brat

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See also: Brat, BRAT, brať, brát, brãt, braț, bråț, brät, and Brät

English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Early Modern English (ca. 1500) slang term meaning "beggar's child". Possibly from Scots bratchet (“bitch, hound”). Or, possibly originally a dialectal word, from northern and western England and the Midlands, for a "makeshift or ragged garment," from Old English bratt (“cloak”), which is from a Celtic source (Old Irish brat (“cloak, cloth”)).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /bɹat/
  • (US) enPR: brăt, IPA(key): /bɹæt/
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: (US) -æt

Noun[edit]

brat (plural brats)

  1. (slang) A human child.
    • 2012 March 2, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Mar 2, 2012:
      "So... you want to have kids someday?" "Uh... well, yes. I always figured I'd have a couple brats of my own someday..." "That's still doable, you know." "I know, but the process is a lot more complicated and less intimate, and --"
    1. (derogatory, slang) A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish.
      Get that little brat away from me!
      • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 297:
        He would never speak a word, - only eat and cry, and she hadn't the heart to strike it or illtreat the youngster either; but somebody taught her a charm to make him speak, and then she found out what kind of a brat he really was.
    2. (slang) A child (at any age) of an active member of the military or the diplomatic service.
      an army brat
  2. A turbot or flatfish.
  3. (historical) A rough cloak or ragged garment.
    • 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Line 881”, in The Canon's Yeoman's Tale‎[1]:
      Whicħ þat þey myght / wrape hem in at nyght / And a brat / to walk in / by day-light
    • 1961, Audrey I. Barfoot, Everyday costume in Britain: from the earliest times to 1900, page 80:
      The chief's daughter wears a brat and léine girdled with a criss.
    • 2005, Seán Duffy, Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 156:
      The prevailing style of dress in the early medieval period comprised a léine (tunic) worn under a brat (cloak).
    • 2006, Celtic Culture: A-Celti, →ISBN, page 1272:
      Women wore loose, flowing, ankle-length robes modelled on 11th-century European fashion (derived from what O'Neill called the léine) and, perhaps, a brat over these.
  4. (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.
  5. (obsolete) The young of an animal.
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
      Their ſhoulders broad, for complet armour fit,
      Their lims more large and of a bigger ſize
      Than all the brats yſprong from Typhons loins:
    • 1680, Roger L'Estrange, Citt and Bumpkin:
      They are your Will-Worship-men, your Prelates Brats: Take the whole Litter of’um, and you’ll finde never a barrel better Herring.
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Verb[edit]

brat (third-person singular simple present brats, present participle bratting, simple past and past participle bratted)

  1. (BDSM, intransitive) To act in a bratty manner (as the submissive).
    • 1900, Ardie Stallard, Switch: A Tale of Spanking, BDSM & Romance:
      Ruthie was Ed's own submissive, a short, pretty, feisty ash-blonde New York City native who combined her submission to Ed with a good deal of mischievous bratting and a lot of sharp, intelligent conversation […]
    • 2020, Jessica M. Kratzer, Communication in Kink, page 43:
      Rather, Ana moves between playful bratting and a type of “conquer me” wantedness that good Dominants would respond to with increased control and correction.

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Etymology 2[edit]

Shortened from bratwurst, from German Bratwurst.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

brat (plural brats)

  1. (informal) Bratwurst.
    • 2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 267:
      There are many people loitering, eating ice cream, talking, eating brats.
Translations[edit]
bratwurst — see bratwurst

See also[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

Noun[edit]

brat (plural brats)

  1. (mining) A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.

Etymology 4[edit]

Noun[edit]

brat

  1. (military) Acronym of Born, Raised, And Transferred.

Anagrams[edit]

Danish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

A merger of two unrelated adjectives:

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /brat/, [ˈb̥ʁɑd̥]

Adjective[edit]

brat (plural and definite singular attributive bratte, comparative brattere, superlative (predicative) brattest, superlative (attributive) bratteste)

  1. steep
  2. sudden

References[edit]

Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

brat n (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of brat.

German[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

brat

  1. singular imperative of braten
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of braten

Irish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Irish bratt, from Proto-Celtic *brattos (compare Welsh brethyn (“cloth”), from *brattinyos).

Noun[edit]

brat m (genitive singular brait, nominative plural brait)

  1. mantle, cloak
    Proverb:
    Ná leath do bhrat ach mar is féidir leat a chonlú.
    Cut your coat according to your cloth.
    (literally, “Don’t spread your cloak farther than you can fold it.”)
  2. covering
  3. (theater) curtain
  4. Alternative form of bratach (“flag”)
Declension[edit]
Declension of brat

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative brat brait
Vocative a bhrait a bhrata
Genitive brait brat
Dative brat brait

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an brat na brait
Genitive an bhrait na mbrat
Dative leis an mbrat

don bhrat

leis na brait

Derived terms[edit]
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Etymology 2[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun[edit]

brat m (genitive singular brat, nominative plural bratanna)

  1. broth; thick soup
Declension[edit]
Declension of brat

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative brat bratanna
Vocative a bhrat a bhratanna
Genitive brat bratanna
Dative brat bratanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an brat na bratanna
Genitive an bhrat na mbratanna
Dative leis an mbrat

don bhrat

leis na bratanna

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
brat bhrat mbrat
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading[edit]

Kashubian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bratrъ, *bratъ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

Noun[edit]

brat m pers

  1. brother

Further reading[edit]

  • “brat”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “brat”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi

Lower Sorbian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

brat

  1. supine of braś

Polish[edit]

FWOTD – 7 November 2015

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bratrъ, *bratъ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

brat m pers (diminutive braciszek)

  1. brother
    • 1632, Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska:
      A przechadzając się nad Morzem Galilejskim, zobaczył Szymona i Andrzeja, jego brata, zarzucających sieć w morze; byli bowiem rybakami.
      As Jesus was strolling beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; they were fishermen.

Declension[edit]

Declension of brat
singular plural
nominative brat bracia
genitive brata braci
dative bratu braciom
accusative brata braci
instrumental bratem braćmi
locative bracie braciach
vocative bracie bracia

Derived terms[edit]

adjectives
adverbs
nouns
verbs

Further reading[edit]

  • brat in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • brat in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic братъ (bratŭ).

Noun[edit]

brat m (plural brați)

  1. (Slavicism, rare) brother
    Synonym: frate
  2. (regional, Banat) monk
    Synonym: călugăr

Declension[edit]

Declension of brat
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) brat bratul (niște) brați brații
genitive/dative (unui) brat bratului (unor) brați braților
vocative bratule braților

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Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Irish bratt, from Proto-Celtic *brattos (compare Welsh brethyn (“cloth”), from *brattinyos).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

brat m (genitive singular brata, plural bratan)

  1. cloak, cover, covering, mantle, veil, canopy
  2. mat

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Mutation[edit]

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
brat bhrat
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Slavic *bratrъ, *bratъ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

brȁt m (Cyrillic spelling бра̏т, diminutive brȁtić, relational adjective bràtskī)

  1. brother
  2. mate, pal, buddy, when used in informal speech to address somebody in vocative (brate)

Usage notes[edit]

There is no plural form for this noun. Instead, the collective term brȁća is used for plural meanings.

Declension[edit]

Declension of brat
singular
nominative brat
genitive brata
dative bratu
accusative brata
vocative brate
locative bratu
instrumental bratom

Derived terms[edit]

Slovak[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bratrъ, *bratъ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

brat m anim (genitive singular brata, nominative plural bratia, genitive plural bratov, declension pattern of chlap)

  1. brother

Declension[edit]

Declension of brat
singular plural
nominative brat bratia
genitive brata bratov
dative bratovi bratom
accusative brata bratov
locative bratovi bratoch
instrumental bratom bratmi

Further reading[edit]

  • brat in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • (brt) (dialectal)

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Slavic *bratrъ, *bratъ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

brȁt m anim

  1. brother
  2. (literary, archaic) someone of the same or closely related nationality
  3. (literary, by extension) someone sharing the same opinions

Inflection[edit]

First masculine declension (hard o-stem, animate), vowel lengthening, ending -je in nominative plural
nom. sing. brȁt
gen. sing. bráta
singular dual plural
nominative
imenovȃlnik 		brȁt bráta brátje, bráti
genitive
rodȋlnik 		bráta brātov brātov
dative
dajȃlnik 		brátu, bráti, brātu+ prep. brátoma, brátama brátom, brátam
accusative
tožȋlnik 		bráta bráta bráte
locative
mẹ̑stnik 		brátu, bráti, brātu+ prep. brātih, brātah brātih, brātah
instrumental
orọ̑dnik 		brátom brátoma, brátama brāti
(vocative)
(ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik) 		brȁt, brate[acc?] brȃta brȃti

Further reading[edit]

  • “brat”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
  • “brat”, in Termania, Amebis
  • See also the general references

Slovincian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Slavic *bratrъ. Cognates with Polish brat.

Noun[edit]

brãt m

  1. brother

Declension[edit]

Declension of brat
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative brãt brãtă brãcä, brãtä, brãcå
Genitive brãtă — brãtȯṷ
Dative brãtʉ̇ brãtɵmă, brãtmă brãtȯṷm
Accusative brãtă — brãtȯṷ
Instrumental brãtą brãtɵmă, brãtmă brãtï, brãtmï, brãtamï
Locative brãcä — brãcėχ́, brãtăχ
Vocative brãcä — —

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English brat (“spoiled child”).

Noun[edit]

brat c

  1. (slang) person who is very careful about following fashion trends; someone who rarely ever acts independently but rather follows peer pressure, usually maintaining an appearance of visible wealth

Usage notes[edit]

  • Mainly used in plural, as a collective noun.
  • Can occasionally be seen considered as neuter rather than common.

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Anagrams[edit]

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