bra

See also: brà and brá

English

bra

Pronunciation

• enPR: brä, (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /brɑː/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ɑː

Etymology 1

Shortened from (deprecated template usage) brassiere.

Noun

bra (plural bras)

1. a brassiere

Derived terms

• maternity bra
• nursing bra
• peek-a-boo bra
• push-up bra
• sports bra
• training bra
• underwired bra

Translations

brassiere

• Afrikaans: beha
• Albanian: gjimbajtëse f
• Arabic: حمالة صدر f (ḥammāla ṣadr), مشد صدر m (mišadd ṣadr)
• Armenian: կրծկալ (krckal)
• Asturian: apertador m, sostén m
• Azeri: lifçik, büstqalter
• Belarusian: бюстга́льтар m (bjusthálʹtar), ста́нік m (stánik), лі́фчык m (lífčyk)
• Bengali: বক্ষবন্ধনী (bôkshôbôndhôni)
• Bulgarian: сутие́н (bg) m (sutién)
• Burmese: ဘရာစီယာ (my) (bha.raciya)
• Catalan: sostenidor m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奶罩 (zh) (nǎizhào), 胸罩 (zh) (xiōngzhào)

• Czech: podprsenka (cs) f
• Danish: brystholder (da), bh (da) c, (underwired bra) bøjle-bh c
• Dutch: bustehouder (nl) m, beha (nl) m
• Esperanto: mamzono
• Estonian: rinnahoidja (et)
• Finnish: rintaliivit (fi) pl
• French: soutien-gorge (fr) m, (popular) soutif (fr), (dated) brassière (fr) f
• Georgian: ლიფი (lipi), აზღუდი (azɣudi)
• German: Büstenhalter (de) m, (abbreviation) BH (de) m, (colloquial) Busenhalter m
• Greek: στηθόδεσμος (el) m (stithódesmos)
• Hebrew: חזייה f (khaziyá)
• Hindi: ब्रेजिअर (breji'ar), ब्रा (brā)
• Hungarian: melltartó (hu)
• Icelandic: brjóstahaldari
• Indonesian: kutang (id), beha (id)
• Irish: cíochbheart (ga) m
• Italian: reggiseno (it) m, reggipetto (it) m
• Japanese: ブラ (bura), ブラジャー (burajā)
• Jèrriais:
• Kazakh: лифчик (lifçik)
• Khmer: អាវទនាប់ (aow dtroh-noep)
• Kinyarwanda: isutiye
• Korean: 브래지어 (ko), 브라 (beura)
• Kyrgyz: лифчик (lifcik)
• Lao: ເສື້ອຊ້ອນ (lo) (sư̄a sǭn)
• Latin: strophium n
• Latvian: krūšturis m
• Lithuanian: liemenėlė f
• Luxembourgish: Soutien m
• Macedonian: гра́дник m (grádnik), пр́слук m (pŕsluk)
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• Malay: bra, coli
• Manx: coodagh keeagh
• Maori: pari
• Mongolian: хөхний даруулга (xöxnii daruulga)
• Ngazidja Comorian: katshiri
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brystholder m, bysteholder m, behå m, BH (no) m, bh m

  Nynorsk: brysthaldar m, bystehaldar m, behå m, BH (no) m

• Persian: پستان بند (fa) (pestân band), سوتین (fa) (sutiyan)
• Polish: biustonosz (pl) m, stanik (pl) m
• Portuguese: sutiã (pt) m
• Romanian: sutien (ro) n
• Russian: бюстга́льтер (ru) m (bjustgálʹter), ли́фчик (ru) m (lífčik)
• Scottish Gaelic: uchd-aodach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: грудњак m

  Roman: grudnjak (sh) m

• Silesian: lojbik m
• Sinhalese: තනපට (tanapaṭa)
• Slovak: podprsenka f
• Slovene: nedrček (sl) m
• Spanish: ajustador m (Cuba), brasier m (Central America, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico), corpiño m (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay), sostén (es) m (now especially Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Venezuela), soutien m (Uruguay), sujetador m (Spain)
• Swahili: sindiria (sw), kanchiri (sw)
• Swedish: behå (sv), bh (sv) c, bysthållare, brösthållare
• Tagalog: bra (tl)
• Tajik: лифчик (lifčik)
• Tamil: மார்புக்கச்சை (mārpukkaccai)
• Tatar: күкрәкчә (tt) (kükräkçä)
• Telugu: బ్రా (te) (brā)
• Thai: เครื่องยกทรง (krêuang yók song)
• Tibetan: ནུ་ཤུབ། (nu shub)
• Tok Pisin: banis bilong susu
• Turkish: sütyen (tr), sutyen (tr)
• Turkmen: göwüslik, lifçik
• Ukrainian: бюстга́льтер (uk) m (bjusthálʹter), лі́фчик m (lífčyk)
• Urdu: برا (brā)
• Uzbek: siynaband, ko'krakpech, lifchik
• Vietnamese: cái xú chiên, cái nịt ngực zhào
• Volapük: dögipolian, dögistütian
• West Frisian: boarststipe, beha

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) bracket

Noun

bra (plural bras)

1. (deprecated template usage) (physics) One of the two vectors in the standard notation for describing quantum states in quantum mechanics, the other being the ket.

Related terms

• bra-ket notation

Antonyms

• ket

Etymology 3

Representing a different pronunciation of bro, meaning brother

Noun

bra (plural bras)

1. (deprecated template usage) (slang) friend

   Take it easy, bra!

2. (deprecated template usage) (slang) female version of bro

Anagrams

• ABR, ARB, bar, Bar

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Rafsi

1. Rafsi of barda.

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Norwegian

Adjective

bra

1. good, fine

See also

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Swedish

Etymology

Since at least 1621, from (deprecated template usage) braf; from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German (deprecated template usage) brav; from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French (deprecated template usage) brave.

Pronunciation

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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /brɑː/

Adjective

bra (comparative bättre, superlative bäst)

1. good

Adverb

bra (comparative bättre, superlative bäst)

1. well

See also

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Zazaki

Etymology

Compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Persian (deprecated template usage) برادر (barâdar).

Noun

bra

1. brother