bras

See also: BRAS, braś, brâs, Brás, Braś, -bras, and برس

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

bras

  1. plural of bra

Anagrams

Bislama

Etymology 1

From English brush.

Noun

bras

  1. brush

Etymology 2

From English brass.

Noun

bras

  1. (music) brass

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *brassos (“large”): (compare Cornish bras (“big, great”), broas, and Welsh bras (“fat, broad, rich”)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʁaz/

Adjective

bras (comparative brasoc'h, superlative brasañ, exclamative brasat)

  1. big
    Antonym: bihan

Mutation

Mutation of bras
unmutated soft aspirate hard
simple form bras vras never occurs never occurs
comparative brasoc'h vrasoc'h never occurs never occurs
superlative brasañ vrasañ unchanged prasañ

Cornish

Etymology 1

From Middle Cornish bras, from Old Cornish bras, from Proto-Celtic *brassos (“large”).

Alternative forms

Adjective

bras (comparative brassa, superlative an brassa)

  1. big, great, bulky, large
    Synonym: meur
    Antonym: byghan
Derived terms
  • bran vras (“raven”)
  • bras dres eghen (“enormous, giant”)
  • brashe (“enlarge, embiggen”, verb)
  • brasheans (“enlargement”)
  • brasoberys (“magnificant”)
  • braster (“bulk, size”)
  • brastereth (“majesty”)
  • brastir (“continent”)
  • brastiryel (“continental”)
  • bys bras (“thumb”)
  • dor bras (“mainland”)
  • dre vras (“mostly”)
  • dyskys bras (“scholarly”)
  • euthyek bras (“enormous, epic”)
  • fest bras (“enormous, giant, epic”)
  • gwynnek bras (“large white butterfly”)
  • kleves bras (“leprosy”)
  • lo vras (“tablespoon”)
  • marthys bras (“terrific”)
  • men bras (“megalith”)
  • mor bras (“ocean”)
  • nownek bras (“ravenous”)
  • penn pali bras (“great tit”)
  • re vras (“excessive”)

Etymology 2

From Middle Cornish bras, from Proto-Brythonic *brad, from Proto-Celtic *mratom. Cognate with Breton barad, Irish and Scottish Gaelic brath, and Welsh brad.

Noun

bras m (plural brasow)

  1. plot, conspiracy
Derived terms
  • brasa (“conspire, plot”, verb)
  • braser, brasores (“conspirator, plotter”)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Welsh bras.

Noun

bras m (plural brases)

  1. bunting
Derived terms
  • bras ahwesydh (“corn bunting”)
  • bras an ergh (“snow bunting”)
  • bras an ogledh (“Lapland bunting”)
  • bras an tayga (“rustic bunting”)
  • bras hwib (“cirl bunting”)
  • bras kors (“reed bunting”)
  • bras lowarth (“ortolan bunting”)
  • bras lyha (“little bunting”)
  • bras penn du (“black-headed bunting”)
  • bras penn gwynn (“pine bunting”)

Mutation

Mutation of bras
unmutated soft aspirate hard mixed mixed after 'th
bras vras unchanged pras fras vras

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French bras, from Old French bras, from Latin brachium, bracchium, from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn). Displaced Old French feminine noun brace, ultimately from the same Latin and Ancient Greek roots.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʁa/ ~ /bʁɑ/
  • (Northern France, Canada) IPA(key): [bʁɑ], [bʁɔ]
    • Audio (Quebec, Saguenay); [bʁɑ]:(file)
  • Rhymes: -a, -ɑ
  • Hyphenation: bras

Noun

bras m (plural bras)

  1. arm

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Haitian Creole: bra
  • → Russian: бра (bra)

Further reading

Anagrams

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /praːs/
  • Rhymes: -aːs

Noun

bras n (genitive singular brass, no plural)

  1. soldering

Declension

Declension of bras (sg-only neuter)
singular
indefinite definite
nominative bras brasið
accusative bras brasið
dative brasi brasinu
genitive brass brassins

Irish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *brassos (“large”).

Adjective

bras (genitive singular masculine brais, genitive singular feminine braise, plural brasa, comparative braise)

  1. (literary) great, strong
  2. (literary) swift
Declension
Declension of bras
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative bras bhras brasa;
bhrasa2
vocative bhrais brasa
genitive brase brasa bras
dative bras;
bhras1 		bhras;
bhrais (archaic) 		brasa;
bhrasa2
Comparative níos brase
Superlative is brase

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Etymology 2

Noun

bras m (genitive singular brais, nominative plural brais)

  1. alternative form of prás (“brass”)
Declension
Declension of bras (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative bras brais
vocative a bhrais a bhrasa
genitive brais bras
dative bras brais
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an bras na brais
genitive an bhrais na mbras
dative leis an mbras
don bhras 		leis na brais

Mutation

Mutated forms of bras
radical lenition eclipsis
bras bhras mbras

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English bræs; further origin uncertain.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bras/

Noun

bras (uncountable)

  1. brass (copper alloy)
  2. copper (element Cu)
  3. (rare) molten copper
Descendants
References

Etymology 2

Noun

bras

  1. alternative form of brace

Etymology 3

Verb

bras

  1. alternative form of bracen

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French bras, from Latin brachium, bracchium, from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn).

Noun

bras m (plural bras)

  1. arm

Descendants

Norman

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French bras, from Latin brachium, bracchium, from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn).

Pronunciation

Noun

bras m (plural bras)

  1. (Jersey, Guernsey, anatomy) arm

Old French

Etymology

From Latin brachium, bracchium, from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn).

Noun

bras oblique singular, m (oblique plural bras, nominative singular bras, nominative plural bras)

  1. arm

Descendants

Old Javanese

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀas, from Proto-Austronesian *bəʀas. Doublet of wĕas.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bras/

Noun

bras

  1. husked rice
    Synonym: wĕas

Alternative forms

  • bĕras

Descendants

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French brasse.

Noun

bras n (plural brasuri)

  1. breaststroke

Declension

Declension of bras
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative bras brasul brasuri brasurile
genitive-dative bras brasului brasuri brasurilor
vocative brasule brasurilor

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English brush.

Noun

bras

  1. brush

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *brassos (“large”). Cognate with Breton bras, Cornish bras, Irish bras.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /braːs/
  • Rhymes: -aːs

Adjective

bras (feminine singular bras, plural breision, equative brased, comparative brasach, superlative brasaf)

  1. large, thick, fat
  2. rough, coarse
    Synonyms: braisg, garw
  3. rough, approximate
  4. (letter) capital
    Synonyms: pennog, mawr

Derived terms

  • brasamcan (“approximation”)
  • brasgamu (“to stride, to lope”)
  • braslun (“sketch, outline”)
  • braster (“fat”, noun)

Noun

bras m or f (plural breision)

  1. bunting (bird of the genus Emberiza)

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of bras
radical soft nasal aspirate
bras fras mras unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “bras”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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