brin

See also: Brin and brīn

English

Etymology

French

Noun

brin (plural brins)

  1. One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches.
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  2. A single silkworm thread extruded from the gland, before it has formed a bave.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for brin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Origin uncertain.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʁɛ̃/
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  • (Louisiana) IPA(key): [bɾæ̃]

Noun

brin m (plural brins)

  1. blade (of grass)
  2. sprig, twig
  3. wisp, strand (of hair, fibre etc.)
  4. (figuratively) ounce, bit, hint

See also

Further reading

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) bregn
  • (Puter, Vallader) brün

Etymology

From a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz (“brown”), from Proto-Indo-European *bher- (“shining, brown”).

Adjective

brin m (feminine singular brina, masculine plural brins, feminine plural brinas)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) brown

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbrín/
  • Tonal orthography: brȉn

Noun

brìn m inan (genitive brína, nominative plural bríni)

  1. juniper

Declension

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