English

Noun

bris ‎(plural brises or brisses or britot)

1. (Judaism) Ritual male circumcision.
   • 1974, Phillip E. Goble, Everything You Need to Grow a Messianic Synagogue, page 22,

     This bath symbolizes both a spiritual mikveh (Jewish purification bath) and a spiritual bris (circumcision which makes one a Jew).

   • 1993, Miriam Rose, Miriam Zakon, The Baker Family Circus, Baker's Dozen (Omnibus), Volume 4, page 129,

     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.

   • 2009, Jeffrey Shandler, Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America, page 155,

     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.

   • 2013, Ted Falcon, David Blatner, Judaism For Dummies, 2nd Edition, page 109,

     However, if the baby is born on a Wednesday night, then the bris would occur on the following Thursday morning because Jewish days begin at sundown, and the bris is tradionally performed during the day. (Note that the Talmud (see Chapter 3) states if the baby's health is in question, then the bris must be postponed.)

Synonyms

• (circumcision): bris milah, brit milah

Derived terms

• bris periah

Translations

Anagrams

• RBIs
• ribs
• SBIR

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [prɪːs]
• Rhymes: -ɪːs

Noun

bris n ‎(genitive singular briss, nominative plural bris)

1. (anatomy) pancreas

Declension

Synonyms

• (pancreas): ^def. briskirtill

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish brissid, from Proto-Celtic *bris- ‎(“break”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰri-s-, from the root *bʰrey- ‎(“to cut, break”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʲɾʲɪʃ/

Verb

bris ‎(present analytic briseann, future analytic brisfidh, verbal noun briseadh, past participle briste)

1. (transitive, intransitive) break
   1. fracture
   2. sack, fire, dismiss
   3. (banking) cash, (of money, bills) change
   4. (of dam) burst
   5. (of government) overthrow

Conjugation

Noun

bris f ‎(genitive singular brise, nominative plural briseanna)

1. loss

   Ní maith liom do bhris.‎

   I’m sorry for your loss.

Declension

Mutation

References

• "bris" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “bris(s)id” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “brisim” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bʲrʲɪs̪]

Verb

brìs

1. third-person singular future tense of bristi.
2. third-person plural future tense of bristi.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German brise.

Noun

bris m ‎(definite singular brisen, indefinite plural briser, definite plural brisene)

1. (weather) a breeze

References

• “bris” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German brise.

Noun

bris m ‎(definite singular brisen, indefinite plural brisar, definite plural brisane)

1. (weather) a breeze

References

• “bris” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish brissid, from Proto-Celtic *bris ‎(“break”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhri-s-, from the root *bhréy- ‎(“to cut, break”).

Verb

bris ‎(past bhris, future brisidh, verbal noun briseadh, past participle briste)

1. break, smash
2. breach

References

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
• “bris(s)id” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brîːs/

Noun

brȋs m ‎(Cyrillic spelling бри̑с)

1. (medicine) swab, smear

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /briːs/

Noun

bris c

1. breeze

Declension

Usage notes

Plural form could also be brisar