bris

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish ברית‎ (bris), from Hebrew בְּרִית‎ (bərîṯ, “covenant”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /bɹɪs/
• Rhymes: -ɪs

Noun

bris (plural brises or brisses or britot)

1. (Judaism) Ritual male circumcision.
   • 1974, Phillip E. Goble, Everything You Need to Grow a Messianic Synagogue, page 22,

     This bath symbolizes both a spiritual mikveh (Jewish purification bath) and a spiritual bris (circumcision which makes one a Jew).

   • 1993, Miriam Rose, Miriam Zakon, The Baker Family Circus, Baker's Dozen (Omnibus), Volume 4, page 129,

     The night before the bris, he invited nine of his little buddies to come and say kerias shema around the baby's bassinet. Mommy and Daddy, who flew in for the bris, were so touched, they kept dabbing their eyes and coughing.

   • 2009, Jeffrey Shandler, Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America, page 155,

     Although indigenous visual documentation of the bris was, until the advent of video, limited and often oblique, the ceremony is a longstanding fixture of Christian art.

   • 2013, Ted Falcon, David Blatner, Judaism For Dummies, 2nd Edition, page 109,

     However, if the baby is born on a Wednesday night, then the bris would occur on the following Thursday morning because Jewish days begin at sundown, and the bris is tradionally performed during the day. (Note that the Talmud (see Chapter 3) states if the baby's health is in question, then the bris must be postponed.)

Anagrams

• RBIs, RIBs, SBIR, ribs

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [prɪːs]
• Rhymes: -ɪːs

Noun

bris n (genitive singular briss, nominative plural bris)

1. (anatomy) pancreas

Etymology

From Old Irish brisid, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to burst, break”). Cognate with English burst and German bersten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʲɾʲɪʃ/

Verb

bris (present analytic briseann, future analytic brisfidh, verbal noun briseadh, past participle briste)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to break, fracture
2. sack, fire, dismiss
3. (banking) cash, (of money, bills) change
4. (of dam) burst
5. (of government) overthrow

Noun

bris f (genitive singular brise, nominative plural briseanna)

1. loss

   Ní maith liom do bhris.

   I’m sorry for your loss.

Mutation

Further reading

• "bris" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “bris(s)id” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “brisim” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bʲrʲɪs̪]

Verb

brìs

1. third-person singular future tense of bristi.
2. third-person plural future tense of bristi.

Etymology

From Middle Low German brise.

Noun

bris m (definite singular brisen, indefinite plural briser, definite plural brisene)

1. (weather) a breeze

References

• “bris” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

From Middle Low German brise.

Noun

bris m (definite singular brisen, indefinite plural brisar, definite plural brisane)

1. (weather) a breeze

References

• “bris” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Alternative forms

• briss

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʲrʲisʲ/

Verb

bris

1. second-person singular imperative of brisid

·bris

1. inflection of brisid:
   1. third-person singular preterite conjunct
   2. first-person singular present subjunctive conjunct

Mutation

Etymology

From Old Irish brisid, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to burst, break”). Cognate with English burst and German bersten.

Verb

bris (past bhris, future brisidh, verbal noun briseadh, past participle briste)

1. break, smash
2. breach

References

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• “bris(s)id” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brîːs/

Noun

brȋs m (Cyrillic spelling бри̑с)

1. (medicine) swab, smear

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /briːs/

Noun

bris c

1. breeze

Etymology

From English bridge.

Noun

bris

1. bridge
2. wharf