bramar

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Verb

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)

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

• “bramar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “bramar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “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.

Galician

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɾaˈmaɾ/

Verb

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

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

Conjugation

Synonyms

• berrar, bradar, bruar

Derived terms

Related terms

• bremar

References

• “bramido” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “bramar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “bramar” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “bramar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “bramar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “bramar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ido

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

Conjugation

    Conjugation of bramar

		present		past		future
infinitive		bramar		bramir		bramor
tense		bramas		bramis		bramos
conditional		bramus
imperative		bramez
adjective active participle		bramanta		braminta		bramonta
adverbial active participle		bramante		braminte		bramonte
nominal active participle	singular	bramanto		braminto		bramonto
	plural	bramanti		braminti		bramonti

Derived terms

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

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

1. to roar, bellow, trumpet

Conjugation

See also

• rugir

Further reading

• “bramar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014