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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

• IPA^(key): /braːz/

From Middle Cornish bras, from Old Cornish bras, from Proto-Celtic *brassos (“large”).

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

bras (comparative brassa, superlative an brassa)

1. big, great, bulky, large

   Synonym: meur

   Antonym: byghan

yn fras

1. greatly

   Synonyms: yn feur, yn lower

From Middle Cornish bras, from Proto-Brythonic *brad, from Proto-Celtic *mratom. Cognate with Breton barad, Irish and Scottish Gaelic brath, and Welsh brad.

bras m (plural brasow)

1. plot, conspiracy

bras

1. inflection of brasa:
   1. third-person singular present indicative/future indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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 (invariable)

1. arm

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

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

• brasen (“brazen”)
• brasen (“to cover with brass”)
• brasiere

• 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)
• 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: beras
• → Balinese: 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”)
• brasgamu (“to stride, to lope”)
• braslun (“sketch, outline”)
• braster (“fat”, noun)

bras m or f (plural breision)

1. bunting (bird of the genus Emberiza)

• bras gyddf-felyn (“yellow-throated bunting”)
• bras melyn (“yellowhammer”)
• bras y cyrs (“reed bunting”)
• bras yr ŷd (“corn bunting”)

• 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

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