bru
English
Noun
bru (plural brus)
- (South Africa) bro; bra; term of address for a man
- 2006, Guy Brown, Hijack!: cracking one of South Africa's most violent carjacking syndicates (page 37)
- "Nice little bonus for you, hey bru," Paul was saying.
- 2013, Nick Roddy, Out of Jericho (page 200)
- “Listen, bru, don't take this the wrong way, but I grew up with the black man. Never underestimate him and never overestimate him. […]
- 2006, Guy Brown, Hijack!: cracking one of South Africa's most violent carjacking syndicates (page 37)
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
bru (feminine bruna, masculine plural bruns, feminine plural brunes)
- dark brown
Derived terms
Noun
bru m (plural bruns)
- dark brown
Further reading
- “bru” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “bru”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “bru” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “bru” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
From Old French bru, brut, from Medieval Latin bruta, from Old High German brūt (“daughter-in-law, bride”), from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“bride, daughter-in-law”). Akin to Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌸𐍃 (brūþs, “daughter-in-law”), Old English brȳd (“bride”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bru f (plural brus)
Usage notes
- The word is slightly dated in general European French, but current in many regions, including Canada.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Related terms
- beau-fils m
- beau-frère m
- beau-père m
- belle-mère f
- belle-sœur f
- gendre m
Further reading
- “bru”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Noun
bru
- Alternative form of browe
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
bru f or m (definite singular brua or bruen, indefinite plural bruer, definite plural bruene)
- a bridge
Derived terms
References
- “bru” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
bru f (definite singular brua, indefinite plural bruer, definite plural bruene)
- a bridge
- Dette er den lengste brua i verda.
- This is the longest bridge in the world.
- Dette er den lengste brua i verda.
Derived terms
References
- “bru” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *brūwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰrúHs (“brow”).
Pronunciation
Noun
brū f
Declension
Declension of bru (strong ō-stem)
Derived terms
- oferbrū (“eyebrow”)
Descendants
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “bru”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Old French
Alternative forms
Noun
bru oblique singular, f (oblique plural brus, nominative singular bru, nominative plural brus)
Descendants
- French: bru
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (bru, supplement)
Polish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
bru m inan
Puyuma
Noun
bru
- (in females' ritual language) water
Synonyms
References
- Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary
Categories:
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- South African English
- Catalan terms derived from Frankish
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan adjectives
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan masculine nouns
- ca:Colors
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from Medieval Latin
- French terms derived from Old High German
- French terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French feminine nouns
- Regional French
- fr:Family
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål feminine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns with multiple genders
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms with IPA pronunciation
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk feminine nouns
- Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old English lemmas
- Old English nouns
- Old English feminine nouns
- Old English ō-stem nouns
- ang:Anatomy
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French feminine nouns
- Polish 1-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish non-lemma forms
- Polish noun forms
- Puyuma lemmas
- Puyuma nouns