brav

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Breton

Adjective

brav

  1. beautiful

German

Etymology

From French brave.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʁaːf/
  • Audio:(file)

Adjective

brav (strong nominative masculine singular braver, comparative braver, superlative am bravsten)

  1. (of people, especially children, and pets) good, well-behaved, obedient
    Ich verspreche, brav zu sein.
    I promise to be good.
  2. (of people, especially adults, dated) honest, upright, upstanding
  3. (of clothes, behaviour) conventional, conservative, dowdy

Declension

Further reading


Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French brave.

Adjective

brav

  1. brave

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Low German brav and French brave, from Italian bravo.

Adjective

brav (masculine and feminine brav, neuter bravt, definite singular and plural brave, comparative bravere, indefinite superlative bravest, definite superlative braveste)

  1. (literary) brave
  2. (obsolete) good

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Romanian

Etymology

From French brave, from Italian bravo.

Pronunciation

Adjective

brav m or n (feminine singular bravă, masculine plural bravi, feminine and neuter plural brave)

  1. brave, courageous

Declension

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *borvъ.

Noun

brav m (Cyrillic spelling брав)

  1. male sheep or goat
  2. wether

Declension

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Slovak

Noun

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  1. barrow, castrated male pig

Further reading

  • brav”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024