brin

Of unknown origin ; perhaps French brin

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɪn/

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• Rhymes: -ɪn

brin (plural brins)

1. One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches.^[1]
2. A single silkworm thread extruded from the gland, before it has formed a bave.

• “brin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• IBNR, RNIB

Unknown origin; possibly of Gaulish origin (compare Catalan bri, Spanish brenca (“fiber”), brinza (“blade of grass, filament”)), from Proto-Celtic *brinikā, from *brinos (“filament, fiber”) (compare Breton broenenn, Welsh brwynen), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrugh-no- (“twig”), perhaps related to the root of English brush.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /bʁɛ̃/

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): [bɾæ̃]
• Rhymes: -ɛ̃
• Homophone: brun (some speakers)

brin m (plural brins)

1. blade (of grass)
2. sprig, twig
3. wisp, strand (of hair, fibre etc.)
4. (figuratively) ounce, bit, hint

• fétu
• touffe

• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, p. 257, 258
• “brin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN
• Remacle, Louis (1984): La différenciation des géminées mm, nn en mb, nd: sur l'étymologie des termes landon et flamber et des toponymes hambê, hambâ, p. 45
• “brin”, 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

• “brin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• bregn (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
• brün (Puter, Vallader)

From a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz (“brown”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“grey, brown”).

brin m (feminine singular brina, masculine plural brins, feminine plural brinas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) brown

From Proto-Slavic *brinъ (“sp. of conifer”). Compare Serbo-Croatian brȋn, Polish brzyn. Maybe related to Ancient Greek πρῖνος (prînos, “holm oak”).

• IPA^(key): /brín/

brȉn m inan

1. juniper

• “brin”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

brin

1. soft mutation of prin

brin

1. soft mutation of prin

brin

1. soft mutation of prin