brad

Etymology

Late Middle English, variant of brod(d), from Old Norse broddr (“spike, shaft”), from Proto-Germanic *bruzdaz (compare Old English brord, Old High German brort), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrusdʰos (compare Welsh brath (“sting, prick”), Albanian bredh (“fir-tree”), Lithuanian bruzdùklis (“bridle”), Czech brzda (“brake”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɹad/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bɹæd/
• Rhymes: -æd

Noun

brad (plural brads)

A brad (stationery fastener)

1. A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.
   • 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 5:

     Into the middle arch of each desk silver-headed brads had been hammered to form a lion, a bear, a ram, a dove, and in the midst a flaming torch.

2. (US, elementary school usage, particularly kindergarten and primary grades) A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet.

Verb

brad (third-person singular simple present brads, present participle bradding, simple past and past participle bradded)

1. (transitive) To attach using a brad.

Anagrams

• Bard, bard, darb, drab

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Proto-Albanian *brada (modern Albanian bredh), or alternatively a substrate cognate of it, and ultimately from an Indo-European source either way. Compare Megleno-Romanian and Daco-Romanian brad.

Noun

brad m (plural bradz)

1. fir tree

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bˠɾˠad̪ˠ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish brat (“spoil, plunder, robbery”).

Etymology 2

Mutation

References

• "brad" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “1 brat” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Proto-Albanian *brada (modern Albanian bredh), or alternatively a substrate cognate of it, and ultimately from an Indo-European source either way. Compare Aromanian and Daco-Romanian brad.

Noun

brad

1. fir tree

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *braidaz. Compare Old Frisian brēd (West Frisian breed), Old Saxon brēd (Low German breed, breet), Dutch breed, Old High German breit (German breit), Old Norse breiðr (Danish and Swedish bred), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (braiþs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɑːd/

Adjective

brād

1. broad

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Proto-Albanian *brada (modern Albanian bredh), or alternatively a substratum cognate of it, and ultimately from an Indo-European source either way (a borrowing directly from (modern) Albanian would have presumably produced a form *brez). ^[1] Another theory suggests that it was reformed analogically from the plural brazi, and that the original form was *braz (reinterpreted as a plural, modeled on plurals such as coadă > cozi, pradă > prăzi, surd, > surzi). See also the Romanian alpine toponyms containing Breaza, which may correspond to the Albanian plural form bredha ^[2]. Compare also Aromanian brad.

Noun

brad m (plural brazi)

1. fir, Abies alba.
2. pine tree.
3. pine wood.

See also

• pin

References

References

• brad in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language), 2004-2018

Etymology

Shortening and phoneticized spelling of English brother

Noun

brad

1. (informal, colloquial, familiar) comrade, peer, buddy (used on addressing between male peers)

Noun

brad (plural brads)

1. arm

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *brad, from Proto-Celtic *mratom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /braːd/

Noun

brad m (uncountable)

1. treason
2. treachery

Mutation