salmoura

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sawˈmo(w).ɾɐ/ [saʊ̯ˈmo(ʊ̯).ɾɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /sawˈmo(w).ɾɐ/ [saʊ̯ˈmo(ʊ̯).ɾɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /sawˈmo(w).ɾa/ [saʊ̯ˈmo(ʊ̯).ɾa]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /salˈmo(w).ɾɐ/ [saɫˈmo(w).ɾɐ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /salˈmo(w).ɾɐ/ [saɫˈmo(w).ɾɐ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /salˈmow.ɾɐ/ [saɫˈmow.ɾɐ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /salˈmo.ɾɐ/ [saɫˈmo.ɾɐ]

• Rhymes: -owɾɐ, -oɾɐ
• Hyphenation: sal‧mou‧ra

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• salmoira

Noun

salmoura f (plural salmouras)

1. brine (moisture that drips from salted fish or meat)
2. brine (water saturated with salt, sometimes enriched with other substances or seasonings, in which meat, fish, olives, etc. are preserved.)
3. brine tank, pickle jar (vessel where organic substances are preserved with salt water)
4. salting (the process of preserving food in salt)
5. desalination brine, waste brine (wastewater with a high concentration of salt (among other substances), which results from the process of desalination of seawater)

Related terms

• sal
• salgação
• salgar

 

Etymology 2

Verb

salmoura

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

Further reading

• “salmoura”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “salmoura”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024