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brath

brath adjective: hasty; violent; fierce; strong. Also the obsolete form of breath.

Adjective

brath (comparative brather or more brath, superlative brathest or most brath)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Hasty; violent; fierce; strong.
    Synonyms:
    snell

Noun

brath (uncountable)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Violence; fierceness; anger; fury; fit of rage.

Also used as

brath is also the obsolete form of breath.

Synonyms of brath

Forms of brath

Adjective
comparativebrather
comparativemore brath
superlativebrathest
superlativemost brath
alternative Scotlandbreth
alternative Scotlandbreith
alternative Scotlandbrethe
alternative Scotlandbraith
alternative Scotlandberth
alternative Scotlandberthe
Noun
pluralbraths

Origin of brath

From Middle English brath, broth, braith, from Old Norse bráðr (“hasty, sudden”), from Proto-Germanic *brēþaz (“hot, in a hurry, rushed”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrē-, *bʰerē- (“steam, vapour”), from *bʰer- (“to seethe, toss about, cook”). Cognate with Icelandic bráður (“quick, hasty, excited”), Swedish bråd (“hasty, sudden, urgent”), Danish bråd (“hasty, sudden”). Related to breath, brew.

From Middle English brath, from Old Norse bráð (“haste”), from bráðr (“hasty”). See above.

Words formed from brath

Words that rhyme with brath

Questions about brath

What does brath mean?
Brath means hasty; violent; fierce; strong.
What part of speech is brath?
Brath can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near brath in the dictionary

  1. Bratca
  2. Bratcher
  3. Bratchers
  4. bratchet
  5. bratchets
  6. brath
  7. brathly
  8. Brathwaite
  9. Brathwaites
  10. Bratich
  11. Bratislava

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