different between broa vs brow

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English browe, from Old English br?, from Proto-Germanic *br?w?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?b?rúHs (“brow”) (compare Middle Irish brúad, Tocharian B pärw?ne (“eyebrows”), Lithuanian bruvìs, Serbo-Croatian obrva, Russian ????? (brov?), Ancient Greek ????? (ophrús), Sanskrit ???? (bhr?)), Persian ????? (abr?, “eyebrow”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /b?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

brow (plural brows)

1. The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow.
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act III Scene v^[1]:

     'Tis not your inky brows, your black silk hair, / Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream / That can entame my spirits to your worship.

   • c. 1763, Charles Churchill (satirist)\Charles Churchill, The Ghost

     And his arch'd brow, pulled o'er his eyes, / With solemn proof proclaims him wise.

2. The first tine of an antler's beam.
3. The forehead.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act II Scene iii^[2]:

     Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war,

     And thus hath so bestirr'd thee in thy sleep,

     That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow

     Like bubbles in a late-disturb'd stream, […]
4. The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.

   the brow of a precipice

5. (mining) A gallery in a coal mine running across the face of the coal.
6. (figuratively) Aspect; appearance.
7. (nautical) The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay.
8. (nautical) The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp.

Synonyms

• forehead

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

brow (third-person singular simple present brows, present participle browing, simple past and past participle browed)

1. To bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.
   • 1634, John Milton, Comus

     Tending my flocks hard by i' the hilly crofts / That brow this bottom glade.

Middle English

Noun

brow

1. Alternative form of browe

Norn

Etymology

From Old Norse brauð, from Proto-Germanic *braud?. Compare Shetlandic brau.

Noun

brow

1. (Orkney) bread

Plautdietsch

Adjective

brow

1. brave, audacious, daring, courageous, dauntless, intrepid