different between brine vs embrine

English

Etymology

From Middle English brine, bryne, from Old English br?ne, br?ne, from Proto-Germanic *br?nijaz, *br?naz (compare Scots brime, West Frisian brein, Dutch brijn (“brine”), West Flemish brijne), from Proto-Indo-European *b?reyH- (“to cut, maim”). Cognates include Old Irish ro·bria (“may hurt, damage”), Latin fri?re (“to rub, crumble”), Slovene bríti (“to shave, shear”), Albanian brej (“to gnaw”), Sanskrit ?????? (b????ti, “they injure, hurt”).

Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *mriHnós, from *móri (compare Latin mar?nus).

Pronunciation

• enPR: br?n, IPA^(key): /b?a?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Noun

brine (usually uncountable, plural brines)

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.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

brine (third-person singular simple present brines, present participle brining, simple past and past participle brined)

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.

Antonyms

• debrine
• desalinate

Derived terms

• debrine
• embrine
• briner

Translations

See also

• bittern

Anagrams

• Biren, Brien, biner, rebin

Italian

Noun

brine f

1. plural of brina

Anagrams

• nerbi

Old English

Alternative forms

• br?ne

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *br?nijaz, *br?naz; compare Middle Dutch brine (Dutch brijn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bri?.ne/

Noun

br?ne f

1. brine

Descendants

• English: brine

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

brine (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. third-person singular present of brinuti

Slovene

Noun

brine

1. accusative plural of brin

English

Etymology

em- +? brine

Verb

embrine (third-person singular simple present embrines, present participle embrining, simple past and past participle embrined)

1. (archaic, rare) To soak in brine.