Brand

• As an English, Scottish, north German, Dutch, French, and North Germanic surname, from a Germanic personal name derived from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (“sword, firebrand, torch”), as in the second element of Hildebrand.
• Also as a German surname, variant of Brandt.
• As a Swedish and Danish surname, from brand (“fire”).
• As a Jewish surname, from German Brand (“fire”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /brænd/, [bɹænd]
• Homophone: brand
• Rhymes: -ænd

Brand (countable and uncountable, plural Brands)

1. A surname.
2. A municipality in Bludenz district, Vorarlberg, Austria.
3. A municipality in Tirschenreuth district, Bavaria, Germany.
4. A borough of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
5. A hamlet in Beekdaelen municipality, Limburg province, Netherlands.

• (Limburg) First attested as Op genne Brant in the 18th century. Derived from brand (“site of a fire, location where something has been burned”).
• (Noord-Brabant) First attested as den Brandt in 1750. Derived from brand (“fuel, turf”).

• IPA^(key): /brɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: Brand
• Rhymes: -ɑnt
• Homophones: brand, brandt, Brandt

Brand n

1. a hamlet in Beekdaelen, Limburg, Netherlands
2. a hamlet in Maashorst, North Brabant, Netherlands

• van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

From Middle High German brant, from Old High German brant, from Proto-West Germanic *brand. Cognate with Bavarian Brånd and English brand.

• IPA^(key): /bʁant/

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• Rhymes: -ant

Brand m (strong, genitive Brandes or Brands, plural Brände)

1. fire, blaze (destructive occurrence)
   • 1872, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, “Das Kindlein in Mainz”, in Huttens letzte Tage‎^[1]:

     Dein Name sei gelobt! Hüt uns vor drei: / Vor Wassernot und Brand und Kriegsgeschrei!

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. hell
3. distillation, brandy

   Synonym: Weinbrand

   Hyponyms: Weinbrand, Obstbrand

4. (colloquial) strong thirst

   einen Brand haben ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Unadapted borrowing from English brand.

• IPA^(key): /bʁant/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): [bɹænt], [bɹænd] (approximating English pronunciation)

Brand n or m (strong, genitive Brands, plural Brands) or
Brand f (genitive Brand, plural Brands)

1. (marketing slang, otherwise unusual) brand

   Synonym: Marke

   • 2015 July 2, Daniele Muscionico, “Im Hinterhof mit Weitsicht”, in Die Zeit‎^[2]:

     Internationale Brands benutzen Schriftarten, deren Erfinder Laurenz Brunner heißt und in einem Szeneviertel der deutschen Hauptstadt jeder Mode trotzt.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Brand n (proper noun, genitive Brands or (optionally with an article) Brand)

1. a municipality of Vorarlberg, Austria
2. a municipality of Bavaria, Germany

• “Brand” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Brand” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Brand” in Duden online
• “Brand” in Duden online

From Middle High German brant, from Old High German brant, from Proto-West Germanic *brand. Cognate with German Brand, Dutch brand, English brand, West Frisian brân.

• IPA^(key): [bʀɑnt]
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

Brand m (plural Bränn)

1. fire

• Feier