bros
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English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /bɹoʊz/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɹəʊz/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊz
Noun
bros
Anagrams
Cornish
Etymology 1
From Old Cornish bros, of Celtic origin (compare Breton broud, Welsh brwyd). Glossed in the Vocabularium Cornicum as aculeus.
Noun
bros m (plural brosow)
Etymology 2
From Middle Cornish bros, from Proto-Celtic *brutom, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-. Cognate with Breton broud, Welsh brwyd. Glossed in the Vocabularium Cornicum as aculeus.
Adjective
bros (comparative brossa, superlative an brossa)
Antonyms
Noun
bros m (plural brosow)
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- 2020, An Gerlyver Meur, ed. Dr Ken George (3rd edition, p.109)
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /broːˀs/, [ˈb̥ʁoˀs]
- Homophones: brugs, brus
Noun
bros c
Dutch
Etymology
Variant of broos.
Pronunciation
Adjective
bros (comparative brosser, superlative meest bros or brost)
Declension
| Declension of bros | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | bros | |||
| inflected | brosse | |||
| comparative | brosser | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | bros | brosser | het brost het broste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | brosse | brossere | broste |
| n. sing. | bros | brosser | broste | |
| plural | brosse | brossere | broste | |
| definite | brosse | brossere | broste | |
| partitive | bros | brossers | — | |
Descendants
- Afrikaans: bros
Faroese
Etymology
From brosa (“to smile”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bros n (genitive singular bros, plural bros)
Declension
Synonyms
- smíl
Icelandic
Etymology
From brosa (“to smile”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bros n (genitive singular bross, nominative plural bros)
Declension
Derived terms
- brosmildur
- grátbroslegur
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch broche, from French broche, from Old French broche, from Vulgar Latin brocca, feminine substantive of Classical Latin broccus (“pointy-toothed or prominent-toothed”), ultimately from Gaulish.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈbrɔs/ [ˈbrɔs]
- Rhymes: -ɔs
- Syllabification: bros
Noun
- brooch, piece of women’s ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body
Synonyms
- kerongsang (Standard Malay)
Further reading
- “bros” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Noun
bros m pl
Spanish
Noun
bros m pl
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
bros
Anagrams
Tok Pisin
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