braak

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See also: bråk

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Etymology

From Dutch braken.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /brɑːk/
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Verb

braak (present braak, present participle brakende, past participle gebraak)

  1. To vomit.

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch brâke (“fallow land”), from Proto-West Germanic *brāku. Cognate with German Brache (whence also the adjective brach), Old English brǣc (“plowed land”). Related with breken (“to break”), so called because the field is plowed (“broken”) and then left in this state.

Adjective

braak (not comparable)

  1. fallow
Declension
Declension of braak
uninflected braak
inflected brake
comparative —
positive
predicative/adverbial braak
indefinite m./f. sing. brake
n. sing. braak
plural brake
definite brake
partitive braaks
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch brake, brēken.

Noun

braak f (uncountable)

  1. the act of breaking or breaking in
Derived terms

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

braak

  1. inflection of braken:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

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