different between brat vs bratling

English

Etymology 1

Early Modern English (ca. 1500) slang term meaning "beggar's child". Possibly from Scots bratchet (“bitch, hound”). Or, possibly originally a dialectal word, from northern and western England and the Midlands, for a "makeshift or ragged garment," from Old English bratt (“cloak”), which is from a Celtic source (Old Irish brat (“cloak, cloth”)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b?at/
• (US) enPR: br?t, IPA^(key): /b?æt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Noun

brat (plural brats)

1. (derogatory slang) A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish.
2. (slang) A son or daughter (at any age) of an active military service member.

3. a turbot or flatfish
4. (historical) A rough cloak or ragged garment
5. (obsolete, Britain, Scotland, dialect) A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)

6. (obsolete) The young of an animal.
   • 1680, Roger L'Estrange, Citt and Bumpkin

     They are your Will-Worship-men , your Prelates Brats: Take the whole Litter of'um , and you'll finde never a barrel better Herring.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:child.

Translations

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Etymology 2

Shortened from bratwurst, from German Bratwurst.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: br?t, IPA^(key): /b??t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

brat (plural brats)

1. (informal) bratwurst

Translations

See also

• Appendix:English collective nouns

Etymology 3

Noun

brat (plural brats)

1. (mining) A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.

Etymology 4

Noun

brat

1. (military) Acronym of Born, Raised, And Transferred.

Anagrams

• BART, Bart, T-bar

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brat/, [?b???d?]

Etymology

A merger of two unrelated adjectives:

• Old Norse *brantr (east), brattr (west), from Proto-Germanic *brantaz, cognate with Norwegian bratt, Swedish brant, English brant.
• Old Norse bráðr (“hasty, sudden”), from Proto-Germanic *br?þaz (“hot, in a hurry, rushed”), cognate with Norwegian brå, Swedish bråd. In early modern Danish, the latter meaning also had the form brad, with the neuter bradt.

Adjective

brat (plural and definite singular attributive bratte, comparative brattere, superlative (predicative) brattest, superlative (attributive) bratteste)

1. steep
2. sudden

References

• “brat” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “brat” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br?t/
• Hyphenation: brat
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

brat n (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of brat.

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?a?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Verb

brat

1. singular imperative of braten
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of braten

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): [b????t??]
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): [b???at??]

Etymology 1

From Old Irish bratt, from Proto-Celtic *bratto- (compare Welsh brethyn (“cloth”), from *bratt-ino-).

Noun

brat m (genitive singular brait, nominative plural brait)

1. mantle, cloak

   Proverb:

2. covering
3. (theater) curtain
4. Alternative form of bratach (“flag”)

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Noun

brat m (genitive singular brat, nominative plural bratanna)

1. broth; thick soup

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "brat" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “bratt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “brat” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “brat” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Kashubian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bratr?, *brat?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?réh?t?r.

Noun

brat m

1. brother

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [brat]

Verb

brat

1. supine of bra?

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bratr?, *brat?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?réh?t?r.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brat/

Noun

brat m pers (diminutive braciszek)

1. brother
   • Uwspó?cze?niona Biblia Gda?ska, Mark 1:16:

     A przechadzaj?c si? nad Morzem Galilejskim, zobaczy? Szymona i Andrzeja, jego brata, zarzucaj?cych sie? w morze; byli bowiem rybakami.

     As Jesus was strolling beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; they were fishermen

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjectives) bracki, braterski, bratni, pobratymczy
• (adverbs) bratersko, po bratersku
• (nouns) brachol, bractwo, bra?, brat ?ata, bratanek, bratanica, bratanka, bratowa, bratczyk, bratek, brate?ko, bratul, bratunio, rozbrat, pobratymstwo, pobratymiec, pobratymca, pó?brat
• (verbs) brata?, by? za pan brat, rozbrata?, zbrata?

Further reading

• brat in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• brat in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish bratt, from Proto-Celtic *bratto- (compare Welsh brethyn (“cloth”), from *bratt-ino-).

Noun

brat m (genitive singular brata, plural bratan)

1. cloak, cover, covering, mantle, veil, canopy
2. mat

Derived terms

• brat-cùil

Mutation

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bratr?, *brat?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?réh?t?r.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brât/

Noun

br?t m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. brother
2. mate, pal, buddy, when used in informal speech to address somebody in vocative (brate)

Usage notes

There is no plural form for this noun. Instead, the collective term br??a is used for plural meanings.

Declension

Derived terms

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bratr?, *brat?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?réh?t?r.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brat/

Noun

brat m (genitive singular brata, nominative plural bratia, genitive plural bratov, declension pattern of chlap)

1. brother

Declension

Further reading

• brat in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bratr?, *brat?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?réh?t?r.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brát/

Noun

br?t m anim

1. brother

Inflection

Further reading

• “brat”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English brat (“spoiled child”).

Noun

brat c

1. (slang) person who is very careful about following fashion trends; someone who rarely ever acts independently but rather follows peer pressure, usually maintaining an appearance of visible wealth

Usage notes

• Mainly used in plural, as a collective noun.
• Can occasionally be seen considered as neuter rather than common.

Synonyms

• stekare

Anagrams

• bart

English

Etymology

From brat +? -ling.

Noun

bratling (plural bratlings)

1. A little brat.
   • 1988, Eino Friberg, George C. Schoolfield, Björn Landström, The Kalevala:

     So they swung him and they rocked him, Rocked him till his hair was flying; Rocked him one day and a second, But already on the third day The young bratling started kicking, Kicking, thrashing, flailing round him […]

Anagrams

• Bartling