brine

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

1. (transitive) To preserve food in a salt solution.
2. (transitive) 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

Translations

saumure

salmuera

salamoia

Sole

Salzlauge

Salzwasser

salmorra

salmoura

pekel

eau salée

agua de mar

Salzsole

σαλαμούρα

άλμη

salamura

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɹaɪn/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: brine

Inherited from Old English: brīne

Cognate with Scots: brime

Cognate with Western Frisian: brein

Cognate with Dutch: brijn

Cognate with West Flemish: brijne

Cognate with Old Irish: ro·bria

Cognate with Latin: friāre

Cognate with Slovenian: bríti

Cognate with Albanian: brej

Cognate with Sanskrit: बृणाति

Cognate with Latin: marīnus

In summary

From Middle English brine, bryne, from Old English brīne, from Proto-West Germanic *brīnā, from Proto-Germanic *brīnǭ (“salt water, brine”) (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).