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brin
English
Etymology
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b??n/
Noun
brin (plural brins)
- One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- A single silkworm thread extruded from the gland, before it has formed a bave.
Anagrams
- IBNR, RNIB
French
Etymology
Unknown origin; possibly of Gaulish origin (compare Spanish brenca (“fiber”), brinza (“blade of grass, filament”)), from Proto-Celtic *brinik?, from *brinos (“filament, fiber”) (compare Breton broen-enn, Welsh brwyn-en).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b???/
- (Louisiana) IPA(key): [b?æ?]
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
brin m (plural brins)
- blade (of grass)
- sprig, twig
- wisp, strand (of hair, fibre etc.)
- (figuratively) ounce, bit, hint
See also
- fétu
- touffe
Further reading
- “brin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
References
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, ?ISBN, p. 257, 258
- “brin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
- Matasovi?, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ?ISBN
- Remacle, Louis (1984): La différenciation des géminées mm, nn en mb, nd: sur l'étymologie des termes landon et flamber et des toponymes hambê, hambâ, p. 45
- “brin” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) bregn
- (Puter, Vallader) brün
Etymology
From a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *br?naz (“brown”), from Proto-Indo-European *bher- (“shining, brown”).
Adjective
brin m (feminine singular brina, masculine plural brins, feminine plural brinas)
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) brown
Slovene
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /brín/
Noun
br?n m inan
- juniper
Inflection
Further reading
- “brin”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
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burin
English
Etymology
From French burin. Doublet of boline.
Noun
burin (plural burins)
- A chisel with a sharp point, used for engraving; a graver.
- 2006, Stefan Zweig, Chess, translated by Anthea Bell, London: Penguin,
- I kept staring at the same wallpaper on the same wall; I stared at it so often that every line of its zigzag pattern has etched itself on the innermost folds of my brain as if with an engraver’s burin.
- 2006, Stefan Zweig, Chess, translated by Anthea Bell, London: Penguin,
- A prehistoric flint tool
Derived terms
- burination
- burinate
Translations
Further reading
- burin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Bruin, Bruni, Rubin, bruin, rub in, rubin
A-Pucikwar
Etymology
From Proto-Great Andamanese *bur?/in
Noun
burin
- hill
- mountain
References
- Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, pg. 22 (2009)
Aka-Kede
Etymology
From Proto-Great Andamanese *bur?/in
Noun
burin
- hill, mountain
References
- Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, p. 7
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian burino.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /by.???/
Noun
burin m (plural burins)
- burin, graver
Derived terms
- buriner
Further reading
- burin on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
- “burin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- bruni
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