bra

bra

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Braj.

• brassiere, brassière (dated)

• enPR: brä, IPA^(key): /bɹɑː/
• (Ireland): IPA^(key): /bɹæ/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -ɑː

Clipping of brassiere, borrowed from French brassière, from Old French braciere (originally a lining inside armor to protect the arm, but later a garment), from Old French brace (“arm”), from Latin bracchia, plural of Latin bracchium (“forearm”), from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn, “forearm”), from Proto-Hellenic *brəkʰús (“short”) (because the forearm is shorter than the upper arm), inherited from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus.

bra (plural bras)

1. An item of underwear worn to support the breasts. [from 1920s]
   • 1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Scripts, page 12:

     Her housecoat had fallen open. She was wearing only panties and bra, which did nothing to make her scrawny, wrinkled body appealing.

From bracket, referring to the notation introduced in 1939 by Paul Dirac.

bra (plural bras)

1. (physics) One of the two vectors in the standard notation for describing quantum states in quantum mechanics, the row vector; the other (column) vector being its complex conjugate, the ket.

• ket

• bra-ket
• ket-bra

Representing a different pronunciation of bro (“brother”).

bra (plural bras)

1. (slang) Alternative form of bro; friend, mate

   Take it easy, bra!

   • 2009, Todd Johnson, Influence:

     “Famalam, I ain't even gon lie to ya man, I am super happy to be finally maxing out on parole my real. This violation was definitely a reality check Bra!” Influence replied to his comrade.

• bra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• ABR, ARB, Arb., Bar, Bar., RBA, Rab, abr., arb, bar, bar-

Borrowed from English bra.

• IPA^(key): /brɑː/

bra (plural bra's)

1. bra, brassiere
2. (Cape Afrikaans) bro, brah, bruh

From English bra, shortened from brassiere, from French brassière.

• Hyphenation: bra

bra

1. a bra; a brassiere

For quotations using this term, see Citations:bra.

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bra

1. arrow

From French bras (“arm”).

bra

1. arm

bra

1. dear

• brâs (continental Normandy)
• bras (Jersey, Guernsey)

From Old French bras, from Vulgar Latin *bracium, from Classical Latin bracchium, from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn).

bra m (plural bras)

1. (Sark, anatomy) arm

Borrowed from French brave.

• IPA^(key): /bɾɑː/

bra (indeclinable, comparative bedre, indefinite superlative best, definite superlative beste)

1. good, fine

• kjempebra

bra

1. well

• god
• vel

• “bra” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from French brave.

bra (indeclinable, comparative betre, indefinite superlative best, definite superlative beste)

1. good, fine

• kjempebra

• god
• vel

• “bra” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from braf (“good, brave”); from Low German brav; from French brave, borrowed from Italian bravo.

bra (comparative mair bra, superlative maist bra)

1. Very good or agreeable.

• guid
• braw

Borrowed from bra, shortened from brassiere.

bra (plural bras)

1. An item of underwear worn to support the breasts.

• bra

Since at least 1621, from braf (“good, brave”); from Low German brav; from French brave, borrowed from Italian bravo.

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• IPA^(key): /brɑː/, /brɒː/

bra (comparative bättre, superlative bäst)

1. good

   Synonym: (jocular, childish) braig

In informal (often jocular or childish) contexts, bäst may be inflected further and given the comparative bästare (bester) and the superlative bästast, bästaste (bestest); these forms are also nonstandard.

bra (comparative bättre, superlative bäst)

1. well

• väl
• god

• bra in Svensk ordbok.

• -bar, bar

Borrowed from English bra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾa/, [ˈbɾa]

bra

1. brassiere; bra

   Synonym: (uncommon) salungso

• braave

From Middle French brave, borrowed from Italian bravo, itself of uncertain origin.

bra

1. brave, pretty well

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 27

• bira, bıra

Compare Persian برادر‎ (barâdar).

bra

1. brother