bouillon

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”).

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

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

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.

• (type of broth): broth

• Scotch broth

• bouillon cube
• court bouillon

• bullion (bulk precious metal (possibly related))

Borrowed from French bouillon.

• IPA^(key): /bu(l)ˈjɔn/

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• Hyphenation: bouil‧lon
• Rhymes: -ɔn

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

• bouillonblokje

• → Sranan Tongo: bulyon

From bouillir +‎ -on.

• IPA^(key): /bu.jɔ̃/

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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

• → Norwegian Bokmål: buljong
• → Russian: бульон (bulʹon)
  • → Georgian: ბულიონი (bulioni)
• → Turkish: bulyon

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

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

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bouillon m

1. mud

• bouillounou (“muddy”)