず, shiomizu, えんすい, ensui), ブライン (ja) (burain)
• Neapolitan: salimóia f

• Norwegian: saltlake (no)
• Portuguese: salmoura (pt) f
• Russian: рассол (ru) (rassól) m , (firth water) рапа (ru) (rapá) f 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: саламура (sh) f

  Roman: salamura (sh) f

• Spanish: salmuera (es) f
• Swedish: saltlake (sv) c
• Tok Pisin: solwara (tpi)
• Turkish: salamura (tr)
• Volapük: salod (vo)
• West Frisian: pikel (fy) c

the sea or ocean

• Bulgarian: море (bg) (móre) n , океан (bg) (okeán) m 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (sea water) 海水 (cmn) (hǎishuǐ)

• Japanese: (sea water) 海水 (ja) (かいすい, kaisui)
• Russian: море (ru) (móre) n , океан (ru) (okeán) m , (sea water) морская вода (ru) (morskája vodá) f , (salty water) солёная вода (ru) (soljónaja vodá) f , (saltlake water) рапа (ru) (rapá) f 

• Tok Pisin: solwara (tpi)
• Turkish: tuzlu su (tr), deniz suyu (tr)

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• Ido: sal-aquo (io)
• Old English: brȳne (ang) f

Verb

brine (third-person singular simple present brines, present participle brining, simple past and past participle brined)

1. (transitive) To preserve food in a salt solution.

Antonyms

• debrine
• desalinate

Translations

to preserve food in a salt solution

• Bulgarian: слагам в саламура (bg) (slagam v salamura)
• Finnish: ‎säilöä suolavedessä
• Italian: mettere in salamoia

• Russian: соли́ть (ru) (solít')  impf., засоли́ть (ru) (zasolít')  pf.
• Spanish: salmuera (es) f

Anagrams

• biner

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Italian

Noun

brine f

1. Plural form of brina

Anagrams

• nerbi