bro

Symbol

bro

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Brokkat.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Brokkat terms

Alternative forms

• bra, brah, breh, bruh

Etymology

Clipping of brother.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɹoʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɹəʊ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): [bɹɞʊ̟]

  • Audio (General Australian):

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): [bɹoː]
• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Hyphenation: bro
• Homophone: Breaux

Noun

bro (plural bros)

1. (slang) Brother (a male sibling).

   My mom took my lil' bro to soccer practice now and she wanted me to pick him up.

2. (slang) Brother (a comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals).

   Bro, you good? You've been lookin' kinda out of it lately.

   • 2022 April 5, “A$AP Rocky: Will Smith 'emasculated' Chris Rock but 'it's more than just a GI Jane joke'”, in Cele|bitchy‎:

     Let’s not kid ourselves – there are plenty of men saying that Will has been emasculated by Jada, because hurr durr why would he hit a bro over a woman.

4. (slang) Brother, my man, good sir; a friendly term of address for a male.

   Near-synonym: man

   don't tase me, bro

   Hey bro, sorry to bother you but I think I accidentally backed up into your car — can I make it up to you?

   Bro said he finna go off today!

5. (slang) A frat boy or someone who espouses the fraternity bro culture.
6. (slang, derogatory, usually in compounds) Someone, usually male, who aggressively evangelizes a person, concept or technology.
   • 2021 May 25, Edward-Isaac Dovere, Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump, Penguin, →ISBN, page 152:

     Pfeiffer's partners at Pod Save America — the audio outpost of the resistance that had made a collection of Obama Bros niche superstars, had invested as producers in a documentary about the Senate run.

   • 2022 September 14, Brian Culp, Electric Cars For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 11:

     One of these cars has 707 horsepower, performs amazingly well on a drag strip, and is popular among performance car bros. The other car is about to easily win a drag race.

   • 2024 May 23, ego_bot, There's Something Weird Going On: Ten Stories of Existentialist Science Fiction, ego_bot, →ISBN:

     He'd seen that false equivalency coming from AI bros time and time again, but hearing it from an AI itself was especially irritating.

See also

• bruv (an abbreviated form of bruvver)
• brotha
• broseph

Anagrams

• BOR, Bor, Bor., ORB, ROB, Rob, bor, orb, rob

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *broɣ, from Proto-Celtic *mrogis.

Pronunciation

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Noun

bro f (plural broioù)

1. country (-side)

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Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *broɣ, from Proto-Celtic *mrogis. Cognate with Breton bro

Noun

bro f (plural broyow)

1. country, land

Mutation

Etymology

From Old Danish bro, from Old East Norse brō, from Proto-Germanic *brūwō (“bridge; brow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruh- (“beam, bridge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /broː/, [b̥ʁoːˀ]

Noun

bro c (singular definite broen, plural indefinite broer)

1. bridge

References

• “bro” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “bro” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Etymology

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

Noun

bro m (plural bros)

1. thorn

Etymology

Borrowed from English bro. First attested in 2019.

Noun

bro m (invariable)

1. (slang) bro (a male comrade or friend)

   Synonym: fra

Etymology

From Sanskrit बृहत् (bṛhat, “lofty, high, tall”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰonts. Cognate with Persian بلند (boland), English borough.

Noun

bro

1. mountain top, peak
2. succession of peaks which make up a ridge

Etymology

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

Noun

bro m (plural bros)

1. (Jersey) pitcher

Alternative forms

• bru

Etymology

From Danish bro, from Old Danish bro, from Old East Norse brō, from Proto-Germanic *brōwō (“bridge; brow”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruH- (“beam; bridge”), which may be the same root as *h₃bʰrúHs (“(eye)brow”), whence brun. Close cognate with Swedish bro. Compare also Norwegian bru (“bridge”) and Icelandic brú (“bridge”), from Proto-Germanic *brū-.

Noun

bro f or m (definite singular broa or broen, indefinite plural broer, definite plural broene)

1. bridge

References

• “bro” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bro.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ow

Noun

bro m (plural bros)

1. (colloquial) bro (a male comrade or friend)
2. (colloquial) bro (used to address a male)

Etymology

Borrowed from English bro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾo/ [ˈbɾo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: bro

Noun

bro m (plural bros)

1. (slang) bro (a male comrade or friend)
2. (slang) bro (used to address a male)

Etymology

From English blow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bro/

Verb

bro

1. To blow, to produce air currents.
2. To breathe.
   • 1936, Melville J. Herskovits, Frances S. Herskovits, Suriname folk-lore‎, New York: Columbia University Press, page 424:

     Bɔfru dɛ krei̯, Dia dɛ krei̯, Tamanwa 'ɛ krei̯. Nō mō ala den meti 'ɛ gowe wą' wą'. Nō mō Hagu drapɛ, 'ɛ bari, ‘Bia, bia, bia, / Mi yɛre suma dɛdɛ, / Ma karaki dɛ bro.’

     [Bofru e krei, Dia e krei, Tamanwa e krei. Nomo ala den meti e gwe wanwan. Nomo Agu drape e bari, 'Bia, bia, bia / Mi yere suma dede / Ma karaki e bro.']

     Buffalo was crying, Deer was crying, Anteater was crying. No sooner did all the animals go away one by one, than Hog called out, ‘Bia, bia, bia, / I hear a person died, / But his backside breathes.’

Noun

bro

1. breath

Etymology

From Old East Norse brō, from Proto-Germanic *brōwō (“bridge; brow”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruH- (“beam; bridge”), which may be the same root as *h₃bʰrúHs (“(eye)brow”), whence bryn. Compare Norwegian Bokmål bro, Icelandic brú (“bridge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bruː/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uː

Noun

bro c

1. bridge (a construction that spans a divide)

   Stan mellan broarna

   The town between the bridges (Stockholm old town)

   Släpp ingen djävul över bron, håll ut en stund ännu!

   Let no devil across the bridge, hold out yet a while!

2. road bank (a road reenforced with stone or timber, in particular across wetlands)
3. quay

   Synonyms: brygga, skeppsbro

4. porch

   Synonym: förstubro

   Jag får min motion när jag går ifrån bron och till vår garageuppfart.

   I get my exercise when I walk from the porch to our driveway.

References

• bro in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bro in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• bor

Etymology

From English bro.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɹo˧˧], [ʔɓəː˨˩ zo˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɹow˧˧], [ʔɓəː˦˩ ʐow˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɹow˧˧], [ʔɓəː˨˩ ɹow˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: brô, bờ rô

Pronoun

bro

1. (slang, Vietnam) bro (used to address a person (presumably) around the same age, usually male)

   các bro

   you bros

   bro ấy

   he (that bro)

   • 2021 September 6, Koi Koi, “Bất ngờ bài 'nhạc Thái' lọt top trending cao nhưng hoá ra của ca sĩ Việt, nghe vui xả stress được khen ngợi hết lời! ["Thai" song unexpectedly shoots into the top trending list but turns out to be by Vietnamese singer; listen to relieve your stress; speechlessly recommend!]”, in Kênh 14‎, Hanoi: VCCorp, retrieved 2023-03-07:

     Mùa dịch này làm mấy bài vui vẻ này hợp lý quá bro ơi.

     This pandemic season makes these joyful songs so appropriate, bro.

   • 2022 August 5, Ngọc Nguyễn, “Lương Minh Trang và Vinh Râu thăng hạng visual, xưng hô thân thiết”, in Thể thao & Văn hóa‎, Hanoi: Vietnam News Agency, archived from the original on 8 March 2023:

     Trước đấy, khi được hỏi về mối quan hệ với "vợ cũ" Lương Minh Trang, Vinh Râu không ngần ngại thừa nhận: "Chúng tôi làm tri kỷ và thường xưng hô bằng bro".

     Earlier, when asked about his relationship with his "ex" Lương Minh Trang, Vinh Râu admits, without hesitation: "We are confidants and often address each other as bro".

   • 2022 December 21, Quang Vũ, “Tóc Tiên, JustaTee hẹn fan 'cháy' cùng lễ hội Noel siêu hoành tráng tại Hà Nội [Tóc Tiên, JustaTee promises fans they'll be "on fire" at a super large-scale Christmas festival in Hanoi]”, in Thể thao & Văn hóa‎, Hanoi: Vietnam News Agency, retrieved 2023-03-07:

     Giờ thì mau mau chuẩn bị lên đồ và set kèo với hội bạn để "quẩy" tung Hà Nội cùng Tóc Tiên, JustaTee, Huy DX và BNUTs thôi nào các bro ơi!

     Now hurry up and prepare to set a bet with your friends to "hang out" in Hanoi with Tóc Tiên, JustaTee, Huy DX and BNUTs, bro!

See also

• anh
• anh em
• bạn
• bủh
• em

Etymology

From Middle Welsh bro, from Proto-Brythonic *broɣ, from Proto-Celtic *mrogis. Cognate with Old Irish mruig. Cognate with Briton bro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /broː/
• Rhymes: -oː

Noun

bro f (plural bröydd or brofydd)

1. region, country, land, neighbourhood, native haunt
2. border, limit, boundary, march
3. vale, lowland, champaign

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “bro”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies