English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
Shortened from brassiere.
Wikipedia bra (plural bras)
- a brassiere
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
brassiere
- Afrikaans: beha (af)
- Albanian: gjimbajtëse (sq) f
- Arabic: حمالة صدر (ar) (ḥammāla ṣadr) f, مشد صدر (ar) (míšadd ṣadr) m
- Armenian: կրծկալ (hy) (krtskal)
- Azeri: lifçik (az)
- Belarusian: бюстгальтар (be) (bjusthálʹtar) m, станік (be) (stánik) m, ліфчык (be) (lífčyk) m
- Bengali: বক্ষবন্ধনী (bn) (bôkshôbôndhôni)
- Bulgarian: сутиен (bg) (sutién) m
- Burmese: ဘရာစီယာ (my) (ba̱ ra si ja)
- Catalan: sostenidor (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 奶罩 (cmn) (nǎizhào), 胸罩 (cmn) (xiōngzhào)
- Czech: podprsenka (cs) f
- Danish: brystholder (da)
- Dutch: bustehouder (nl) m, beha (nl) m
- Esperanto: mamzono (eo)
- Estonian: rinnahoidja (et)
- Finnish: rintaliivit (fi) pl
- French: soutien-gorge (fr) m, (popular) soutif (fr), (dated) brassière (fr) f
- Georgian: ლიფი (ka) (lip'i), აზღუდი (ka) (azḡudi)
- German: Büstenhalter (de) m, (abbreviation) BH (de) m, (colloquial) Busenhalter (de) m
- Greek: στηθόδεσμος (el) (stithódesmos) m
- Hebrew: חזייה (he) (khaziyá) f
- Hindi: ब्रेजिअर (hi) (breji'ar), ब्रा (hi) (brā)
- Hungarian: melltartó (hu)
- Icelandic: brjóstahaldari (is)
- Indonesian: kutang (id), beha (id)
- Irish: cíochbheart (ga) m
- Italian: reggiseno (it) m, reggipetto (it) m
- Japanese: ブラ (ja) (bura), ブラジャー (ja) (burajā)
- Jèrriais: brâssiéthe f
- Kazakh: лифчик (kk) (lïfçïk)
- Khmer: ឤវទនាប់ (km) (aow dtroh-noep)
- Kinyarwanda: isutiye (rw)
- Korean: 브래지어 (ko) (beuraejieo)
- Kyrgyz: лифчик (ky) (lifçik)
- Lao: ເສື້ອຊ້ອນ (lo) (sư̄a sǭn)
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- Latin: strophium (la) n
- Latvian: krūšturis (lv) m
- Lithuanian: liemenėlė (lt) f
- Luxembourgish: Soutien (lb) m
- Macedonian: градник (mk) (grádnik) m, прслук (mk) (p'rsluk) m
- Malay: bra (ms), coli (ms)
- Manx: coodagh keeagh
- Norwegian: brystholder (no), bysteholder (no)
- Persian: پستان بند (fa) (pestân band)
- Polish: biustonosz (pl) m, stanik (pl) m
- Portuguese: sutiã (pt) m
- Romanian: sutien (ro) n
- Russian: бюстгальтер (ru) (bjustgálʹter) m, лифчик (ru) (lífčik) m
- Scottish Gaelic: uchd-aodach (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: грудњак (sh) m
- Roman: grudnjak (sh) m
- Slovak: podprsenka (sk) f
- Slovene: nedrček (sl) m
- Spanish: ajustador (es) m (Cuba), brasier (es) m (Central America, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico), corpiño (es) m (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay), sostén (es) m (now especially Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Venezuela), soutien (es) m (Uruguay), sujetador (es) m (Spain)
- Swahili: sindiria (sw), kanchiri (sw)
- Swedish: behå (sv), bh (sv) c, bysthållare (sv), brösthållare (sv)
- Tagalog: bra (tl)
- Tajik: лифчик (tg) (lifčik)
- Tatar: күкрәкчә (tt) (kükräkçä)
- Thai: เครื่องยกทรง (th) (krêuang yók song)
- Tok Pisin: banis bilong susu (tpi)
- Turkish: sütyen (tr), sutyen (tr)
- Turkmen: göwüslik (tk), lifçik (tk)
- Ukrainian: бюстгальтер (uk) (bjusthálʹter) m, ліфчик (uk) (lífčyk) m
- Urdu: برا (ur) (brā)
- Uzbek: siynaband (uz), ko'krakpech (uz), lifchik (uz)
- Vietnamese: cái xú chiên (vi), cái nịt ngực zhào
- Volapük: dögipolian (vo), dögistütian (vo)
- West Frisian: boarststipe (fy)
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Etymology 2 [edit]
From bracket
Wikipedia bra (plural bras)
- (physics) One of the two vectors in the standard notation for describing quantum states in quantum mechanics, the other being the ket.
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Antonyms [edit]
Etymology 3 [edit]
Representing a different pronunciation of bro, meaning brother
bra (plural bras)
- (slang) friend
- Take it easy, bra!
- (slang) female version of bro
Anagrams [edit]
Lojban [edit]
bra
- rafsi of barda.
Norwegian [edit]
Adjective [edit]
bra
- good, fine
See also [edit]
Swedish [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Since at least 1621, from braf (“good, brave”); from German brav; from French brave.
Pronunciation [edit]
Adjective [edit]
bra (comparative bättre, superlative bäst)
- good
Adverb [edit]
bra (comparative bättre, superlative bäst)
- well
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