braise

See also: braisé

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɹeɪz/
  • Rhymes: -eɪz
  • Homophones: brays, braize
  • Audio (US)(file)

Etymology 1

From French braise (“live coals”), from Old French brese (“embers”), from Old Low Franconian; akin to Norwegian/Swedish braseld (“sparkling fire”), Norwegian/Swedish dialectal brasa (“to roast”), Danish dialectal brase (“to flambé, enflame”).[1]

Noun

braise (plural braises)

  1. Alternative spelling of braize
  2. A method of joining non-ferrous metal using a molten filler metal. Similar to soldering but distinct from welding in that the filler is melted but not the metal being joined.

Verb

braise (third-person singular simple present braises, present participle braising, simple past and past participle braised)

  1. (cooking) To cook in a small amount of liquid, in a covered pan. Somewhere between steaming and boiling.
Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

braise (plural braises)

  1. Pagellus bogaraveo, syn. Pagellus centrodontus (sea bream)
Synonyms

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ Alain Rey, ed., Dictionnaire historique de la langue française, s.v. "braise" (Paris: Le Robert, 2006).

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From Middle French bresze, from Old French breze (“ember, burning coal, gleed”), perhaps from Gothic *𐌱𐍂𐌰𐍃𐌰 (*brasa, “glowing coal”), from Proto-Germanic *brasō (“gleed, crackling coal”), Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to crack, break, burst”). Cognate with Swedish brasa (“to roast”), Icelandic brasa (“to harden by fire”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʁɛz/

Noun

braise f (plural braises)

  1. (singular or plural) embers
  2. (slang) cash, dough

Further reading

Anagrams

Irish

Etymology 1

Noun

braise f (genitive singular braise)

  1. brashness
Declension

Etymology 2

Adjective

braise

  1. genitive singular feminine of bras
  2. comparative degree of bras

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
braise bhraise mbraise
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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