# urine
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English uryne, from Latin ūrīna (“urine”), from Proto-Indo-European *uh₁r-, zero grade of *woh₁-r̥ (“water, liquid, milk”). Related to *h₁ówHdʰr̥ (“udder”) (see udder). Cognate with Old English ūriġ (“wet, moist”). Displaced native English land (“urine”), (Middle English land, from Old English hland (“urine”)).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: yo͝orʹĭn, yo͝orʹīn, IPA: /ˈjʊəɹɪn/, /ˈjʊəɹaɪn/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) enPR: yo͝orʹĭn, yûrʹĭn, IPA: /ˈjʊɹɪn/, /ˈjɝɪn/
* (General Australian) enPR: yo͝orʹĭn, IPA: /ˈjʉːəɹɪn/
* Rhymes: -ʊəɹɪn, -ʊəɹaɪn

### Noun

urine (usually uncountable, plural urines)
* (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.

#### Derived terms

* black urine disease
* cow urine
* extract the urine
* maple syrup urine disease
* nonurine
* purple urine bag syndrome
* uric
* urinable
* urinaceous
* urinal
* urinalysis
* urinary
* urinate
* urination
* urinative
* urine bottle
* urine box
* urineless
* urinelike
* urinemia
* urinemic
* urine therapy
* uriniferous
* uriniparous
* urinogenous
* urinology
* urinoma
* urinometer
* urinometry
* urinomics
* urinose
* urinosexual
* urinous

#### Translations
### Verb

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

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

### Further reading

* “urine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “urine”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “urine”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* Nueir, in ure, inure, ruine

## Albanian
### Noun

urine
* indefinite dative/genitive/ablative singular of urinë

## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /yˈri.nə/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: uri‧ne
* Rhymes: -inə

### Noun

urine f (plural urines)
* urine
    Synonyms: blaasvocht, pies, pis, plas, zeik

#### Derived terms

* urineleider

#### 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

* IPA: /y.ʁin/

### Noun

urine f (plural urines)
* urine

### Verb

urine
* inflection of uriner:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* nuire, réuni, ruine, ruiné

## Indonesian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈʊrinə]
* Hyphenation: uri‧nê

### Noun

urinê (plural urine-urine)
* (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)

#### Derived terms

* berurine

### Further reading

* “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.

## Ingrian
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

urine
* purring (of a cat)

#### Related terms

* urissa (“to purr”)

### References

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

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /uˈri.ne/
* Rhymes: -ine
* Hyphenation: u‧rì‧ne

### Noun

urine f
* plural of urina

### Anagrams

* unire

## Middle French
### Etymology

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

### Noun

urine f (plural urines)
* urine

## Portuguese
### Verb

urine
* inflection of urinar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative