brooch

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Variant of broach

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /brəʊtʃ/, X-SAMPA: /br@UtS/
• (US) enPR: brōch, IPA: /bɹoʊtʃ/, /bɹoʊʃ/
• Rhymes: -əʊtʃ
• Homophone: broach

Noun

brooch (plural brooches)

1. A piece of women’s ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.
2. A painting all of one colour, such as a sepia painting.

Synonyms

• breastpin

Hypernyms

• pin

Translations

jewellery with pin

• Arabic: بروش (ar) (brūš, broš) m
• Belarusian: брошка (be) (bróška) f
• Bulgarian: брошка (bg) (bróška) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胸針 (cmn), 胸针 (cmn) (xiōngzhēn), 別針 (cmn), 别针 (cmn) (biézhēn), (on a tie) 領針 (cmn), 领针 (cmn) (lǐngzhēn)

• Crimean Tatar: tüyreviç
• Czech: brož (cs) f, spona (cs) f, sponka (cs) f
• Danish: broche (da) c
• Dutch: broche (nl) f, speldje (nl) n
• Esperanto: broĉo (eo)
• Faroese: bringuprýði (fo) n, brossja (fo) f
• Finnish: rintaneula
• French: broche (fr) f
• Georgian: ბროში (ka) (broši)
• German: Brosche (de) f
• Greek: πόρπη (el) (pórpi) f
• Hungarian: bross (hu), melltű (hu)
• Ido: brocho

• Italian: spilla (it) f
• Japanese: ブローチ (ja) (burōchi)
• Korean: 브로치 (ko) (beurochi)
• Luxembourgish: Brosch (lb) f
• Macedonian: брош (mk) (broš) m, брошка (mk) (bróška) f
• Malay: kerongsang (ms)
• Maori: pine (mi)
• Polish: broszka (pl) f, brosza (pl) f
• Portuguese: broche (pt) m
• Russian: брошка (ru) (bróška) f, брошь (ru) (brošʹ) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: брош (sh) m

  Roman: broš (sh) m

• Slovak: spona (sk) f, brošňa (sk) f
• Slovene: broška (sl) f
• Spanish: broche (es) m
• Swedish: brosch (sv)
• Turkish: broş (tr)
• Ukrainian: брошка (uk) (bróška) f
• Vietnamese: trâm (vi), trâm gài đầu (vi)

Verb

brooch (third-person singular simple present brooches, present participle brooching, simple past and past participle brooched)

1. (transitive) To adorn as with a brooch.