bras
English
Noun
bras
Anagrams
Breton
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *brassos (“large”): (compare Cornish bras (“big, great”), broas, and Welsh bras (“fat, broad, rich”)).
Pronunciation
Adjective
bras (comparative brasoc'h, superlative brasañ, exclamative brasat)
Mutation
Burushaski
Etymology
Uncertain, but compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ras (“rice”), whence Tibetan འབྲས ('bras) and Mizo rah.
Noun
bras
Cornish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *brassos (“large”).
Adjective
bras
Mutation
French
Etymology
From Middle French bras, from Old French bras, from Latin brachium, bracchium, from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn). Displaced Old French feminine noun brace, ultimately from the same Latin and Ancient Greek roots.
Pronunciation
Noun
bras m (plural bras)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Russian: бра (bra)
Further reading
- “bras”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Icelandic
Pronunciation
Noun
bras n (genitive singular brass, no plural)
Declension
Related terms
Irish
Etymology 1
From Proto-Celtic *brassos (“large”).
Adjective
bras (genitive singular masculine brais, genitive singular feminine braise, plural brasa, comparative braise)
Declension
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | bras | bhras | brasa; bhrasa² | |
Vocative | bhrais | brasa | ||
Genitive | brase | brasa | bras | |
Dative | bras; bhras¹ |
bhras; bhrais (archaic) |
brasa; bhrasa² | |
Comparative | níos brase | |||
Superlative | is brase |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Etymology 2
Noun
bras m (genitive singular brais, nominative plural brais)
- Alternative form of prás (“brass”)
Declension
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
bras | bhras | mbras |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bras”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Kavalan
Etymology
From Proto-Austronesian *bəʀas.
Noun
bras
- rice (uncooked seeds used as food)
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French brace.
Noun
bras
- Alternative form of brace
Etymology 2
From Old French bracier.
Verb
bras
- Alternative form of bracen
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French bras, from Latin brachium, bracchium, from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn).
Noun
bras m (plural bras)
Descendants
- French: bras
Norman
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French bras, from Latin brachium, bracchium, from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn).
Pronunciation
Audio (Jersey): (file)
Noun
bras m (plural bras)
Related terms
- braichie (“armful”)
Old French
Etymology
From Latin brachium, bracchium, from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn).
Noun
bras oblique singular, m (oblique plural bras, nominative singular bras, nominative plural bras)
Descendants
Tok Pisin
Etymology
Noun
bras
- English non-lemma forms
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- Breton terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
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- Breton terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Burushaski lemmas
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- Cornish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
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- Cornish adjectives
- French terms inherited from Middle French
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- fr:Anatomy
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- Irish masculine nouns
- Irish first-declension nouns
- Kavalan terms inherited from Proto-Austronesian
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- Middle English terms borrowed from Old French
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- Middle French terms inherited from Old French
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- frm:Anatomy
- Norman terms inherited from Old French
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- Jersey Norman
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- nrf:Anatomy
- Old French terms inherited from Latin
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- fro:Anatomy
- Tok Pisin terms inherited from English
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