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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

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