brooch

See also: Brooch

English

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brooch

Wikipedia

Etymology

Variant of broach.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /bɹəʊtʃ/, (sometimes) /bɹuːt͡ʃ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(US) enPR: brōch, IPA^(key): /bɹoʊt͡ʃ/, /bɹut͡ʃ/^[1]^[2]^[3]
Rhymes: -əʊtʃ, -uːtʃ
Homophone: broach

Noun

brooch (plural brooches)

A piece of ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.
Synonym: breastpin

Hypernym: pin
A painting all of one colour, such as a sepia painting.

Derived terms

Translations

jewellery with pin

Afrikaans: borsspeld
Albanian: lulëse
Arabic: بْرُوش m (brūš), بْرُوش m (broš)
Armenian: բրոշ (hy) (broš), կրծքազարդ (hy) (krckʻazard), զարդասեղ (hy) (zardaseġ)
Belarusian: бро́шка f (bróška)
Bulgarian: бро́шка (bg) f (bróška)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 胸針／胸针 (zh) (xiōngzhēn), 別針／别针 (zh) (biézhēn), (on a tie) 領針／领针 (zh) (lǐngzhēn)
Crimean Tatar: tüyreviç
Czech: brož f, spona f, sponka f
Danish: broche c
Dutch: broche (nl) f, speldje (nl) n
Esperanto: broĉo
Faroese: bringuprýði n, brossja f
Finnish: rintaneula (fi)
French: broche (fr) f
Galician: broche m
Georgian: ბროში (broši)
German: Brosche (de) f
Greek: πόρπη (el) f (pórpi)
Ancient: πόρπη f (pórpē)
Hungarian: bross (hu), melltű (hu), brosstű (hu)
Ido: brocho (io)
Ingrian: broška
Italian: spilla (it) f
Japanese: ブローチ (ja) (burōchi)
Kazakh: танамоншақ (tanamonşaq)
Korean: 브로치 (beurochi)
Latin: fībula f
Luxembourgish: Brosch f
Macedonian: брош m (broš), брошка f (broška)
Malay: kerongsang
Maori: pine, toromoka
Norwegian: brosje
Occitan: bròca (oc) f
Polish: broszka (pl) f, brosza (pl) f
Portuguese: broche (pt) m
Russian: бро́шка (ru) f (bróška), брошь (ru) f (brošʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: брош m

Roman: broš (sh) m
Slovak: spona f, brošňa f
Slovene: broška (sl) f
Spanish: broche (es) m
Swedish: brosch (sv)
Tagalog: brotse
Thai: เข็มกลัด (kěm-glàt)
Turkish: broş (tr)
Ukrainian: бро́шка (uk) f (bróška)
Vietnamese: trâm (vi), trâm gài đầu, thoa (vi)

Verb

brooch (third-person singular simple present brooches, present participle brooching, simple past and past participle brooched)

(transitive) To adorn as with a brooch.
- c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, act 4, scene 15, lines 23–25:
  Not the imperious show / Of the full-fortuned Caesar ever shall / Be brooch'd with me.

References

^ “brooch”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
^ On Language; Broaching the Telltale Brooch, William Safire, New York Times
^ The Grammarphobia Blog: On brooch, broach, and broccoli

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From the noun Brooch (“fallow”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bʀoːχ/

Adjective

brooch (masculine broochen, neuter broocht, comparative méi brooch, superlative am broochsten)

fallow

Declension

declension of brooch

number and gender		singular			plural
number and gender		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		hien ass brooch	si ass brooch	et ass brooch	si si(nn) brooch
nominative / accusative	attributive and/or after determiner	broochen	brooch	broocht	brooch
nominative / accusative	independent without determiner	broochen	brooch	brooches	broocher
dative	after any declined word	broochen	broocher	broochen	broochen
dative	as first declined word	broochem	broocher	broochem	broochen

Derived terms

[1] “brooch”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

[2] On Language; Broaching the Telltale Brooch, William Safire, New York Times

[3] The Grammarphobia Blog: On brooch, broach, and broccoli

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