brunch

See also: Brunch

English

Etymology

Blend of breakfast +‎ lunch. Attested from 1895 in British English and from 1930 in the United States.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹʌnt͡ʃ/, /bɹʌnʃ/

• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -ʌntʃ

Noun

brunch (countable and uncountable, plural brunches)

1. A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, and often consisting of typical foods from both of those meals.

   I normally have brunch at the café next to work.

   Let's do brunch sometime at the salad bar!

   Feeling a bit peckish, Sandra made herself some brunch with the leftovers in her fridge.

   • April 15 1993, Adam I. Lapidus; Rich Moore, director, “The Front”, in The Simpsons, season 4, episode 19, spoken by Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta):

     I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch.

Derived terms

• brunch word

Descendants

• → Danish: brunch
• → Finnish: brunssi
• → French: brunch
• → German: Brunch
• → Georgian: ბრანჩი (branči)
• → Icelandic: bröns
• → Italian: brunch
• → Japanese: ブランチ (buranchi)
• → Korean: 브런치 (beureonchi)
• → Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: brunsj

  Norwegian Nynorsk: brunsj

• → Polish: brunch
• → Portuguese: brunch
• → Romanian: brunch
• → Russian: бранч (branč)
• → Spanish: brunch
• → Swedish: brunch

Translations

a meal

• Azerbaijani: qəlyanaltı (az)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 早午餐 (zǎo wǔcān) (early lunch), 早中饭

• Danish: brunch c
• Esperanto: matenlunĉo
• Finnish: brunssi (fi)
• French: brunch (fr) m
• Georgian: გვიანი საუზმე (gviani sauzme), ბრანჩი (branči)
• German: Brunch (de) m
• Hebrew: בוהריים‎ (bohorayim)
• Hungarian: villásreggeli (hu), rebéd
• Icelandic: dögurður m, dagverður m, hábítur m, bröns m
• Italian: brunch (it) m, colanzo m, pranzolazione f
• Japanese: ブランチ (ja) (buranchi)
• Korean: 브런치 (beureonchi)
• Latvian: vēlbrokastis f pl
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brunsj m

  Nynorsk: brunsj m

• Polish: brunch (pl) m
• Portuguese: brunch m
• Romanian: brunch (ro) n
• Russian: бранч (ru) m (branč), по́здний за́втрак m (pózdnij závtrak)
• Spanish: brunch (es) m
• Swedish: brunch (sv) c, frunch (sv) c
• Thai: บรันช์ (bɔ̀-ran)
• Welsh: brecinio m

See also

• dunch
• linner
• lupper
• brinner
• brupper

Verb

brunch (third-person singular simple present brunches, present participle brunching, simple past and past participle brunched)

1. To eat brunch.

Further reading

• brunch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English brunch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brɔnsj/, [ˈb̥ɹʌnɕ], [ˈb̥ʁʌnɕ]

Noun

brunch c (singular definite brunchen, plural indefinite bruncher)

1. brunch

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brɔnˀsj/, [ˈb̥ɹʌnˀɕ], [ˈb̥ʁʌnˀɕ]

Verb

brunch

1. imperative of brunche

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrʏnʃ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: brunch

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English brunch.

Noun

brunch m (plural brunchen)

1. A brunch.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

brunch

1. first-person singular present indicative of brunchen
2. imperative of brunchen

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Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from English brunch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbruns/, [ˈbruns̠]
• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɑntʃ/, [ˈbrɑn̪t̪ʃ]

Noun

brunch

1. (rare) brunch

Declension

Inflection of brunch (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		brunch	brunchit
genitive		brunchin	brunchien
partitive		brunchia	bruncheja
illative		brunchiin	bruncheihin
		singular	plural
nominative		brunch	brunchit
accusative	nom.	brunch	brunchit
	gen.	brunchin
genitive		brunchin	brunchien
partitive		brunchia	bruncheja
inessive		brunchissa	bruncheissa
elative		brunchista	bruncheista
illative		brunchiin	bruncheihin
adessive		brunchilla	bruncheilla
ablative		brunchilta	bruncheilta
allative		brunchille	bruncheille
essive		brunchina	bruncheina
translative		brunchiksi	bruncheiksi
instructive		—	brunchein
abessive		brunchitta	bruncheitta
comitative		—	bruncheineen

Possessive forms of brunch (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	brunchini	brunchimme
2nd person	brunchisi	brunchinne
3rd person	brunchinsa

Synonyms

• brunssi

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English brunch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁœnʃ/, (Quebec) /bʁɔnʃ/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

brunch m (plural brunches)

1. brunch

Related terms

• bruncher

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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English brunch.

Noun

brunch m (invariable)

1. brunch

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Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English brunch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brant͡ʂ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ant͡ʂ
• Syllabification: brunch

Noun

brunch m inan

1. brunch

Declension

Declension of brunch

	singular	plural
nominative	brunch	brunche
genitive	brunchu	brunchów
dative	brunchowi	brunchom
accusative	brunch	brunche
instrumental	brunchem	brunchami
locative	brunchu	brunchach
vocative	brunchu	brunche

Further reading

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

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English brunch.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbɾɐ̃.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbɾɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbɾɐ̃.t͡ʃe/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbɾɐ̃.t͡ʃ(ɨ)/

Noun

brunch m (plural brunches)

1. brunch (meal eaten later than breakfast and earlier than lunch)

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Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English brunch.

Noun

brunch n (plural brunch-uri)

1. brunch

Declension

Declension of brunch

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) brunch	brunchul	(niște) brunch-uri	brunch-urile
genitive/dative	(unui) brunch	brunchului	(unor) brunch-uri	brunch-urilor
vocative	brunchule		brunch-urilor

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English brunch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾant͡ʃ/ [ˈbɾãnʲt͡ʃ]
• Rhymes: -antʃ

Noun

brunch m (plural brunchs)

1. brunch

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “brunch”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swedish

Etymology

From English brunch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brɵnɧ/
• Rhymes: -ɵnɧ

Noun

brunch c

1. brunch

Declension

Declension of brunch
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	brunch	brunchen	bruncher	bruncherna
Genitive	brunchs	brunchens	brunchers	brunchernas

Synonyms

• frunch