brandy
See also: Brandy
English
Etymology
Shortened form of brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn (“burnt wine”). Compare German Brantewein, Branntwein, Danish brændevin.
Pronunciation
- enPR: brănʹdē, IPA(key): /ˈbɹændi/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ændi
Noun
brandy (countable and uncountable, plural brandies)
- (uncountable) An alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice.
- Synonym: eau de vie (brandy sense)
- Hyponyms: cognac, aqua vitae, eau de vie (hardest sense)
- (countable) Any variety of such liquor.
- (countable) A serving of such liquor.
Derived terms
- apple brandy
- apricot brandy
- Brandy Alexander
- brandy and soda
- brandy-ball
- brandy ball
- brandy bottle
- brandy-bottle
- brandy bowl
- brandy butter
- brandy-cherry
- brandy-cowe
- brandy fruit
- brandy glass
- Brandy Hill
- brandyless
- brandylike
- brandy mint
- brandy paper
- brandy pawnee
- brandy-pawnee
- brandy-peach
- brandy-smash
- brandy snap
- brandy snifter
- brandywine
- cherry brandy
- cider brandy
- corn-brandy
- cut brandy
- fruit brandy
- Napoleon brandy
- peach brandy
- plum brandy
- pomace brandy
Descendants
- → Abenaki: blandi
- → Basque: brandy
- → Cebuano: brandi
- → Cantonese: 拔蘭地 / 拔兰地 (bat6 laan4-1 dei6-2), 白蘭地 / 白兰地 (baak6 laan4-1 dei6-2)
- → Czech: brandy
- → Danish: brandy
- → Dutch: brandy
- → Esperanto: brando
- → Estonian: brändi
- → Finnish: brandy
- → Galician: brandy
- → German: Brandy
- → Greek: μπράντι (bránti)
- → Hokkien: 物蘭池 / 物兰池 (bu̍t-lân-tî)
- → Hungarian: brandy
- → Icelandic: brandí
- → Irish: branda
- → Italian: brandy
- → Japanese: ブランデー (burandē)
- → Korean: 브랜디 (beuraendi)
- → Lower Sorbian: brandy
- → Mandarin: 白蘭地 / 白兰地 (báilándì)
- → Norwegian: brandy
- → Occitan: brandy
- → Polish: brandy
- → Portuguese: brande, (unadapted form) brandy
- → Romanian: brandy
- → Russian: бренди (brendi)
- → Armenian: բրենդի (brendi)
- → Scottish Gaelic: branndaidh
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Spanish: brandy
- → Swahili: brandi
- → Swedish: brandy
- → Tagalog: brandi
- → Thai: บรั่นดี (bà-ràn-dii)
- → Turkish: brendi
- → Ukrainian: бренді (brendi)
- → Vietnamese: brandy, branđi
- → Welsh: brandi
Translations
liquor
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variety of brandy
glass of brandy
Verb
brandy (third-person singular simple present brandies, present participle brandying, simple past and past participle brandied)
Translations
to preserve, flavour, or mix with brandy
See also
Czech
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English brandy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbrɛndɪ]
- Hyphenation: bran‧dy
Noun
brandy n or f (indeclinable)
- brandy (alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice)
Further reading
- “brandy”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “brandy”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “brandy”, in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012–2026, slovnikcestiny.cz
- “brandy”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026
Danish
Etymology
From English brandy, shortened from brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn. Doublet of brændevin.
Noun
brandy
Finnish
Etymology
From English brandy, short for brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbrændi/, [ˈbrændi]
- Rhymes: -ændi
- Homophone: brändi
- Syllabification(key): bran‧dy
- Hyphenation(key): bran‧dy
Noun
brandy
- brandy (distilled spirit made of grapes)
- Synonym: rypäleviina
Declension
| Inflection of brandy (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | brandy | brandyt | |
| genitive | brandyn | brandyjen | |
| partitive | brandyä | brandyjä | |
| illative | brandyyn | brandyihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | brandy | brandyt | |
| accusative | nom. | brandy | brandyt |
| gen. | brandyn | ||
| genitive | brandyn | brandyjen | |
| partitive | brandyä | brandyjä | |
| inessive | brandyssä | brandyissä | |
| elative | brandystä | brandyistä | |
| illative | brandyyn | brandyihin | |
| adessive | brandyllä | brandyillä | |
| ablative | brandyltä | brandyiltä | |
| allative | brandylle | brandyille | |
| essive | brandynä | brandyinä | |
| translative | brandyksi | brandyiksi | |
| abessive | brandyttä | brandyittä | |
| instructive | — | brandyin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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See also
Further reading
- “brandy”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023
French
Pronunciation
Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (Switzerland (Valais)): (file) Audio (France (Saint-Étienne)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file)
Noun
brandy m (plural brandys)
Synonyms
Hyponyms
Further reading
- “brandy”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English brandy.
Noun
brandy m
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English brandy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbrɛn.dɘ/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɛndɘ
- Syllabification: bran‧dy
Noun
brandy f (indeclinable)
- brandy (alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice)
Further reading
- brandy in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- brandy in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- brandy in PWN's encyclopedia
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English brandy.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɾɐ̃.d͡ʒi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɾɐ̃.de/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈbɾɐ̃.di/
- Homophone: brande (Brazil)
Noun
brandy m (plural brandies)
- alternative form of brande
Further reading
- “brandy”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “brandy”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English brandy.
Noun
brandy n (plural brandy-uri)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | brandy | brandyul | brandy-uri | brandy-urile | |
| genitive-dative | brandy | brandyului | brandy-uri | brandy-urilor | |
| vocative | brandyule | brandy-urilor | |||
Slovak
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English brandy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /brendi/, [ˈbrendi]
- Rhymes: -endi
Noun
brandy n or f (indeclinable)
Further reading
- “brandy”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English brandy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɾandi/ [ˈbɾãn̪.d̪i]
- Rhymes: -andi
- Syllabification: bran‧dy
Noun
brandy m (plural brandys or brandies)
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
- “brandy”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
Swedish
Noun
brandy c
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | brandy | brandys |
| definite | brandyn | brandyns | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |