# bras
## English
### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

bras
* plural of bra

### Anagrams

* ABRs, ARBs, BARS, arbs, bars, sbar

## Bislama
### Etymology 1

From English brush.

#### Noun

bras
* brush

### Etymology 2

From English brass.

#### Noun

bras
* (music) brass

## Breton
### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *brassos (“large”): (compare Cornish bras (“big, great”), broas, and Welsh bras (“fat, broad, rich”)).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bʁaz/

### Adjective

bras (comparative brasoc'h, superlative brasañ, exclamative brasat)
* big
    Antonym: bihan

### Mutation
## Cornish
### Alternative forms

* broas (Revived Late Cornish)
* brâs (Standard Cornish)

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *brassos (“large”).

#### Adjective

bras
* big, great

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *mratom. Cognate with Welsh brad and Irish brath

#### Noun

bras m (plural brasow)
* plot, conspiracy

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Welsh bras.

#### Noun

bras m (plural brases)
* bunting

##### Derived terms

* bras ahwesydh (“corn bunting”)
* bras an ergh (“snow bunting”)
* bras an ogledh (“Lapland bunting”)
* bras an tayga (“rustic bunting”)
* bras hwib (“cirl bunting”)
* bras kors (“reed bunting”)
* bras lowarth (“ortolan bunting”)
* bras lyha (“little bunting”)
* bras penn du (“black-headed bunting”)
* bras penn gwynn (“pine bunting”)

### Mutation
## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French bras, from Old French bras, from Latin brachium, bracchium, from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn). Displaced Old French feminine noun brace, ultimately from the same Latin and Ancient Greek roots.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bʁa/ ~ /bʁɑ/
** Audio (Paris):(file)
* (Northern France, Canada) IPA: [bʁɑ], [bʁɔ]
** Audio (Quebec, Saguenay); [bʁɑ]:(file)
* Rhymes: -a, -ɑ
* Hyphenation: bras

### Noun

bras m (plural bras)
* arm

#### Derived terms

* à bras ouverts
* à bras raccourcis
* à bras-le-corps
* à tour de bras
* arrière-bras
* avant-bras
* avoir le bras long
* avoir quelque chose sur les bras
* baisser les bras
* bras cassé
* bras de fer
* bras de mer
* bras dessus, bras dessous
* bras droit
* bras d’honneur (bras d’honneur)
* bras mort
* bras séculier
* brassage
* brassard
* brasse
* brasser
* brasserole
* brassière
* clé de bras
* clef de bras
* coûter un bras
* dans les bras de Morphée
* dessous de bras
* embrasser
* en bras de chemise
* fier-à-bras
* jouer les gros bras
* jouer petit bras
* les bras m’en tombent
* long comme le bras
* petit bras
* rester les bras croisés
* se croiser les bras
* tendre les bras

#### Descendants

* Haitian Creole: bra
* → Russian: бра (bra)
** → Georgian: ბრა (bra)

### Further reading

* “bras”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* bars

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /praːs/
* Rhymes: -aːs

### Noun

bras n (genitive singular brass, no plural)
* soldering

#### Related terms

* brasa

## Irish
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *brassos (“large”).

#### Adjective

bras (genitive singular masculine brais, genitive singular feminine braise, plural brasa, comparative braise)
* (literary) great, strong
* (literary) swift

##### Declension

$^1$ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article. $^2$ When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

bras m (genitive singular brais, nominative plural brais)
* Alternative form of prás (“brass”)

##### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
bras
brais
vocative
a bhrais
a bhrasa
genitive
brais
bras
dative
bras
brais
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an bras
na brais
genitive
an bhrais
na mbras
dative
leis an mbras don bhras
leis na brais :

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bras”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English bræs; further origin uncertain.

#### Alternative forms

* braas, brace, brass, brasse, bres

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bras/

#### Noun

bras (uncountable)
* brass (copper alloy)
* copper (element Cu)
* (rare) molten copper

##### Descendants

* English: brass
* Scots: bress
* → Irish: prás
* → Scottish Gaelic: pràis

##### References

* “bras, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

bras
* Alternative form of brace

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

bras
* Alternative form of bracen

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French bras, from Latin brachium, bracchium, from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn).

### Noun

bras m (plural bras)
* arm

#### Descendants

* French: bras

## Norman
### Alternative forms

* brâs (continental Normandy)
* bra (Sark)

### Etymology

From Old French bras, from Latin brachium, bracchium, from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn).

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Jersey):(file)

### Noun

bras m (plural bras)
* (Jersey, Guernsey, anatomy) arm

#### Related terms

* braichie (“armful”)

## Old French
### Etymology

From Latin brachium, bracchium, from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn).

### Noun

bras oblique singular, m (oblique plural bras, nominative singular bras, nominative plural bras)
* arm

#### Descendants

* Bourguignon: brai
* Champenois: brais
* Franc-Comtois: brais
* Middle French: bras
** French: bras
* Norman: bras
* Walloon: bresse

## Old Javanese
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀas, from Proto-Austronesian *bəʀas. Doublet of wĕas.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bras/

### Noun

bras
* husked rice
    Synonym: wĕas

#### Alternative forms

* bĕras

#### Descendants

* Javanese: ꦧꦼꦫꦱ꧀ (beras)
* → Balinese: ᬩᭂᬭᬲ᭄ (beras)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French brasse.

### Noun

bras n (plural brasuri)
* breaststroke

#### Declension
## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English brush.

### Noun

bras
* brush

## Welsh
### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *brassos (“large”). Cognate with Breton bras, Cornish bras, Irish bras.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /braːs/
* Rhymes: -aːs

### Adjective

bras (feminine singular bras, plural breision, equative brased, comparative brasach, superlative brasaf)
* large, thick, fat
* rough, coarse
    Synonyms: braisg, garw
* rough, approximate
* (letter) capital
    Synonyms: pennog, mawr

#### Derived terms

* brasamcan (“approximation”)
* braslun (“sketch, outline”)
* braster (“fat”, noun)

### Noun

bras m or f (plural breision)
* bunting (bird of the genus Emberiza)

#### Derived terms

* bras y cyrs (“reed bunting”)
* bras melyn (“yellowhammer”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “bras”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies