different between bris vs brim

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish ????? (bris), from Hebrew ???????? (b?rî?, “covenant”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /b??s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Noun

bris (plural brises or brisses or britot)

1. (Judaism) Ritual male circumcision.
   • 1993, Miriam Rose, Miriam Zakon, The Baker Family Circus, Baker's Dozen (Omnibus), Volume 4, page 129,

     The night before the bris, he invited nine of his little buddies to come and say kerias shema around the baby's bassinet. Mommy and Daddy, who flew in for the bris, were so touched, they kept dabbing their eyes and coughing.

   • 2009, Jeffrey Shandler, Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America, page 155,

     Although indigenous visual documentation of the bris was, until the advent of video, limited and often oblique, the ceremony is a longstanding fixture of Christian art.

   • 2013, Ted Falcon, David Blatner, Judaism For Dummies, 2nd Edition, page 109,

     However, if the baby is born on a Wednesday night, then the bris would occur on the following Thursday morning because Jewish days begin at sundown, and the bris is tradionally performed during the day. (Note that the Talmud (see Chapter 3) states if the baby's health is in question, then the bris must be postponed.)

Synonyms

• (circumcision): bris milah, brit milah

Derived terms

• bris periah

Translations

Anagrams

• IRBs, RBIs, RIBs, SBIR, ribs

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pr??s]
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

bris n (genitive singular briss, nominative plural bris)

1. (anatomy) pancreas

Declension

Synonyms

• (pancreas): briskirtill

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish brisid, from Proto-Indo-European *b?res- (“to burst, break”). Cognate with English burst and German bersten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?????/

Verb

bris (present analytic briseann, future analytic brisfidh, verbal noun briseadh, past participle briste)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to break, fracture
2. sack, fire, dismiss
3. (banking) cash, (of money, bills) change
4. (of dam) burst
5. (of government) overthrow

Conjugation

Derived terms

• athbhris (“break again”, verb)

Noun

bris f (genitive singular brise, nominative plural briseanna)

1. loss

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "bris" 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) , “bris(s)id”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “brisim” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [b?r??s?]

Verb

brìs

1. third-person singular future of bristi
2. third-person plural future of bristi

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German brise.

Noun

bris m (definite singular brisen, indefinite plural briser, definite plural brisene)

1. (weather) a breeze

References

• “bris” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German brise.

Noun

bris m (definite singular brisen, indefinite plural brisar, definite plural brisane)

1. (weather) a breeze

References

• “bris” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• briss

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?r?is?/

Verb

bris

1. second-person singular imperative of brisid

·bris

1. inflection of brisid:
   1. third-person singular preterite conjunct
   2. first-person singular present subjunctive conjunct

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish brisid, from Proto-Indo-European *b?res- (“to burst, break”). Cognate with English burst and German bersten.

Verb

bris (past bhris, future brisidh, verbal noun briseadh, past participle briste)

1. break, smash
2. breach

References

• “bris” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “bris(s)id”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brî?s/

Noun

br?s m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (medicine) swab, smear

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bri?s/

Noun

bris c

1. breeze

Usage notes

Plural form could also be brisar

Declension

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English bridge.

Noun

bris

1. bridge
2. wharf

Welsh

Noun

bris

1. Soft mutation of pris.

Mutation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

From Middle English brim, from Old English brim (“surf, flood, wave, sea, ocean, water, sea-edge, shore”), from Proto-Germanic *brim? (“turbulence, surge; surf, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *breman? (“to roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?rem-, *b?erem-, *b?rem(e)-, *breme- (“to hum, make a noise”). Cognate with Icelandic brim (“sea, surf”), Old English brymm, brym (“sea, waves”), Old English bremman (“to rage, roar”), Dutch brommen (“to hum, buzz”), German brummen (“to hum, drone”), Latin frem? (“roar, growl”, verb), Ancient Greek ????? (brém?, “roar, roar like the ocean”, verb).

Noun

brim (plural brims)

1. (obsolete) The sea; ocean; water; flood.

Derived terms

• brimsand

Etymology 2

From Middle English brim, brem, brimme (“margin, edge of a river, lake, or sea”), probably from Middle English brim (“sea, ocean, surf, shore”). See above. Cognate with Dutch berm (“bank, riverbank”), Bavarian Bräm (“border, stripe”), German Bräme, Brame (“border, edge”), Danish bræmme (“border, edge, brim”), Swedish bräm (“border, edge”), Icelandic barmur (“edge, verge, brink”). Related to berm.

Noun

brim (plural brims)

1. An edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water).

   • The feet of the priest that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water.

   • 1819, "A Portrait", in Peter Bell

     A primrose by a river ' s brim

2. The topmost rim or lip of a container.
   • 1813, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Remorse

     Saw I that insect on this goblet's brim / I would remove it with an anxious pity.

3. A projecting rim, especially of a hat.

Derived terms

• brimful
• to the brim

Translations

Verb

brim (third-person singular simple present brims, present participle brimming, simple past and past participle brimmed)

1. (intransitive) To be full to overflowing.

   The room brimmed with people.

   • 2006 New York Times

     It was a hint of life in a place that still brims with memories of death, a reminder that even five years later, the attacks are not so very distant.
2. (transitive) To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
   • Tennyson:

     Arrange the board and brim the glass.

Translations

Etymology 3

Either from breme, or directly from Old English bremman (“to roar, rage”) (though not attested in Middle English).

Verb

brim (third-person singular simple present brims, present participle brimming, simple past and past participle brimmed)

1. Of pigs: to be in heat, to rut.

Etymology 4

See breme.

Adjective

brim (comparative more brim, superlative most brim)

1. (obsolete) Fierce; sharp; cold.

Anagrams

• IBMR, IRBM

Indonesian

Etymology

From English brim, from Middle English brim, brem, brimme (“margin, edge of a river, lake, or sea”), probably from Middle English brim (“sea, ocean, surf, shore”), from Proto-Germanic *brim? (“turbulence, surge; surf, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *breman? (“to roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?rem-, *b?erem-, *b?rem(e)-, *breme- (“to hum, make a noise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?br?m]
• Hyphenation: brim

Noun

brim (first-person possessive brimku, second-person possessive brimmu, third-person possessive brimnya)

1. brim: a projecting rim of a hat.

Further reading

• “brim” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brim/

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *brim?.

Noun

brim n

1. (poetic) the edge of the sea or a body of water
2. (poetic) surf; the surface of the sea
3. (poetic) sea, ocean, water

Declension

Derived terms

• briml?þend

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *brim?.

Noun

brim n

1. surf

Declension

References

• brim in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press