Luxembourgish

Noun

Broch m ‎(plural Bréch)

1. breakage
2. fracture
3. (mathematics) fraction
4. (pathology) hernia
5. quarry

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brɔx/

Proper noun

Broch

1. (with article, Doric) Fraserburgh, a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
2. (with article, Doric) Burghead, a town in Moray, Scotland.

English

Noun

broch ‎(plural brochs)

1. (archaeology) A type of Iron Age stone tower with hollow double-skinned walls found on Orkney and Shetland and parts of the Scottish mainland.
   • 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 268:

     Finella's carles builded the Kaimes, a long line of battlements under the hills, midway a tower that was older still, a broch from the days of the Pictish men […].

Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse borg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brɔx/

Noun

broch ‎(plural brochs)

1. broch
2. burgh, town

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *brox, from Proto-Celtic *brokkos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /broːχ/

Noun

broch m (plural brochod or brochion)

1. badger

Synonyms

• daearfochyn
• mochyn daear

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