bro
English
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[edit]Etymology
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*bʰréh₂tēr |
Clipping of brother, Cf. scro.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /bɹoʊ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɹəʊ/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊ
- Hyphenation: bro
- Homophone: Breaux
Noun
[edit]bro (plural bros)
- (slang) Brother (a male sibling).
- My mom took my lil' bro to soccer practice now and she wanted me to pick him up.
- (slang) Brother (a comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals).
- Bro, you good? You've been lookin' kinda out of it lately.
- (slang) Brother used to address a male.
- Ayo, bro, sorry to bother you but I think I accidentally backed up into your car: could we exchange information?
- (slang) A frat boy or someone who espouses the fraternity bro culture.
- (slang, derogatory, usually in compounds) Someone, usually male, who aggressively evangelizes a person, concept or technology.
- 2021 May 25, Edward-Isaac Dovere, Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump, Penguin, →ISBN, page 152:
- Pfeiffer's partners at Pod Save America — the audio outpost of the resistance that had made a collection of Obama Bros niche superstars, had invested as producers in a documentary about the Senate run.
- 2022 September 14, Brian Culp, Electric Cars For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 11:
- One of these cars has 707 horsepower, performs amazingly well on a drag strip, and is popular among performance car bros. The other car is about to easily win a drag race.
- 2024 May 23, ego_bot, There's Something Weird Going On: Ten Stories of Existentialist Science Fiction, ego_bot, →ISBN:
- He'd seen that false equivalency coming from AI bros time and time again, but hearing it from an AI itself was especially irritating.
Pronoun
[edit]bro (third-person singular, masculine, nominative or objective case, possesive case bro's)
- (African-American Vernacular) A person previously mentioned, usually male. Chiefly equivalent to he and him.
- Bro said he finna go off today
- You gotta go up to bro and say, "I know what you mean"
Derived terms
[edit]- Bernie bro
- Brobot
- brochacho
- brocialism
- brocialist
- bro code
- bro-country
- bro culture
- brodeo
- bro down
- brodown
- broette
- broey
- brofessor
- brofist
- broflake
- bro globes
- brogrammer
- brogressive
- brohawk
- brohemian
- brohoof
- brohug
- bro-hug
- broish
- brojob
- brolationship
- bromance
- bromantic
- bromantical
- bromantically
- bromeopathy
- broness
- brony
- bro out
- bro's
- broscience
- broseph
- brosephine
- BroShep
- broship
- broski
- brosky
- brosmaid
- brospeak
- brostep
- brotastic
- brotox
- BroTP
- brud
- cool story bro
- cro
- cryptobro
- debate bro
- dudebro
- film bro
- gym bro
- ladybro
- lax bro
- lesbro
- lezbro
- lil bro
- newbro
- passport bro
- portmanbro
- stepbro
- sugar bro
- tech bro
Descendants
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See also
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[edit]Breton
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Brythonic *broɣ, from Proto-Celtic *mrogis.
Noun
[edit]bro f (plural broioù)
- country (-side)
Inflection
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Cornish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Brythonic *broɣ, from Proto-Celtic *mrogis. Cognate with Breton bro
Noun
[edit]bro f (plural broyow)
Mutation
[edit]Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Danish bro, from Old East Norse brō, from Proto-Germanic *brūwō (“bridge; brow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruh- (“beam, bridge”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bro c (singular definite broen, plural indefinite broer)
Inflection
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Norwegian Bokmål: bro
References
[edit]- “bro” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “bro” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
Gallo
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
[edit]bro m (plural bros)
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English bro. First attested in 2019.
Noun
[edit]bro m (invariable)
Kalasha
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Sanskrit बृहत् (bṛhat, “lofty, high, tall”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰonts. Cognate with Persian بلند (boland), English borough.
Noun
[edit]bro
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
[edit]bro m (plural bros)
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Danish bro, from Old Danish bro, from Old East Norse brō, from Proto-Germanic *brōwō (“bridge; brow”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruH- (“beam; bridge”), which may be the same root as *h₃bʰrúHs (“(eye)brow”), whence brun. Close cognate with Swedish bro. Compare also Norwegian bru (“bridge”) and Icelandic brú (“bridge”), from Proto-Germanic *brū-.
Noun
[edit]bro f or m (definite singular broa or broen, indefinite plural broer, definite plural broene)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “bro” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English bro.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ow
Noun
[edit]bro m (plural bros)
- (colloquial) bro (a male comrade or friend)
- (colloquial) bro (used to address a male)
Spanish
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bro m (plural bros)
Sranan Tongo
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[edit]Verb
[edit]bro
Noun
[edit]bro
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old East Norse brō, from Proto-Germanic *brōwō (“bridge; brow”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruH- (“beam; bridge”), which may be the same root as *h₃bʰrúHs (“(eye)brow”), whence bryn. Compare Norwegian Bokmål bro, Icelandic brú (“bridge”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bro c
- bridge (a construction that spans a divide)
- Stan mellan broarna
- The town between the bridges (Stockholm old town)
- Släpp ingen djävul över bron, håll ut en stund ännu!
- Let no devil across the bridge, hold out yet a while!
- road bank (a road reenforced with stone or timber, in particular across wetlands)
- quay
- porch
- Synonym: förstubro
- Jag får min motion när jag går ifrån bron och till vår garageuppfart.
- I get my exercise when I walk from the porch to our driveway.
Declension
[edit]Declension of bro | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bro | bron | broar | broarna |
Genitive | bros | brons | broars | broarnas |
Related terms
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[edit]Vietnamese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɓɹo˧˧], [ʔɓəː˨˩ zo˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɓɹow˧˧], [ʔɓəː˦˩ ʐow˧˧]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɓɹow˧˧], [ʔɓəː˨˩ ɹow˧˧]
- Phonetic spelling: brô, bờ rô
Pronoun
[edit]bro
- (slang, Vietnam) bro (used to address a person (presumably) around the same age, usually male)
- 2021 September 6, Koi Koi, “Bất ngờ bài 'nhạc Thái' lọt top trending cao nhưng hoá ra của ca sĩ Việt, nghe vui xả stress được khen ngợi hết lời! ["Thai" song unexpectedly shoots into the top trending list but turns out to be by Vietnamese singer; listen to relieve your stress; speechlessly recommend!]”, in Kênh 14[1], Hanoi: VCCorp, retrieved 2023-03-07:
- Mùa dịch này làm mấy bài vui vẻ này hợp lý quá bro ơi.
- This pandemic season makes these joyful songs so appropriate, bro.
- 2022 August 5, Ngọc Nguyễn, “Lương Minh Trang và Vinh Râu thăng hạng visual, xưng hô thân thiết”, in Thể thao & Văn hóa[2], Hanoi: Vietnam News Agency, archived from the original on 8 March 2023:
- Trước đấy, khi được hỏi về mối quan hệ với "vợ cũ" Lương Minh Trang, Vinh Râu không ngần ngại thừa nhận: "Chúng tôi làm tri kỷ và thường xưng hô bằng bro".
- Earlier, when asked about his relationship with his "ex" Lương Minh Trang, Vinh Râu admits, without hesitation: "We are confidants and often address each other as bro".
- 2022 December 21, Quang Vũ, “Tóc Tiên, JustaTee hẹn fan 'cháy' cùng lễ hội Noel siêu hoành tráng tại Hà Nội [Tóc Tiên, JustaTee promises fans they'll be "on fire" at a super large-scale Christmas festival in Hanoi]”, in Thể thao & Văn hóa[3], Hanoi: Vietnam News Agency, retrieved 2023-03-07:
- Giờ thì mau mau chuẩn bị lên đồ và set kèo với hội bạn để "quẩy" tung Hà Nội cùng Tóc Tiên, JustaTee, Huy DX và BNUTs thôi nào các bro ơi!
- Now hurry up and prepare to set a bet with your friends to "hang out" in Hanoi with Tóc Tiên, JustaTee, Huy DX and BNUTs, bro!
See also
[edit]Welsh
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Welsh bro, from Proto-Brythonic *broɣ, from Proto-Celtic *mrogis. Cognate with Old Irish mruig. Cognate with Briton bro.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bro f (plural bröydd or brofydd)
- region, country, land, neighbourhood, native haunt
- border, limit, boundary, march
- vale, lowland, champaign
Mutation
[edit]Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
bro | fro | mro | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “bro”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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