marinate

English

Etymology

First attested in 1645; adapted from either French mariner or the earlier attested Italian marinare (“to pickle, marinate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from Late Latin marina (“brine, salt water”), short for aqua marina (“sea water”), from Latin marinus (“marine, of the sea”), from Latin mare (“the sea”) from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“the sea”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæɹɪneɪt/

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Verb

marinate (third-person singular simple present marinates, present participle marinating, simple past and past participle marinated)

1. (transitive, ergative) To allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into something; to steep or soak something in a marinade to flavor or prepare it for cooking.

   You'll get a better flavour from the chicken if you marinate it first.

   After the chicken has marinated for two hours, discard the remaining marinade.

2. (intransitive) Of ideas or feelings, to mentally develop over time.
3. (figurative, informal) Especially of a haircut, to settle in and for one to get used to it.

   It's not a bad haircut! You just got to let it marinate!

Derived terms

• marinate on

Related terms

• marinade
• marine
• maritime

Translations

soak in marinade

• Azerbaijani: basdırmaq (az)
• Belarusian: марынава́ць impf (marynavácʹ), замарынава́ць pf (zamarynavácʹ)
• Bulgarian: мариновам (marinovam)
• Catalan: marinar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 醃 / 腌 (jip³)

  Mandarin: 腌泡 (zh) (yānpào), 腌 (zh) (yān)

• Crimean Tatar: marinadlamaq
• Czech: marinovat
• Dutch: marineren (nl)
• Esperanto: marini
• Finnish: marinoida (fi)
• French: mariner (fr)
• Galician: mariñar (gl)
• Georgian: მარინირება (marinireba), ამარინირებს (amarinirebs)
• German: marinieren (de)
• Hungarian: pácol (hu)
• Icelandic: marinera, marínera
• Ido: marinar (io)
• Indonesian: pemarinadean
• Italian: marinare (it)
• Japanese: マリネにする (marine-ni suru)
• Luxembourgish: abeezen (lb)
• Māori: whakamara
• Norwegian: marinere
• Polish: marynować (pl) impf, zamarynować (pl) pf, bejcować (pl) impf, zabejcować pf
• Portuguese: marinar
• Russian: маринова́ть (ru) (marinovátʹ), соли́ть (ru) (solítʹ), замаринова́ть (ru) pf (zamarinovátʹ)
• Slovene: marinirati
• Spanish: marinar (es), adobar (es)
• Tamil: ஊறு (ta) (ūṟu) (intransitive), ஊறவை (ūṟavai) (transitive)
• Thai: หมัก (th) (màk)
• Turkish: avcarlamak, marine etmek
• Ukrainian: маринува́ти impf (marynuváty), замарино́вувати impf (zamarynóvuvaty) (rare), замаринува́ти pf (zamarynuváty)
• Vietnamese: ướp (vi)

See also

• pickle

Adjective

marinate (not comparable)

1. (rare) Marinated.

Anagrams

• animater, natremia

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

marinate

1. inflection of marinare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

marinate f pl

1. feminine plural of marinato

Anagrams

• amarenti, antimera, atermani, marniate, materani, riamante, rimenata, teramani

Spanish

Verb

marinate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of marinar combined with te