bre

bre

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Breton.

Possibly a short form of Proto-Indo-European *bʰrā́ter (“brother”) (a reflex of which is otherwise absent in Albanian), parallel to colloquialisms in other languages like English bro and Italian fra; but compare also Greek βρε (vre), ρε (re) and Macedonian бре (bre), море (more), Illyrian *bra with the same meaning, usually considered to derive from Greek μωρέ (moré, “stupid”, vocative). In the latter case, this word may be a doublet of more.

bre

1. A friendly exclamation to a person.

   Folni bre, burra!

   Speak, therefore, men!

2. An exclamation of surprise.

   Bre! Po ç'është kjo?

   Man! What is this?

• brez
• pra

bre

1. Alternative form of brewe

Of uncertain origin.

bre m (definite singular breen, indefinite plural breer, definite plural breene)

1. a glacier

• isbre

• breerosjon

From Old Norse breiða.

bre (imperative bre, present tense brer, passive bres, simple past bredde or bredte, past participle bredd or bredt, present participle breende)

1. (also reflexive) to spread

• breie (Nynorsk also)

• utbre

• “bre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “bre_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “bre_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

• brede

Of uncertain origin.

• IPA^(key): /breː/

bre m (definite singular breen, indefinite plural brear, definite plural breane)

1. a glacier

• isbre

• breerosjon

• “bre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بره‎ (bre), from Byzantine Greek βρε (bre), probably shortened from μωρέ (mōré, “man!”, literally “fool!”) (modern Greek μωρέ (moré)), a frozen vocative of Ancient Greek μωρός (mōrós, “stupid”).

• IPA^(key): /bre/
• Rhymes: -e

bre

1. hey, dude
2. wow

From Old Irish brí (“hill”), from Proto-Celtic *brixs, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰŕ̥ǵʰs. Distantly cognate with English borough.

bre m

1. (obsolete) hill
2. (obsolete) headland

From Ottoman Turkish بره‎ (bre), from Greek μωρέ (moré). Doublet of mȏre.

bre (Cyrillic spelling бре)

1. (Serbia, colloquial) used to insist on or emphasize something being said or commanded, often also stressing the speaker’s perception of evidentness of the thing insisted on: man, I say, I’m telling you, can’t you see
2. (Serbia, colloquial) used to insist on an answer to or emphasize a question: on earth, the hell

   Šta si bre to uradio!? ― What the hell did you just do!?

3. (Serbia, colloquial) used to intensify a preceding interjection

When marking a statement or question as insistent, bre is ordinarily found either immediately after the verb or at the end of the sentence. However, if an interjection or vocative is present, it can instead appear next to it, following an interjection and following or preceding a vocative. In wh-questions bre can also follow the interrogative pronoun.

• bwe

• Jasmina Milićević (2012) “Šta ustvari znači to bre? ‘What does this bre mean, actually?’ Defining Serbian interjection bre ≈ ‘I’m telling / asking you!’”
• Mirjana Mišković-Luković, Mirjana N. Dedaić, and Vladimir Polomac (2015) “The meaning and interpretation of the Serbian discourse marker BRE” in Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 87, pages 18–30

• IPA^(key): /breː/

bre (present brer, preterite bredde, supine brett, imperative bre)

1. (colloquial) Apocopic form of breda (to spread)

• bre in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bre in Svensk ordbok (SO)

• ber

From Ottoman Turkish بره‎ (bre), from Byzantine Greek βρε (bre) (compare modern Greek βρε (vre) and ρε (re), Serbo-Croatian bre, Albanian bre), probably shortened from μωρέ (mōré, “man!”, literally “fool!”) (modern Greek μωρέ (moré)), a frozen vocative of Ancient Greek μωρός (mōrós, “stupid”).

bre

1. hey
2. yo (slang)

• ey
• hey

• → Armenian: պռե (pṙe)
• → Ladino: bre
• → Romanian: bre