urine

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See also: Urine, uriné, and urinë

English

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Etymology

From Middle English uryne, from Latin ūrīna (“urine”), from Proto-Indo-European *uh₁r-, zero grade of *weh₁r- (“water, liquid, milk”). Related to *h₁ewHdʰr̥- (see udder). Cognate with Old English ūriġ (“wet, moist”). Displaced native English land (“urine”), (Middle English land, from Old English hland (“urine”)).

Pronunciation

Noun

urine (usually uncountable, plural urines)

  1. (physiology) Liquid waste consisting of water, salts, and urea, which is made in the kidneys, stored in the bladder, then released through the urethra.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urine
    • 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
      An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.

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Translations

Verb

urine (third-person singular simple present urines, present participle urining, simple past and past participle urined)

  1. (archaic) To urinate.
    • 1814, The Medical and Physical Journal, volume 31, page 226:
      He got out of bed every time he urined, or tried to urine.

References

  1. ^ Watkins, Calvert (2000). The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots. 2nd edition, page 100, s.v. wē-r-. →ISBN.

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch urine, from older orine, from Old French orine, urine, from Latin urina.

Pronunciation

Noun

urine f (plural urines)

  1. urine
    Synonyms: blaasvocht, pies, pis, plas, zeik

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: urine

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French urine, from Old French orine (modified per the Latin word), from Latin urīna. Old French orine likely derived from a Vulgar Latin *aurīna, influenced by aurum (“gold”). Compare Italian orina.

Pronunciation

Noun

urine f (plural urines)

  1. urine

Verb

urine

  1. inflection of uriner:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Indonesian

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Etymology

From Dutch urine, from Middle Dutch urine, from older orine, from Old French orine, urine, from Latin urina.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: uri‧nê

Noun

urinê (first-person possessive urineku, second-person possessive urinemu, third-person possessive urinenya)

  1. (physiology) urine: liquid waste consisting of water, salts, and urea, which is made in the kidneys, stored in the bladder, then released through the urethra.
    Synonyms: air kemih, air seni

Alternative forms

  • urin (nonstandard)
  • urin (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

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Ingrian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

Noun

urine

  1. purring (of a cat)

Declension

Declension of urine (type 6/lähe, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative urine urineet
genitive urineen urinein
partitive urinetta urineita
illative urineesse urineisse
inessive urinees urineis
elative urineest urineist
allative urineelle urineille
adessive urineel urineil
ablative urineelt urineilt
translative urineeks urineiks
essive urineenna, urineen urineinna, urinein
exessive1) urineent urineint
1) obsolete
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

Related terms

References

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 625

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /uˈri.ne/
  • Rhymes: -ine
  • Hyphenation: u‧rì‧ne

Noun

urine f

  1. plural of urina

Anagrams

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French orine, respelled urine to reflect the Latin spelling urina.

Noun

urine f (plural urines)

  1. urine

Portuguese

Verb

urine

  1. inflection of urinar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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