brad

See also Brad

English

Etymology

Late Middle English, variant of brod(d), from Old Norse broddr ‘spike, shaft’, from Proto-Germanic *bruzdaz (compare Old English brord, Old High German brort), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrusdʰos (compare Welsh brath ‘sting, prick’, Albanian bredh (“fir-tree”), Lithuanian bruzdùklis ‘bridle’, Czech brzda ‘brake’).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /bɹad/
• (US) IPA: /bɹæd/
• Rhymes: -æd

Noun

brad (plural brads)

1. A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.
   • 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 5:

     Into the middle arch of each desk silver-headed brads had been hammered to form a lion, a bear, a ram, a dove, and in the midst a flaming torch.

2. (US, elementary school usage, particularly kindergarten and primary grades) A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet.

Derived terms

• bradawl

Translations

thin finishing nail

• Finnish: uppokantanaula (fi)

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• Bulgarian: клинец (bg) (klinec)
• Mandarin: 活页纸书钉

Anagrams

• bard
• darb
• drab

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Aromanian

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Proto-Albanian *brada (modern bredh), or alternatively a substratum cognate of it, and ultimately from an Indo-European source either way. Compare Daco-Romanian brad.

Noun

brad

1. fir tree

See also

• iehlã
• chin

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish brat (“spoil, plunder, robbery”).

Noun

brad f

1. (literary) plunder

Declension

Declension of brad

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun) Case Singular Nominative brad Vocative a bhrad Genitive braide Dative brad

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an bhrad Genitive na braide Dative leis an mbrad don bhrad

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
brad	bhrad	mbrad
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Derived terms

• bradach
• bradaí
• bradaigh
• bradaíl
• bradóg

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *braidaz. Compare Old Frisian brēd (West Frisian breed), Old Saxon brēd (Low German breed, breet), Dutch breed, Old High German breit (German breit), Old Norse breiðr (Danish and Swedish bred), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (braiþs).

Adjective

brād

1. broad

Descendants

• Middle English: brood, brod, brode
  • English: broad
  • Scots: braid

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Romanian

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Proto-Albanian *brada (modern bredh), or alternatively a substratum cognate of it, and ultimately from an Indo-European source either way. Another theory suggests that it was reformed from the plural brazi, and that the original form was *braz. Compare Aromanian brad.

Noun

brad m (plural brazi)

1. fir, Abies alba.
2. pine tree.
3. pine wood.

Derived terms

• brădățel
• brădet
• brădioară
• brădiș
• brădișor
• brăduț

See also

• pin

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Volapük

Noun

brad (plural brads)

1. arm

Declension

declension of brad

	singular	plural
nominative	brad	brads
genitive	brada	bradas
dative	brade	brades
accusative	bradi	bradis
predicative	bradu	bradus
vocative	o brad!	o brads!