bros

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɹoʊz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɹəʊz/

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• Rhymes: -əʊz

bros

1. plural of bro

• BORs, ORBs, Sorb, bors, orbs, robs, sorb

From Old Cornish bros, from Proto-Celtic *brozdos (“point, tip”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰresdʰ-, from *bʰers- (“tip, point”). Cognate with Irish, Manx, and Scottish Gaelic brod, and Welsh brath.

bros m (plural brosow)

1. sting, prick, goad, sharp point

bros

1. third-person singular present indicative/future indicative of brosa
2. second-person singular imperative of brosa

From Middle Cornish bros, from Proto-Celtic *brutom, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-. Cognate with Breton broud, Welsh brwd.

bros (comparative brossa, superlative an brossa)

1. blazing, boiling; extremely hot

   Antonym: oor

bros m (plural brosow)

1. great heat
2. stew, thick broth

bros

1. third-person singular present indicative/future indicative of bryjyon (“to boil”)
2. second-person singular imperative of bryjyon (“to boil”)

• 2020, An Gerlyver Meur, ed. Dr Ken George (3rd edition, p.109)

• IPA^(key): /broːˀs/, [ˈb̥ʁoˀs]
• Homophones: brugs, brus

bros c

1. indefinite genitive singular of bro

From Middle Dutch brŏsch, variant with pre-cluster shortening of brôsch, broosch, whence modern broos. See this for more.

• IPA^(key): /brɔs/

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• Hyphenation: bros
• Rhymes: -ɔs

bros (comparative brosser, superlative meest bros or brost)

1. brittle, having a tendency to break into many small pieces, especially of something dry, crisp

• broos (less common in this sense)

• Afrikaans: bros

From brosa (“to smile”).

• IPA^(key): /pɹoːs/
• Rhymes: -oːs

bros n (genitive singular bros, plural bros)

1. smile

• smíl

From brosa (“to smile”).

• IPA^(key): /prɔːs/
• Rhymes: -ɔːs

bros n (genitive singular bross, nominative plural bros)

1. smile

• brosmildur
• grátbroslegur

From Dutch broche, from French broche, from Old French broche, from Vulgar Latin brocca, feminine substantive of Classical Latin broccus (“pointy-toothed or prominent-toothed”), ultimately from Gaulish.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbrɔs/ [ˈbrɔs]
• Rhymes: -ɔs
• Syllabification: bros

bros (plural bros-bros)

1. brooch, piece of women’s ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body

• kerongsang (Standard Malay)

• “bros”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

bros m pl

1. plural of bro

bros m pl

1. plural of bro

• IPA^(key): /bruːs/

bros

1. indefinite genitive singular of bro

• bors

From German Brust.^[1]

bros

1. (anatomy) chest