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brame

/bɹeɪm/

brame noun: intense passion or emotion; vexation.

Noun

brame (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Intense passion or emotion; vexation.
    • […] hart-burning brame
      She ſhortly like a pyned ghoſt became.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 425

Proper noun capitalized: Brame

Brame (plural Brames)

  1. A surname.

brame meaning in Bengali

brame in Bengali

তীব্র আবেগ, অনুভূতি, বিরক্তি

Forms of brame

pluralBrames

Origin of brame

From Middle English brame, from Old French brame, bram (“a cry of pain or longing; a yammer”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *brammjan, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bramjaną (“to roar; bellow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem- (“to make a noise; hum; buzz”). Compare Old High German breman (“to roar”), Old English bremman (“to roar”). More at brim. Compare breme.

* As an English surname, spelling variant of Bream. * As a French surname, of Occitan origin, from Old French brame (“cry, howl”), itself a Germanic borrowing from Frankish *brammjan (“to roar”).

Questions about brame

What does brame mean?
Brame means intense passion or emotion; vexation.
What is brame in Bengali?
Brame in Bengali is তীব্র আবেগ, অনুভূতি, বিরক্তি. See Brame meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is brame?
Brame can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce brame?
Brame is pronounced /bɹeɪm/.

Words near brame in the dictionary

  1. bramblings
  2. brambly
  3. brambrack
  4. brambracks
  5. Bramcote
  6. brame
  7. Bramel
  8. Bramels
  9. Bramen
  10. Bramer
  11. Bramers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brame (page history and authors); Brame (page history and authors); brame (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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