brine

Meaning

Noun

1. Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling.
2. The sea or ocean; the water of the sea.

Verb

1. To preserve food in a salt solution.
2. To prepare and flavor food (especially meat) for cooking by soaking in a salt solution.

Synonyms

salt water

seawater

sea water

saline water

pickle

sea

🌊

ocean

🌊

salty water

bittern

spring

well

salt brine

salt solution

salt

🧂

salinate

pickling solution

marine water

salt liquor

corn

🌽

dun

gas

oil

saline

saltwater

sol

souse

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɹaɪn/

Etymology

From Middle English brine, bryne, from Old English brīne, from Proto-Germanic *brīnijaz, *brīnaz (compare Scots brime, West Frisian brein, Dutch brijn (“brine”), West Flemish brijne), of unknown ultimate origin, but probably 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 (bṛṇā́ti, “they injure, hurt”).
Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *mriHnós, from *móri (compare Latin marīnus).