Brest

See also: brest

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹɛst/
• Homophone: breast

Etymology 1

From a (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  word for "hill," see Scottish Gaelic bre.

Proper noun

Brest

1. A port city in Brittany, France.

Translations

A city in Brittany

• Arabic: بْرِيسْت m (brīst), بْرِيسْت m (brest)
• Belarusian: Брэст m (Brest)
• Breton: Brest (br)
• Catalan: Brest
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 布雷斯特 (Bùléisītè)

• Danish: Brest
• Finnish: Brest (fi)
• Japanese: ブレスト (Buresuto)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lithuanian: Brestas m
• Marathi: ब्रेस्त n (bresta)
• Polish: Brest (pl) m
• Portuguese: Brest f
• Russian: Брест (ru) m (Brest)
• Spanish: Brest (es)
• Turkish: Brest
• Ukrainian: Брест m (Brest)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Russian Брест (Brest).

Proper noun

Brest

1. A city in Belarus, on the border with Poland.

Translations

A city in Belarus

• Arabic: بْرِيسْت m (brīst), بْرِيسْت m (brest)
• Armenian: Բրեստ (hy) (Brest)
• Belarusian: Брэст m (Brest), Бярэ́сце n (Bjaréscje), Бе́расце n (Bjérascje)
• Bulgarian: Брест m (Brest)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 布列斯特 (zh) (Bùlièsītè)

• Czech: Brest m
• Danish: Brest
• Estonian: Brest (et)
• Finnish: Brest (fi)
• Hebrew: ברסט
• Japanese: ブレスト (Buresuto)
• Korean: 브레스트 (Beureseuteu)
• Latvian: Bresta
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lithuanian: Brestas m, Brasta
• Macedonian: Брест m (Brest)
• Polish: Brześć (pl) m
• Portuguese: Brest f
• Russian: Брест (ru) m (Brest), Бере́стье n (Beréstʹje)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Брест m

  Roman: Brest m

• Slovak: Brest m
• Slovene: Brest (sl) m
• Spanish: Brest (es)
• Turkish: Brest
• Ukrainian: Брест m (Brest), Бере́стя (uk) n (Beréstja), Бе́ресть n (Bérestʹ)

Anagrams

• Streb

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French

Etymology

From earlier Bresta, from a Celtic word for hill: Proto-Celtic *bargīti, *brigs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ-. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic bre (“hill”).

Proper noun

Brest m

1. Brest

Derived terms

• Brestois
• brestois

References

• Room, Adrian, Place Names of the World, 2nd ed., McFarland & Co., 2006.

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Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French Brest.

Proper noun

Brest f

1. Brest (a city in Brittany, France)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Belarusian Брэст (Brest).

Proper noun

Brest f

1. Brest (a city in Belarus)

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Spanish

Proper noun

Brest ?

1. Brest (a city in Brittany)
2. Brest (a city in Belarus)