braille

See also: Braille and braillé

English

Alternative forms

• Braille

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹeɪl/
• Rhymes: -eɪl

Noun

braille (countable and uncountable, plural brailles)

1. A system of writing invented by Louis Braille, in which letters and some combinations of letters are represented by raised dots arranged in three rows of two dots each and are read by the blind and partially sighted using the fingertips.

Usage notes

The Braille Authority of North America recommends using lower-case braille for the script, and reserve capital Braille for the man. However, the script is commonly capitalized as well. In British English, the capitalised form Braille should always be used.

Derived terms

• brailler
• braillewriter

Translations

system of writing using raised dots

• Catalan: braille (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 盲文 (zh) (mángwén), 點字 (zh), 点字 (zh) (diǎnzì), 凸字 (zh) (tūzì)

• Danish: punktskrift c
• Esperanto: Brajlo
• Finnish: sokeainkirjoitus (fi), pistekirjoitus (fi)
• French: braille (fr) m, Braille (fr) m
• German: Brailleschrift (de) f, Blindenschrift (de) f
• Greek: κώδικας Μπράιγ m (kódikas Bráig)
• Hebrew: כתב בריל‎‎ (he) m (ktav brail)
• Icelandic: blindraletur (is) n

• Irish: braille m, scríbhneoireacht bhraille f
• Japanese: 点字 (ja) (てんじ, tenji), ブライユ点字 (ブライユてんじ, Buraiyu tenji)
• Korean: 점자 (jeomja), 點字 (ko)
• Maori: tuhi matapō
• Norwegian: blindeskrift (no) m
• Portuguese: braile (pt) m, braille (pt) m
• Russian: а́збука Бра́йля f (ázbuka Brájlja), систе́ма Бра́йля f (sistéma Brájlja), брайль m (brajlʹ)
• Spanish: braille m
• Swedish: Brailleskrift, punktskrift
• Telugu: బ్రెయిలీ (breyilī)
• Volapük: bleinanatonatem (vo)

Verb

braille (third-person singular simple present brailles, present participle brailling, simple past and past participle brailled)

1. To write in, or convert into, the braille writing system.

   I played back my recorded notes and brailled them.

Adjective

braille (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to or written in braille.

Further reading

• braille on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Briella, Liberal, liberal

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French

Verb

braille

1. first-person singular present indicative of brailler
2. third-person singular present indicative of brailler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of brailler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of brailler
5. second-person singular imperative of brailler

Anagrams

• bâiller, libéral

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Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English braille.

Noun

braille m (genitive singular braille)

1. braille

   Synonym: scríbhneoireacht bhraille

Declension

Declension of braille

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative braille Vocative a bhraille Genitive braille Dative braille

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an braille Genitive an bhraille Dative leis an mbraille don bhraille

Derived terms

• cló bhraille m (“braille type”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
braille	bhraille	mbraille
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• "braille" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “braille” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “braille” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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Middle English

Noun

braille

1. Alternative form of brayle

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• braile

Noun

braille m (plural brailles)

1. braille (system of writing using raised dots)

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Spanish

Proper noun

braille m

1. braille