bris

Borrowed from Yiddish ברית (bris), from Hebrew בְּרִית (bərîṯ, “covenant”).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /bɹɪs/
• Rhymes: -ɪs

bris (plural brises or brisses or britot)

1. (Judaism) Ritual male circumcision.
   • 1993, Miriam Rose, Miriam Zakon, “The Baker Family Circus”, in Baker's Dozen, volume 4, Omnibus, page 129:

     The night before the bris, he invited nine of his little buddies to come and say kerias shema around the baby's bassinet. Mommy and Daddy, who flew in for the bris, were so touched, they kept dabbing their eyes and coughing.

   • 2009, Jeffrey Shandler, Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America, page 155:

     Although indigenous visual documentation of the bris was, until the advent of video, limited and often oblique, the ceremony is a longstanding fixture of Christian art.

   • 2013, Ted Falcon, David Blatner, Judaism For Dummies, 2nd edition, page 109:

     However, if the baby is born on a Wednesday night, then the bris would occur on the following Thursday morning because Jewish days begin at sundown, and the bris is tradionally performed during the day. (Note that the Talmud (see Chapter 3) states if the baby's health is in question, then the bris must be postponed.)

• (circumcision): bris milah, brit milah

• IRBs, RBIs, RIBs, SBIR, ribs

From the verb briser (“to break”)

• IPA^(key): /bʁi/

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bris m (plural bris)

1. shattering

• briser

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

Related to brjósk (“gristle, cartilage”), where the original sense was "sweetbread."

• IPA^(key): [prɪːs]
• Rhymes: -ɪːs

bris n (genitive singular briss, nominative plural bris)

1. (anatomy) pancreas

   Synonym: briskirtill

• Pierson, S. (2011). The Brisket Book: A Love Story with Recipes. United States: Andrews McMeel Publishing.

From Old Irish brisid. Cognate with English burst and German bersten.

• IPA^(key): /bʲɾʲɪʃ/

bris (present analytic briseann, future analytic brisfidh, verbal noun briseadh, past participle briste)

1. (ambitransitive) to break, fracture
2. sack, fire, dismiss
3. (banking) cash, (of money, bills) change
4. burst (of dam)
5. overthrow (of government)

bris f (genitive singular brise, nominative plural briseanna)

1. loss

   Ní maith liom do bhris.

   I’m sorry for your loss.

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bris”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bris(s)id”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “brisim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 89
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 40

• IPA^(key): [bʲrʲɪs̪]

bri̇̀s

1. third-person singular future of bristi
2. third-person plural future of bristi

From Middle Low German brise.

bris m (definite singular brisen, indefinite plural briser, definite plural brisene)

1. (weather) a breeze

• “bris” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Middle Low German brise.

bris m (definite singular brisen, indefinite plural brisar, definite plural brisane)

1. (weather) a breeze

• “bris” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• briss

• IPA^(key): /bʲrʲisʲ/

bris

1. second-person singular imperative of brisid

·bris

1. inflection of brisid:
   1. third-person singular preterite conjunct
   2. first-person singular present subjunctive conjunct

From Old Irish brisid. Cognate with English burst and German bersten.

• (Lewis) IPA^(key): /pʰð̥iʃ/^[1] (as if spelled pris)
• (Harris, Uist, Skye) IPA^(key): /b̥ɾʲiʃ/
• (Barra, Wester Ross) IPA^(key): /b̥ɾʲiʃtʲ/^[2][3] (corresponding to the form brist)

bris (past bhris, future brisidh, verbal noun briseadh, past participle briste)

1. break, smash
2. breach

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “bris”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bris(s)id”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /brîːs/

brȋs m inan (Cyrillic spelling бри̑с)

1. (medicine) swab, smear

From Old Spanish and Portuguese brisa (“northeast wind”).

• IPA^(key): /briːs/

bris c

1. (often nautical) breeze

   styv bris

   fresh ("stiff") breeze (at sea)

• More nautical-sounding compared to English breeze, but also used more generally.
• Plural form could also be brisar.

• fläkt
• vindil
• vindpust
• vindstöt

• bris in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bris in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bris in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• bris in Svenskt nautiskt lexikon (1920)
• bris in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

From English bridge.

bris

1. bridge
2. wharf

• IPA^(key): /briːs/
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /briːʃ/

bris

1. soft mutation of pris

Borrowed from Irish brus.

• IPA^(key): /brɪs/

bris

1. smithereens, little pieces

• Diarmaid Ó Muirithe (1990) “A Modern Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy”, in lrish University Review‎^[2], volume 20, number 1, Edinburgh University Press, page 155