# bring
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɹɪŋ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (UK):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪŋ

### Etymology 1

From Middle English bryngen, from Old English bringan, from Proto-West Germanic *bringan, from Proto-Germanic *bringaną (“to bring”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenk-, possibly based on *bʰer-.
Compare Scots bring, West Frisian bringe, Low German brengen, Dutch brengen, Afrikaans bring, German bringen; also Welsh hebrwng (“to bring, lead”), Tocharian B pränk- (“to take away; restrain oneself, hold back”), Latvian brankti (“lying close”), Lithuanian branktas (“whiffletree”).

#### Verb

bring (third-person singular simple present brings, present participle bringing, simple past brought, past participle brought or (rare, dialectal) broughten)
* (transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
    Waiter, please bring me a single malt whiskey.
** a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie.", London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, →ISBN, page 63:Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
** 1892, Walter Besant, chapter II, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly […] on the floor.
** 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed. ¶ ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’
** 2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian:Next month, Clemons will be brought before a court presided over by a "special master", who will review the case one last time.
* (transitive, figuratively) To supply or contribute.
    The new company director brought a fresh perspective on sales and marketing.
** 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:“ […] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
* (transitive) To occasion or bring about.
    The controversial TV broadcast brought a storm of complaints.
* (transitive) To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
** 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
* To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
** 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 2, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book I, page 11:It seems so preposterous a thing […] that they do not easily bring themselves to it.
* To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.
    What does coal bring per ton?
* (baseball) To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.
    The closer Jones can really bring it.

##### Conjugation

$^†$ Archaic or obsolete. $^1$ Dialectal. $^2$ Nonstandard.
* Past brang and past participle brung and broughten forms are sometimes used in some dialects, especially in informal speech.

##### Derived terms

* April showers bring May flowers
* bring about
* bring a knife to a gunfight
* bring along
* bring a lump to someone's throat
* bring-and-braai
* bring-and-buy
* bring-and-buy sale
* bring an end to
* bring around
* bring away
* bring back
* bring centre
* bring coals to Newcastle
* bringdown
* bring down
* bring down a notch
* bring down a peg
* bring down on
* bring down the curtain
* bring down the hammer
* bring down the house
* bring down to size
* bringer
* bring forth
* bring forward
* bring forwards
* bring home
* bring home the bacon
* bring in
* bring-in
* bring into being
* bring into line
* bring into play
* bring it
* bring it on
* bring it weak
* bring low
* bring off
* bring on
* bring one's arse to an anchor
* bring oneself away
* bring oneself to
* bring one's own hide to market
* bring out
* bring out in a rash
* bring out of oneself
* bring over
* bring owls to Athens
* bring round
* bring sand to the beach
* bring someone to their knees
* bring suit
* bring the curtain down
* bring the house down
* bring the lumber
* bring the wood
* bring through
* bring to
* bring to a boil
* bring to a close
* bring to a head
* bring to an end
* bring to bear
* bring to bed
* bring to book
* bring together
* bring to ground
* bring to heel
* bring to justice
* bring to life
* bring to light
* bring to mind
* bring to naught
* bring to nought
* bring to one's knees
* bring to order
* bring to pass
* bring to terms
* bring to the hammer
* bring to the table
* bring under
* bring up
* bring up against
* bring upon
* bring up short
* bring up the rear
* bring up to
* bring with
* forebring
* forthbring
* fullbring
* inbring
* interbring
* outbring
* underbring
* upbring

##### Translations

Afrikaans: bring (af)
Albanian: sjell (sq)
Amharic: አመጣ (ʾämäṭa), ጣለ (ṭalä)
Arabic: أَحْضَرَ (ar) (ʔaḥḍara), جَاءَ بِـ (ar) (jāʔa bi-), أَتَى بِـ (ar) (ʔatā bi-), جَلَبَ (ar) (jalaba)
Chadian Arabic: جاب (jāb)
Egyptian Arabic: جاب (gāb)
Moroccan Arabic: جاب (jāb)
Aragonese: trayer
Armenian: բերել (hy) (berel)
Aromanian: aduc
Assamese: আন (an)
Asturian: trayer, llevar
Aymara: apaña
Azerbaijani: gətirmək (az)
Bakhtiari: اوردن (aworden)
Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
Basque: ekarri
Belarusian: (a thing, on foot) прыно́сіць impf (prynósicʹ), прыне́сці pf (prynjésci), (a person, on foot) прыво́дзіць impf (pryvódzicʹ), прыве́сці pf (pryvjésci), (a thing or person, by vehicle) прыво́зіць impf (pryvózicʹ), прыве́зці pf (pryvjézci)
Bengali: আনা (bn) (ana)
Bhojpuri: आनल (ānal)
Breton: kas (br)
Bulgarian: дона́сям (bg) impf (donásjam) (bring by carrying), дове́ждам (bg) impf (dovéždam) (accompanying)
Burmese: ယူလာ (yula)
Catalan: aportar (ca)
Cherokee: ᎠᏲᎯᏍᏗ (ayohisdi)
Chichewa: nyamula
Chinese:
Mandarin: 帶來 / 带来 (zh) (dàilái) (bringer is coming), 帶去 / 带去 (zh) (dàiqu) (bringer is going)
Corsican: purtà (co)
Czech: (a thing, on foot) přinášet (cs) impf, přinést (cs) pf, (a person, on foot) přivádět impf, přivést (cs) pf, (a thing or person, by vehicle) přivážet impf, přivézt (cs) pf
Dalmatian: portur
Danish: bringe (da)
Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: brengen (nl)
Egyptian: (jnj)
Esperanto: alkonduki (eo), alporti (eo)
Estonian: tooma (et)
Ewe: please add this translation if you can
Extremaduran: trel
Finnish: tuoda (fi) (towards the speaker), viedä (fi) (away from the speaker)
Franco-Provençal: amenar
French: apporter (fr), amener (fr)
Friulian: puartâ
Galician: traer (gl), traguer, levar (gl), carregar, portar (gl)
Georgian: მოტანა (moṭana)
German: bringen (de), holen (de)
Gothic: 𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐌰𐌽 (briggan)
Greek: φέρνω (el) (férno)
Ancient: ἄγω (ágō), φέρω (phérō), ἐπάγω (epágō)
Gujarati: લાવવું (lāvvũ), આણવું (āṇavũ)
Haitian Creole: pote
Hausa: kāwo
Hawaiian: lawe mai, hō mai
Hebrew: הֵבִיא (he) (heví)
Hindi: लाना (hi) (lānā)
Hungarian: hoz (hu)
Icelandic: færa
Ido: adportar (io), portar (io)
Igbo: weta
Indonesian: bawa (id), membawa (id)
Ingrian: toovva
Interlingua: apportar
Irish: tabhair
Istriot: portà
Italian: portare (it)
Japanese: 持って来る (もってくる, motte-kuru) (bringer is coming), 持って行く (もっていく, motte-iku) (bringer is going)
Javanese: gawa
Jeju: ᄀᆞ져오다 (gawjeooda)
Kannada: please add this translation if you can
Kazakh: әкелу (äkelu)
Khmer: យក...មក (yɔɔk ... mɔɔk), នាំ...មក (noam ... mɔɔk)
Korean: 가져오다 (ko) (gajeooda), 갖다 주다 (gatda juda)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: anîn (ku), înan (ku)
Kyrgyz: келүү (ky) (kelüü)
Lao: ເອົາມາ (ʼao mā), ນຳ (nam)
Latin: addō (la), addūcō (la), portō, afferō (la)
Latvian: (bring by carrying on foot, or carried by e.g. wind or stream of water) nest (lv) impf, atnest pf, (bring into a location) ienest pf, (a thing by vehicle, or a person by accompanying them by any mode) vest impf, atvest pf, (bring into a location) ievest pf
Lithuanian: atnešti
Low German: bringen (nds)
Luganda: leeta
Lushootseed: ʔəƛ̕txʷ
Luxembourgish: bréngen (lb)
Macedonian: донесува impf (donesuva), донесе pf (donese) (bring by carrying), доведува impf (doveduva), доведе pf (dovede) (accompanying)
Malay: bawa (ms)
Malayalam: കൊണ്ടുവരിക (ml) (koṇṭuvarika)
Maltese: ġab, wassal
Maori: homai, mau, apatari
Marathi: आणणे (āṇṇe)
Middle English: bryngen
Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian: авчрах (mn) (avčrax)
Neapolitan: purtà
Nepali: ल्याउनु (lyāunu)
Ngazidja Comorian: urwawa
Norman: emm'ner
North Frisian:
Föhr-Amrum, Helgoland and Sylt: bring
Hallig: briange
Mooring: bränge
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bringe (no), ta med
Nynorsk: bringe, ta med
Occitan: aportar (oc), adúser
Odia: please add this translation if you can
Old English: bringan
Old Frisian: bringa
Old Galician-Portuguese: trager
Old Javanese: wawa
Old Saxon: bringan
Oromo: fiduu
Ossetian: ӕрхӕссын (ærxæssyn)
Pashto: please add this translation if you can
Persian: آوردن (fa) (âvardan)
Plautdietsch: brinjen
Polish: (a thing, on foot) przynosić (pl) impf, przynieść (pl) pf, (a person, on foot) przyprowadzać impf, przyprowadzić (pl) pf, (a thing or person, by vehicle) przywozić (pl) impf, przywieźć (pl) pf
Portuguese: trazer (pt)
Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
Quechua: apamuy
Romanian: aduce (ro)
Romansch: purtar
Russian: (a thing, on foot) приноси́ть (ru) impf (prinosítʹ), принести́ (ru) pf (prinestí), (a person, on foot) приводи́ть (ru) impf (privodítʹ), привести́ (ru) pf (privestí), (a thing or person, by vehicle) привози́ть (ru) impf (privozítʹ), привезти́ (ru) pf (priveztí)
Sanskrit: आनयति (sa) (ānayati)
Sardinian: poltare, portare, vature
Scots: bring
Scottish Gaelic: thoir
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: (intransitive) донети, (transitive) доносити, (transitive) носити, (intransitive) понети, (intransitive) довести, (transitive) доводити, (slang, German origin) дофурати
Roman: (intransitive) donijeti (sh), (transitive) donositi (sh), (transitive) nositi (sh), (intransitive) ponijeti (sh), (intransitive) dovesti (sh), (transitive) dovoditi (sh), (slang, German origin) dofurati (sh)
Sicilian: purtari (scn)
Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
Sinhalese: ගෙනෙනවා (genenawā)
Slovak: (a thing, on foot) prinášať impf, priniesť pf, (a person, on foot) privádzať impf, priviesť pf, (a thing or person, by vehicle) privážať impf, priviezť pf
Slovene: prinašati impf, prinesti (sl) pf
Somali: keenid
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: (by vehicle, abstract) wózyś impf, (by vehicle, concrete) wjasć impf, póraś impf
Upper Sorbian: (a thing, on foot) přinosyć impf, přinjesć pf, (a person, on foot) přiwodźić impf, přiwjesć pf, (a thing or person, by vehicle) přiwozyć impf, přiwjezć pf
Spanish: traer (es) (bringer is coming), llevar (es) (bringer is going), transportar (es)
Swahili: kuleta (sw), kuletea
Swedish: ta med (sv), bringa (sv), medföra (sv), tillföra (sv)
Sylheti: ꠀꠘꠣ (ana)
Tagalog: dala
Tajik: овардан (tg) (ovardan)
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Telugu: తెచ్చు (te) (teccu), తీసుకొచ్చు (tīsukoccu)
Thai: นำ (th) (nam), เอามา (ao maa)
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Tocharian B: ās-
Tok Pisin: bringim
Turkish: getirmek (tr)
Turkmen: getirmek
Ugaritic: 𐎊𐎁𐎍 (ybl)
Ukrainian: (a thing, on foot) прино́сити impf (prynósyty), принести́ pf (prynestý), (a person, on foot) приво́дити impf (pryvódyty), привести́ pf (pryvestý), (a thing or person, by vehicle) приво́зити impf (pryvózyty), привезти́ pf (pryveztý)
Urdu: لانا (lānā)
Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
Uzbek: olib kelmoq, opke (uz) (Toshkent)
Venetan: portar (vec)
Vietnamese: mang (vi)
Volapük: blinön (vo)
Walloon: apoirter (wa), abouter (wa), atcheryî (wa), amoenner (wa)
Welsh: dod â
West Frisian: bringe
Wolof: indy
Xhosa: letha
Yiddish: ברענגען (brengen)
Yoruba: mú…wá, gbé…wá (a heavier item that needs to be carried)
Zazaki: arden, anayen, overden
Zulu: letha :
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### Etymology 2

Onomatopoeia.

#### Interjection

bring
* The sound of a telephone ringing.
** 2011, Angela Russell, “Keeping House”, in Thatcher’s Children: An Account of Growing Up and Surviving in the 1980s, [Tyneside]: Grimalhame Press, →ISBN, chapter 2 (Staying In), page 28:Having a telephone was a novelty; the cat certainly thought so as Charlie would yowl every time it rang, just in case the “bring bring” sound was not sufficient enough to bring to your attention that someone was attempting to contact you telephonically.
** 2011, Cate Lord, chapter 7, in Lucky Girl, Fort Collins, Colo.: Entangled Publishing, →ISBN, page 76:A shrill bring bring sounded down the hall. The doorbell? Nope, the phone. I hesitated, drawn by the bath’s enticing promise. Bring bring. Let the phone ring.
** 2011 February, Jim Carrington, “Ash”, in In the Bag, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, pages 83–84:I get up from the bed and walk to the wardrobe and all the while the phone keeps on ringing. It’s one of the basic ringtones that you get on every mobile, a bring-bring sound.
** 2023, J. A. Bouma, chapter 9, in End of Days (Order of Thaddeus; 13), Grand Rapids, Mich.: EmmausWay Press, →ISBN:A gentle bring-bring sounded with interruption. A phone on a side table next to Victor Zarruq.

## Afrikaans
### Alternative forms

* breng (archaic)

### Etymology

From Dutch bringen, a dialectal variant of standard brengen (“to bring”). Both forms were originally distinct, though related, verbs, but were early on conflated.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /brəŋ/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

bring (present bring, present participle bringende, past participle gebring)
* (transitive) to bring; to deliver
* (transitive) to take; to lead (to another place)
    Bring asseblief hierdie borde kombuis toe.Please, take these dishes to the kitchen.

#### Derived terms

* uitbring
* wegbring

## Danish
### Verb

bring
* imperative of bringe

## Garo
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

bring
* jungle, forest

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

bring
* imperative singular of bringen

## Middle English
### Verb

bring
* Alternative form of bryngen

## North Frisian
### Alternative forms

* bränge (Mooring)

### Etymology

From Old Frisian bringa, from Proto-West Germanic *bringan. Cognates include West Frisian bringe.

### Pronunciation

* (Sylt) IPA: [b̥rɪŋ]

### Verb

bring (Föhr-Amrum, Sylt, Heligoland)
* to bring

#### Conjugation
## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

bring
* imperative of bringe

## Scots
### Etymology

From Middle English bryngen, from Old English bringan.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /brɪŋ/

### Verb

bring (third-person singular simple present brings, present participle bringin, simple past brocht, past participle brocht)
* To bring.