brav

Borrowed from Middle French brave, from Italian bravo, from Medieval Latin *bravus, from a conflation of Latin pravus with barbarus. Cognate with Welsh braf and Cornish brav.

brav (comparative bravoc'h, superlative bravañ, exclamative bravat)

1. beautiful

Borrowed from Middle French brave, from Italian bravo, from Medieval Latin *bravus, from a conflation of Latin pravus with barbarus. Cognate with Welsh braf and Breton brav.

brav (comparative braffa, superlative an braffa)

1. fine, grand

• “brav” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *borvъ.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbraf]

brav m inan

1. outdated word for small cattle like pigs, goats, sheep

• “brav”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “brav”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “brav”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

From French brave, from Italian bravo, from Latin barbarus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbʁɑˀw]

brav (neuter bravt, plural and definite singular attributive brave)

1. brave, bold, good, worthy

   Synonyms: gæv, tapper

2. (as an adverb) very; persistently

• “brav” in Den Danske Ordbog

• braf (obsolete)

From French brave.

• IPA^(key): /bʁaːf/

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brav (strong nominative masculine singular braver, comparative braver, superlative am bravsten)

1. (of people, especially children, and pets, otherwise obsolete) good, well-behaved or reliable, obedient

   Ich verspreche, brav zu sein.

   I promise to be good.

   • 1766 September 18, Donnstags-Nachrichten von Zürich, number 38:

     Es wird zum Verkauf angetragen: […] 13. Ein brafer Gewehr-Kasten; und so man wollte, könnte man auch andere Sachen darein thun.

     It is put to sale: […] 13. A reliable rifle-chest; and if desired one could put other things in, too.

2. (of people, especially adults, dated) honest, upright, upstanding
3. (of clothes, behaviour) conventional, conservative, dowdy
4. (obsolete) lively, quick, bold, nimble, daring, racy
5. (obsolete) bold, keen, courageous

• bravieren
• Bravade

• “brav” in Duden online
• “brav”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• Friedrich Kluge (1883), “brav”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
• “brav” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

From French brave.

• IPA^(key): /bɣav/

brav

1. brave

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[2], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 32

From Low German brav and French brave, from Italian bravo.

brav (masculine and feminine brav, neuter bravt, definite singular and plural brave, comparative bravere, indefinite superlative bravest, definite superlative braveste)

1. (literary) brave
2. (obsolete) good

• modig

• “brav” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “brav” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Borrowed from French brave, from Italian bravo.

• IPA^(key): /brav/
• Rhymes: -av

brav m or n (feminine singular bravă, masculine plural bravi, feminine/neuter plural brave)

1. brave, courageous

   Synonyms: viteaz, curajos, îndrăzneț

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *borvъ.

• IPA^(key): /brâːʋ/

brȃv m inan (Cyrillic spelling бра̑в)

1. male sheep or goat

   Synonyms: jarac, ovan

2. wether

• “brav”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *borvъ.

• IPA^(key): /brav/, [ˈbrau̯]
• Rhymes: -av

brav m animal (diminutive bravček)

1. barrow, castrated male pig

• bravčový
• bravčovina

• “brav”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026