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{{also|Brew}}
==English==

===Etymology 1===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰrewh₁-}}
From {{inh|en|enm|brewen}}, from {{inh|en|ang|brēowan}}, from {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*breuwan}}, from {{inh|en|gem-pro|*brewwaną}}, from {{der|en|ine-pro|*bʰrewh₁-}}. {{doublet|en|burn}}.

Cognate with
{{cog|nl|brouwen}}, {{cog|de|brauen}}, {{cog|sv|brygga}}, {{cog|nb|brygge}}; also {{cog|grc|φρέαρ||well}}, {{cog|la|ferveo|fervēre|to be hot; to burn; to boil}}, {{cog|sga|bruth||violent, boiling heat}}, {{cog|sa|भुर्वन्||motion of water|tr=bhurván}}. It may be related to {{cog|en|barley}}

====Pronunciation====
* {{enPR|bro͞o}}, {{IPA|en|/bɹuː/|/bɹuʊ̯/}}
** {{audio|en|en-us-brew.ogg|a=US}}
* {{IPA|en|/bɹɪʊ̯/|a=Wales,Ottawa Valley,Southern US}}
* {{rhymes|en|uː|s=1}}

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|transitive|intransitive}} To make [[tea]] or [[coffee]] by mixing [[tea leaf|tea leaves]] or [[coffee bean|coffee beans]] with hot water.
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1935|author=w:Christopher Isherwood|title=w:Mr Norris Changes Trains|publisher=Penguin|year_published=1942|chapter=11|page=113|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/mrnorrischangest00ishe
|passage=Elderly people sat indoors, in the damp. shabby houses, '''brewing''' malt coffee or weak tea and talking without animation {{...}}}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[heat]] [[wine]], [[infuse|infusing]] it with spices; to [[mull]].
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Merry Wives|III|5|text=Go, '''brew''' me a [[pottle]] of [[sack]] finely.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive|intransitive}} To make a hot [[soup]] by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
# {{lb|en|transitive|intransitive}} To make beer by [[steeping]] a [[starch]] source in water and [[ferment]]ing the resulting sweet liquid with [[yeast]].
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[foment]] or prepare, as by brewing
#: {{syn|en|contrive|plot|hatch}}
#* {{RQ:Milton Comus|page=106|text=Hence with thy '''brew’d''' inchantments, foul deceiver {{...}}}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[attend]] to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Merry Wives|I|4|text=I wash, wring, '''brew''', bake, scour, dress meat and drink {{...}}}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive|of an unwelcome event}} To be in a state of preparation; to be [[mix]]ing, forming, or [[gather]]ing.
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice|II|5|text=There is some ill a-'''brewing''' towards my rest,}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=2004-10-29|author=Marco R. Della Cava|title=Vaccine shortage pricks tempers|journal=w:Statesman Journal|volume=152|issue=214|location=Salem, OR|page=2A|passage=Of course, no one knows what kind of flu season is '''brewing''', the perfect storm of a new strain hitting a largely unvaccinated population or a mercifully mild few months.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=January 11, 2011|author=Jonathan Stevenson|title=West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham|work=BBC|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/league_cup/9354485.stm|passage={{w|Avram Grant|Grant}} may have considered that only a performance of the very highest quality could keep him in a job - and the way his players started the game gave the 55-year-old shelter from the storm that was '''brewing'''.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive|obsolete}} To [[boil]] or [[seethe]]; to [[cook]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1886|translator=H.L. Br&aelig;kstad|author=w:Peter Christen Asbj&oslash;rnsen|title=Folk and Fairy Tales|page=6|passage=She had one day to get up very early in the morning to '''brew''', when the other servants said to her: 'You had better mind you don't get up too early, and you mustn't put any fire under the copper before two o'clock.'}}

=====Derived terms=====
{{col-auto|en|abrew|brewable|misbrew|nanobrew|overbrew|rebrew|underbrew|hell-brewed|homebrewed|microbrewed|nonbrewed|unbrewed|as you have brewed, so you must drink|brew up|brewage|brewer|brewery|brewhouse}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|make tea or coffee}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|варя}}, {{t|bg|запарвам}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|沏|tr=qī}}, {{t+|cmn|泡|tr=pào}}, {{t+|cmn|煮|tr=zhǔ}}, {{t+|cmn|沖|tr=chōng}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|keittää}}
* French: {{t+|fr|infuser}}
* German: {{t+|de|brühen}}, {{t+|de|aufbrühen}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|preparare}}
* Lao: {{t-needed|lo}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|ва́ри}}, {{t|mk|сва́ри}}
* Old English: {{t|ang|brēowan}}
* Persian: {{t+|fa|دم کردن|tr=dam kardan}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|infundir}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|зава́ривать|impf}}, {{t+|ru|завари́ть|pf}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|preparar}}, {{t+|es|elaborar}}, {{t+|es|confeccionar}}, {{t+|es|cebar}}
* Thai: {{t+|th|ชง|tr=chong}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|demlemek}} {{q|transitive}}, {{t+|tr|demlenmek}} {{q|intransitive}}
* Yiddish: {{t|yi|אויפֿקוכן}}, {{t|yi|אויפֿזידן}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|make a hot soup}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|煮|tr=zhǔ}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[tehdä]] [[keittoa]]}}
* French: {{t+|fr|bouillir}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|bollire}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|сва́ри}}
* Persian: {{t+|fa|آب‌پز کردن|tr=âb-paz kardan}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|вари́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|свари́ть|pf}}
* Spanish: {{t-needed|es}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to make beer}}
* Arabic: {{t+|ar|خَمَّرَ}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|варя}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|釀造|tr=niàngzào}}, {{t+|cmn|釀製|tr=niàngzhì}}
* Danish: {{t|da|brygge}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|brouwen}}
* Estonian: {{t|et|pruulima}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[panna]] [[olutta]]}}
* French: {{t+|fr|brasser}}
* German: {{t+|de|brauen}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|醸造|alt=醸造する|tr=jōzō suru}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|toroī}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|brygge}}
* Old English: {{t|ang|brēowan}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|вари́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|свари́ть|pf}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|elaborar}}, {{t+|es|confeccionar}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|brygga}}
* Yiddish: {{t|yi|ברײַען}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to contrive; plot}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|圖謀|tr=túmóu}}, {{t+|cmn|密謀|tr=mìmóu}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|juonitella}}, {{t|fi|[[hautoa]] [[juonia]]}}
* French: {{t+|fr|manigancer}}, {{t+|fr|ourdir}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|плести́|impf}}, {{t+|ru|сплести́|pf}}
* Spanish: {{t-needed|es}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to go through the process of brewing beer}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|釀造|tr=niàngzào}}, {{t+|cmn|釀製|tr=niàngzhì}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[panna]] [[olutta]]}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|toroī}}
* Spanish: {{t-needed|es}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to be in a state of preparation}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|назрявам}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t|cmn|[[在]][[醞釀]][[之]][[中]]|tr=zài yùnniàng zhī zhōng}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kyteä}}, {{t|fi|olla tekeillä}}
* German: {{t+check|de|zusammenbrauen|alt=sich zusammenbrauen}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|назрева́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|назре́ть|pf}} {{qualifier|figurative}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|hervir}}, {{t+|es|fermentar}}, {{t|es|herver}}
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{{checktrans-top}}
* Catalan: {{t|ca|destilar}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|vařit}}
* Danish: {{t|da|brygge}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|brouwen}}
* French: {{t+|fr|brasser}}
* German: {{t+|de|brauen}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|főz}}
* Korean: {{t|ko|양조하다}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|kōpiro}}
* Norman: {{t|nrf|brachi}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|warzyć|impf}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|fermentar}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|destilar}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|brygga}}
* Vietnamese: {{t-needed|vi}}
* Welsh: {{t+|cy|bragu}}
{{trans-bottom}}

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{senseid|en|mixture}} The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a [[brewage]], such as [[tea]] or beer.
#* {{quote-book|1=en|year=1959|year_published=1972|author=w:Anthony Burgess|title=Beds in the East|series=The Malayan Trilogy|page=529|passage=Six great bottles of one of the Hong Kong '''brews''' had been brought to wash down the brandy and the fragments of rice and ''mee'' and meat-fibres that clung to the back teeth.}}
## {{lb|en|slang}} A [[serving]] of [[beer]].
##: {{syn|en|brewski}}
## {{lb|en|Britain|slang}} A [[cup of tea]].
##* {{quote-text|en|date=March 6 2007|author=w:Julie Rutterford|title=[[:w:Life_on_Mars_(British_TV_series)|Life on Mars]]|section=[[:w:List_of_Life_on_Mars_(British_TV_series)_episodes|Season 2, Episode 3]]
|passage=''Landlady:'' You're not stoppin' for a '''brew'''?<br>''Gene Hunt:'' No thanks, love. Better [[crack on]].}}

=====Derived terms=====
{{der2|en|brew-in|cold brew|cold brew coffee|craft brew|homebrew|on the brew|iron brew|witches' brew|brewfest|brewmaster|brewology|brewpub|brewsky|brewster|broth|hellbrew|macrobrew|megabrew|microbrew}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|something brewed}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t|cmn|[[釀製]][[飲料]]|tr=niàngzhì yǐnliào}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|brouwsel|n}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|mallasjuoma}}, {{t|fi|keitos}}
* French: {{t+|fr|breuvage|m}}
* German: {{t|de|Bräu|m}}
* Plautdietsch: {{t|pdt|Brie|m}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|infusão|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|ва́рево|n}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|destilado|m}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|brygd|c}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|beer}}

{{trans-see|cup of tea}}

===Etymology 2===
From {{inh|en|enm|brewe||eyebrow}}, from {{inh|en|ang|bru||eyebrow}}. {{doublet|en|brow}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|British|dialect}} An overhanging [[hill]] or cliff.

=====Translations=====
{{trans-see|hill}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=berw|BWER}}

{{C|en|Beer|Coffee|Tea}}

==Middle English==

===Verb===
{{head|enm|verb}}

# {{alt form|enm|brewen}}

==Old Polish==

===Etymology===
{{dercat|zlw-opl|ine-bsl-pro|ine-pro|inh=2}}
{{inh+|zlw-opl|sla-pro|*bry}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{zlw-opl-IPA|breẃ}}

===Noun===
{{zlw-opl-noun|f}}

# [[eyebrow]]
#* {{RQ:zlw-opl:Rozm|149|O '''brwiach''' Jezusowych. '''Brwi''' miał wielmi czarne a nadobne (de superciliis. Nigra supercilia)|O '''brwiach''' Jezusowych. '''Brwi''' miał wielmi czarne a nadobne (de superciliis. Nigra supercilia)|-}}

====Descendants====
* {{desc|pl|brew}}

===References===
* {{R:zlw-opl:SPJSP||632}}

==Polish==
{{wp|lang=pl}}

===Etymology===
{{dercat|pl|sla-pro|ine-bsl-pro|ine-pro|inh=3}}
{{inh+|pl|zlw-opl|brew}}.

===Pronunciation===
{{pl-pr|a=Pl-brew.ogg}}

===Noun===
{{pl-noun|f}}

# [[eyebrow]]

====Declension====
{{pl-decl-noun-f|nomp=brwi}}

====Derived terms====
{{col-auto|pl|title=adjective|bezbrewy}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:pl:WSJP}}
* {{R:pl:PWN}}

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