BH
Translingual
English
Noun
BH (plural BHs)
- Initialism of heavy battleship.
- Initialism of bank holiday.
- (knitting) Initialism of buttonhole.
- 1998, Kristin Nicholas, Knitting the New Classics, page 86:
- Work 7 BH's on left side for man's sweater, on right side for woman's sweater.
- (astronomy) Initialism of black hole.
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Danish
Alternative forms
Noun
BH c (definite singular BH'en, indefinite plural BH'er, definite plural BH'erne)
- a bra (abbreviation of brystholder)
Derived terms
German
Etymology
Initialism of Büstenhalter or Busenhalter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /beˈhaː/
- IPA(key): /ˈbeːha/ (southwestern Germany, Switzerland, and sporadically elsewhere)
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Usage notes
- BH is the normal word for “bra” in German, whereas the full forms Büstenhalter (Germany) and Busenhalter (Austria and Switzerland) is now formal and quite unusual in common speech.
Declension
Further reading
- “BH” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “BH (Bezirkshauptmannschaft)” in Duden online
- “BH (Büstenhalter)” in Duden online
- “BH”, in Atlas zur deutschen Alltagssprache, 2020
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Noun
BH m (definite singular BH-en, indefinite plural BH-er, definite plural BH-ene)
- a bra (abbreviation of brystholder and bysteholder)
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
BH m (definite singular BH-en, indefinite plural BH-ar, definite plural BH-ane)
- a bra (abbreviation of brysthaldar and bystehaldar)
Synonyms
Swedish
Alternative forms
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