bouillon

See also: Bouillon

English

Etymology

First attested 1656, from French bouillon, from the verb bouillir (“to boil”), from Old French boillir, from Latin bullīre (“to bubble, boil”), from bulla (“bubble”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.jɒn/, /ˈbuː.jɒ̃/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbʊlˌjɑn/, /ˈbʊljən/, /ˈbuˌjɑn/

Noun

bouillon (countable and uncountable, plural bouillons)

1. A clear seasoned broth made by simmering usually light meat, such as beef or chicken.
   1. A similar broth made by reconstituting, that is, by adding hot water to dried powder concentrate; the dried powder concentrate itself.
2. An excrescence on a horse's frush or frog.

Hypernyms

• (type of broth): broth

Hyponyms

• Scotch broth

Derived terms

• bouillon cube
• court bouillon

Translations

a clear seasoned broth — see also bouillon cube

• Bashkir: һурпа (horpa)
• Basque: salda
• Catalan: brou (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 清湯 / 清汤 (zh) (qīngtāng)

• Czech: bujon (cs) m, bujón m, vývar (cs)
• Danish: bouillon (da) c
• Dutch: bouillon (nl) m
• Esperanto: buljono
• Faroese: kjøtsoð n, bótarsoð n, drekkasúpan f, buljong f
• Finnish: lihaliemi (fi)
• French: bouillon (fr) m
• German: Bouillon (de) f
• Greek: ζωμός (el) m (zomós)
• Hungarian: erőleves (hu), húsleves (hu)
• Icelandic: kjötkraftur (is) m
• Ido: buliono (io)
• Indonesian: kaldu (id)
• Japanese: 肉羹 (ja) (にくこう, nikukō), ブイオン (buion), 肉汁 (ja) (nikujū)
• Lithuanian: sultinys m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: buljong m, kraft (no) m or f

• Polish: bulion (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: caldo (pt) m
• Romanian: bulion (ro) n
• Russian: бульо́н (ru) m (bulʹón)
• Slovak: bujón m
• Spanish: caldo (es) m, caldo concentrado m, caldo en pasta m (paste), pasta de caldo f (paste)
• Ukrainian: бульйо́н (uk) m (bulʹjón)

See also

• bullion (bulk precious metal (possibly related))

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French bouillon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu(l)ˈjɔn/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bouil‧lon
• Rhymes: -ɔn

Noun

bouillon m (plural bouillons, diminutive bouillonnetje n)

1. stock, broth (water in which meat (or other food) has been boiled)

   Synonym: vleesnat

2. (dated) bullion, fringe of gold or silver wire

   Synonym: cantille

Derived terms

• bouillonblokje

Descendants

• → Sranan Tongo: bulyon

French

Etymology

From bouillir +‎ -on.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.jɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

bouillon m (plural bouillons)

1. broth (water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled)
2. bubble rising from a boiling liquid
3. gulp of liquid which escapes forcefully
4. flesh rising on a fold
5. risen fold of cloth
6. unsold copies of a publication
7. simple restaurant, which originally served only bouillon

Derived terms

• boire le bouillon
• boire le bouillon d'onze heures
• bouilloire
• bouillon blanc
• bouillon de culture
• bouillon-blanc
• bouillonnement
• bouillonner
• bouillotte

Descendants

• Antillean Creole: bouyon
• Haitian Creole: bouyon
• Mauritian Creole: bouyon
• → Czech: bujon, bujón
• → Dutch: bouillon
• → English: bouillon
• → German: Bouillon
• → Luxembourgish: Bouillon
• → Norwegian Bokmål: buljong
• → Russian: бульон (bulʹon)
  • → Georgian: ბულიონი (bulioni)
• → Serbo-Croatian: bùjōn, бу̀јо̄н
• → Slovak: bujón
• → Turkish: bulyon
• → Ukrainian: бульйо́н (bulʹjón)

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Further reading

• “bouillon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

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Noun

bouillon m

1. mud

Derived terms

• bouillounou (“muddy”)