different between bruit vs bruin

English

Etymology 1

The noun is derived from Middle English bruit (“commotion, tumult; fame, renown; collective noun for a group of barons”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman brut (“commotion, tumult; noise, sounds; fame, renown; hearsay, rumour; collective noun for a group of barons”) and Old French bruit (“commotion, tumult; noise, sounds; fame, renown; hearsay, rumour”) (modern French bruit (“noise; report, rumour”)), a noun use of the past participle of bruire (“to make a noise; to rattle; to roar; to rustle”), from Late Latin brugere, an alteration of Latin rug?re (“to roar”) (the present active infinitive of rugi? (“to bray; to bellow, roar; to rumble”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h?rewg- (“to belch; to roar”)), possibly influenced by Late Latin bragere (“to bray”). The English word is cognate with Catalan brogir (“to roar”); Old Occitan bruir, brugir (“to roar”).

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bro?ot, IPA^(key): /b?u?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b?ut/
• Rhymes: -u?t
• Homophone: brute

Noun

bruit (countable and uncountable, plural bruits)

1. (uncountable, archaic) Hearsay, rumour; talk; (countable) an instance of this.
2. (countable, obsolete) A clamour, an outcry; a noise.

Verb

bruit (third-person singular simple present bruits, present participle bruiting, simple past and past participle bruited)

1. (transitive, archaic in Britain, current in the US) To disseminate, promulgate, or spread news, a rumour, etc.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• bruiter (archaic)

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French bruit (“noise; report, rumour”), from Old French bruit (“noise; sounds”); see further at etymology 1.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?u?i/, /b?u??i?/, /b?u?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?ui/, /b?u?i/, /b?ut/
• Hyphenation: bru?it; not hyphenated if pronounced as a single syllable

Noun

bruit (plural bruits)

1. (medicine) An abnormal sound in the body heard on auscultation (for example, through using a stethoscope); a murmur. [from 19th c.]

Translations

References

Further reading

• bruit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Old French bruit, used as a noun of the past participle form of bruire (“to roar”), from a Proto-Romance alteration (by association with braire (“to bray; to cry out, shout out”)) of Latin rug?tus (“brayed; bellowed, roared; rumbled”) (compare Vulgar Latin *brugitus, from Latin *br?gere). Compare also Spanish ruido, Portuguese ruído, and French rut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??i/

Noun

bruit m (plural bruits)

1. a noise

   Synonym: (Louisiana) hélas

2. a rumor or report

Derived terms

• bruitage
• bruiteur
• faire du bruit

Descendants

• ? English: bruit

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• tribu

Old French

Etymology

From the past participle of bruire (“to roar”), or from Vulgar Latin *br?gitus, from Latin *br?gere, an alteration of Latin rug?tus (“brayed; bellowed, roared; rumbled”), from rug?re, the present active infinitive of rugi? (“to bray; to bellow, roar; to rumble”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h?rewg- (“to belch; to roar”).

Noun

bruit m (oblique plural bruiz or bruitz, nominative singular bruiz or bruitz, nominative plural bruit)

1. noise; sounds

   Synonym: noise

Descendants

• ? English: bruit
• French: bruit

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