braid

English

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A braid

Etymology 1

From Middle English braiden, breiden, bræiden, from Old English breġdan (“to move quickly, pull, shake, swing, throw (wrestling), draw (sword), drag; bend, weave, braid, knit, join together; change color, vary, be transformed; bind, knot; move, be pulled; flash”), from Proto-Germanic *bregdaną (“to flicker, flutter, jerk, tug, twitch, flinch, move, swing”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrēḱ-, *bʰrēǵ- (“to shine, shimmer”). Cognate with Scots brade, braid (“to move quickly or suddenly”), West Frisian breidzje, Dutch breien (“to knit”), Low German breiden, Bavarian bretten (“to move quickly, twitch”), Icelandic bregða (“to move quickly, jerk”).

Alternative forms

• brayde (obsolete), breyde (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bɹeɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

Verb

braid (third-person singular simple present braids, present participle braiding, simple past braided, past participle braided or obsolete browden)

1. (obsolete) (transitive) To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.
2. (archaic) (intransitive) To start into motion.
3. (transitive) To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids.

Translations

intertwine

• Arabic: يضفر (ar) (yuḍafir)

  Egyptian Arabic: يضفر (yeḍafar)

• Bulgarian: сплитам (bg) (splitam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 編織 (cmn), 编织 (cmn) (biānzhī)

• Dutch: vlechten (nl)
• Finnish: letittää (fi)
• French: tresser (fr)
• German: flechten (de)
• Hungarian: befon (hu)

• Italian: intrecciare (it)
• Japanese: 編む (ja) (あむ, amu)
• Macedonian: испреплетува (mk) (ispreplétuva)
• Norwegian: flette (no)
• Portuguese: trançar (pt) f
• Russian: плести (ru) (plestí) impf., сплести (ru) (splestí) pf.
• Spanish: trenzar (es)
• Swedish: fläta (sv)

Noun

braid (plural braids)

1. (obsolete) A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench. [11th-17th c.]
   • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XII:

     And than in a brayde Sir Launcelot brake hys chaynes of hys legges and of hys armys (and in the brakynge he hurte hys hondys sore) [...].

2. A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration. [from 16th c.]

Translations

weave of three of more strands

• Arabic: جديلة (ar) (jadádil) f, ضفيرة (ar) (ḍafira) f

  Egyptian Arabic: ضفيرة (ḍefiira) f

• Bulgarian: плитка (bg) (plitka) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 辮子 (cmn), 辫子 (cmn) (biànzi)

• Czech: cop (cs) m
• Danish: fletning (da) c
• Dutch: vlecht (nl)
• Finnish: letti (fi)
• French: tresse (fr) f, natte (fr) f
• German: Zopf (de) m
• Hungarian: copf (hu), hajfonat (hu)
• Italian: treccia (it) f
• Japanese: 組み紐 (ja) (くみひも, kumihimo)
• Jèrriais: tresse f

• Macedonian: плетенка (mk) (plétenka) f, плетеница (mk) (pleténica) f
• Norwegian: flette (no) m and f
• Polish: warkocz (pl) m
• Portuguese: trança (pt) f
• Romani: chunra f
• Romanian: împletitură (ro) m
• Russian: коса (ru) (kosá) f, галун (ru) (galún) m
• Serbo-Croatian: gajtan (sh) m, širit (sh) m, tkanica (sh) f, kika (sh) f, pletenica (sh) f, кика (sh) f, плетеница (sh) f
• Spanish: trenza (es) f
• Swedish: fläta (sv) c
• Telugu: జడ (te)
• Walloon: trexhe (wa)

External links

• braid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• braid in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• Braid on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

Adjective

braid (comparative more braid, superlative most braid)

1. (obsolete) deceitful
   • Shakespeare

     Since Frenchmen are so braid, / Marry that will, I live and die a maid.

Anagrams

• rabid

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Gothic

Romanization

braid

1. See 𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌳