bru

From Afrikaans broer. Doublet of brother, friar, and pal.

bru (plural brus)

1. (South Africa) bro; bra; term of address for a man
   • 2006, Guy Brown, Hijack!: cracking one of South Africa's most violent carjacking syndicates, page 37:

     "Nice little bonus for you, hey bru," Paul was saying.

   • 2013, Nick Roddy, Out of Jericho, page 200:

     “Listen, bru, don't take this the wrong way, but I grew up with the black man. Never underestimate him and never overestimate him. […]

bru

1. (slang) Alternative spelling of bruh

• RUB, bur, bur-, rub

From Frankish *brūn.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈbɾu]
• Rhymes: -u

bru (feminine bruna, masculine plural bruns, feminine plural brunes)

1. dark brown

• os bru

bru m (plural bruns)

1. dark brown

• “bru” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “bru”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “bru” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bru” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Middle French bru, from Old French bru, brui, bruz, from Late Latin bruta, brutis, from Old High German brūt (“daughter-in-law, bride”) or Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌸𐍃 (bruþs, “daughter-in-law”); both from Proto-Germanic *brūdiz (“bride, daughter-in-law”). Akin to Old English brȳd (“bride”), English bride.

• IPA^(key): /bʁy/

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bru f (plural brus)

1. (regional) daughter-in-law

   Synonym: belle-fille

   Antonym: gendre

• The word is slightly dated in general European French, but current in many regions, including Canada.

• marâtre
• parâtre

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

bru

1. Alternative form of browe

• bro

From Norwegian Nynorsk bru, akin to the spoken form of the Oslo area; from Old West Norse brú. Went into use with the 1938 spelling reform during the Samnorsk policy. Doublet of bro, from Danish bro.

bru f or m (definite singular brua or bruen, indefinite plural bruer, definite plural bruene)

1. bridge

• “bru” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “bru” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Old West Norse brú.

• IPA^(key): /brʉː/

bru f (definite singular brua, indefinite plural bruer, definite plural bruene)

1. bridge

   Dette er den lengste brua i verda.

   This is the longest bridge in the world.

• “bru” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• bur

From Proto-Germanic *brūwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰrúHs (“brow”).

• IPA^(key): /bruː/

brū f

1. an eyelash
2. an eyebrow

• oferbrū (“eyebrow”)

• Middle English: browe, broȝ, brou, brow, bru, brouwe, brwe, bruwe
  • English: brow
  • Geordie English: broo
  • Scots: broo

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “bru”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• brut

bru oblique singular, f (oblique plural brus, nominative singular bru, nominative plural brus)

1. daughter-in-law

• French: bru

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bru, supplement)

From Proto-Khasian *bruː. Cognate with Khasi briew. Compare Proto-Khmuic *-brɔʔ (“person, man”) (whence Khmu [Cuang] cmbrɔʔ), Proto-Katuic *ɓruu (“mountain”) (whence the autonym Bru), Proto-Vietic *b-ruːʔ (whence Vietnamese rú), Santali ᱵᱩᱨᱩ (buru).

• IPA^(key): /bru/

bru

1. person

   u bru ― man

   uni u bru ― this man

   ka bru ― woman

   kani ka bru ― this woman

• beru

• IPA^(key): /bru/
• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: bru

bru m inan

1. genitive singular of ber

bru

1. (in females' ritual language) water

• ənay (general term)
• nanum (ritual term used by males)

• Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary