brame

See also: Brame and bramé

English

Etymology

From Middle English brame, from Old French brame, bram (“a cry of pain or longing; a yammer”), of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bramjaną (“to roar; bellow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem- (“to make a noise; hum; buzz”). Compare Old High German breman (“to roar”), Old English bremman (“to roar”). More at brim. Compare breme.

Noun

brame (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Intense passion or emotion; vexation.
   • Edmund Spenser, The Fairie Queene, Book III, Canto II, 52

     […] hart-burning brame / She shortly like a pyned ghost became.

Anagrams

• Amber, amber, bemar, bream, embar

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁam/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: brament, brames

Verb

brame

1. inflection of bramer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative
   2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• ambre, Ambre, ambré

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Italian

Noun

brame f

1. plural of brama

Anagrams

• ambre, Brema

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Portuguese

Verb

brame

1. third-person singular present indicative of bramir
2. second-person singular imperative of bramir

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾame/ [ˈbɾa.me]

Verb

brame

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of bramar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of bramar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of bramar.