bris
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Yiddish ברית (bris), from Hebrew בְּרִית (bərîṯ, “covenant”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bris (plural brises or brisses or britot)
- (Judaism) Ritual male circumcision.
- 1993, Miriam Rose, Miriam Zakon, “The Baker Family Circus”, in Baker's Dozen, volume 4, Omnibus, 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.)
Synonyms edit
- (circumcision): bris milah, brit milah
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French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bris m (plural bris)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “bris”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
Related to brjósk (“gristle, cartilage”), where the original sense was "sweetbread."
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bris n (genitive singular briss, nominative plural bris)
Declension edit
Synonyms edit
- (pancreas): briskirtill
References edit
- Pierson, S. (2011). The Brisket Book: A Love Story with Recipes. United States: Andrews McMeel Publishing.
Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish brisid. Cognate with English burst and German bersten.
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Verb edit
bris (present analytic briseann, future analytic brisfidh, verbal noun briseadh, past participle briste)
- (transitive, intransitive) to break, fracture
- sack, fire, dismiss
- (banking) cash, (of money, bills) change
- burst (of dam)
- overthrow (of government)
Conjugation edit
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Derived terms edit
- athbhris (“break again”, verb)
Noun edit
bris f (genitive singular brise, nominative plural briseanna)
- loss
- Ní maith liom do bhris.
- I’m sorry for your loss.
Declension edit
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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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 reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bris”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bris(s)id”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “brisim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 89
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 40
Lithuanian edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
brìs
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German brise.
Noun edit
bris m (definite singular brisen, indefinite plural briser, definite plural brisene)
- (weather) a breeze
References edit
- “bris” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German brise.
Noun edit
bris m (definite singular brisen, indefinite plural brisar, definite plural brisane)
- (weather) a breeze
References edit
- “bris” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Irish edit
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bris
·bris
- inflection of brisid:
- third-person singular preterite conjunct
- first-person singular present subjunctive conjunct
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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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. |
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish brisid. Cognate with English burst and German bersten.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bris (past bhris, future brisidh, verbal noun briseadh, past participle briste)
References edit
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “bris”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bris(s)id”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Serbo-Croatian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
brȋs m (Cyrillic spelling бри̑с)
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Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Spanish and Portuguese brisa (“northeast wind”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bris c
Usage notes edit
- More nautical-sounding compared to English breeze, but also used more generally.
- Plural form could also be brisar.
Declension edit
Declension of bris | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bris | brisen | briser | briserna |
Genitive | bris | brisens | brisers | brisernas |
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bris
Welsh edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /briːs/
- (South Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /briːʃ/
Noun edit
bris
- Soft mutation of pris.
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
pris | bris | mhris | phris |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |