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”). Cognates include 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 *mriHnós, from *móri (compare Latin marīnus).

Pronunciation

• enPR: brīn, IPA^(key): /bɹaɪn/

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• 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.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 3:

     Ariell: Not a ſoule / But felt a Feauer of the madde, and plaid / Some tricks of deſperation ; all but Mariners / Plung'd in the foaming bryne, and quit the veſſell ; / Then all a fire with me the Kings ſonne Ferdinand / With haire vp-ſtaring (then like reeds, not haire) / Was the firſt man that leapt ; cride hell is empty, / And all the Diuels are heere.

Derived terms

• brine fly
• brineless
• brine shrimp
• briny

 

Translations

salt water

• Armenian: աղաջուր (hy) (aġaǰur)
• Belarusian: расо́л m (rasól), рапа́ f (rapá) (firth water)
• Bulgarian: саламу́ра (bg) f (salamúra)
• Burmese: ရေငန် (my) (re-ngan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鹽水／盐水 (zh) (yánshuǐ), 盐水 (zh) (yánshuǐ), 鹹水／咸水 (zh) (xiánshuǐ), 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: 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)
• Korean: 소금물 (sogeummul)
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• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: خوێواوک (xwêwawk)

  Northern Kurdish: sûravk (ku) f

• 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
• Thai: น้ำเกลือ (th) (nám-glʉʉa), น้ำเค็ม (th) (nám-kem)
• Tok Pisin: solwara
• Turkish: salamura (tr)
• Ukrainian: розсі́л m (rozsíl), росі́л m (rosíl), ропа́ f (ropá) (firth water)
• Vietnamese: nước muối, nước dưa
• Volapük: salod (vo)
• Welsh: heli m
• West Frisian: pikel c

the sea or ocean

• Bulgarian: море́ (bg) n (moré), океа́н 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)
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• Korean: 해수 (haesu), 바닷물 (ko) (badanmul)
• 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
• Thai: น้ำทะเล
• Tok Pisin: solwara
• Turkish: tuzlu su

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Translations to be checked

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Verb

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
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• 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

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Italian

Noun

brine f

1. plural of brina

Anagrams

• nerbi

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Old English

Alternative forms

• brȳne

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *brīnijaz, *brīnaz; compare Middle Dutch brine (Dutch brijn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbriː.ne/

Noun

brīne f

1. brine

Descendants

• English: brine