broth

See also: broþ

English

Etymology

From Middle English broth, from Old English broþ (“broth”), from Proto-West Germanic *broþ (“broth”), from Proto-Germanic *bruþą (“broth”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to seethe, roil, brew”). Akin to Old English breowan (“to brew”), equivalent to brew +‎ -th.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɹɔθ/, enPR: brôth
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /bɹɑθ/, enPR: brŏth
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɹɒθ/, enPR: brŏth
• Rhymes: -ɒθ

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Noun

broth (countable and uncountable, plural broths)

1. (uncountable) Water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled.

   Synonyms: bouillon, liquor, pot liquor, stock

2. (countable) A soup made from broth and other ingredients such as vegetables, herbs or diced meat.

Derived terms

• black broth
• broth cube
• broth of a boy
• flesh broth
• Scotch broth
• snow-broth
• stew in one's own broth
• too many chefs spoil the broth
• too many cooks spoil the broth

 

Related terms

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

 

Descendants

• → Scottish Gaelic: brot

Translations

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

• Afrikaans: bouillon
• Albanian: gjellë (sq) f
• Arabic: مَرَق‎ m (maraq), مَرَقَة‎ f (maraqa)

  Hijazi Arabic: مَرَقة‎ f (maraga)

  Moroccan Arabic: مرقة‎ f (marqa)

• Armenian: արգանակ (hy) (arganak)
• Azerbaijani: bulyon
• Bashkir: һурпа (hurpa)
• Basque: salda
• Belarusian: бульён m (bulʹjón), булён m (buljón), адва́р m (advár), вы́вар m (vývar), рассо́л m (rassól)
• Bulgarian: бульо́н m (buljón)
• Catalan: brou (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (meat broth) 肉湯／肉汤 (zh) (ròutāng)

• Cimbrian: bröode n
• Cornish: kowl m
• Czech: vývar (cs) m
• Dalmatian: bruod m
• Danish: bouillon (da) c
• Dutch: bouillon (nl) n
• Esperanto: buljono
• Estonian: puljong, leem
• Finnish: liemi (fi)
• French: bouillon (fr) m
• Galician: caldo (gl) m, brodio m
• Georgian: ბულიონი (bulioni)
• German: Brühe (de) f
• Greek: ζωμός (el) m (zomós)
• Hebrew: מָרָק‎ (he) m (marák)
• Hindi: शोरबा (hi) m (śorbā), झोल (hi) m (jhol), जूस (hi) m (jūs), रसा (hi) m (rasā), यखनी (hi) f (yakhnī), यख़्नी f (yaxnī)
• Hungarian: húsleves (hu)
• Icelandic: seyði (is) n
• Ido: buliono (io)
• Indonesian: kaldus
• Irish: anraith m
• Italian: brodo (it) m, bollito (it) m
• Japanese: だし (ja) (dashi), ブイヨン (buiyon), ストック (ja) (sutokku), 煮汁 (ja) (にじる, nijiru), ブロス (burosu)
• Kikuyu: mũcũthi class 3
• Korean: 국물 (ko) (gungmul)
• Latin: sorbitiō f, iūs (la) n
• Latvian: buljons m
• Lithuanian: sultinys m
• Lombard: bröö, bröd, brœud
• Luxembourgish: Britt f
• Macedonian: бујо́н m (bujón)
• Maguindanao: sabaw
• Malay: kaldu
• Maltese: brodu f
• Maranao: sawaw
• Mi'kmaq: p'tew inan
• Middle English: broth, sew
• Norman: bouôillon m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kraft (no) m or f, buljong m

• Polish: rosół (pl) m, bulion (pl) m
• Portuguese: caldo (pt)
• Romanian: bulion (ro) n, supă (ro) f
• Russian: бульо́н (ru) m (bulʹón), отва́р (ru) m (otvár) (also plant or root broth often with medicinal qualities)
• Scottish Gaelic: brot m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бу̀јо̄н m

  Roman: bùjōn (sh) m

• Slovak: vývar (sk) m
• Slovene: bujon m
• Spanish: caldo (es) m
• Swedish: buljong (sv) c, spad (sv) n
• Tocharian B: smaññe, maiki
• Turkish: et suyu (tr)
• Ukrainian: бульйо́н (uk) m (bulʹjón), відва́р m (vidvár), ви́вар m (vývar), розсі́л m (rozsíl), щерба́ f (ščerbá)
• Urdu: یَخْنی‎ (ur) f (yaxnī)
• Uzbek: shoʻrva (uz), bulyon
• Vietnamese: canh (vi)
• Welsh: cawl (cy) m
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: savew
• Yakut: мин (min)
• Yiddish: יויך‎ f (yoykh)

soup made from broth

• Armenian: արգանակ (hy) (arganak)
• Bashkir: һурпа (hurpa)
• Belarusian: бульён m (bulʹjón), булён m (buljón), юха́ f (juxá), суп m (sup), полі́ўка f (políŭka), заці́рка f (zacírka)
• Bulgarian: бульо́н m (buljón), су́па (bg) f (súpa)
• Catalan: brou (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (meat broth) 肉湯／肉汤 (zh) (ròutāng)

• Cornish: kowl m
• Czech: vývar (cs) m
• Dutch: consommé (nl) m, bouillonsoep (nl) m or f
• Estonian: leem
• Even: хил (hil)
• Evenki: силэ (silə)
• Finnish: keitto (fi)
• French: bouillon (fr) m, soupe (fr) f
• Galician: caldo (gl) m, sopa f, brodio m
• German: Brühe (de) f, Suppe (de) f
• Hindi: शोरबा (hi) m (śorbā), झोल (hi) m (jhol), जूस (hi) m (jūs), रसा (hi) m (rasā)
• Hungarian: húsleves (hu)
• Irish: anraith m
• Italian: zuppa (it) f, minestra (it) f, brodo (it) m
• Japanese: スープ (ja) (sūpu), ブロス (burosu)
• Korean: 국물 (ko) (gungmul)
• Latin: iūs (la) n
• Macedonian: супа f (supa)
• Manchu: ᠰᡳᠯᡝ (sile)
• Maori: wairenga
• Norman: bouôillon m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: buljong m

• Polish: rosół (pl) m, bulion (pl) m
• Portuguese: brodo (pt) m
• Romanian: supă (ro) f
• Russian: суп (ru) m (sup), бульо́н (ru) m (bulʹón), похлёбка (ru) f (poxljóbka)
• Scottish Gaelic: brot m
• Slovak: vývar (sk) m
• Ukrainian: бульйо́н (uk) m (bulʹjón), ю́шка (uk) f (júška), щерба́ f (ščerbá), суп m (sup), зу́па f (zúpa)
• Welsh: cawl (cy) m

See also

• dashi
• souse
• stock

Anagrams

• Borth, throb

Irish

Noun

broth m (genitive singular brotha)

1. Alternative form of bruth (“heat; rash, eruption; nap, pile, covering”)

Declension

Declension of broth

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative broth Vocative a bhroth Genitive brotha Dative broth

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an broth Genitive an bhrotha Dative leis an mbroth don bhroth

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
broth	bhroth	mbroth
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “broth”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Middle English

Alternative forms

• broð, broþ, brotthe, broþþe, broththe

Etymology

From Old English broþ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brɔθ/

Noun

broth (plural brothes)

1. Water in which something (usually food) has been boiled; broth.

Descendants

• English: broth
  • → Scottish Gaelic: brot
• Scots: broth

References

• “broth, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-09.