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 (abstract nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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Noun

broth (countable and uncountable, plural broths)

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

   Synonyms: bouillon, liquor, pot liquor, stock

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 102:

     A compound of galanga, cubebs, sparrow wort, cardamoms, nutmeg, gillyflowers, Indian thistle, laurel seeds, cloves, Persian pepper is made into a drink. Taken twice daily morning and night, in pigeon or fowl broth, preceded and followed by eater. The result, according to Arab tradition, is an effective aphrodisiac.

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

Derived terms

• barley-broth
• black broth
• broth cube
• brothlike
• broth of a boy
• brothy
• clambroth
• cockadoodle broth
• flesh broth
• hellbroth
• lysogeny broth
• microbroth
• 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

• → Irish: brat
• → 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: צִיר (he) m (tzir)
• 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
• Ingrian: leemi
• Irish: anraith m
• Italian: brodo (it) m, bollito (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 (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
• Manobo:

  Western Bukidnon Manobo: savew

• Maranao: sawaw
• Middle English: broth, sew
• Middle Mongol: ᠱ᠋ᠥᠯᠡᠨ (šölen)
• Mi'kmaq: p'tew inan
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: шөл (mn) (šöl)

  Mongolian script: ᠱᠥᠯᠥ (šölö)

• Norman: bouôillon m
• Norwegian:

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

• Occitan: bolhon (oc) 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

  Latin: bùjōn (sh) m

• Sicilian: vrodu (scn) 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), bulon (uz)
• Vietnamese: canh (vi), nước dùng (vi), nước lèo (vi)
• Welsh: cawl (cy) m
• 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 (políwka), 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), 羹 (zh)

• Cornish: kowl m
• Czech: vývar (cs) m
• Danish: bouillon (da) c, suppe (da) c
• 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 (mk) f (supa)
• Manchu: ᠰᡳᠯᡝ (sile)
• Māori: wairenga
• Norman: bouôillon m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: buljong m

• Polish: rosół (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
• Swedish: buljong (sv) c
• 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, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative broth vocative a bhroth genitive brotha dative broth forms with the definite article singular nominative an broth genitive an bhrotha dative leis an mbroth don bhroth

Mutation

Mutated forms of broth

radical	lenition	eclipsis
broth	bhroth	mbroth

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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 9 December 2018.