Noun: bri
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | bri |
| Plural m | brins |
Sample Sentences
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El vent m'ha dut grans de blat / i com que ja és primavera / les espigues s'han llevat / per damunt dels brins de l'herba [1970, Pau Riba, “Canço sèptima en colors”, in Dioptria:]
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un bri d'esperança (a ray of hope)
Nouns inflected like bri
cinquanta-u,
felandri,
setanta-u,
seixanta-u,
u,
bé,
to,
pa,
vi,
so,
fre,
gra,
lli,
ble,
bru,
bri,
tro,
pla,
ple,
trenta-u, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Unknown; possibly of Gaulish origin from *brinos (“filament, fiber”). (Compare French brin, Breton broenenn, Welsh brwynen), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrugh-no- (“twig”), perhaps related to the root of English brush. See: French Nouns '
brin', English Nouns '
brush'.
Verbs referencing "bri"
French Nouns
brin.
Translations