Brook

See also: brook

English

Alternative forms

• Brooke
• Brooks

Etymology

• As an English surname, from the noun brook.
• As a north German surname, from Low German Brook (“swamp, marsh”), related to the above.
• As a Dutch surname, Americanized from Broek, from broek, also related to the above.
• As a Jewish and German surname, Americanized from Bruck, Bruch (from Bruch (“wetland, marsh”)).

Pronunciation

• enPR: brŏŏk

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Australian) IPA^(key): /bɹʊk/,

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• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /bɹɵk/

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• (Wales) IPA^(key): /bɾʊk/

• (foot-goose merger)

• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /bɾʉk/
• (Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /bɹʉk/

• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /bɹuːk/
• Rhymes: -ʊk

Proper noun

Brook

1. A habitational surname from Middle English for someone living by a brook.
2. A surname from Hebrew, a transliteration and normalization of Hebrew ברך (barúkh, “blessed”).
3. A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Brooks.
4. A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage, variant of Brooke.
5. A town in Newton County, Indiana, United States.
6. A number of places in England:
   1. A hamlet in Tedburn St Mary parish, Teignbridge district, Devon, divided into Higher and Lower Brook (OS grid ref SX8091).
   2. A hamlet in Tavistock parish, West Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SX4772).
   3. A hamlet in Bramshaw parish, New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU2714).
   4. A hamlet in King's Somborne parish, Test Valley district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU3428).
   5. A village in Brighstone parish, Isle of Wight (OS grid ref SZ3983).
   6. A village and civil parish in Ashford borough, Kent (OS grid ref TR0644).
   7. A hamlet in Albury parish, Guildford borough, Surrey (OS grid ref TQ0646).
   8. A hamlet in Witley parish, Waverley borough, Surrey (OS grid ref SU9338).
7. A hamlet in Llanddowror community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN2609).

Anagrams

• Borko, Borok, bokor, obrok

Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German brôk, from Old Saxon *brōk, from Proto-West Germanic *brōk.

Noun

Brook m or n (plural Broken) (German Low German)

1. marsh; swamp