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Catalan
Etymology
Probably from Vulgar Latin *bravus. Compare Italian bravo.
Pronunciation
Noun
brau m (plural braus)
- bull
See also
Adjective
brau (feminine brava, masculine plural braus, feminine plural braves)
- brave, fierce
- rough, abrupt (sea and coastline)
Derived terms
Further reading
Cimbrian
Noun
brau f (plural braun, diminutive bròille)
- (Mezzaselva) Alternative form of vrau
Declension
Declension of brau – 6th declension
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Luxembourgish
Verb
brau
- second-person singular imperative of brauen
Norn
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Norse brauð, from Proto-Germanic *braudą.
Noun
brau
- (Shetland) bread
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
From Middle High German and Old High German brūn, from Proto-West Germanic *brūn. Compare German braun, Dutch bruin, English brown.
Adjective
brau
- brown
Welsh
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *brus-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrus- (“to break apart, to shred”). Cognate with Cornish brew, Old Irish bruid. See also: briw (“wound, injury”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
brau (feminine singular brau, plural breuon, equative breued, comparative breuach, superlative breuaf)
- brittle, fragile, frail, weak
- Synonyms: bregus, breuedig, breulyd, breuol, briwllyd, hydor, hyfriw
- (figurative) morally weak, rotten
- Synonyms: braen, braenllyd, breol
- perishable (of goods)
- Synonym: darfodus
- tender (of food)
- loose (of soil)
- Synonyms: brac, breulyd, breuol, ysgafn
- (baking) crumbly, short
- Synonym: briwsionllyd
- forthright, candid, harsh, blunt, brutally honest
- Synonyms: diflewyn-ar-dafod, parod, cyflym, buan, llym
Derived terms
Mutation
References
- ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “brau”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies