bramar

From Gothic *𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽 (*bramjan), from Proto-Germanic *bramjaną.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bɾəˈma]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [bɾaˈmaɾ]

bramar (first-person singular present bramo, first-person singular preterite bramí, past participle bramat)

1. to roar, bellow
2. to bray
3. to make its cry (of an animal)

• “bramar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “bramar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “bramar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bramar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Gothic *𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽 (*bramjan), from Proto-Germanic *bramjaną, *bremaną (“to roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem- (“to make noise”).

Cognate with Occitan bramar, Spanish bramar, French bramer, Italian bramire, Old English bremman (“to roar, rage”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /bɾaˈmaɾ/

bramar (first-person singular present bramo, first-person singular preterite bramei, past participle bramado)

1. to troat (a deer)
2. to roar, bellow

• berrar, bradar, bruar

• bremar

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “bramido”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “bramar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “bramar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “bramar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “bramar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bramar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from French bramer, Italian bramire, Spanish bramar, ultimately from Gothic *𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽 (*bramjan), from Proto-Germanic *bramjaną.

• IPA^(key): /braˈmar/
• Hyphenation: bra‧mar

bramar (present tense bramas, past tense bramis, future tense bramos, imperative bramez, conditional bramus)

1. (intransitive) to make the characteristic call of any animal: to bellow; to low; to bray; to bleat; to neigh
2. (figuratively) to roar, yell

• bramo (“bellowing; lowing; braying; bleating; neighing; roaring, yelling”)

From Gothic *𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽 (*bramjan), from Proto-Germanic *bramjaną. See also Old English bremman, Old High German brëman, Middle Low German brammen, French bramer.

• IPA^(key): /bɾaˈmaɾ/ [bɾaˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: bra‧mar

bramar (first-person singular present bramo, first-person singular preterite bramé, past participle bramado)

1. to roar, bellow

   Synonyms: rugir, berrear

• rugir

• “bramar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024