brun

• IPA^(key): /bʁuːˀn/, [b̥ʁuˀn], [b̥ʁo̝ˀn], [pʁuˀn], [pʁo̝ˀn]

From Old Norse brúnn.

brun

1. brown (having brown colour)
2. (as a noun) brown (colour)

• brune
• brunlig

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

brun

1. imperative of brune

• “brun” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /bɾuːn/

brun

1. Alternative spelling of bruun

From Middle French, from Old French brun (“polished, shiny, brown”).

• IPA^(key): /bʁœ̃/
• (France) IPA^(key): /bʁɛ̃/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /bʀœ̃˞/

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• Rhymes: -œ̃

brun (feminine brune, masculine plural bruns, feminine plural brunes)

1. brown (the color)

In France, this is usually for hair, using marron for other uses

• → Breton: brun
• Louisiana Creole French: brun
• → Romanian: brun

brun m (plural bruns, feminine brune)

1. brown (the color)
2. brown-haired person

• châtain
• marron

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

From Old Galician brũu (14th century), from Old French brun (“polished, shiny, brown”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾuŋ/

brun m (feminine singular bruna, masculine plural bruns, feminine plural brunas)

1. (archaic, of hair) brown
   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 133:

     Rey Calrros auia os cabelos brũus et a façe uermella, et avia o corpo moy bẽ feicto et de boo estado, et a catadura braua

     King Charles had brown hair and a reddish face, and his body was very well formed and in good shape, and his aspect was fierce

• bruneta
• bruño

• “bruno” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “bruu” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “bru_u” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “bru” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “brun” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.

• IPA^(key): /bɾuːn/

brun

1. Alternative spelling of bruun

brun

1. brown

From French brun (“brown”).

• IPA^(key): /bɾœ̃/

brun

1. brown color.

   Synonym: maron

brun

1. brown (color).

   Synonym: maron

• breun (Guernsey, Cotentin)

From Old French brun (“polished, shiny, brown”).

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brun m

1. (Jersey) brown

From Old Norse brúnn.

brun (masculine and feminine brun, neuter brunt, definite singular and plural brune, comparative brunere, indefinite superlative brunest, definite superlative bruneste)

1. brown (colour)

• “brun” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse brúnn.

brun (neuter brunt, definite singular and plural brune, comparative brunare, indefinite superlative brunast, definite superlative brunaste)

1. brown (colour)

• “brun” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *brūnaz.

• IPA^(key): /bruːn/

brūn

1. brown

• Middle English: broun, broyn, brown, brun, bruyn
  • English: brown
    • Bislama: braon
    • Tok Pisin: braun
    • → Welsh: brown
    • → Tongan: palauni
  • Scots: broon, broun

From Frankish *brūn (“brown, dark, shiny”), from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz (“brown”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbryn/

brun m (oblique and nominative feminine singular brune)

1. brown

• Middle French: brun
  • French: brun
    • → Breton: brun
    • Louisiana Creole French: brun
    • → Romanian: brun
• Norman: breun, brun
• → Galician: brun (archaic)

brun m (oblique plural bruns, nominative singular bruns, nominative plural brun)

1. brown-haired person

brun

1. brown

Borrowed from French brun.

• IPA^(key): /brun/

brun m or n (feminine singular brună, masculine plural bruni, feminine and neuter plural brune)

1. brown
2. brown or dark-haired

From Old Swedish brūn, from Old Norse brúnn.

• IPA^(key): /¹brʉːn/, [¹brʉ̟ːn̪]

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• Rhymes: -ʉːn

brun (comparative brunare, superlative brunast)

1. of the color brown

• bajsbrun
• chokladbrun

• → Elfdalian: brun
• → Estonian: pruun

• brunt (noun)

• brun in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• brun in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)