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bras

1. plural of bra

• ABRs, ARBs, BARS, arbs, bars, sbar

From English brush.

bras

1. brush

From English brass.

bras

1. (music) brass

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

• IPA^(key): /bʁaz/

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

1. big

   Antonym: bihan

• broas (Revived Late Cornish)
• brâs (Standard Cornish)

From Proto-Celtic *brassos (“large”).

bras

1. big, great

From Proto-Celtic *mratom. Cognate with Welsh brad and Irish brath

bras m (plural brasow)

1. plot, conspiracy

Borrowed from Welsh bras.

bras m (plural brases)

1. bunting

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.

• IPA^(key): /bʁa/ ~ /bʁɑ/

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• Rhymes: -a, -ɑ
• Hyphenation: bras

bras m (plural bras)

1. arm

• → Russian: бра (bra)
  • → Georgian: ბრა (bra)

• “bras”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• bars

• IPA^(key): /praːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

bras n (genitive singular brass, no plural)

1. soldering

• brasa

From Proto-Celtic *brassos (“large”).

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

1. (literary) great, strong
2. (literary) swift

bras m (genitive singular brais, nominative plural brais)

1. Alternative form of prás (“brass”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bras”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Old English bræs; further origin uncertain.

• braas, brace, brass, brasse, bres

• IPA^(key): /bras/

bras (uncountable)

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

• English: brass
• Scots: bress
• → Irish: prás
• → Scottish Gaelic: pràis

• “bras, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

bras

1. Alternative form of brace

bras

1. Alternative form of bracen

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

bras m (plural bras)

1. arm

• French: bras

• brâs (continental Normandy)
• bra (Sark)

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

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bras m (plural bras)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey, anatomy) arm

• braichie (“armful”)

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

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

1. arm

• Bourguignon: brai
• Champenois: brais
• Franc-Comtois: brais
• Middle French: bras
  • French: bras
• Norman: bras
• Walloon: bresse

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

• IPA^(key): /bras/

bras

1. husked rice

   Synonym: wĕas

• bĕras

• Javanese: ꦧꦼꦫꦱ꧀ (beras)
• → Balinese: ᬩᭂᬭᬲ᭄ (beras)

Borrowed from French brasse.

bras n (plural brasuri)

1. breaststroke

From English brush.

bras

1. brush

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

• IPA^(key): /braːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

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

• brasamcan (“approximation”)
• braslun (“sketch, outline”)

bras m or f (plural breision)

1. bunting (bird of the genus Emberiza)

• bras y cyrs (“reed bunting”)
• bras melyn (“yellowhammer”)

• 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