bouillon

First attested 1656, from French bouillon, from the verb bouillir (“to boil”), from Old French boillir, from Latin bullīre, present active infinitive of bulliō (“I bubble, boil”), from bulla (“bubble”).

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

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (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/

• Audio:

  (file)

• 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/

• Audio:

  (file)

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.

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

bouillon m

1. mud

• bouillounou (“muddy”)