different between bra vs broa

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: brä, IPA^(key): /b???/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Shortened from brassiere.

Noun

bra (plural bras)

1. Clipping of brassiere. [from 1920s]

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From bracket, referring to the notation introduced in 1939 by Paul Dirac.

Noun

bra (plural bras)

1. (physics) One of the two vectors in the standard notation for describing quantum states in quantum mechanics, the other being the ket.

Antonyms

• ket

Related terms

• bra-ket notation

Etymology 3

Representing a different pronunciation of bro (“brother”).

Noun

bra (plural bras)

1. (slang) Alternative form of bro; friend, mate

2. (slang) female equivalent of bro

Further reading

• brassiere on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ABR, ARB, Arb., Bar, Bar., RBA, Rab, abr., arb, bar, bar-

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from English bra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br??/

Noun

bra (plural bra's)

1. bra, brassiere
2. (Cape Afrikaans) bro, brah, bruh

Cebuano

Etymology

From English bra, shortened from brassiere, from French brassière.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bra

Noun

bra

1. a bra; a brassiere

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:bra.

Garo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bra

1. arrow

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French bras (“arm”)

Noun

bra

1. arm

Khotanese

Adjective

bra

1. dear

Norman

Alternative forms

• brâs (continental Normandy)
• bras (Jersey, Guernsey)

Etymology

From Old French bras, from Vulgar Latin *bracium, from Classical Latin bracchium, from Ancient Greek ??????? (brakhí?n).

Noun

bra m (plural bras)

1. (Sark, anatomy) arm

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from French brave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???/

Adjective

bra (indeclinable, comparative bedre, indefinite superlative best, definite superlative beste)

1. good, fine

Derived terms

• kjempebra

Adverb

bra

1. well

See also

• god
• vel

References

• “bra” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French brave.

Adjective

bra (indeclinable, comparative betre, indefinite superlative best, definite superlative beste)

1. good, fine

Derived terms

• kjempebra

See also

• god
• vel

References

• “bra” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

Since at least 1621, from braf (“good, brave”); from Low German brav; from French brave, borrowed from Italian bravo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br??/, /br??/

Adjective

bra (comparative bättre, superlative bäst)

1. good

Declension

Usage notes

In informal (often jocular or childish) contexts, bäst may be inflected further and given the comparative bästare (bester) and the superlative bästast, bästaste (bestest); these forms are also nonstandard.

Adverb

bra (comparative bättre, superlative bäst)

1. well

See also

• väl
• god

Anagrams

• -bar, bar

Yola

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

bra

1. brave

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

Zazaki

Alternative forms

• bira
• b?ra

Etymology

Compare Persian ?????? (barâdar).

Noun

bra

1. brother

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese broa, possibly of Germanic origin.

Noun

broa (countable and uncountable, plural broas)

1. A type of cornbread made in Portugal, Galicia and Brazil with wheat, rye and yeast.

Anagrams

• Abor, Baro, Bora, baro-, boar, bora, bora-

Galician

Alternative forms

• boroa

Etymology

Obscure. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese borõa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria); cognate with Portuguese broa and Asturian borona, from a substrate language and not directly from Germanic *braud? (“bread”), as has been proposed. Probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?ars- (“spike, prickle”) (compare Welsh bara (“bread”), Latin far (“spelt”), Serbo-Croatian ???????/br?šno ‘flour’, Albanian bar (“grass”), Ancient Greek ????? (Ph?ron, “plant deity”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?o.?]

Noun

broa f (plural broas)

1. (historical) millet bread
2. black bread, cornbread: bread made of rye, millet and maize
   • 1805, anonymous, Representación dos veciños da Pontedeva (in Ramón Mariño Paz, 2008, Papés d'emprenta condenada. A escrita galega entre 1797 e 1846, page 21-23):

     non pode querer ó noso Rey que lle paguemos un carto polo neto do viño, que non podemos vender á ochavo. Os probes non comemos mais ca un pouco de pan, ou bróa ruin, e unhas berzas sin adubo. Si nos quita a pinga do viño, ¿que forza emos ter para traballar as terras?

     our King can't pretend that we pay a quarter by each pint of wine [we consume], when we can't even sell it for half a quarter. We the poor people eat but a little of bread, or bad black bread, and some greens without seasoning. If He takes this little wine, what strength we'll have left for working the lands?

References

• “borõa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• "borõa" in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “broa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “broa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “broa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• broen

Noun

broa m or f

1. definite feminine singular of bro

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• boroa

Etymology

From Old Portuguese borõa, of uncertain origin; see that entry for more. Compare Galician broa.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?b?o.a/, /?b?o.?/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?b?o.?/, /?b?ow.?/
• Hyphenation: bro?a

Noun

broa f (plural broas)

1. broa (type of cornbread made in Portugal, Galicia and Brazil)
   • 2013, ANTÓNIO MOTA, O Lobisomem, Leya (?ISBN)

     Logo de manhãzinha, o Zezinho Patola apareceu em nossa casa, bebeu um cálice de aguardente e comeu uma fatiazinha do miolo de uma broa, porque já não tinha dentes para a côdea, que é a parte mais gostosa, […]

Descendants

• ? English: broa

Further reading

• “broa” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “broa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• broa on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt