borst

• IPA^(key): /bɔrst/

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• Hyphenation: borst
• Rhymes: -ɔrst

From Middle Dutch borst, from Old Dutch brust, from Proto-West Germanic *brust, from Proto-Germanic *brusts, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell, blow, inflate”).

borst f (plural borsten, diminutive borstje n)

1. chest, thorax

   Synonyms: borstkas, thorax

2. breast

   Synonyms: bloemkool, jetser, meloen, mem, pram, tet, tiet

• Afrikaans: bors
• Negerhollands: borst, bos, borsje
• → Sranan Tongo: borsu

• (breast): bos hout voor de deur

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

borst

1. inflection of borsten:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

From Old Dutch brust, from Proto-West Germanic *brust, from Proto-Germanic *brusts.

borst f

1. chest
2. breast

• Dutch: borst
  • Afrikaans: bors
  • Negerhollands: borst, bos, borsje
  • → Sranan Tongo: borsu
• Limburgish: bórs, bósj

• “borst”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “borst”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

borst n

1. bristle (stiff hair (on an animal))
2. bristle (on a brush or broom or the like)
3. awn

• borste (“brush”)

• borst in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• borst in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• borst in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)