different between bros vs bris

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??z

Noun

bros

1. plural of bro

Anagrams

• BORs, ORBs, Sorb, bors, orbs, robs, sorb

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bro??s/, [?b??o?s]
• Homophones: brugs, brus

Noun

bros c

1. indefinite genitive singular of bro

Dutch

Etymology

Variant of broos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br?s/
• Hyphenation: bros
• Rhymes: -?s

Adjective

bros (comparative brosser, superlative meest bros or brost)

1. brittle

Inflection

Faroese

Etymology

From brosa (“to smile”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?o?s/
• Rhymes: -o?s

Noun

bros n (genitive singular bros, plural bros)

1. smile

Declension

Synonyms

• smíl

Icelandic

Etymology

From brosa (“to smile”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pr??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

bros n (genitive singular bross, nominative plural bros)

1. smile

Declension

Derived terms

• brosmildur
• grátbroslegur

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch broche, from French broche, from Old French broche, from Vulgar Latin brocca, feminine substantive of Classical Latin broccus (“pointy-toothed or prominent-toothed”), ultimately from Gaulish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?br?s]
• Hyphenation: bros

Noun

bros

1. brooch, piece of women’s ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.

Further reading

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

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bru?s/

Noun

bros

1. indefinite genitive singular of bro

Anagrams

• bors

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English breast.

Noun

bros

1. (anatomy) chest

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