brant

• IPA^(key): /bɹænt/
• Rhymes: -ænt

Origin uncertain but similar to Old Norse brandgas (sheldrake).

brant (plural brants or brant)

1. Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla.

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From Old English brant. Cognate with Scots brent, Old Norse brantr, brattr (Faroese and Icelandic brattur, Danish brat, Norwegian Bokmål bratt, Swedish brant).

• brent

brant (comparative more brant, superlative most brant)

1. (dialectal) Steep, precipitous.
   • Ascham

     Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them.

2. (Scotland) smooth; unwrinkled
   • Burns

     Your bonnie brow was brent.

From Old Dutch *brand, from Proto-Germanic *brandaz.

brant m

1. fire
2. burning piece of wood
3. firewood, fuel
4. burn (mark on the skin or something else)

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• brand

• branden

• Dutch: brand
• Limburgish: brandj

• “brant (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “brant”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

• brente (transitive)

brant

1. intransitive simple past of brenne

• bront

Cognate with Old Norse brantr, brattr (Faroese and Icelandic brattur, Danish brat, Norwegian bratt, Swedish brant).

• IPA^(key): /brɑnt/

brant

1. tall, high, steep

• English: brant
• Scots: brent

brant m (oblique plural branz or brantz, nominative singular branz or brantz, nominative plural brant)

1. Alternative form of branc

brant ?

1. (Eastern dialect) precipice

• Old Norse language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia . Accessed August 5, 2005.

From Old Norse brantr, brattr. Cognate with Faroese and Icelandic brattur, Danish brat, Norwegian Bokmål bratt, and Old English brant, bront (English brant, brent, Scots brent).

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brant (comparative brantare, superlative brantast)

1. steep (near-vertical)

• branthet

• bråd

brant m

1. fire, blaze
2. gangrene
3. grain smut