braise

See also: braisé

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹeɪz/
• Rhymes: -eɪz
• Homophones: brays, braize

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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”). Perhaps from Gothic *𐌱𐍂𐌰𐍃𐌰 (*brasa, “glowing coal”), from Proto-Germanic *brasō (“gleed, crackling coal”), Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to crack, break, burst”). Cognate with Icelandic brasa (“to harden by fire”). See burst.

Noun

braise (plural braises)

1. Alternative spelling of braze
2. A dish (usually meat) prepared by braising.

   Pot roast is typically a braise, as is osso buco.

3. A sauce used for braising.

   Braised cabbage is cooked in a braise of sliced bacon, one or two thickly sliced onions, one or two sliced carrots, parsley, thyme, a bay leaf, and stock to nearly cover.

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.
2. Alternative spelling of braze (joining non-ferrous metal using a molten filler metal)

Translations

To cook in a small amount of liquid

• Bulgarian: задушавам (bg) (zadušavam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 燉 (zh), 炖 (zh) (dùn), 蒸 (zh) (zhēng) (to steam), 燴 (zh), 烩 (zh) (huì), 扒 (zh) (pá)

• Dutch: smoren (nl)
• Finnish: breseerata
• French: braiser (fr)
• German: schmoren (de), anschmoren
• Hungarian: párol (hu), dinsztel (hu)
• Icelandic: brasa
• Isan: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: brasare (it)

• Japanese: 蒸す (ja) (むす, musu), ブレイズする (bureizu suru)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Ladino:

  Roman: enhaminar

• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: estufar (pt), refogar (pt)
• Russian: туши́ть (ru) impf (tušítʹ), потуши́ть (ru) pf (potušítʹ)
• Spanish: guisar (es), estofar (es)
• Swedish: bräsera (sv)
• Thai: ตุ๋น (th) (dtǔn)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

braise (plural braises)

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

Synonyms

• (Pagellus bogaraveo): becker

References

• Pagellus centrodontus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pagellus centrodontus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• braise in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• braise at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Baiers, Serbia, braies, rabies, rebias

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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

• “braise” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• abries, baiser, braies

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Irish

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

braise f (genitive singular braise)

1. brashness, flippancy

Declension

Declension of braise

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative braise Vocative a bhraise Genitive braise Dative braise

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an bhraise Genitive na braise Dative leis an mbraise don bhraise

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

braise

1. inflection of bras (“great, strong; swift”):
   1. genitive singular feminine
   2. comparative degree

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.

Further reading

• Entries containing “braise” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

References

• "braise" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.