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brat

See also: Brat, BRAT, brát, brãt, braț, bråț, brät, and Brät

EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Early Modern English (ca. 1500) slang term meaning "beggar's child". Possibly from Scots bratchet (“bitch, hound”). Or, possibly originally a dialectal word, from northern and western England and the Midlands, for a "makeshift or ragged garment," from Old English bratt (“cloak”), which is from a Celtic source (Old Irish brat (“cloak, cloth”)).

PronunciationEdit

  • (UK) IPA(key): /bɹat/
  • (US) enPR: brăt, IPA(key): /bɹæt/
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: (US) -æt

NounEdit

brat (plural brats)

  1. (slang) A human child.
    • 2012 March 2, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Mar 2, 2012:
      "So... you want to have kids someday?" "Uh... well, yes. I always figured I'd have a couple brats of my own someday..." "That's still doable, you know." "I know, but the process is a lot more complicated and less intimate, and --"
    1. (derogatory, slang) A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish.
      Get that little brat away from me!
      • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 297:
        He would never speak a word, - only eat and cry, and she hadn't the heart to strike it or illtreat the youngster either; but somebody taught her a charm to make him speak, and then she found out what kind of a brat he really was.
    2. (slang) A child (at any age) of an active military service member.
      an army brat
  2. A turbot or flatfish.
  3. (historical) A rough cloak or ragged garment.
    • 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Line 881”, in The Canon's Yeoman's Tale‎[1]:
      Whicħ þat þey myght / wrape hem in at nyght / And a brat / to walk in / by day-light
    • 1961, Audrey I. Barfoot, Everyday costume in Britain: from the earliest times to 1900, page 80:
      The chief's daughter wears a brat and léine girdled with a criss.
    • 2005, Seán Duffy, Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 156:
      The prevailing style of dress in the early medieval period comprised a léine (tunic) worn under a brat (cloak).
    • 2006, Celtic Culture: A-Celti, →ISBN, page 1272:
      Women wore loose, flowing, ankle-length robes modelled on 11th-century European fashion (derived from what O'Neill called the léine) and, perhaps, a brat over these.
  4. (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.
  5. (obsolete) The young of an animal.
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
      Their ſhoulders broad, for complet armour fit,
      Their lims more large and of a bigger ſize
      Than all the brats yſprong from Typhons loins:
    • 1680, Roger L'Estrange, Citt and Bumpkin
      They are your Will-Worship-men, your Prelates Brats: Take the whole Litter of’um, and you’ll finde never a barrel better Herring.
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VerbEdit

brat (third-person singular simple present brats, present participle bratting, simple past and past participle bratted)

  1. (BDSM, intransitive) To act in a bratty manner (as the submissive).
    • 1900, Ardie Stallard, Switch: A Tale of Spanking, BDSM & Romance
      Ruthie was Ed's own submissive, a short, pretty, feisty ash-blonde New York City native who combined her submission to Ed with a good deal of mischievous bratting and a lot of sharp, intelligent conversation […]
    • 2020, Jessica M. Kratzer, Communication in Kink (page 43)
      Rather, Ana moves between playful bratting and a type of “conquer me” wantedness that good Dominants would respond to with increased control and correction.

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Etymology 2Edit

Shortened from bratwurst, from German Bratwurst.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

brat (plural brats)

  1. (informal) Bratwurst.
    • 2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 267:
      There are many people loitering, eating ice cream, talking, eating brats.
TranslationsEdit
bratwurst — see bratwurst

See alsoEdit

Etymology 3Edit

NounEdit

brat (plural brats)

  1. (mining) A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.

Etymology 4Edit

NounEdit

brat

  1. (military) Acronym of Born, Raised, And Transferred.

AnagramsEdit

DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

A merger of two unrelated adjectives:

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /brat/, [ˈb̥ʁɑd̥]

AdjectiveEdit

brat (plural and definite singular attributive bratte, comparative brattere, superlative (predicative) brattest, superlative (attributive) bratteste)

  1. steep
  2. sudden

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DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

brat n (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of brat.

GermanEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

brat

  1. singular imperative of braten
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of braten

IrishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Irish bratt, from Proto-Celtic *brattos (compare Welsh brethyn (“cloth”), from *brattinyos).

NounEdit

brat m (genitive singular brait, nominative plural brait)

  1. mantle, cloak
    Proverb:
    Ná leath do bhrat ach mar is féidir leat a chonlú.
    Cut your coat according to your cloth.
    (literally, “Don’t spread your cloak farther than you can fold it.”)
  2. covering
  3. (theater) curtain
  4. Alternative form of bratach (“flag”)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of brat

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative brat brait
Vocative a bhrait a bhrata
Genitive brait brat
Dative brat brait

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an brat na brait
Genitive an bhrait na mbrat
Dative leis an mbrat

don bhrat

leis na brait

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Etymology 2Edit

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

NounEdit

brat m (genitive singular brat, nominative plural bratanna)

  1. broth; thick soup
DeclensionEdit
Declension of brat

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative brat bratanna
Vocative a bhrat a bhratanna
Genitive brat bratanna
Dative brat bratanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an brat na bratanna
Genitive an bhrat na mbratanna
Dative leis an mbrat

don bhrat

leis na bratanna

MutationEdit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
brat bhrat mbrat
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further readingEdit

KashubianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bratrъ, *bratъ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

NounEdit

brat m pers

  1. brother

Further readingEdit

  • “brat”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “brat”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi

Lower SorbianEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

brat

  1. supine of braś

PolishEdit

FWOTD – 7 November 2015

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bratrъ, *bratъ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

brat m pers (diminutive braciszek)

  1. brother
    • 1632, Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska:
      A przechadzając się nad Morzem Galilejskim, zobaczył Szymona i Andrzeja, jego brata, zarzucających sieć w morze; byli bowiem rybakami.
      As Jesus was strolling beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; they were fishermen.

DeclensionEdit

Declension of brat
singular plural
nominative brat bracia
genitive brata braci
dative bratu braciom
accusative brata braci
instrumental bratem braćmi
locative bracie braciach
vocative bracie bracia

Derived termsEdit

adjectives
adverbs
nouns
verbs

Further readingEdit

  • brat in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • brat in Polish dictionaries at PWN

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic братъ (bratŭ).

NounEdit

brat m (plural brați)

  1. (Slavicism, rare) brother
    Synonym: frate
  2. (regional, Banat) monk
    Synonym: călugăr

DeclensionEdit

Declension of brat
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) brat bratul (niște) brați brații
genitive/dative (unui) brat bratului (unor) brați braților
vocative bratule braților

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Scottish GaelicEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish bratt, from Proto-Celtic *brattos (compare Welsh brethyn (“cloth”), from *brattinyos).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

brat m (genitive singular brata, plural bratan)

  1. cloak, cover, covering, mantle, veil, canopy
  2. mat

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

MutationEdit

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
brat bhrat
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Serbo-CroatianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *bratrъ, *bratъ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

brȁt m (Cyrillic spelling бра̏т)

  1. brother
  2. mate, pal, buddy, when used in informal speech to address somebody in vocative (brate)

Usage notesEdit

There is no plural form for this noun. Instead, the collective term brȁća is used for plural meanings.

DeclensionEdit

Declension of brat
singular
nominative brat
genitive brata
dative bratu
accusative brata
vocative brate
locative bratu
instrumental bratom

Derived termsEdit

SlovakEdit

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bratrъ, *bratъ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

brat m anim (genitive singular brata, nominative plural bratia, genitive plural bratov, declension pattern of chlap)

  1. brother

DeclensionEdit

Declension of brat
singular plural
nominative brat bratia
genitive brata bratov
dative bratovi bratom
accusative brata bratov
locative bratovi bratoch
instrumental bratom bratmi

Further readingEdit

  • brat in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

SloveneEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *bratrъ, *bratъ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

brȁt m anim

  1. brother

InflectionEdit

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing. brȁt
gen. sing. bráta
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik) 		brȁt bráta brátje
bráti
genitive
(rodȋlnik) 		bráta brátov brátov
dative
(dajȃlnik) 		brátu brátoma brátom
accusative
(tožȋlnik) 		bráta bráta bráte
locative
(mẹ̑stnik) 		brátu brátih brátih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik) 		brátom brátoma bráti

Further readingEdit

  • “brat”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

SlovincianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *bratrъ. Cognates with Polish brat.

NounEdit

brãt m

  1. brother

DeclensionEdit

Declension of brat
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative brãt brãtă brãcä, brãtä, brãcå
Genitive brãtă — brãtȯṷ
Dative brãtʉ̇ brãtɵmă, brãtmă brãtȯṷm
Accusative brãtă — brãtȯṷ
Instrumental brãtą brãtɵmă, brãtmă brãtï, brãtmï, brãtamï
Locative brãcä — brãcėχ́, brãtăχ
Vocative brãcä — —

SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English brat (“spoiled child”).

NounEdit

brat c

  1. (slang) person who is very careful about following fashion trends; someone who rarely ever acts independently but rather follows peer pressure, usually maintaining an appearance of visible wealth

Usage notesEdit

  • Mainly used in plural, as a collective noun.
  • Can occasionally be seen considered as neuter rather than common.

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AnagramsEdit

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