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salmoura.

brine (moisture that drips from salted fish or meat)

8 characters3 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/sawˈmo(w).ɾɐ/Brazil[saʊ̯ˈmo(ʊ̯).ɾɐ]Brazil/salˈmo(w).ɾɐ/Portugal[saɫˈmo(w).ɾɐ]Portugal

  1. brine (moisture that drips from salted fish or meat)

    feminine

  2. brine (water saturated with salt, sometimes enriched with other substances or seasonings, in which meat, fish, olives, etc. are preserved.)

    feminine

  3. brine tank, pickle jar (vessel where organic substances are preserved with salt water)

    feminine

  4. salting (the process of preserving food in salt)

    feminine

  5. desalination brine, waste brine (wastewater with a high concentration of salt (among other substances), which results from the process of desalination of seawater)

    feminine
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese salmoira, from Late Latin salimuria, from Latin sal + muria.

verb/sawˈmo(w).ɾɐ/Brazil[saʊ̯ˈmo(ʊ̯).ɾɐ]Brazil/salˈmo(w).ɾɐ/Portugal[saɫˈmo(w).ɾɐ]Portugal

  1. inflection of salmourar: third-person singular present indicative

    form-of · indicative · present · singular · third-person

  2. inflection of salmourar: second-person singular imperative

    form-of · imperative · second-person · singular
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