brà

See also: bra, BRA, brá, Brá, and -bra

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish bró (“quern; millstone, grindstone”).

Noun

brà f (genitive singular bràthan, plural bràthntan)

  1. quern, handmill

References
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “1 bró” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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