broth

Meaning

1. Water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled.
2. A soup made from broth and other ingredients such as vegetables, herbs or diced meat.

Synonyms

soup

🍲

bouillon

stock

sauce

gravy

juice

consomme

stew

🍲

clear soup

pottage

puree

sap

slop

starch

vichyssoise

esp. chicken broth

fish

🐟

pease-soup

concoction

fat

full of

liquor

mush

oil

pickle

porridge

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɹɔθ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: broth

Inherited from Old English: broþ

Cognate with Old English: breowan

In summary

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.