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Brehm

Brehm proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun

Brehm (plural Brehms)

  1. A surname.

Forms of Brehm

pluralBrehms

Origin of Brehm

South German surname, from the noun Bremse (“gadfly”). Also from placenames such as Bremgarten or Bremkamp, where the first element is the archaic *brām (“bramble, broom”).

Questions about Brehm

What does Brehm mean?
Brehm means a surname.
What part of speech is Brehm?
Brehm is a proper noun.

Words near Brehm in the dictionary

  1. bregmata
  2. bregmatic
  3. bregmoid
  4. Bregret
  5. breh
  6. Brehm
  7. Brehm's ground parrot
  8. Brehm's ground parrots
  9. Brehm's tiger parrot
  10. Brehm's tiger parrots
  11. Brehmer

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