saline

See also: Saline

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French salin, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin sal (“salt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɪ.laɪn/
• IPA^(key): /ˈseɪliːn/

Adjective

saline (comparative more saline, superlative most saline)

1. Containing salt; salty.
2. Resembling salt.

   a saline taste

Derived terms

• Saline County

Translations

salty

• Catalan: salí (ca)
• Finnish: suolainen (fi)
• French: salin (fr)
• Galician: salino (gl)
• German: salzhaltig (de)
• Greek: αλατούχος (el) m or f (alatoúchos), αλατώδης (el) m or f (alatódis)
• Irish: salanda
• Italian: salino (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: saltholdig (no)

  Nynorsk: salthaldig

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• Persian: شور (fa) (šur)
• Polish: słony (pl) m, zasolony m
• Portuguese: salino
• Romanian: salin (ro)
• Russian: соляно́й (ru) (soljanój), солево́й (ru) (solevój), солёный (ru) (soljónyj) (salty)
• Spanish: salino (es)
• Turkish: tuzlu (tr)

Noun

saline (countable and uncountable, plural salines)

1. Water containing dissolved salt.
2. A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.

Synonyms

• (water containing dissolved salt): saline solution

Derived terms

• normal saline

Translations

solution — see saline solution

Anagrams

• A-lines, Selina, aliens, alines, laines, lianes, lisena, silane, slaine

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.lin/

Adjective

saline

1. feminine singular of salin

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Italian

Adjective

1. feminine plural of salino

Noun

saline f pl

1. plural of salina

Anagrams

• lesina