different between broad vs broa

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English brood, brode, from Old English br?d (“broad, flat, open, extended, spacious, wide, ample, copious”), from Proto-Germanic *braidaz (“broad”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots braid (“broad”), West Frisian breed (“broad”), Saterland Frisian breed (“broad”), Low German breed (“broad”), breet, Dutch breed (“broad”), German breit (“broad, wide”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål bred (“broad”), Norwegian brei (“broad”), Icelandic breiður (“broad, wide”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b???d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b??d/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /b??d/
• Rhymes: -??d

Adjective

broad (comparative broader, superlative broadest)

1. Wide in extent or scope.
2. Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
   • 1720, William Bartlet, a sermon

     broad and open day

   • May 12, 1860, Eliza Watson, Witches and witchcraft (in Once A Week, No. 46.)

     crushing the minds of its victims in the broad and open day

3. Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.

   • a broad mixture of falsehood

4. Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
   • 1819, D. Daggett, Sturges v. Crowninshield

     The words in the Constitution are broad enough to include the case.

   • 1859, Edward Everett, Daniel Webster: An Oration On the Occasion of the Dedication of the Statue of Mr. Webster,

     in a broad, statesmanlike, and masterly way

5. Plain; evident.

6. General rather than specific.

   to be in broad agreement

7. (writing) Unsubtle; obvious.
8. Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
9. (dated) Gross; coarse; indelicate.

10. (of an accent) Strongly regional.

11. (Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.

Antonyms

• (wide—regarding occupied space, width of an object): thin, narrow
• (wide—regarding body width): skinny
• (comprehensive): all-encompassing; see also Thesaurus:comprehensive
• (not palatalized): slender

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

broad (plural broads)

1. (Britain) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.
2. A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.

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3. (Britain, historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.
4. (film, television) A kind of floodlight.
   • 1974, The Video Handbook (page 71)

     […] fresnel spotlights, old-type broads, sky-pans, cone-lights, etc.

   • 1976, Herbert Zettl, Television Production Handbook (volume 10, page 105)

     Some broads have barn doors (see page 115) to block gross light spill into other set areas; others have even an adjustable beam, […]

   • 2015, Jim Owens, Television Production (page 194)

     Light bounced from large white surfaces (e.g., matte reflector boards, or a white ceiling). Floodlights include scoops, broads, floodlight, banks, internally reflected units, strip lights, and cyclorama lights.

Derived terms

• Broadland (sense 1)
• Oulton Broad (sense 1)

Etymology 2

Early 20th century. Said to be from abroadwife (“woman who lives or travels without her husband”), though it might be in part an alteration of bride, especially through influence of cognate German Braut, which is used in the same sense of “broad, young woman, hussy”. Compare already Middle High German br?t (“concubine”).

Noun

broad (plural broads)

1. (dated) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.
3. (US, colloquial, slang, sometimes dated, derogatory) A woman or girl.

   Who was that broad I saw you with?

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:prostitute
• See also Thesaurus:woman
• See also Thesaurus:girl

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Word formation verb -en noun -ness

Anagrams

• Bardo, Board, Borda, Broda, Dobra, abord, adorb, bardo, board, dobra

Breton

Etymology

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

Noun

broad m (plural broiz)

1. person from a country

Inflection

Noun

broad f (plural broadoù)

1. nation

Inflection

Derived terms

• broadel

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