bris

See also: brise and -bris

Contents

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /bɹɪs/
• Rhymes: -ɪs

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.)

SynonymsEdit

• (circumcision): bris milah, brit milah

Derived termsEdit

• bris periah

TranslationsEdit

ritual male circumcision

• Hebrew: בְּרִית‎ (he) f (bərîṯ)
• Italian: brit milà m
• Ladino:

  Hebrew alphabet: ברית‎ m (brit)

  Latin alphabet: brit m

• Yiddish: ברית‎ m (bris)

AnagramsEdit

• RBIs, RIBs, SBIR, ribs

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IcelandicEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [prɪːs]
• Rhymes: -ɪːs

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

SynonymsEdit

• (pancreas): ^def. briskirtill

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IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish brisid, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to burst, break”). Cognate with English burst and German bersten.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /bʲɾʲɪʃ/

VerbEdit

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

1. (transitive, intransitive) to break, fracture
2. sack, fire, dismiss
3. (banking) cash, (of money, bills) change
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 / a mbriseann*; a mbriseas*	bristear
	past	bhris mé; bhriseas	bhris tú; bhrisis	bhris sé, sí	bhriseamar; bhris muid	bhris sibh; bhriseabhair	bhris siad; bhriseadar	a bhris / ar bhris*	briseadh
	past habitual	bhrisinn	bhristeá	bhriseadh sé, sí	bhrisimis; bhriseadh muid	bhriseadh sibh	bhrisidís; bhriseadh siad	a bhriseadh / ar bhriseadh*	bhristí
	future	brisfidh mé; brisfead	brisfidh tú; brisfir†	brisfidh sé, sí	brisfimid; brisfidh muid	brisfidh sibh	brisfidh siad; brisfid†	a bhrisfidh; a bhrisfeas / a mbrisfidh*; a mbrisfeas*	brisfear
conditional		bhrisfinn	bhrisfeá	bhrisfeadh sé, sí	bhrisfimis; bhrisfeadh muid	bhrisfeadh sibh	bhrisfidís; bhrisfeadh siad	a bhrisfeadh / ar 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

* Indirect relative
† Dialect form

Derived termsEdit

• athbhris (“break again”, verb)

NounEdit

bris f (genitive singular 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.

Further readingEdit

• "bris" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “bris(s)id” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “brisim” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.

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LithuanianEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [bʲrʲɪs̪]

VerbEdit

brìs

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

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle Low German brise.

NounEdit

bris m (definite singular brisen, indefinite plural briser, definite plural brisene)

1. (weather) a breeze

ReferencesEdit

• “bris” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle Low German brise.

NounEdit

bris m (definite singular brisen, indefinite plural brisar, definite plural brisane)

1. (weather) a breeze

ReferencesEdit

• “bris” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old IrishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• briss

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /bʲrʲisʲ/

VerbEdit

bris

1. second-person singular imperative of brisid

·bris

1. inflection of brisid:
   1. third-person singular preterite conjunct
   2. first-person singular present subjunctive conjunct

MutationEdit

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
bris	bris pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/	mbris
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Scottish GaelicEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish brisid, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to burst, break”). Cognate with English burst and German bersten.

VerbEdit

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

1. break, smash
2. breach

ReferencesEdit

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
• “bris(s)id” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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Serbo-CroatianEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /brîːs/

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

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SwedishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /briːs/

NounEdit

bris c

1. breeze

DeclensionEdit

Declension of bris
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	bris	brisen	briser	briserna
Genitive	bris	brisens	brisers	brisernas

Usage notesEdit

Plural form could also be brisar