English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Shortened from brassiere.
Wikipedia
bra (plural bras)
- a brassiere
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
brassiere
- Afrikaans: beha
- Albanian: gjimbajtëse f
- Arabic: حمالة صدر f (ḥammāla ṣadr), مشد صدر m (míšadd ṣadr)
- Armenian: կրծկալ (krckal)
- Asturian: apertador m, sostén m
- Azeri: lifçik
- Belarusian: бюстгальтар m (bjusthálʹtar), станік m (stánik), ліфчык m (lífčyk)
- Bengali: বক্ষবন্ধনী (bôkshôbôndhôni)
- Bulgarian: сутиен (bg) m (sutién)
- Burmese: ဘရာစီယာ (my) (ba̱ ra si ja)
- 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 (lip’i), აზღუდი (azḡudi)
- 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: brâssiéthe f
- Kazakh: лифчик (lïfçïk)
- Khmer: ឤវទនាប់ (aow dtroh-noep)
- Kinyarwanda: isutiye
- Korean: 브래지어 (ko) (beuraejieo)
- Kyrgyz: лифчик (lifçik)
- Lao: ເສື້ອຊ້ອນ (lo) (sư̄a sǭn)
- Latin: strophium n
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- Latvian: krūšturis m
- Lithuanian: liemenėlė f
- Luxembourgish: Soutien m
- Macedonian: градник m (grádnik), прслук m (p'rsluk)
- Malay: bra, coli
- Manx: coodagh keeagh
- Maori: pari
- 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: бюстгальтер (ru) m (bjustgálʹter), лифчик (ru) m (lífčik)
- Scottish Gaelic: uchd-aodach m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: грудњак m
- Roman: grudnjak m
- 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)
- Tatar: күкрәкчә (tt) (kükräkçä)
- Thai: เครื่องยกทรง (krêuang yók song)
- Tok Pisin: banis bilong susu
- Turkish: sütyen (tr), sutyen (tr)
- Turkmen: göwüslik, lifçik
- Ukrainian: бюстгальтер (uk) m (bjusthálʹter), ліфчик m (lífčyk)
- Urdu: برا (brā)
- Uzbek: siynaband, ko'krakpech, lifchik
- Vietnamese: cái xú chiên, cái nịt ngực zhào
- Volapük: dögipolian, dögistütian
- West Frisian: boarststipe
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Etymology 2[edit]
From bracket
Wikipedia
bra (plural bras)
- (physics) One of the two vectors in the standard notation for describing quantum states in quantum mechanics, the other being the ket.
Related terms[edit]
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Etymology 3[edit]
Representing a different pronunciation of bro, meaning brother
bra (plural bras)
- (slang) friend
- Take it easy, bra!
- (slang) female version of bro
Anagrams[edit]
bra
- rafsi of barda.
Norwegian[edit]
Adjective[edit]
bra
- good, fine
See also[edit]
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Since at least 1621, from braf (“good, brave”); from German brav; from French brave.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
bra (comparative bättre, superlative bäst)
- good
bra (comparative bättre, superlative bäst)
- well
See also[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Believed by some to be from Persian برادر (barâdar), from Old Persian 𐎲𐎼𐎠𐎫𐎠 (brātā), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.
bra
- brother
