brine

English

Etymology

From Middle English brine, bryne, from Old English brīne, brȳne, from Proto-Germanic *brīnijaz, *brīnaz (compare Scots brime, West Frisian brein, Dutch brijn (“brine”), West Flemish brijne), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH- (“to cut, maim”) (compare Old Irish ro·bria (“may hurt, damage”), Latin friāre (“to rub, crumble”), Slovene bríti (“to shave, shear”), Albanian brej (“to gnaw”), Sanskrit बृणाति (bhrīṇā́ti, “they injure, hurt”)).

Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *mrīnós, from *móri (compare Latin marīnus).

Pronunciation

• enPR: brīn, IPA^(key): /bɹaɪn/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪn

Noun

brine (usually uncountable, plural brines)

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?

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     Philander went into the next room […] and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.

2. The sea or ocean; the water of the sea.
   • 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene ii^[1]:

     Not a soul

     But felt a fever of the mad, and play'd

     Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners

     Plung'd in the foaming brine and quit the vessels,

     Then all afire with me: the king's son Ferdinand,

     With hair up-staring—— then like reeds, not hair——

     Was the first man that leapt, cried 'Hell is empty,

     And all devils are here.'

Derived terms

• brine fly
• brineless
• brine shrimp
• briny

 

Translations

salt water

• Bulgarian: саламура (bg) f (salamúra)
• Burmese: ရေငန် (my) (re-ngan)
• Chinese:

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

• Classical Nahuatl: iztaāyōtl, iztayōtl
• Czech: lák (cs) m
• Danish: saltlage c
• Dutch: pekel (nl) m
• Esperanto: peklakvo
• Finnish: suolavesi (fi), suolaliuos, suolaliemi (fi)
• French: saumure (fr) f
• Galician: salmoira f, salmoura f, moira f
• German: Sole (de) f, Salzbrühe f, Lake (de) f
• Greek: άλμη (el) f (álmi)

  Ancient Greek: ἅλμη f (hálmē)

• Icelandic: pækill m
• Ido: sal-aquo (io)
• Irish: sáile m
• Italian: salamoia (it) f
• Japanese: 塩水 (しおみず, shiomizu, えんすい, ensui), ブライン (burain)
• Latin: muria f

• Macedonian: расолница f (rasolnica), саламура f (salamura)
• Maori: wai tote, wai mātaitai
• Neapolitan: salimóia f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: saltlake (no) m

• Persian: آب نمک‎ (fa) (âb-namak)
• Portuguese: salmoura (pt) f
• Romanian: saramură (ro) f
• Russian: рассо́л (ru) m (rassól), (firth water) рапа́ (ru) f (rapá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: саламура f

  Roman: salamura (sh) f

• Spanish: salmuera (es) f
• Swedish: saltlake (sv) c, saltlag c
• Tok Pisin: solwara
• Turkish: salamura (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Volapük: salod (vo)
• Welsh: heli m
• West Frisian: pikel c

the sea or ocean

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

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

• Danish: havvand (da) n, saltvand (da) n
• Finnish: merivesi (fi) (water of the sea)
• German: Meerwasser (de) n, Salzwasser (de) n
• Irish: sáile m

• Japanese: (sea water) 海水 (ja) (かいすい, kaisui)
• Russian: мо́ре (ru) n (móre), океа́н (ru) m (okeán), (sea water) морска́я вода́ f (morskája vodá), (salty water) солёная вода́ f (soljónaja vodá), (saltlake water) рапа́ (ru) f (rapá)
• Spanish: agua de mar f
• Swedish: havsvatten (sv) n
• Tok Pisin: solwara
• Turkish: tuzlu su

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Old English: ^{(please verify)} brȳne 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

Derived terms

• debrine
• embrine
• briner

Translations

to preserve food in a salt solution

• Bulgarian: слагам в саламура (slagam v salamura)
• Dutch: pekelen (nl)
• Esperanto: pekli
• Finnish: säilöä suolavedessä
• Italian: mettere in salamoia

• Portuguese: salmourar
• Russian: соли́ть (ru) impf (solítʹ), засоли́ть (ru) pf (zasolítʹ)
• Spanish: poner en salmuera, salar (es)

See also

• bittern

Anagrams

• Brien, biner, rebin

---

Italian

Noun

brine f

1. plural of brina

Anagrams

• nerbi