broth

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɒθ

Etymology

Middle English broth, from Old English broþ ("broth"). Akin to Old English breowan (“to brew”).

Noun

broth (countable and uncountable; plural broths)

1. (uncountable) Water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled.
2. (countable) A soup made from broth and other ingredients such as vegetables, herbs or diced meat.

Synonyms

• (Liquid in which food has been boiled): bouillon, stock, liquor, pot liquor

Translations

water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled

• Afrikaans: bouillon (af)
• Albanian: supë (sq)
• Arabic: زومات (ar) (zumet) m
• Armenian: արգանակ (hy) (arganak) 
• Azeri: bulyon (az)
• Bashkir: һурпа (hurpa)
• Bulgarian: бульон (bg) m (buljon)
• Catalan: brou m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肉湯 (cmn) (ròutāng)

• Czech: vývar (cs) m
• Dalmatian: bruod m
• Dutch: bouillon (nl) n
• Esperanto: buljono (eo)
• Estonian: puljong (et)
• Finnish: liemi (fi)
• French: bouillon (fr) m
• German: Brühe (de) f
• Greek: ζωμός (el) (zomós) m 
• Hungarian: húsleves (hu)
• Icelandic: seyði (is) n
• Indonesian: kaldus (id)

• Irish: anraith (ga) m
• Italian: brodo (it) m
• Japanese: だし (ja) (dashi), ブイヨン (ja) (buiyon), ストック (ja) (sutokku), 煮汁 (ja) (にじる, nijiru), ブロス (ja) (burosu)
• Korean: 국물 (ko) (gungmul)
• Luxembourgish: Britt (lb) f
• Macedonian: бујон (mk) (bujón) m
• Malay: kaldu (ms)
• Maltese: brodu (mt) f
• Polish: rosół (pl)
• Portuguese: caldo (pt)
• Romanian: supă (ro)
• Russian: бульон (ru) (bul’о́n) m , отвар (ru) (otvár) m  (also plant or root broth often with medicinal qualities)
• Scottish Gaelic: brot (gd) m
• Spanish: caldo (es) m
• Swedish: buljong (sv)
• Turkish: et suyu (tr)
• Uzbek: sho'rva (uz)
• Vietnamese: canh (vi)

soup made from broth

• Armenian: արգանակ (hy) (arganak) 
• Bashkir: һурпа (hurpa)
• Bulgarian: бульон (bg) m (buljon)
• Catalan: brou m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肉湯 (cmn) (ròutāng)

• Czech: vývar (cs) m
• Dutch: bouillonsoep (nl) n
• Finnish: liemi (fi)
• French: bouillon (fr) m, soupe (fr) f

• German: Brühe (de) f, Suppe (de) f
• Irish: anraith (ga) m
• Japanese: スープ (ja) (sūpu), ブロス (ja) (burosu)
• Korean: 국물 (ko) (gukmul)
• Macedonian: супа (mk) (súpa) f
• Polish: rosół (pl) m
• Russian: суп (ru) (sup) m , бульон (ru) (bul’о́n) m , похлёбка (ru) (poxljо́bka) f 
• Scottish Gaelic: brot (gd) m

Derived terms

• Scotch broth
• too many cooks spoil the broth

Related terms

• barley-bree
• brewis
• brose
• court bouillon
• juice
• supper

See also

• dashi
• souse
• stock

Anagrams

• throb