different between gallant vs brav
gallant
English
Alternative forms
- gallaunt (obsolete)
Etymology 1
From Middle English galant, galaunt, from Old French galant (“courteous; dashing; brave”), present participle of galer (“to rejoice; make merry”), from gale (“pomp; show; festivity; mirth”); either from Frankish *wala- (“good, well”), from Proto-Germanic *wal-, from Proto-Indo-European *welh?- (“to choose, wish”); or alternatively from Frankish *gail (“merry; mirthful; proud; luxuriant”), from Proto-Germanic *gailaz (“merry; excited; luxurious”), related to Dutch geil (“horny; lascivious; salacious; lecherous”), German geil (“randy; horny; lecherous; wicked”), Old English g?l (“wanton; wicked; bad”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??æl?nt/
- Rhymes: -æl?nt
Adjective
gallant (comparative more gallant, superlative most gallant)
- brave, valiant.
- honorable.
- Captain Edward Carlisle […] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, […]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
- grand, noble.
- (obsolete) Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
- This town [is built in a very gallant place.
Related terms
- gallantly
- gallantry
Translations
Etymology 2
From French
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???lænt/, /??æl?nt/
- (US) IPA(key): /???l?nt/, /??æl?nt/
- Rhymes: -ænt
Adjective
gallant (comparative more gallant, superlative most gallant)
- Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.
Translations
Noun
gallant (plural gallants)
- (dated) A fashionable young man who is polite and attentive to women.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2
- PROSPERO: […] this gallant which thou see'st / Was in the wrack; and but he's something stain'd / with grief,—that beauty's canker,—thou mightst call him / A goodly person […]
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2
- One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- […] they were discovered in a very improper manner by the husband of the gypsy, who, from jealousy it seems, had kept a watchful eye over his wife, and had dogged her to the place, where he found her in the arms of her gallant.
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act III, Scene II, verses 140–143
- The ignominy of that whisper’d tale / About a midnight gallant, seen to climb / A window to her chamber neighbour’d near, / I will from her turn off, […]
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- (nautical) topgallant
Translations
Verb
gallant (third-person singular simple present gallants, present participle gallanting, simple past and past participle gallanted)
- (obsolete, transitive) To attend or wait on (a lady).
- (obsolete, transitive) To handle with grace or in a modish manner.
References
- gallant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Welsh
Alternative forms
- gallan (colloquial)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??a?ant/
Verb
gallant
- (literary) third-person plural present/future of gallu
Mutation
gallant From the web:
- what gallant mean
- gallantry meaning
- what gallant soldier meaning
- gallantry what does it mean
- gallantly what does it mean
- gallant what is the definition
- gallant what part of speech is it
- what is gallantry award
brav
Breton
Adjective
brav
- beautiful
German
Etymology
From French brave.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?a?f/
Adjective
brav (comparative braver, superlative am bravsten)
- (of things) excellent, of high quality
- (of people, especially adults) honest, upright, upstanding
- (of people, especially soldiers etc., dated) brave,
- (of people, especially children, and pets) good, well-behaved, obedient
Declension
Further reading
- “brav” in Duden online
- “brav” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) , “brav”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French brave.
Noun
brav
- brave
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Low German brav and French brave, from Italian bravo
Adjective
brav (masculine and feminine brav, neuter bravt, definite singular and plural brave, comparative bravere, indefinite superlative bravest, definite superlative braveste)
- (literary) brave
- (obsolete) good
Synonyms
- modig
References
- “brav” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “brav” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Romanian
Etymology
From French brave, Italian bravo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /brav/
- Rhymes: -av
Adjective
brav m or n (feminine singular brav?, masculine plural bravi, feminine and neuter plural brave)
- brave, courageous
Declension
Synonyms
- viteaz, curajos, îndr?zne?
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *borv?.
Noun
brav m (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- male sheep or goat
- wether
Declension
Synonyms
- jarac
- ovan
Slovak
Noun
brav m
- barrow, castrated male pig
Further reading
- brav in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
brav From the web:
- what braves player was arrested
- what bravo show was grant robicheaux
- what bravo means
- what brave means
- what braves player got arrested
- what bravo shows are on peacock
- what bravo shows are on hulu
- what brave new world is this
you may also like
- gallant vs brav
- gallant vs familier
- similar vs gallant
- familliar vs gallant
- gallant vs gracious
- gallant vs key
- gallant vs leman
- gallant vs pimpernel
- gallant vs elegant
- familiar vs gallant
- gallant vs proud
- gallant vs cavalier
- gallant vs prow
- gallant vs spark
- daring vs gallant
- wogged vs bogged
- woggled vs wogged
- wogged vs nogged
- wigged vs wogged
- wogged vs logged