salobre

Catalan

Etymology

Back-formation from salobrós, variant form of salabrós (“salty”).

Adjective

salobre (feminine salobra, masculine and feminine plural salobres)

1. salty, brackish

   Synonym: salabrós

Derived terms

• salobrar
• salobrejar
• salobrenc

Noun

salobre m (plural salobres)

1. layer of salt left after the evaporation of water
2. saline efflorescence

Further reading

• “salobre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “salobre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /saˈlo.bɾi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /saˈlo.bɾi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /saˈlo.bɾe/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɐˈlo.bɾɨ/ [sɐˈlo.βɾɨ]

• Hyphenation: sa‧lo‧bre

Adjective

salobre m or f (plural salobres)

1. Alternative form of salobro

Spanish

Etymology

Possibly from Latin salebrōsus (“rough, rugged”), from salebra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈlobɾe/ [saˈlo.β̞ɾe]
• Rhymes: -obɾe
• Syllabification: sa‧lo‧bre

Adjective

salobre m or f (masculine and feminine plural salobres)

1. salty
   • 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:

     Después de atravesar un puente de madera, que sumerge en el salobre fango sus podridos pilotes, subimos una cuesta (casi estamos ya en Ficóbriga), desde la cual se ve la ría, dando vueltas como si no supiera a dónde va, ni dónde está el mar que la espera, metiéndose en todos los charcos de las marismas cuando hay marea, y huyendo de ellos aprisa desde que empieza la baja.

     After crossing a wooden bridge, its rotten piles sunk in the salty muck, we climb a hill (we’re nearly to Ficobriga) from which we can see the estuary, turning in circles as if it knows not where it is going, nor where is the sea that awaits it, getting into the marsh’s every puddle with high tide, and quickly fleeing them once it begins to ebb.

2. (of water) brackish, briny

Derived terms

• agua salobre

Related terms

• sal
• salado

Further reading

• “salobre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10