brac

Compare Latin bracchium (“arm”), French bras.

• IPA^(key): /bˠɾˠak/

brac m (genitive singular braic, nominative plural bracanna)

1. (literary) arm
2. (anatomy) brachium
3. bracket

• bracfhungas (“bracket fungus”)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bьrati.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrat͡s/
• Rhymes: -at͡s
• Syllabification: brac

brac impf

1. (transitive) to take (to grab with the hands)

• Stefan Ramułt (1893) “brac”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 11
• Jan Trepczyk (1994) “brać 2”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “brać”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1], volume 1, page 117
• “brac”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Borrowed from Russian брак (brak), from Polish brak, ultimately from Middle Low German brak (“flaw, defect; breaking”); Compare modern German Bruch and English break.

brac n (plural bracuri)

1. defective goods, leftovers, waste

   Synonyms: rest, rămășiță

   • (Can we date this quote?), M. Eminescu, Scrisoarea I:

     Pe când luna strălucește peste-a tomurilor bracuri
     Într-o clipă-l poartă gândul îndărăt cu mii de veacuri
     La-nceput pe când ființă nu era nici neființă
     Pe când totul era lipsă de viață și voință […]

     The moon looks in and sheds its beams a pile of ancient books upon
     He sets his mind to roving back across a thousand ages gone
     Into the time are things began, when being and not being still
     Did not exist to plague man’s mind, and there was neither life nor will […]

• “brac”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
• https://www.gabrielditu.com/eminescu/satire_1.asp (for the translation of the quote)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bьrati.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrat͡s/
• Rhymes: -at͡s
• Syllabification: brac

brac impf (perfective wzyc)

1. (transitive) to take (to grab with the hands)
2. (reflexive with sã) to get started, to get to action
3. (reflexive with sã) to prepare oneself [with dô (+ genitive) ‘for what’]

• Lorentz, Friedrich (1908) “brãc”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎^[2] (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 62