# bronze
## English
### Etymology

From French bronze (1511), from Italian bronzo (13th cent.), of uncertain origin; see it for more. First use appears c. 1721 in the writings of Matthew Prior. See cite below.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /bɹɒnz/
* (US) IPA: /bɹɑnz/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒnz

### Noun

bronze (countable and uncountable, plural bronzes)
* (uncountable) A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals.
** 1720, Matthew Prior, Poems on Several Occasions, page 339:How little gives thee joy or pain; A print, a bronze, a flower, a root.
    Coordinate term: brass
* (countable and uncountable) A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.
    bronze:
* (countable) A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.
* A bronze medal.
    She wanted to win the tournament, but had to settle for the bronze after being beaten in the semi-finals.
* Boldness; impudence.
    Synonym: brass
** 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin, London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:Embrown'd with native bronze, lo! Henley stands.

#### Derived terms

* aluminium bronze
* bronze age
* bronze blue
* bronze diabetes
* bronze disease
* bronze featherback
* bronze fennel
* bronzefounder
* bronzefounding
* bronze green
* bronzeless
* bronzelike
* bronzemaking
* bronze medal
* bronze medalist
* bronze medallist
* bronzeness
* bronze open access
* bronze parotia
* bronzer
* bronze race
* bronzesmith
* bronzesmithing
* bronze steel
* bronzeware
* bronze whaler
* bronze-wing
* bronzewing
* bronze-winged jacana
* bronzeworker
* bronzeworking
* bronzeworks
* bronzey
* bronze yellow
* bronzify
* bronzine
* bronzish
* bronzist
* bronzy
* Corinthian bronze
* embronze
* gold-bronze
* little bronze cuckoo
* Nibral
* nonbronze
* silicon bronze
* steel bronze
* vanadium bronze

#### Translations

Albanian: bronz (sq) m
Amharic: ናስ (nas)
Arabic: بُرُنْزٌ m (burunzun)
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܦܠܙܐ m (plezzā)
Armenian: բրոնզ (hy) (bronz), անագապղինձ (hy) (anagapġinj) (rare)
Aromanian: bãcãri f
Asturian: bronce m
Azerbaijani: tunc (az)
Basque: brontze
Belarusian: бро́нза f (brónza)
Bengali: ব্রোঞ্জ (bn) (brōnjo)
Breton: arem (br) m
Bulgarian: бронз (bg) m (bronz)
Burmese: ကြေး (my) (kre:)
Catalan: bronze (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 青銅 / 青铜 (cing$^1$ tung$^4$, ceng$^1$ tung$^4$)
Hakka: 青銅 / 青铜 (chhiâng-thùng)
Hokkien: 青銅 / 青铜 (chheⁿ-tâng, chhiⁿ-tâng)
Mandarin: 青銅 / 青铜 (zh) (qīngtóng)
Coptic: ⲃⲁⲣⲱⲧ m (barōt)
Crimean Tatar: tunç
Czech: bronz (cs) m, spěž (cs) f
Danish: bronze (da) c
Dargwa: жарма (žarma)
Dutch: brons (nl) n
Egyptian: (ḥzmn m)
Esperanto: bronzo (eo)
Estonian: pronks (et)
Faroese: bronsa f, gýtt n
Finnish: pronssi (fi)
French: bronze (fr) m, airain (fr) m
Fula:
Adlam: 𞤧𞤭𞤤𞤢-𞤣𞤢𞤲𞤫
Roman: sila-dane
Galician: bronce (gl) m, arámeo m
Georgian: ბრინჯაო (brinǯao), რვალი (rvali) (obsolete)
German: Bronze (de) f
Greek: ορείχαλκος (el) m (oreíchalkos), μπρούντζος (el) m (broúntzos)
Ancient: χαλκός m (khalkós), κρατέρωμα n (kratérōma), πυρωπός m (purōpós)
Mycenaean: 𐂚 (AES)
Greenlandic: bronze (kl)
Hebrew: אָרָד (he) m (arad)
Hindi: कांसा m (kānsā), कांसी f (kānsī), पीतल (hi) m (pītal), कांस्य (hi) m (kānsya), काँसा (hi) m (kā̃sā), कसकुट (hi) m (kaskuṭ), भरत (hi) m (bharat)
Hungarian: bronz (hu)
Hunsrik: Bronz f
Icelandic: brons (is) n
Ido: bronzo (io)
Indonesian: perunggu (id), gangsa (id), tembaga perunggu (id)
Irish: cré-umha m
Italian: bronzo (it) m
Japanese: 青銅 (ja) (せいどう, seidō)
Javanese: prunggu
Kalmyk: күрл (kürl)
Kannada: ಕಂಚು (kn) (kañcu)
Karachay-Balkar: джез (cez)
Kazakh: қола (kk) (qola)
Khmer: លង់ហិន (km) (lŭəng hən), សំរឹទ្ធ (km) (sɑmrət), ទង់ដែង (km) (tŭəng daeng)
Korean: 청동(青銅) (cheongdong)
Kyrgyz: коло (ky) (kolo)
Lak: чарвит (čarwit)
Lao: ສຳລິດ (sam lit), ສິງຫ້າວ (sing hāo)
Latin: aes (la) n, pyrōpus m
Latvian: bronza (lv) f
Ligurian: brónzo m
Limburgish: bróns (li) n
Lithuanian: bronza (lt) f
Livvi: bronzu
Low German:
German Low German: Brons f
Luxembourgish: Bronze f
Macedonian: бронза f (bronza), туч m (tuč) (archaic)
Malagasy: alimo (mg)
Malay: gangsa (ms), perunggu (ms), tembaga perunggu
Malayalam: വെങ്കലം (ml) (veṅkalaṁ), ഓട് (ml) (ōṭŭ)
Maltese: bronż m
Maori: rauwhero
Mapudungun: pasigka
Marwari: कांसी f (kā̃sī), कांही (kā̃hī)
Minoan: puko
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хүрэл (mn) (xürel)
Navajo: béésh łichíiʼii
Neapolitan: abbrunzo m, avrunzo m
Nepali: पित्तल (ne) (pittal), काँसो (kā̃so), कांस्य (ne) (kānsya), कसकुट (ne) (kasakuṭ), काँस (ne) (kā̃s), काँसो१ (ne) (kā̃so1)
Newar: कँय् (kễ)
Northern Sami: bronsa
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bronse m
Nynorsk: bronse m
Occitan: bronze (oc) m
Persian: برنز (fa) (boronz)
Plautdietsch: Brons f
Polish: brąz (pl) m inan
Portuguese: bronze (pt) m
Punjabi: ਕਾਂਸੀ (pa) f (kānsī), ਕਹਿੰ m (kahĩ)
Quechua: chanpi
Romagnol: brônẓ m
Romanian: bronz (ro) n
Russian: бро́нза (ru) f (brónza)
Samogitian: bruonza f
Sanskrit: कांस्य (sa) (kāṃsya)
Saurashtra: ꢒꢱꣁ (kaso)
Scottish Gaelic: umha m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бро̑нза f, бро̑нца f
Roman: brȏnza (sh) f, brȏnca (sh) f
Sicilian: bronzu m
Slovak: bronz (sk) m
Slovene: bron (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: bronza f
Southern Altai: коло (kolo)
Spanish: bronce (es) m
Sumerian: 𒄞𒅗𒁇 (zabar)
Swedish: brons (sv) c or n
Tagalog: tanso, bronse
Tajik: биринҷӣ (birinji), бронза (tg) (bronza)
Tamil: வெண்கலம் (ta) (veṇkalam)
Telugu: కంచు (te) (kañcu), కాంస్యము (te) (kāṁsyamu)
Thai: สำริด (th) (sǎm-rít)
Tibetan: ལི (li), ལི་མ (li ma), འཁར་བ ('khar ba)
Turkish: bronz (tr), tunç (tr)
Turkmen: bürünç (tk)
Ugaritic: 𐎘𐎍𐎘 (ṯlṯ)
Ukrainian: бро́нза (uk) f (brónza), спиж m (spyž)
Urdu: کانسا m (kānsā), کانسی f (kānsī)
Uyghur: برونزا (bronza), تۇچ (tuch)
Uzbek: qurch (uz), bronza (uz), birinj (uz)
Venetan: bronxo m
Vietnamese: đồng điếu, đồng đỏ, đồng vàng, đồng thanh (vi)
Vilamovian: bronz f
Volapük: bronsöt (vo)
Võro: pronks'
Waray-Waray: bronse
Welsh: efydd m
West Frisian: brûns n
Yakut: чаҥ (cañ)
Yiddish: בראָנדז m (brondz)
Zulu: ibhulonze class 5 :
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### Adjective

bronze (comparative more bronze, superlative most bronze)
* Made of bronze metal.
    Synonym: bronzen
** 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
* Having a reddish-brown colour.
* (of the skin) Tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun.
** 2016, Kit Moulton, Annabella, page 108:That girl was dynamite. Dark hair with killer blue eyes, bronze skin, and an exquisite full-figured body.

#### Derived terms

* arsenical bronze
* bell bronze
* Bronze Age
* bronze medal
* Bronze Star
* bronze up
* bronzite
* Liaoning bronze dagger culture
* phosphor bronze
* Uchatius bronze

#### Translations
### Verb

bronze (third-person singular simple present bronzes, present participle bronzing, simple past and past participle bronzed)
* (transitive) To plate with bronze.
    My mother bronzed my first pair of baby shoes.
* (transitive) To color bronze; (of the sun) to tan.
** 1925, DuBose Heyward, Porgy‎, London: Jonathan Cape, Part IV, p. 137:The sun was so low that its level rays shot through the tunnels of the forest and bronzed its ceiling of woven leaves when Bess returned to the clearing.
** 1961, Freya Stark, chapter 8, in Dust in the Lion's Paw: Autobiography 1939-1946, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, page 122:North is the bay of Acre, lovely in shape, and, far, far beyond, the cloudy vision of Hermon, its huge landscape now only attainable with a police pass—beautifully solitary except for good-looking young men of the police patrols, all fit and bronzed.
* (intransitive, of the skin) To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
** 2006, Melissa Lassor, “Out of Darkness”, in Watching Time, page 124:His skin began to bronze as he worked in our garden each day.
* (transitive) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
** 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:the lawyer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead

#### Derived terms

* rebronze

#### Translations
### See also

* Brindisi
* Cycladic
* Hallstatt
* Helladic
* Minoan
* penny
* Appendix:Colors

### Anagrams

* bonzer

## Catalan
### Alternative forms

* bronzo

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈbɾon.zə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈbɾon.ze]
* Audio (Valencia):(file)
* Rhymes: -onze

### Noun

bronze m (plural bronzes)
* bronze (metal)
* bronze medal

#### Derived terms

* bronar
* bronzejar
* bronzejat
* bronzí
* bronzista
* Edat del bronze

### Further reading

* “bronze” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “bronze”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “bronze” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “bronze” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French bronze.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈb̥ʁʌŋsə]

### Noun

bronze c (singular definite bronzen, plural indefinite bronzer)
* (uncountable) bronze (element; colour)
* (countable) bronze (work of art made of bronze), bronze medal

#### Further reading

* bronze on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{da}$

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian bronzo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bʁɔ̃z/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

bronze m (plural bronzes)
* bronze (metal, work of art)

#### Derived terms

* âge de bronze
* couler un bronze
* médaille de bronze
* mouler un bronze

#### Descendants

* → Danish: bronze
** → Greenlandic: bronze
* → English: bronze
* → Norwegian: bronse
* → Persian: برنز (boronz)
* → Portuguese: bronze

### Verb

bronze
* inflection of bronzer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* bornez

## Greenlandic
### Etymology

Borrowed from Danish bronze; see English bronze etymology.

### Noun

bronze
* bronze

## Occitan
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Béarn):(file)

### Noun

bronze m (plural bronzes)
* bronze

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from French bronze, from Italian bronzo, either from Byzantine Greek βροντησίον (brontēsíon), presumably from Βρεντήσιον (Brentḗsion, “Brindisi”), known for the manufacture of bronze; or ultimately from Persian برنج (berenj, beranj, “brass”) ~ پرنگ (pereng, “copper”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbɾõ.zi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbɾõ.zi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈbɾõ.ze/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈbɾõ.zɨ/
* Hyphenation: bron‧ze

### Noun

bronze m (plural bronzes)
* bronze (a naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper)
* skin tan

#### Derived terms

* bronzear
* medalha de bronze

#### Related terms

* bronzeado
* bronzeamento
* brozeador

### References

* ↑ “bronze”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* ↑ “bronze”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025