brick

en-noun

brick (countable and uncountable, plural bricks)

⇒ Welsh: brics

From late Middle English brik, bryke, bricke, from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch bricke ("cracked or broken brick; tile-stone"; modern Dutch brik), ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *brekan (“to break”), whence also Old French briche and French brique (“brick”). Compare also German Low German Brickje (“small board, tray”). Related to break.

gloss

"cracked or broken brick; tile-stone"; modern Dutch <i class="Latn mention" lang="nl">brik</i>

cog

(informal) A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug.

The two of clubs was a complete brick on the river.

(poker slang) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.


brick

en-verb

brick (third-person singular simple present bricks, present participle bricking, simple past and past participle bricked)

bricks (present singular third-person)
bricking (participle present)
bricked (participle past)
bricked (past)

unbrick

technology, slang: revert a device to the operational state

The plant, which is here described, for bricking fine ores and flue dust, was designed and the plans produced in the engineering department of the Selby smelter.

1904 September 15, James C. Bennett, Walter Renton Ingalls (editor), Lead Smelting and Refining with Some Notes on Lead Mining (1906), The Engineering and Mining Journal, page 66

My VCR was bricked during the lightning storm.

(transitive, computing slang) To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick.


brickie

(British, New Zealand, Australia, slang) A bricklayer.


bricks and mortar

brick and mortar
brick and mortar#English


brick red

Of a warm brownish-red colour similar to that of red clay bricks.


red brick university

en-noun

red brick university (plural red brick universities)

From the memoir Redbrick University by Edgar Allison Peers, whose titular university is based on the University of Liverpool. Liverpool, like most urban universities of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, extensively uses red clay bricks in its architecture.

It took a while before he told me his background: a happy childhood; two degrees—a bachelor's from a red brick university and an Oxbridge PhD; a relatively high-flying job in academia that he liked rather than loved.

2006 March 31, Adrian Turpin, “Not tonight darling, I'm online”, in Financial Times, retrieved 2006-03-31:

(British) Any traditional British university other than Oxford or Cambridge, especially one founded in the Victorian age in a large city.

Edgar Allison Peers
University of Liverpool
red brick university


redbrick

red brick university
red brick university#English


like a cat on a hot tin roof

A simile developed from the behaviour of a cat observed on a hot tin roof.

(simile, colloquial, chiefly US) Jumpy, nervous.


brickwork

A structure, or portion of a structure, that is made out of bricks.

The quality of the construction of a brick structure.


brickfielder

From the location name Brickfield Hill, after the hill in Surry Hills (now in inner Sydney) from the direction of which a hot wind blew into Sydney in its early days. The term spread to Melbourne by circa 1850, and to central Australia by circa 1900, then to Western Australia.

Returning home, he discovers that the house is full of sand ; that the brickfielder has even insinuated itself between the leaves of his books ; that at dinner he will probably find that his favourite dish has been spoiled by the brickfielder.

1845, J. O. Balfour, A Sketch of New South Wales, page 5:

A southerly buster would blow — a Sydney brickfielder;[…].

1914, Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Harper's Magazine, volume 129, page 508:

Then he had to concentrate his efforts on a smooth descent through the swirling gusts of the brickfielder.

1986, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, volume 106, numbers 1-4, page 60:

Hot spells many days in duration, with temperatures daily exceeding 100°F. (38°C), often take place while the brickfielder blows.

2005, Ajay Kumar Ghosh, Dictionary of Geography, page 45:

(Australia) A hot, dry, dusty wind of southern or central Australia.


brick up

en-verb

brick up (third-person singular simple present bricks up, present participle bricking up, simple past and past participle bricked up)

bricks up (present singular third-person)
bricking up (participle present)
bricked up (participle past)
bricked up (past)

The chest was bricked up into the wall.

We've encountered servers bricked up into secret rooms many times, but never a UPS hidden behind a locked door.

2020 December 11, Richard Speed, “Oh, no one knows what goes on behind locked doors... so don't leave your UPS in there”, in The Register, archived from the original on 2022-01-20:

(transitive) To trap or seal in a closed space using bricks.


shit a brick

shit a brick (third-person singular simple present shits a brick, present participle shitting a brick, simple past shit a brick or shat a brick or shitted a brick, past participle shit a brick or shitted a brick or shat a brick)

shits a brick (present singular third-person)
shitting a brick (participle present)
shit a brick (past)
shat a brick (past)
shitted a brick (past)
shit a brick (participle past)
shitted a brick (participle past)
shat a brick (participle past)

If our boss finds out we did this and didn't tell him, he's gonna shit a brick.

She was thunderstruck when she came face to face with the tomb of Sir Isaac Newton. At her age, and in that same place, my big brother Bernie, a born scientist who can't draw or paint for sour apples, would have shit an even bigger brick.

(idiomatic, vulgar) To react strongly or excessively, especially in anger, fear, or astonishment.


tijolo

Borrowed from Spanish tejuelo, from tejo.


brick shithouse

en-noun

brick shithouse (plural brick shithouses)

Part Polynesian, part Melanesian, part brick shithouse. He crossed the gym with the proprietary waddle of a troll in its lair, […]

2000, Shane Maloney, Nice Try: A Murray Whelan Mystery, page 75:

He felt like he'd just slammed a brick shithouse.

2001, J. R. Parker, Winter Kill, page 9:

She looked really fine, a bonafide brick shithouse.

2002, Joseph Geren, Chastity's Virtue: A Michael Marcus Mystery, page 50:

(slang, vulgar) A person with a well-developed body.


thick as a brick

So you ride yourselves over the fields
And you make all your animal deals
And your wise men don't know how it feels
To be thick as a brick.

1972, “Thick As A Brick”, Ian Anderson (lyrics), performed by Jethro Tull:

(simile) Very stupid; slow to learn or understand.

愚不可及

so thick that no one else in the world can compare


hit the bricks

en-verb

hit the bricks (third-person singular simple present hits the bricks, present participle hitting the bricks, simple past and past participle hit the bricks)

hits the bricks (present singular third-person)
hitting the bricks (participle present)
hit the bricks (participle past)
hit the bricks (past)

When Harry Bridges told his boys to hit the bricks, Charley was always up front in the longshoremen's wall of flesh. His picketing record in the bloody dockside strife of 1934 and in the all-out strike of 1937 was perfect.

1947 March 31, “National Affairs: Waterfront Conchie”, in Time:

Queens bus driver Mousie Garcia, 30, said she doesn't want a strike but will hit the bricks if the MTA doesn't come through with no-strings-attached raises.

2002 December 16, Pete Donohue et al., “MTA and union push against strike deadline”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 2009-06-24:

(idiomatic) To participate in a workplace strike or other job action; to participate in a public protest, especially one involving picketing.

take to the bricks

participate in a job action or public protest


like a ton of bricks

The Defendant then came down on me like a ton of bricks, as my eye will prove.

Senator Breaux: Did you see this coming on gradually, or did it hit you all of a sudden like a ton of bricks?

2000, United States Senate, The Boomers are Coming: The Challenge of Family Caregiving : Hearing Before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, Monroe, LA, October 11, 1999, →ISBN, page 34:

“I still feel so bad about that. I fell for you like a ton of bricks when I first saw you onstage with the band.[…]"

2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

(simile, colloquial) Very strongly; very heavily; often unexpectedly.


brick in

brick in (third-person singular simple present bricks in, present participle bricking in, simple past and past participle bricked in)

bricks in (present singular third-person)
bricking in (participle present)
bricked in (participle past)
bricked in (past)

(transitive, idiomatic, of a passage or of something that would pass through it) To enclose with bricks.


drop a brick

drop a brick (third-person singular simple present drops a brick, present participle dropping a brick, simple past and past participle dropped a brick)

drops a brick (present singular third-person)
dropping a brick (participle present)
dropped a brick (participle past)
dropped a brick (past)

It was on one of those Tuesdays that I dropped a brick, the memory of which still haunts me after more than forty years. A very loquacious lady, whom I had never seen before, appeared to be talking through her nose. “Don't you think,” I said to one of my neighbours, by way of starting conversation, “that lady would be well advised to sound her trumpet less often?”
“You bet I do! I've not been able to get used to it these thirty years.”
And as I stared at him, horror-struck:
“Yes. I'm her husband.”

1978, Ambroise Vollard, translated by Violet M. MacDonald, Recollections of a Picture Dealer, Dover Publications, published 2003, page 28:

I remember dropping a brick when I first met her. As she at once started calling me 'Harry' in the way Americans are apt to do, the surname becoming immediately superfluous. I ventured to ask her what her Christian name was.
‘I'm not a Christian, Harry.’

1998, Harry Brewster, A Cosmopolite's Journey: Episodes from a Life, page 216:

(UK, idiomatic) To commit a faux pas, especially in speech, such as by tactlessly speaking of a subject that should not be mentioned.


brick it

brick it (third-person singular simple present bricks it, present participle bricking it, simple past and past participle bricked it)

bricks it (present singular third-person)
bricking it (participle present)
bricked it (participle past)
bricked it (past)

The first time I performed in public I was bricking it.

I always replied with a casual and breezy ‘Iʼll be fine,’ but deep down I was bricking it.

2020, Louise Curtis with Sarah Johnson, A Nurseʼs Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis, Pan Books, page 70:

I felt in control, but regardless, when the snow started coming over and it got dark/harder to breathe, I was bricking it and I thought I might die.

2022 July 11, Harry Taylor, quoting Harry Shimmin, “British tourists survive avalanche in Tian Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan”, in The Guardian:

(slang, vulgar) To be scared; to be terrified.


lath brick

A long, slender brick used in making the floor on which malt is placed in the drying kiln.


Dutch clinker

A very hard, narrow, yellowish brick made in Holland, used to pave stables etc.


brick in one's hat

US, circa 1846. Presumably due to staggering walk when drunk; compare top-heavy with drink.

Seated at the same table with our Mr.—, was a gentleman, who, to use the current phrase, ‘had a brick in his hat.’

1846 November 5, “Magnelia Pedestria; or, Leaves from a Pedestrian’s Note Book”, in The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 12, number 1, page 33:

Her husband had taken to the tavern, and often came home very late, “with a brick in his hat,” as Sally expressed it.

1849, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh, pages 177–178:

(New England, obsolete, idiomatic) Drunkenness.


make bricks without straw

make bricks without straw (third-person singular simple present makes bricks without straw, present participle making bricks without straw, simple past and past participle made bricks without straw)

makes bricks without straw (present singular third-person)
making bricks without straw (participle present)
made bricks without straw (participle past)
made bricks without straw (past)

From Exodus 5:18: "Now get to work. You will not be given any straw, yet you must produce your full quota of bricks." (NIV).

The founders did more than "make bricks without straw; they dreamed of a great cathedral and laid the foundations for it.

1938, Jonas A. Jonasson, Bricks without straw: the story of Linfield College, page 168:

To call on the owners of little farms, the tradesmen, labourers and sailors to pay their proportion of a [£20,000] tax, when perhaps there is not half that sum in circulation is something harder than being forced to make bricks without straw,” he wrote; "it is to make them without clay."

2008, Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution, →ISBN, page 30:

The problems that we may find ourselves confronted with may be similar to a make bricks without straw condition, imposed by not only others but in large measure ourselves.

2014, Peter F. Serra, Snapshots of Inspiration, →ISBN, page 170:

(idiomatic) To accomplish a task without the proper materials or under unreasonable conditions; to do the impossible.

you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs


ציגל

Inherited from Middle High German ziegel, from Old High German ziegal, ziagala, ziagal, from Proto-West Germanic *tigulā. Compare German Ziegel.


ઈંટ

head

ઈંટ • (ī̃ṭ) f

gu-noun

ઈંટ • (ī̃ṭ) f

Etymology tree
Sanskrit इष्टा (iṣṭā)
Prakrit 𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (iṭṭā)
Middle Gujarati ईट
Gujarati ઈંટ (ī̃ṭa)
Inherited from Middle Gujarati ईट, from Prakrit ઇટ્ટા (iṭṭā), from Sanskrit ઇષ્ટા (iṣṭā), related to ઇષ્ટકા (íṣṭakā, “brick”).
Cognates
Cognate with Bengali ইট (iṭ), Hindustani اِین٘ٹ / ईंट (ī̃ṭ), Marathi वीट (vīṭ), Odia ଇଟା (iṭā), and Punjabi ਇੱਟ / اِٹّ (īṭṭ).

ref

Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “íṣṭakā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press: “G. ĩṭⁱ f.”

Central Hindi Directorate
gu:ઈંટ
gu:ગુજરાતીલૅક્સિકન.કોમ
hi:केन्द्रीय हिन्दी निदेशालय


Bricktown

A neighborhood of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.


ইটা

ita (romanization)
ইটা (absolutive indefinite)
ইটাই (absolutive definite numeral singular)
ইটাকেইই (absolutive definite numeral plural)
ইটাবোৰ (absolutive definite informal non-numeral plural)
ইটাবিলাক (absolutive definite non-numeral plural)
ইটাটুকুৰা (ergative indefinite)
ইটাইই (definite ergative numeral singular)
ইটাকেইইটুকুৰা (definite ergative numeral plural)
ইটাবোৰে (definite ergative informal non-numeral plural)
ইটাবিলাকে (definite ergative non-numeral plural)
ইটাক (accusative indefinite)
ইটাইক (accusative definite numeral singular)
ইটাকেইইক (accusative definite numeral plural)
ইটাবোৰক (accusative definite informal non-numeral plural)
ইটাবিলাকক (accusative definite non-numeral plural)
ইটাৰ (genitive indefinite)
ইটাইৰ (definite genitive numeral singular)
ইটাকেইইৰ (definite genitive numeral plural)
ইটাবোৰৰ (definite genitive informal non-numeral plural)
ইটাবিলাকৰ (definite genitive non-numeral plural)
ইটালৈ (dative indefinite)
ইটাইলৈ (dative definite numeral singular)
ইটাকেইইলৈ (dative definite numeral plural)
ইটাবোৰলৈ (dative definite informal non-numeral plural)
ইটাবিলাকলৈ (dative definite non-numeral plural)
ইটাৰে (indefinite instrumental)
ইটাইৰে (definite instrumental numeral singular)
ইটাকেইইৰে (definite instrumental numeral plural)
ইটাবোৰেৰে (definite informal instrumental non-numeral plural)
ইটাবিলাকেৰে (definite instrumental non-numeral plural)
ইটাত (indefinite locative)
ইটাইত (definite locative numeral singular)
ইটাকেইইত (definite locative numeral plural)
ইটাবোৰত (definite informal locative non-numeral plural)
ইটাবিলাকত (definite locative non-numeral plural)
ইটা (absolutive indefinite)
ইটাখিনি (absolutive definite specific)
ইটাবোৰ (absolutive definite informal unspecified)
ইটাবিলাক (absolutive definite unspecified)
ইটাসমূহ (absolutive definite formal unspecified)
ইটাই (ergative indefinite)
ইটাখিনিয়ে (definite ergative specific)
ইটাবোৰে (definite ergative informal unspecified)
ইটাবিলাকে (definite ergative unspecified)
ইটাসমূহে (definite ergative formal unspecified)
ইটাক (accusative indefinite)
ইটাখিনিক (accusative definite specific)
ইটাবোৰক (accusative definite informal unspecified)
ইটাবিলাকক (accusative definite unspecified)
ইটাসমূহক (accusative definite formal unspecified)
ইটাৰ (genitive indefinite)
ইটাখিনিৰ (definite genitive specific)
ইটাবোৰৰ (definite genitive informal unspecified)
ইটাবিলাকৰ (definite genitive unspecified)
ইটাসমূহৰ (definite formal genitive unspecified)
ইটালৈ (dative indefinite)
ইটাখিনিলৈ (dative definite specific)
ইটাবোৰলৈ (dative definite informal unspecified)
ইটাবিলাকলৈ (dative definite unspecified)
ইটাসমূহলৈ (dative definite formal unspecified)
ইটাৰে (indefinite instrumental)
ইটাখিনিৰে (definite instrumental specific)
ইটাবোৰেৰে (definite informal instrumental unspecified)
ইটাবিলাকেৰে (definite instrumental unspecified)
ইটাসমূহেৰে (definite formal instrumental unspecified)
ইটাত (indefinite locative)
ইটাখিনিত (definite locative specific)
ইটাবোৰত (definite informal locative unspecified)
ইটাবিলাকত (definite locative unspecified)
ইটাসমূহত (definite formal locative unspecified)

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀕𑀸 (iṭṭagā), 𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸𑀕𑀸 (iṭṭāgā), from Sanskrit ইষ্টকা (íṣṭakā).
Cognates
Cognate with Odia ଇଟା (iṭā), Bengali ইট (iṭ), Hindustani اِین٘ٹ / ईंट (ī̃ṭ).

Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “íṣṭakā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 72: “A. iṭā”

ৰংঘৰ বনাওঁতে ইটা জোৰা লগাবলৈ মাটিমাহ, হাঁহৰ কণী, বৰা চাউল আদি সামগ্ৰীৰে কৰাল তৈয়াৰ কৰা হৈছিল।

To attach the bricks, glue was made with urad beans, duck eggs and sticky rice while making the Rongghor.

roṅghor bonaü̃te ita züra logaboloi matimah, hãhor koni, bora saul adi xamogrire koral toiar kora hoisil.

Gauhati University
Guwahati
Hindustani language


इट्ट

Etymology tree
Sanskrit इष्टा (iṣṭā)
Prakrit 𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (iṭṭā)
Dogri इट्ट (iṭṭ)
Inherited from Prakrit इट्टा (iṭṭā), from Sanskrit इष्टा (iṣṭā), related to इष्टका (íṣṭakā, “brick”).
Cognates
Cognate with Punjabi ਇੱਟ (iṭṭa), Hindi ईंट (ī̃ṭ).

ref

Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “íṣṭakā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 72


sandstock

A kind of brick, originally made with sand


ଇଟା

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀕𑀸 (iṭṭagā), from Sanskrit इष्टका (iṣṭakā).


ইট

Etymology tree
Sanskrit इष्टा (iṣṭā)
Prakrit 𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (iṭṭā)
Middle Bengali ইটা (iṭa)
Bengali ইট (iṭ)
Inherited from Middle Bengali ইটা (iṭa), from Prakrit 𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (iṭṭā), from Sanskrit ইষ্টা (iṣṭā), related to ইষ্টকা (íṣṭakā, “brick”).

ref

Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “íṣṭakā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 72: “B. iṭ, ĩṭ”


take to the bricks

en-verb

take to the bricks (third-person singular simple present takes to the bricks, present participle taking to the bricks, simple past took to the bricks, past participle taken to the bricks)

takes to the bricks (present singular third-person)
taking to the bricks (participle present)
took to the bricks (past)
taken to the bricks (participle past)

Alternative form of hit the bricks (“participate in a strike”)


talk to a brick wall

talk to a brick wall (third-person singular simple present talks to a brick wall, present participle talking to a brick wall, simple past and past participle talked to a brick wall)

talks to a brick wall (present singular third-person)
talking to a brick wall (participle present)
talked to a brick wall (participle past)
talked to a brick wall (past)

(idiomatic, colloquial) To be completely ignored or disregarded by someone, as if speaking to an inanimate object.

对牛弹琴 (duìniútánqín, literally “to play the guqin to a cow”)

kaikua kuuroille korville

subject is the thing that is ignored or disregarded


dumb as a brick

thick as a brick
thick as a brick#English


korèll

From Venetian cuarèl, quarel, from Vulgar Latin *quadrellus, from Latin quadrus (“square”). Ultimately a doublet of viare (“four”).


თუღლა

tuğla (romanization)
Artasheni (romanization)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طوغله (tuğla), ultimately derived from Latin tēgula (“a tile”).

bor+

თუღლა მსკვა ვარეწუბაზგასი ეწვოლაჲ

If I don't place the brick well underneath, it will fall to the bottom


ציגעלניע

yi-noun

ציגעלניע • (tsigelnye) f, plural ציגעלניעס (tsigelnyes)

tsigelnye (romanization)
tsigelnyes (romanization)

Most likely borrowed from Polish cegielnia. By surface analysis, ציגל (tsigl) + ־ניע (-nye).


цэгла

be-noun

цэ́гла • (céhla) f inan (genitive цэ́глы, uncountable, relational adjective цагля́ны)

цэ́гла (canonical)
céhla (romanization)
цэ́глы (genitive)
цагля́ны (adjective relational)
цэ́гла (nominative singular)
цэ́глы (genitive singular)
цэ́гле (dative singular)
цэ́глу (accusative singular)
цэ́глай (instrumental singular)
цэ́глаю (instrumental singular)
цэ́гле (locative singular)

Borrowed from Polish cegła, ultimately from Middle High German ziegel. Compare modern German Ziegel, Ukrainian це́гла (céhla), Yiddish ציגל (tsigl).

Да берагу яще далёка, але ўжо відаць горы, не высокіе, не такіе, як на Каўказе, якіесь рудые, як бы с цэґлы.

1911, А. Новіч, У дому лепей, Пецярбург: Загляне сонцэ и ў нашэ ваконцэ, page 12:

It's still too far from the shore, but the mountains are already visible, they aren't high, not the same as in the Caucasus, somewhat brownish, as if made of brick.

Da bjerahu jašče daljóka, alje ŭžo vidacʹ hóry, nje vysókije, nje takije, jak na Kaŭkazje, jakijesʹ rudyje, jak by s cegly.


цагляны

be-adj

цагля́ны • (cahljány)

цагля́ны (canonical)
cahljány (romanization)
цагля́ны (masculine nominative)
цагля́нае (neuter nominative)
цагля́ная (feminine nominative)
цагля́ныя (nominative plural)
цагля́нага (genitive masculine neuter)
цагля́най (feminine genitive)
цагля́ных (genitive plural)
цагля́наму (dative masculine neuter)
цагля́най (dative feminine)
цагля́ным (dative plural)
цагля́нага (accusative animate masculine)
цагля́нае (accusative neuter)
цагля́ную (accusative feminine)
цагля́ных (accusative animate plural)
цагля́ны (accusative inanimate masculine)
цагля́ныя (accusative inanimate plural)
цагля́ным (instrumental masculine neuter)
цагля́най (feminine instrumental)
цагля́наю (feminine instrumental)
цагля́нымі (instrumental plural)
цагля́ным (locative masculine neuter)
цагля́най (feminine locative)
цагля́ных (locative plural)

Be-цагляны.ogg

By surface analysis, цэ́гла (céhla) + -я́ны (-jány). Compare Polish ceglany, Ukrainian цегляни́й (cehljanýj).

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цагля́ная сцяна́


इट

* इटाई (iṭāī)
Etymology tree
Sanskrit इष्टा (iṣṭā)
Prakrit 𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (iṭṭā)
Ahirani इट (iṭ)
Inherited from Prakrit इट्टा (iṭṭā), from Sanskrit इष्टा (iṣṭā), related to इष्टका (íṣṭakā, “brick”).


𑘃𑘘

Marathi: vīṭ

Devanagari script: वीट

Modi script: 𑘪𑘲𑘘

Varhadi: īṭ

Devanagari script: ईट

Modi script: 𑘃𑘘

→? Dhivehi: އީޓު (īṭu)

Inherited from Maharastri Prakrit 𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (iṭṭā), from Sanskrit 𑘂𑘬𑘿𑘘𑘰 (iṣṭā), related to 𑘂𑘬𑘿𑘘𑘎𑘰 (íṣṭakā).

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𑘓𑘝𑘳𑘨𑘿𑘥𑘳𑘕 𑘦𑘴𑘨𑘿𑘝𑘲 𑘟𑘹𑘏𑘲𑘧𑘩𑘲 𑘟𑘵𑘬𑘿𑘘𑘲 𑙁
𑘢𑘳𑘽𑘚𑘩𑘲𑘎𑘹𑘽 𑘃𑘘 𑘘𑘰𑘎𑘲𑘧𑘹𑘩𑘲 𑙂
caturbhuja mūrtī dekhīyalī dṛṣṭī .

c. 1270 – 1350, Nāmadeva, Śrīnāmadeva Gāthā (Dāṇḍekar edition) 385.8

𑘥𑘘𑘦𑘳𑘎𑘿𑘬𑘎𑘨𑘳𑘡𑘲 𑘁𑘪𑘠𑘲𑘽 𑘥𑘎𑘿𑘝𑘲𑘕𑘡𑘹𑘽 𑘃𑘘𑘰 𑘪𑘰𑘮𑘰𑘝𑘹𑘽 𑘀𑘭𑘝𑘲 :

1278, Mhāïmbhaṭa, Līḷācaritra, "Uttarārdha." (Kolte edition) 70

bhaṭamukṣakarunī āvadhīṃ bhaktījaneṃ īṭā vāhāteṃ asatī :


𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸

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<i class="Deva mention" lang="pra">इट्टा</i>

<i class="Gujr mention" lang="pra">ઇટ્ટા</i>

<i class="Knda mention" lang="pra">ಇಟ್ಟಾ</i>

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𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (iṭṭā) f (Devanagari इट्टा, Gujarati ઇટ્ટા, Kannada ಇಟ್ಟಾ) (Māhārāṣṭrī, Ardhamāgadhī, Jain Māhārāṣṭrī)

iṭṭā (romanization)
इट्टा (Devanagari)
ઇટ્ટા (Gujarati)
ಇಟ್ಟಾ (Kannada)
Māhārāṣṭrī (romanization)
Ardhamāgadhī (romanization)
Jain Māhārāṣṭrī (romanization)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (nominative singular)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸𑀑 (nominative plural)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸𑀉 (nominative plural)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (nominative plural)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀁 (accusative singular)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸𑀑 (accusative plural)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸𑀉 (accusative plural)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (accusative plural)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸𑀏 (instrumental singular)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸𑀇 (instrumental singular)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸𑀅 (instrumental singular)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸𑀳𑀺 (instrumental plural)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸𑀳𑀺𑀁 (instrumental plural)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸𑀑 (ablative singular)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸𑀉 (ablative singular)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸𑀳𑀺𑀁𑀢𑁄 (ablative plural)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸𑀏 (genitive singular)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸𑀇 (genitive singular)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸𑀅 (genitive singular)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸𑀡 (genitive plural)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸𑀡𑀁 (genitive plural)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸𑀏 (locative singular)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸𑀇 (locative singular)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸𑀅 (locative singular)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸𑀲𑀼 (locative plural)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸𑀲𑀼𑀁 (locative plural)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑁂 (singular vocative)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (singular vocative)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸𑀑 (plural vocative)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸𑀉 (plural vocative)
𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (plural vocative)

Central Indo-Aryan:

Old Braj: ईट (īṭ), ईंट (ī̃ṭ)

Old Hindi: ईंट (īṃṭa)

Bundeli: ईंट (ī̃ṭ)

Haryanvi: ईंट (ī̃ṭ)

Kannauji: ईंट

Middle Hindi: اینٹ (aynṭ /ī̃ṭ/)

Hindustani: ī̃ṭ

Hindi: ईंट

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Urdu: اِین٘ٹ

Urdu: اِین٘ٹ

→? Dhivehi: އީޓު (īṭu)

Eastern Indo-Aryan:

Chakma: 𑄄𑄑𑄴 (iṭ), 𑄃𑄨𑄑𑄴 (iṭ)

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Middle Bengali: ইটা (iṭa)
Bengali: ইট (iṭ)

Magahi:

Devanagari script: ईंट (īṇṭ)

Kaithi script: 𑂆𑂁𑂗 (īṇṭ)

Insular Indo-Aryan:

>? Sinhalese: උළු (uḷu)

Northern Indo-Aryan:

Central Pahari:

Garhwali: ईंट (ī̃ṭ)

Kumaoni: ईंट

Eastern Pahari:

Nepali: इँट (ĩṭ)

Western Pahari:

Dogri: iṭṭ

Devanagari script: इट्ट

Dogra script: 𑠂𑠔𑠹𑠔

Northwestern Indo-Aryan:

Punjabic:

Old Punjabi: ਇਟ (iṭa /iṭṭa/)

Punjabi:

Gurmukhi script: ਇੱਟ (iṭṭa)

Shahmukhi script: اِٹّ (īṭṭ)

Saraiki:

Devanagari script: इट (iṭ)

Multani script: 𑊁𑊐 (iṭ)

Shahmukhi script: اِٹ (īṭ)

Sindhi:

Kachchi: iṭ

Gujarati script: ઇટ

Khudawadi script: 𑊲𑋆

Southern Indo-Aryan:

Konkani:

Devanagari script: वीट (vīṭ)

Latin script: vitt

Kannada script: ವೀಟ್ (vīṭ)

Old Marathi:

Devanagari script: इट (iṭa)

Modi script: 𑘃𑘘 (īṭa)
Marathi: vīṭ
Devanagari script: वीट
Modi script: 𑘪𑘲𑘘
Varhadi: īṭ
Devanagari script: ईट
Modi script: 𑘃𑘘
→? Dhivehi: އީޓު (īṭu)

Western Indo-Aryan:

Gujaratic:

Middle Gujarati: ईट
Gujarati: ઈંટ (ī̃ṭ)
→? Dhivehi: އީޓު (īṭu)

Rajasthani:

Ahirani: इट (iṭ)

Dhundhari: ईंट (ī̃ṭ)

Gojri: اِٹ (iṭ)

Malvi: ईंट (ī̃ṭ)

Marwari:

Devanagari script: ईंट (ī̃ṭ)

Mahajani script: 𑅑𑅧𑅞 (inṭ /ī̃ṭ/)

Mewati: ईंट (ī̃ṭ)

Mewari: ईंट (ī̃ṭ)

Etymology tree
Sanskrit इष्टा (iṣṭā)
Prakrit 𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (iṭṭā)
Inherited from Sanskrit 𑀇𑀱𑁆𑀝𑀸 (iṣṭā), related to 𑀇𑀱𑁆𑀝𑀓𑀸 (íṣṭakā, “brick”).

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Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “íṣṭakā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 72: “Pk. iṭṭagā-, iṭṭā- f.”

𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸-𑀘𑀼𑀡𑁆𑀡𑀁-𑀯 𑀓𑀺𑀭𑀦𑁆𑀢𑀫𑀼𑀤𑁆𑀥𑀫𑀼𑀭𑀼𑀡𑀸𑀯𑀅𑀯𑀁 𑀧𑀭𑀺𑀧𑁆𑀨𑀼𑀭𑀇 .
𑀭𑀯𑀺𑀡𑁄 𑀕𑀅𑀡𑀸𑀲𑀺-𑀡𑀺𑀲𑀸𑀡-𑀘𑀓𑁆𑀓-𑀯𑀮𑀑𑀯𑀁 𑀩𑀺𑀁𑀩𑀁 𑁈𑁧𑁧𑁮𑁨𑁈
iṭṭā-cuṇṇaṃ-va kirantamuddhamuruṇāvaavaṃ paripphuraï .
raviṇo gaaṇāsi-ṇisāṇa-cakka-valaovaṃ biṃbaṃ .1182.

c. 8th century CE, Vākpati-rāja, Gauḍavadha 1182

1182. The sun is figuratively imagined to the whetting wheel of the bluish sword in the form of the blue sky.
As the sword is held over the rotating sharpening wheel, fire-sparks, which are no other than the powdered particles of the wheel made of brick-clay, shoot and spread about.
This is the red-lustered dawn emerging and the wheel is the sun’s orb.


ईट

Etymology tree
Sanskrit इष्टा (iṣṭā)
Maharastri Prakrit 𑀇𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (iṭṭā)
Old Marathi 𑘃𑘘 (īṭa)
Varhadi ईट (īṭ)
Inherited from Old Marathi इट (iṭa), from Prakrit इट्टा (iṭṭā), from Sanskrit इष्टा (iṣṭā), related to इष्टका (íṣṭakā, “brick”).