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English

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bruin (“brown”) via William Caxton's 1485 translation of a Dutch version of the legend of Reynard the Fox. Bruin is the bear, named for his brown color. Doublet of brown.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?u??n/
• Rhymes: -u??n

Noun

bruin (plural bruins)

1. A folk name for a bear, especially the brown bear, Ursus arctos.
   • 1989, Keith Bosley, translating Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala, XVII:

     The mother sought the one gone / astray, for the lost she longs: / she ran great swamps as a wolf / trod the wilds as a bruin / waters as an otter roamed […].

Anagrams

• Bruni, Burin, Rubin, burin, rub in, rubin

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch bruin.

Adjective

bruin (attributive bruine, comparative bruiner, superlative bruinste)

1. brown

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brœy?n/
• Hyphenation: bruin
• Rhymes: -œy?n

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bruun, from Old Dutch *br?n, from Proto-Germanic *br?naz.

Adjective

bruin (comparative bruiner, superlative bruinst)

1. brown

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: bruin
• ? Papiamentu: bruin
• ? Sranan Tongo: broin

Etymology 2

From the adjective bruin.

Noun

bruin n (uncountable)

1. the color brown

Noun

bruin c (uncountable)

1. (slang) heroin

Usage notes

The expression aan de bruin zijn is used for the addiction to heroin only, not for individual shots.

See also

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Dutch bruin.

Adjective

bruin

1. brown

English

Etymology

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??n/

Noun

brin (plural brins)

1. One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches.

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2. A single silkworm thread extruded from the gland, before it has formed a bave.

Anagrams

• IBNR, RNIB

French

Etymology

Unknown origin; possibly of Gaulish origin (compare Spanish brenca (“fiber”), brinza (“blade of grass, filament”)), from Proto-Celtic *brinik?, from *brinos (“filament, fiber”) (compare Breton broen-enn, Welsh brwyn-en).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???/
• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): [b?æ?]
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

brin m (plural brins)

1. blade (of grass)
2. sprig, twig
3. wisp, strand (of hair, fibre etc.)
4. (figuratively) ounce, bit, hint

See also

• fétu
• touffe

Further reading

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

References

• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, ?ISBN, p. 257, 258
• “brin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• Matasovi?, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, ?ISBN
• Remacle, Louis (1984): La différenciation des géminées mm, nn en mb, nd: sur l'étymologie des termes landon et flamber et des toponymes hambê, hambâ, p. 45
• “brin” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) bregn
• (Puter, Vallader) brün

Etymology

From a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *br?naz (“brown”), from Proto-Indo-European *bher- (“shining, brown”).

Adjective

brin m (feminine singular brina, masculine plural brins, feminine plural brinas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) brown

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brín/

Noun

br?n m inan

1. juniper

Inflection

Further reading

• “brin”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran