broil

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /bɹɔɪl/
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• rhymes with -ɔɪl
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• archaic, dialectal: /bɹaɪl/
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• CMU ARPABET: B R OY1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English broylen, brulen (“to broil, cook”), from Anglo-Norman bruiller, broiller (“to broil, roast”), Old French brusler, bruller (“to broil, roast, char”), a blend of two Old French verbs: * bruir (“to burn”), from Frankish *brōjan (“to burn, scald”) * usler (“to scorch”), from Latin ustulō (“to scorch”)

From Middle English broilen (“to quarrel, present in disorder”), from Anglo-Norman broiller (“to mix up”), from Vulgar Latin *brodiculāre (“to jumble together”) from *brodum (“broth, stew”), from Frankish *broþ (“broth”), from Proto-Germanic *bruþą (“broth”).

43 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• French: échauffourée — a brawl
• Polish: awantura — a brawl
• Polish: burda — a brawl
• Chinese Mandarin: 烤 (kǎo) — to cook by direct, radiant heat
• Chinese Mandarin: 燒 /烧 (shāo) — to cook by direct, radiant heat
• Czech: grilovat — to cook by direct, radiant heat
• Dutch: grillen — to cook by direct, radiant heat
• Finnish: pariloida — to cook by direct, radiant heat
• Finnish: grillata — to cook by direct, radiant heat
• French: griller — to cook by direct, radiant heat
• German: braten — to cook by direct, radiant heat
• German: grillen — to cook by direct, radiant heat
• German: backen — to cook by direct, radiant heat
• German: rösten — to cook by direct, radiant heat
• Hungarian: grillez — to cook by direct, radiant heat
• Hungarian: roston süt — to cook by direct, radiant heat
• Hungarian: nyárson süt — to cook by direct, radiant heat
• Hungarian: parázson süt — to cook by direct, radiant heat
• Japanese: 焼く (yaku) — to cook by direct, radiant heat
• Korean: 굽다 (gupda) — to cook by direct, radiant heat
• Latin: assō — to cook by direct, radiant heat
• Polish: opiekać — to cook by direct, radiant heat
• Polish: opiec — to cook by direct, radiant heat
• Portuguese: gratinar — to cook by direct, radiant heat
• Romanian: frige — to cook by direct, radiant heat
• Russian: жа́рить (žáritʹ) — to cook by direct, radiant heat
• Spanish: gratinar — to cook by direct, radiant heat
• Welsh: grilio — to cook by direct, radiant heat
• Finnish: paahtaa — to expose to great heat
• German: braten — to expose to great heat
• German: grillen — to expose to great heat
• German: backen — to expose to great heat
• German: rösten — to expose to great heat
• Polish: przypiekać — to expose to great heat
• Polish: przypiec — to expose to great heat
• Finnish: paahtua — to be exposed to great heat
• German: braten — to be exposed to great heat
• German: grillen — to be exposed to great heat
• German: backen — to be exposed to great heat
• German: rösten — to be exposed to great heat
• Polish: smażyć się — to be exposed to great heat
• Polish: usmażyć się — to be exposed to great heat
• Russian: жа́риться (žáritʹsja) — to be exposed to great heat