"brief" meaning in Afrikaans

See brief in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /brif/ Audio: LL-Q14196 (afr)-Anon1314-brief.wav Forms: briewe [plural]
Etymology: From Dutch brief, from Middle Dutch brief, from Old Dutch [Term?], from Latin brevis. Etymology templates: {{inh|af|nl|brief}} Dutch brief, {{inh|af|dum|brief}} Middle Dutch brief, {{inh|af|odt}} Old Dutch [Term?], {{der|af|la|brevis}} Latin brevis Head templates: {{head|af|noun|||plural|briewe|||||||||||||f2accel-form=p|f2request=1|f5accel-form=diminutive|head=}} brief (plural briewe), {{af-noun|briewe}} brief (plural briewe)
  1. letter (written message)
    Sense id: en-brief-af-noun-JbLk0dW0 Categories (other): Afrikaans entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for brief meaning in Afrikaans (1.7kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Afrikaans dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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