brooch

See also: Brooch

English

Etymology

Variant of broach.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɹəʊtʃ/
• (US) enPR: brōch, IPA^(key): /bɹoʊtʃ/, /bɹutʃ/
• Rhymes: -əʊtʃ, -utʃ
• Homophone: broach

Noun

brooch (plural brooches)

1. A piece of women’s ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.
2. A painting all of one colour, such as a sepia painting.

Synonyms

• breastpin

Hypernyms

• pin

Translations

jewellery with pin

• Arabic: بْرُوش‏‎ m (brūš), بْرُوش‏‎ m (broš)
• Armenian: բրոշ (hy) (broš), կրծքազարդ (hy) (krckʿazard), զարդասեղ (hy) (zardaseł)
• Belarusian: бро́шка f (bróška)
• Bulgarian: бро́шка (bg) f (bróška)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胸針 (zh), 胸针 (zh) (xiōngzhēn), 別針 (zh), 别针 (zh) (biézhēn), (on a tie) 領針 (zh), 领针 (zh) (lǐngzhēn)

• Crimean Tatar: tüyreviç
• Czech: brož f, spona f, sponka f
• Danish: broche c
• Dutch: broche (nl) f, speldje (nl) n
• Esperanto: broĉo
• Faroese: bringuprýði n, brossja f
• Finnish: rintaneula (fi)
• French: broche (fr) f
• Georgian: ბროში (broši)
• German: Brosche (de) f
• Greek: πόρπη (el) f (pórpi)
• Hungarian: bross (hu), melltű (hu)
• Ido: brocho (io)
• Interlingue: broche
• Italian: spilla (it) f
• Japanese: ブローチ (burōchi)

• Kazakh: танамоншақ (tanamonşaq)
• Korean: 브로치 (beurochi)
• Luxembourgish: Brosch f
• Macedonian: брош m (broš), брошка f (broška)
• Malay: kerongsang
• Maori: pine, toromoka
• Norwegian: brosje
• Occitan: bròca f
• Polish: broszka (pl) f, brosza (pl) f
• Portuguese: broche (pt) m
• Russian: бро́шка (ru) f (bróška), брошь (ru) f (brošʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: брош m

  Roman: broš (sh) m

• Slovak: spona f, brošňa f
• Slovene: broška (sl) f
• Spanish: broche (es) m
• Swedish: brosch (sv)
• Thai: เข็มกลัด (kěm-glàt)
• Turkish: broş (tr)
• Ukrainian: бро́шка (uk) f (bróška)
• Vietnamese: trâm (vi), trâm gài đầu

Verb

brooch (third-person singular simple present brooches, present participle brooching, simple past and past participle brooched)

1. (transitive) To adorn as with a brooch.

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Luxembourgish

Etymology

From the noun Brooch (“fallow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʀoːχ/

Adjective

brooch (masculine broochen, neuter broocht, comparative méi brooch, superlative am broochsten)

1. fallow

Declension

declension of brooch

	masculine	feminine	neuter	plural
accusative	broochen	brooch	broocht	brooch
nominative	broochen	brooch	broocht	brooch
dative	broochen	broocher	broochen	broochen

Derived terms

• broochleeën
• broochleien