Bruch

Borrowed from German Bruch.

Bruch

1. A surname from German.

• Bruch's membrane

From Middle High German bruch, from Old High German bruh, from Proto-West Germanic *bruki. Cognate with English breach.

• IPA^(key): /bʁʊx/

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• Rhymes: -ʊx

Bruch m (strong, genitive Bruches or Bruchs, plural Brüche)

1. break, breaking, breach, fracture, rupture
2. (mathematics) fraction
3. (medicine) fracture (of a bone)

   Synonyms: Knochenbruch, (medical parlance) Fraktur

4. (medicine) hernia

   sich einen Bruch heben ― to get a hernia from heavy lifting

   Synonyms: Leistenbruch, Eingeweidebruch, (medical parlance) Hernie

   1. (figuratively) (to) excess, very much

      sich einen Bruch lachen ― to split one's sides (literally, “to laugh oneself a hernia”)

5. (slang) ellipsis of Einbruch (“break-in”)

From Middle High German bruoch, from Old High German bruoh, from Proto-West Germanic *brōk n. Cognate with English brook.

• IPA^(key): /bʁuːx/ (properly)
• IPA^(key): /bʁʊx/ (now commonly, after etymology 1)
• Rhymes: -uːx, -ʊx

Bruch m or n (strong, genitive Bruches or Bruchs, plural (masculine) Brüche or (neuter) Brücher)

1. (now chiefly in placenames) swamp; wet, swampy land with trees and bushes, which if drained becomes suitable for grazing animals on

• -broich (in Rhenish placenames)

• Oderbruch n

From Middle High German bruoch, from Old High German bruoh, from Proto-West Germanic *brōk f. Cognate with English breech.

• IPA^(key): /bʁuːx/
• Rhymes: -uːx

Bruch f (genitive Bruch, plural Bruchen or Brüche)

1. (obsolete) pair of hose, leggings, pants, trousers [usual until ca. 1700]

   Synonyms: Hose, Strumpfhose, Unterhose

• “Bruch” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Bruch” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Bruch” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Bruch” in Duden online

• IPA^(key): /prux/

Bruch m (plural Brich)

1. breach
2. hernia

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Bruch

1. a small town in central Luxembourg

Compare German Bruch, Dutch breuk, English breach.

Bruch m (plural Brich)

1. quarry
2. breach
3. hernia

Bruch m

1. rupture
2. hiatus
3. hernia