urine

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).[1] Cognate with Old English ūriġ (“wet, moist”). Displaced native English land (“urine”), (Middle English land, from Old English hland (“urine”)).

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: yo͝orʹĭn, yo͝orʹīn, IPA^(key): /ˈjʊəɹɪn/, /ˈjʊəɹaɪn/

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• (General American) enPR: yo͝orʹĭn, yûrʹĭn, IPA^(key): /ˈjʊɹɪn/, /ˈjɝɪn/
• (General Australian) enPR: yo͝orʹĭn, IPA^(key): /ˈjʉːəɹɪn/
• Rhymes: -ʊəɹɪn, -ʊəɹaɪn

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.

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.

• “urine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “urine”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “urine”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Nueir, in ure, inure, ruine

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

• IPA^(key): /yˈri.nə/

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• Hyphenation: uri‧ne
• Rhymes: -inə

urine f (plural urines)

1. urine

   Synonyms: blaasvocht, pies, pis, plas, zeik

• urineleider

• → Indonesian: urine

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.

• IPA^(key): /y.ʁin/

urine f (plural urines)

1. urine

urine

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

• “urine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• nuire, réuni, ruine, ruiné

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈʊrinə]
• Hyphenation: uri‧nê

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

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

• “urine” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Onomatopoeic.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈurine/, [ˈurin]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈuriːne/, [ˈurˑiːne̞]
• Rhymes: -urin, -uriːne
• Hyphenation: u‧ri‧ne

urine

1. purring (of a cat)

• urissa (“to purr”)

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

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

urine f

1. plural of urina

• unire

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

urine f (plural urines)

1. urine

urine

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