brille

Borrowed from German Brille.

• enPR: brĭlə
• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɪlə/

brille (plural brilles)

1. A transparent scale that covers the eye of a snake and is periodically shed as part of the exuvia.

• eyecap
• spectacle

• Biller, biller, rebill

brille

1. plural of bril

brille

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of brillar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of brillar

From Middle High German brüelen, ultimately imitative. Cognate with German brüllen. Other languages that share the same verb and have the same meaning ("to cry") are Alemannic German brüele and Hunsrik brille.

brille

1. (Moselle Franconian / Hunsrückisch) to cry
   • 1874, Peter Joseph Rottmann, Gedichte in Hunsrücker Mundart, page 4:

     Tobich Mensch! watt brauchste so se brille? / ’diß nau ähmol annerscht nitt mei Wille, / Unn eich honn Der’t jo schunn lang gesaht:

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Borrowed from German Brille (from Middle High German berille) and German Low German brille (from Middle Low German barille, berille), both meaning "glasses" and ultimately from Latin bērillus, bēryllus (“beryl”), from Ancient Greek βήρυλλος (bḗrullos).

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥ʁɛlə]

brille c (singular definite brillen, plural indefinite briller)

1. glasses, spectacles

Normally used in the plural form.

• brilleabe
• brilleglas
• solbrille
• svømmebrille

• “brille” in Den Danske Ordbog

brille

1. inflection of briller:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• prile (Wiesemann spelling system)

From Middle High German brüelen, ultimately imitative.

Cognate with German brüllen. Other languages that share the same verb and have the same meaning ("to cry") are Alemannic German brüele and Central Franconian brille.

• IPA^(key): /ˈprilə/

brille

1. to cry

• (to weep): kreische

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “brille”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch

brille f

1. alternative form of breall (“clitoris”)

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “brille”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

brille f pl

1. feminine plural of brillo

brille f

1. nominative singular of brilles (rarely used)

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brille f (plural brilles)

1. (Jersey) brill

From German Low German brille.

brille f or m (definite singular brilla or brillen, indefinite plural briller, definite plural brillene)

1. glasses, spectacles

Mostly used in the plural form.

• snøbrille
• solbrille
• svømmebrille
• vernebrille

• “brille” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From German Low German brille.

brille f (definite singular brilla, indefinite plural briller, definite plural brillene)

1. glasses, spectacles

Mostly used in the plural form.

• snøbrille
• solbrille
• vernebrille

• “brille” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

brille

1. inflection of brillar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative