different between bris vs iris

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

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Latin ?ris, from Ancient Greek ???? (îris, “rainbow”), from Proto-Indo-European *wey-ro- (“a twist, thread, cord, wire”), from *weh?y- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait”). Cognate to English wire.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?'r?s, IPA^(key): /?a???s/
• Rhymes: -a???s

Noun

iris (plural irises or iris or irides) (See Usage notes)

2. (botany) A plant of the genus Iris, common in the northern hemisphere, and generally having attractive blooms (See Iris (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia ).

   • Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

3. (anatomy) The contractile membrane perforated by the pupil, which adjusts to control the amount of light reaching the retina, and which forms the colored portion of the eye (See Iris (anatomy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia ).
4. (photography, cinematography) A diaphragm used to regulate the size of a hole, especially as a way of controlling the amount of light reaching a lens.
5. (poetic) A rainbow, or other colourful refraction of light.
6. (electronics) A constricted opening in the path inside a waveguide, used to form a resonator.
7. (zoology) The inner circle of an oscillated color spot.

Usage notes

For the part of the eye, the usual medical plural is irides.
For the flower both iris and irises are in common use.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:iris.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• Iris (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Iris (anatomy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

iris (third-person singular simple present irises, present participle irising, simple past and past participle irised)

1. (of an aperture, lens, or door) To open or close in the manner of an iris.

Anagrams

• Siri

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin iris, from Ancient Greek ???? (îris).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?i.?is/

Noun

iris m (plural iris)

1. iris (part of the eye)

Derived terms

• arc iris

Related terms

• iridectomia
• iridi
• iridià
• irídic

Further reading

• “iris” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?ris or Middle French iris (itself from Latin), from Ancient Greek ???? (îris).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?.r?s/
• Hyphenation: iris
• Homophone: Iris

Noun

iris f (plural irissen, diminutive irisje n)

1. (anatomy) iris (coloured part of the eye)

   Synonym: regenboogvlies

2. (botany) iris, plant of the genus Iris

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Verb

iris

1. past of iri

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iris, Ancient Greek ???? (îris).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.?is/

Noun

iris m (plural iris)

1. iris

Derived terms

• iris d'eau

Further reading

• “iris” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?iris/

Verb

iris

1. past of irar

Indonesian

Noun

iris (first-person possessive irisku, second-person possessive irismu, third-person possessive irisnya)

1. slice

Verb

mengiris

1. to slice

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish iris f (“a thong or strap (from which a shield, bag, etc. is suspended)”).

Noun

iris f (genitive singular irise, nominative plural irisí)

1. strap, sling (for carrying)

Declension

Etymology 2

From Old Irish iress (“religion, creed, the (true) faith”).

Noun

iris f (genitive singular irise)

1. (literary) belief, faith, religion

Declension

Alternative forms

• ireas

Etymology 3

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

Noun

iris f (genitive singular irise, nominative plural irisí)

1. Alternative form of oireas
2. magazine, journal

   Synonym: irisleabhar

3. gazette

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• iriseoireacht f (“journalism”)

Etymology 4

Noun

iris m

1. genitive/vocative singular of ireas (“iris”)
2. nominative/dative plural of ireas

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????/

Mutation

Further reading

• "iris" 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) , “iris”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “ires(s)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “iris” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “iris” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iris, Ancient Greek ???? (îris).

Noun

iris m or f (invariable)

1. iris (flower)

   Synonyms: giaggiolo, iride

Anagrams

• risi

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (îris)

Noun

?ris f (genitive iridis); third declension

1. rainbow
   • Vulgate Bible, Douay-Rheims Version, Revelation 10:1

     et vidi alium angelum fortem descendentem de caelo amictum nube et iris in capite eius et facies eius erat ut sol et pedes eius tamquam columna ignis

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

?r?s

1. dative/ablative plural of ?ra

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (îris, “rainbow”).

Noun

iris m (definite singular irisen, indefinite plural iriser, definite plural irisene)

1. (botany) an iris (flower)
2. (anatomy) an iris (part of the eye)

   Synonym: regnbuehinne

References

• “iris” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (îris, “rainbow”).

Noun

iris m (definite singular irisen, indefinite plural irisar, definite plural irisane)

1. (botany) an iris (flower)
2. (anatomy) an iris (part of the eye)

   Synonym: regnbogehinne

References

• “iris” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ir?is?/

Noun

iris

1. Alternative spelling of iriss: accusative/dative singular of ires

Mutation

Portuguese

Noun

iris f (plural iris)

1. Obsolete spelling of íris

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French iris, Latin iris, from Ancient Greek ???? (îris).

Noun

iris n (plural irisuri)

1. (anatomy) iris (of the eye)

Noun

iris n (plural iri?i)

1. (botany) iris (flower)

   Synonyms: stânjenel, stânjen

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Noun

iris f (genitive singular irise, plural irisean)

1. magazine, periodical

   Synonym: ràitheachan

Mutation

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iris, Ancient Greek ???? (îris).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?is/, [?i.?is]

Noun

iris m (plural iris or iríses)

1. (anatomy) iris

Derived terms

• arco iris
• músculo dilatador del iris

Related terms

• íride
• iridio

Further reading

• “iris” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.