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bris

See also: brise

EnglishEdit

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EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Yiddish ברית (bris), from Hebrew בְּרִית (bərîṯ, “covenant”).

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NounEdit

bris (plural brises or brisses or britot)

  1. (Judaism) Ritual male circumcision.
    • 1974, Phillip E. Goble, Everything You Need to Grow a Messianic Synagogue, page 22,
      This bath symbolizes both a spiritual mikveh (Jewish purification bath) and a spiritual bris (circumcision which makes one a Jew).
    • 1993, Miriam Rose, Miriam Zakon, The Baker Family Circus, Baker's Dozen (Omnibus), Volume 4, page 129,
      The night before the bris, he invited nine of his little buddies to come and say kerias shema around the baby's bassinet. Mommy and Daddy, who flew in for the bris, were so touched, they kept dabbing their eyes and coughing.
    • 2009, Jeffrey Shandler, Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America, page 155,
      Although indigenous visual documentation of the bris was, until the advent of video, limited and often oblique, the ceremony is a longstanding fixture of Christian art.
    • 2013, Ted Falcon, David Blatner, Judaism For Dummies, 2nd Edition, page 109,
      However, if the baby is born on a Wednesday night, then the bris would occur on the following Thursday morning because Jewish days begin at sundown, and the bris is tradionally performed during the day. (Note that the Talmud (see Chapter 3) states if the baby's health is in question, then the bris must be postponed.)

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IcelandicEdit

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NounEdit

bris n (genitive singular briss, nominative plural bris)

  1. (anatomy) pancreas

DeclensionEdit

declension of bris
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bris brisið bris brisin
accusative bris brisið bris brisin
dative brisi brisinu brisum brisunum
genitive briss brissins brisa brisanna

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IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish brissid, from Proto-Celtic *bris (“break”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhri-s-, from the root *bhréy- (“to cut, break”).

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

bris (present analytic briseann, future analytic brisfidh, verbal noun briseadh, past participle briste)

  1. break, fracture
  2. sack, fire, dismiss
  3. (banking) cash
  4. (of dam) burst
  5. (of government) overthrow

ConjugationEdit

First Conjugation (A)
singular plural relative autonomous
first second third first second third
indicative present brisim briseann tú;
brisir†		 briseann sé, sí brisimid briseann sibh briseann siad;
brisid†		 a bhriseann;
a bhriseas		 bristear
past bhris mé;
bhriseas		 bhris tú;
bhrisis		 bhris sé, sí bhriseamar;
bhris muid		 bhris sibh;
bhriseabhair		 bhris siad;
bhriseadar		 a bhris briseadh
past habitual bhrisinn bhristeá bhriseadh sé, sí bhrisimis;
bhriseadh muid		 bhriseadh sibh bhrisidís;
bhriseadh siad		 a bhriseadh bhristí
future brisfidh mé;
brisfead		 brisfidh tú;
brisfir†		 brisfidh sé, sí brisfimid;
brisfidh muid		 brisfidh sibh brisfidh siad;
brisfid†		 a bhrisfidh;
a bhrisfeas		 brisfear
conditional bhrisfinn bhrisfeá bhrisfeadh sé, sí bhrisfimis;
bhrisfeadh muid		 bhrisfeadh sibh bhrisfidís;
bhrisfeadh siad		 a bhrisfeadh bhrisfí
subjunctive present go mbrise mé;
go mbrisead†		 go mbrise tú;
go mbrisir†		 go mbrise sé, sí go mbrisimid;
go mbrise muid		 go mbrise sibh go mbrise siad;
go mbrisid†		 — go mbristear
past dá mbrisinn dá mbristeá dá mbriseadh sé, sí dá mbrisimis;
dá mbriseadh muid		 dá mbriseadh sibh dá mbrisidís;
dá mbriseadh siad		 — dá mbristí
imperative brisim bris briseadh sé, sí brisimis brisigí;
brisidh†		 brisidís — bristear
verbal noun briseadh
past participle briste

† Dialect form

NounEdit

bris f (genitive brise, nominative plural briseanna)

  1. loss
    Ní maith liom do bhris. ― I'm sorry for your loss.

DeclensionEdit

Declension of bris

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bris briseanna
Vocative a bhris a bhriseanna
Genitive brise briseanna
Dative bris briseanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bhris na briseanna
Genitive na brise na mbriseanna
Dative leis an mbris

don bhris

 leis na briseanna

MutationEdit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bris bhris mbris
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

LithuanianEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

brìs

  1. third-person singular future tense of bristi.
  2. third-person plural future tense of bristi.

Norwegian BokmålEdit

NounEdit

bris m

  1. breeze

InflectionEdit

    Inflection of bris
indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural
Bokmål m bris brisen briser brisene

Norwegian NynorskEdit

NounEdit

bris m

  1. breeze

InflectionEdit

    Inflection of bris
indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural
Nynorsk m bris brisen brisar brisane

Scottish GaelicEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish brissid, from Proto-Celtic *bris (“break”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhri-s-, from the root *bhréi- (“to cut, break”).

VerbEdit

bris (past bhris, future brisidh, verbal noun briseadh, past participle briste)

  1. break, smash
  2. breach

Serbo-CroatianEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

brȋs m (Cyrillic spelling бри̑с)

  1. (medicine) swab, smear

DeclensionEdit

    declension of bris
singular plural
nominative brȋs brȉsovi
genitive brisa brisova
dative brisu brisovima
accusative bris brisove
vocative brise brisovi
locative brisu brisovima
instrumental brisom brisovima

SwedishEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bris c

  1. breeze

DeclensionEdit

Declension of bris
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bris brisen briser briserna
genitive bris brisens brisers brisernas

Usage notesEdit

Plural form could also be brisar

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