brà

See also: bra, BRA, brá, Brá, and -bra

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish brao (“quern; millstone, grindstone”); compare Irish bró.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɾaː/

Noun

brà f (genitive singular bràthan, plural bràthntan)

1. quern, handmill

Declension

Declension of brà (type Vc feminine noun)

indefinite
	singular	plural
nominative	brà	bràthntan
genitive	bràthan	bhràthntan
dative	brà	bràthntan
definite
	singular	plural
nominative	(a') bhrà	(na) bràthntan
genitive	(na) bràthan	(nam) bràthntan
dative	(a') bhrà	(na) bràthntan
vocative	bhrà	bhràthntan

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “brà”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bró”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language