different between lingerie vs bra

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French lingerie.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?læn.??.?i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l?n.(d)????e?/, /?l?n.(d)??.?i/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?l?n.(d)????æ?/, /?l??.(d)??.?æ?/
• Rhymes: -e?, -i?

Noun

lingerie (usually uncountable, plural lingeries)

1. Women's underwear or nightclothes, now especially when lacy or designed to be seductive.
2. (dated) Linen goods collectively.
   • 1906, Dry Goods Guide (volumes 17-18, page 70)

     Empire matinees in lingerie stuffs with trimmings of lace and embroidery are shown in great variety.

Translations

See also

• negligee
• nightie, nighty

Further reading

• lingerie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French lingerie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?n.???ri/, /?l?n.???ri/
• Hyphenation: lin?ge?rie
• Rhymes: -i

Noun

lingerie f (plural lingeries or lingerieën, diminutive lingerietje n)

1. lingerie (women's underwear)
2. (dated) lingerie (linens)

Derived terms

• lingerieboetiek
• lingeriedraagster
• lingerieset
• lingeriewinkel
• lingeriezaak

French

Etymology

From linge +? -erie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l???.?i/

Noun

lingerie f (plural lingeries)

1. linen room
2. lingerie (clothing)

Descendants

• ? English: lingerie
• ? German: Lingerie
• ? Italian: lingerie
• ? Portuguese: lingerie
• ? Romanian: lenjerie

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

From French lingerie.

Noun

lingerie f (invariable)

1. lingerie

Further reading

• lingerie in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Etymology

From French lingerie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l???e??i/

Noun

lingerie f (plural lingeries)

1. women's underwear

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:lingerie.

Further reading

• “lingerie” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Noun

lingerie f (plural lingerii)

1. Alternative form of lenjerie

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: brä, IPA^(key): /b???/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Shortened from brassiere.

Noun

bra (plural bras)

1. Clipping of brassiere. [from 1920s]

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From bracket, referring to the notation introduced in 1939 by Paul Dirac.

Noun

bra (plural bras)

1. (physics) One of the two vectors in the standard notation for describing quantum states in quantum mechanics, the other being the ket.

Antonyms

• ket

Related terms

• bra-ket notation

Etymology 3

Representing a different pronunciation of bro (“brother”).

Noun

bra (plural bras)

1. (slang) Alternative form of bro; friend, mate

2. (slang) female equivalent of bro

Further reading

• brassiere on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ABR, ARB, Arb., Bar, Bar., RBA, Rab, abr., arb, bar, bar-

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from English bra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br??/

Noun

bra (plural bra's)

1. bra, brassiere
2. (Cape Afrikaans) bro, brah, bruh

Cebuano

Etymology

From English bra, shortened from brassiere, from French brassière.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bra

Noun

bra

1. a bra; a brassiere

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:bra.

Garo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bra

1. arrow

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French bras (“arm”)

Noun

bra

1. arm

Khotanese

Adjective

bra

1. dear

Norman

Alternative forms

• brâs (continental Normandy)
• bras (Jersey, Guernsey)

Etymology

From Old French bras, from Vulgar Latin *bracium, from Classical Latin bracchium, from Ancient Greek ??????? (brakhí?n).

Noun

bra m (plural bras)

1. (Sark, anatomy) arm

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from French brave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???/

Adjective

bra (indeclinable, comparative bedre, indefinite superlative best, definite superlative beste)

1. good, fine

Derived terms

• kjempebra

Adverb

bra

1. well

See also

• god
• vel

References

• “bra” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French brave.

Adjective

bra (indeclinable, comparative betre, indefinite superlative best, definite superlative beste)

1. good, fine

Derived terms

• kjempebra

See also

• god
• vel

References

• “bra” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

Since at least 1621, from braf (“good, brave”); from Low German brav; from French brave, borrowed from Italian bravo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br??/, /br??/

Adjective

bra (comparative bättre, superlative bäst)

1. good

Declension

Usage notes

In informal (often jocular or childish) contexts, bäst may be inflected further and given the comparative bästare (bester) and the superlative bästast, bästaste (bestest); these forms are also nonstandard.

Adverb

bra (comparative bättre, superlative bäst)

1. well

See also

• väl
• god

Anagrams

• -bar, bar

Yola

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

bra

1. brave

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

Zazaki

Alternative forms

• bira
• b?ra

Etymology

Compare Persian ?????? (barâdar).

Noun

bra

1. brother