brandy

Shortened form of brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn (“burnt wine”). Compare German Brantewein, Branntwein.

• enPR: brănʹdē, IPA^(key): /ˈbɹændi/

• Audio (RP)

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• Rhymes: -ændi

brandy (countable and uncountable, plural brandies)

1. (uncountable) An alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice.
2. (countable) Any variety of brandy.
3. (countable) A glass of brandy.

• → Abenaki: blandi
• → Basque: brandy
• → Cebuano: brandi
• → Chinese:

  Cantonese: 拔蘭地／拔兰地 (bat⁶ laan^4-1 dei^6-2), 白蘭地／白兰地 (baak⁶ laan^4-1 dei^6-2)

  Mandarin: 白蘭地／白兰地 (báilándì)

  Min Nan: 物蘭池／物兰池 (bu̍t-lân-tî)

• → Czech: brandy
• → Danish: brandy
• → Dutch: brandy
• → Esperanto: brando
• → Finnish: brandy
• → Galician: brandy
• → German: Brandy
• → Greek: μπράντι (bránti)
• → Hungarian: brandy
• → Icelandic: brandí
• → Irish: branda
• → Italian: brandy
• → Japanese: ブランデー (burandē)
• → Korean: 브랜디 (beuraendi)
• → Lower Sorbian: brandy
• → Norwegian: brandy
• → Occitan: brandy
• → Polish: brandy
• → Portuguese: brande, brandy
• → Romanian: brandy
• → Russian: бренди (brendi)
  • → Armenian: բրենդի (brendi)
• → Scottish Gaelic: branndaidh
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бренди

  Latin: brendi

• → Spanish: brandy
• → Swahili: brandi
• → Swedish: brandy
• → Tagalog: brandi
• → Thai: บรั่นดี (bràn-dii)
• → Turkish: brendi
• → Vietnamese: brandy, branđi
• → Welsh: brandi

brandy (third-person singular simple present brandies, present participle brandying, simple past and past participle brandied)

1. (transitive) To preserve, flavour, or mix with brandy.

• cognac

From English brandy, shortened from brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn. Doublet of brændevin.

brandy

1. brandy

From English brandy through Swedish brandy, the English word being a shortened from of brandywine, itself from Dutch brandewijn.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrændi/, [ˈbrændi]
• Homophone: brändi
• Syllabification^(key): bran‧dy

brandy

1. brandy (distilled spirit made of grapes)

• hedelmäviina

brandy m (plural brandys)

1. brandy

• “brandy”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English brandy.

brandy m

1. brandy

Borrowed from English brandy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɛn.dɨ/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɛndɨ
• Syllabification: bran‧dy

brandy f (indeclinable)

1. brandy (liquor)

• brandy in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• brandy in Polish dictionaries at PWN

brandy m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of brande

Unadapted borrowing from English brandy.

brandy n (plural brandy-uri)

1. brandy

brandy m (plural brandys or brandies)

1. brandy

• “brandy”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014