bris
UK/bɹɪs/
bris noun: ritual male circumcision; the ceremony in which this is performed.
Noun
bris (plural brises or brisses or britot)
- Ritual male circumcision; the ceremony in which this is performed.
- The night before the bris, he invited nine of his little buddies to come and say kerias shema around the baby's bassinet. Mommy and Daddy, who flew in for the bris, were so touched, they kept dabbing their eyes and coughing.1993, Miriam Rose, Miriam Zakon, “The Baker Family Circus”, in Baker's Dozen, volume 4, Omnibus, page 129
- Although indigenous visual documentation of the bris was, until the advent of video, limited and often oblique, the ceremony is a longstanding fixture of Christian art.2009, Jeffrey Shandler, Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America, page 155
- Synonyms:
- bris milah, brit milah
Proper noun capitalized: Bris
Bris
Synonyms of bris
Forms of bris
| plural | brises |
|---|---|
| plural | brisses |
| plural | britot |
Origin of bris
Borrowed from Yiddish ברית (bris), from Hebrew בְּרִית (bərîṯ, “covenant”).
Words formed from bris
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Words that rhyme with bris
Questions about bris
- What does bris mean?
- Bris means ritual male circumcision; the ceremony in which this is performed.
- What part of speech is bris?
- Bris can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce bris?
- Bris is pronounced /bɹɪs/ (UK).
- What is the plural of bris?
- The plural of bris is brises.
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