brand

Daar was 'n vreeslike brand in die wildtuin.

There was a horrible fire in the nature reserve.

destructive, catastrophic fire (such as a house fire)

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brand (plural brande, diminutive brandjie)

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


brand

Die kerse brand so pragtig, dis sprokiesagtig!

The candles burn so gorgeously, it's picturesque!

Die kleuter het 'n gat in my tafelkleed gebrand.

That toddler has burnt a hole in my tablecloth.

af-verb

brand (present brand, present participle brandende, past participle gebrand)

brand (present)
brandende (participle present)
gebrand (participle past)

From Dutch branden, from Middle Dutch branden.


brand

fire (large, destructive fire, as in a building)

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brand c (singular definite branden, plural indefinite brande)

branden (definite singular)
brande (indefinite plural)
brand (indefinite nominative singular)
branden (definite nominative singular)
brande (indefinite nominative plural)
brandene (definite nominative plural)
brands (genitive indefinite singular)
brandens (definite genitive singular)
brandes (genitive indefinite plural)
brandenes (definite genitive plural)

From Old Danish brand, from Old Norse brandr, from Proto-Germanic *brandaz, compare with Swedish brand, English brand, German Brand.


brand

brand n (singular definite brandet, plural indefinite brands)

brandet (definite singular)
brands (indefinite plural)
brand (indefinite nominative singular)
brandet (definite nominative singular)
brands (indefinite nominative plural)
brandene (definite nominative plural)
brands (genitive indefinite singular)
brandets (definite genitive singular)
brands' (genitive indefinite plural)
brandenes (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed from English brand, cognate with the former word.


brand

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


brand

Die vreselijke brand was veroorzaakt doordat een kleuter met kaarsen speelde.

That terrible fire originated because a toddler was playing with candles.

nl-noun

brand m (plural branden, diminutive brandje n)

branden (plural)
brandje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: brand

Negerhollands: bran

→ Virgin Islands Creole: bran

→ Sranan Tongo: branti

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


brand

first-person singular present indicative

(in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative


brand

Goe to prepare the maryages what neede the torchis light? be holde the towres of troy do shyne with brandes that blase full bright.

Is yet againe thy brest enflamde, / with brande of venus might

to burn something to brands and ashes

The fearful brands and bleezes of het fire.

1859-1890, John Gorham Palfrey, History of New England to the Revolutionary War
Snatching a live brand from a wigwam, Mason threw it on a matted roof.

About three o'clock, we came to a recent camping place of the company of rangers: the brands of one of their fires were still smoking; so that, according to the opinion of Beatte, they could not have passed on above a day previously.

1835, [Washington Irving], chapter VI, in A Tour on the Prairies (The Crayon Miscellany; no. 1), Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey, [Isaac] Lea, & Blanchard, →OCLC, page 47:

Or when amid the Grecians shippes, / he threw the brandes of fyre.

(archaic or poetic) A piece of burning wood or peat, or a glowing cinder.

(Scotland, Northern England) A torch used for signaling.

Paradise, so late their happy seat, / Waved over by that flaming brand.

1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

The shattering trumpet shrilleth high, / The hard brands shiver on the steel, / The splintered spear-shafts crack and fly, / The horse and rider reel: […]

1834 September (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “Sir Galahad”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 174:

The indelible word "homosexual," like a brand that grew deeper and redder every day, became increasingly hard to conceal and to ignore.

1982 December 4, Mitzel, “A Sissy's Revenge”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 20, page 9:

A mark or scar made by burning with a hot iron, especially to mark cattle or to classify the contents of a cask.

The Amtrak brand revitalization approach represents one of the most ambitious, comprehensive, and systematic experiential marketing approaches I have ever seen.

1999, Bernd Schmitt, Experiential marketing, page 39:

In this way, every Citibanker becomes a brand manager and an ambassador of the Citibank brand. ... Indeed, the Citibank brand will "never sleep"

2000, Duane E. Knapp, The Brandmindset, page 67:

Mr. Lundgren claimed that Federated had conducted a focus group and the analysis showed that most people were either indifferent to the name change or preferred the Macy's brand.

2010, Gayle Soucek, Marshall Field's: The Store That Helped Build Chicago, page 136:

Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.

2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

The symbolic identity, represented by a name and/or a logo, which indicates a certain product or service to the public.

Some brands of breakfast cereal contain a lot of sugar.

A specific product, service, or provider so distinguished.

I didn’t appreciate his particular brand of flattery.

New Orleans brand sausage; Danish brand ham

[O]ne minute this "Jihadi John" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam.

2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times:

(by extension) Any specific type or variety of something; a distinct style or manner.

The Obama brand had taken a hit two months earlier, when he campaigned for Creigh Deeds in Virginia and Jon Corzine in New Jersey, only to see them both lose.

2011, Tom Bevan, Carl M. Cannon, Election 2012: The Battle Begins, Crown, →ISBN:

Her brand is edgy, cosmopolitan, and out-of-the-box, so blogging is the perfect, ever-changing match for her.

2012, Start Your Own Personal Concierge Service, Entrepreneur Press, →ISBN, page 104:

He unplugged my umbilical cord to take a leisurely swig, smirking, watching me turn blue before giving it back. My cardiologist told me that was impossible, but I'm still convinced. That's very on-brand for [my twin] Jamie.

2019, Sally Thorne, 99 Percent Mine: A Novel, HarperCollins, →ISBN:

“We made fun of [Jacob Rees-Mogg] in the paper” — that would be Cherwell, Oxford’s student-run weekly, where Kuper was a reporter — “all the while not realizing that we were helping to build his brand.”

2022 May 14, David Segal, quoting Simon Kuper, “An Outsider Takes an Inside Look at the Oxford ‘Chums’ Who Run the U.K.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The public image or reputation and recognized, typical style of an individual or group.

Any minute fungus producing a burnt appearance in plants.

markë

a specific product, service, or provider so distinguished

From Middle English brand, from Old English brand (“fire; flame; burning; torch; sword”), from Proto-West Germanic *brand, from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (“flame; flaming; fire-brand; torch; sword”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenu- (“to bubble forth; brew; spew forth; burn”).
Cognate with Scots brand, West Frisian brân (“fire”), Dutch brand, German Brand, Swedish brand (“blaze, fire”), Icelandic brandur, French brand (< Germanic). More distantly cognate with Proto-Slavic *gorěti (“to burn”).


brand

When they caught him, he was branded and then locked up.

Man's flesh they eat: their own they paint and sear, / branding with burning iron, — usage fere!

1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 405:

(transitive) To burn the flesh with a hot iron, either as a marker (for criminals, slaves etc.) or to cauterise a wound.

The ranch hands had to brand every new calf by lunchtime.

(transitive) To mark (especially cattle) with a brand as proof of ownership.

Her face is branded upon my memory.

(transitive) To make an indelible impression on the memory or senses.

He was branded a fool by everyone that heard his story.

I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.

1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter II, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

As Ferguson strode briskly towards the Stretford End at the final whistle, he will have been reflecting on the extent of the challenge now facing him from the club he once branded "noisy neighbours".

2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1-6 Man City”, in BBC Sport:

(transitive) To stigmatize, label (someone).

They branded the new detergent "Suds-O", with a nature scene inside a green O on the muted-colored recycled-cardboard box.

(transitive, marketing) To associate a product or service with a trademark or other name and related images.

O, not for thee the glow, the bloom,
Who changest not in any gale,
Nor branding summer suns avail
To touch thy thousand years of gloom: […]

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto II:

en-verb

brand (third-person singular simple present brands, present participle branding, simple past and past participle branded)

brands (present singular third-person)
branding (participle present)
branded (participle past)
branded (past)

advertising research
brand
copy testing
global advertising
integrated marketing communications


brand

Inherited from Middle French brand, from Old French brant, from Frankish *brand (“firebrand, flaming sword”), from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (“firebrand, torch, sword”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenu- (“to burn”). Cognate with Old High German brant (“fire, firebrand, burning iron”), Old English brand (“fire, flame, brand, torch, sword, weapon”), Old Norse brandr (“fire, firebrand, sword”). More at English brand.


brand

indefinite accusative singular of brandur


brand

And þe þꝛidde aungel trumpide .· ⁊ a greet ſterre bꝛennynge as a litil bꝛond felde fro heuene ⁊ it felde in to þe þꝛidde part of floodis .· ⁊ in to þe wellis of watris ⁊ þe name of þe ſterre is ſeid wermod ⁊ þe þꝛidde part of watris .· was maad in to wermod ⁊ manye men weren deed of þe watris .· for þo weren maad bittir

c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Apocalips 8:10-11, page 120r, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

And the third angel blew his trumpet, then a great star burning like a little torch fell from heaven; it fell upon a third of [the world's] rivers and water sources. The name of the star is Wormwood, and a third of the [world's] water was turned into wormwood; many people died from that water because it'd been made bitter.

English: brand

Scots: brand

Yola: broan, brone

From Old English brand, brond, from Proto-West Germanic *brand, from Proto-Germanic *brandaz.


brand

(pre-1938) alternative form of brann; fire

branden (definite singular)
brandar (indefinite plural)
brandane (definite plural)

From Old Norse brandr. Doublet of brann.


brand

(nautical) pitch (movement around the beam axis)


brand

fire (occurrence of fire in a certain place)

Danish: brand


brand

brand (nominative singular)
brandas (nominative plural)
brand (accusative singular)
brandas (accusative plural)
brandes (genitive singular)
branda (genitive plural)
brande (dative singular)
brandum (dative plural)

Middle English: brand, brond

English: brand

Scots: brand

From Proto-West Germanic *brand, from Proto-Germanic *brandaz.


brand

indefinite accusative singular of brandr


brand

brand (nominative singular)
brandō (nominative plural)
brandōs (nominative plural)
brand (accusative singular)
brandā (accusative plural)
brandas (genitive singular)
brandō (genitive plural)
brandē (dative singular)
brandum (dative plural)
brandu (instrumental singular)
brandum (instrumental plural)

desctree

Old English: brand, brond
Middle English: brand, brond
English: brand
Scots: brand

Old Frisian: brand, brond

Saterland Frisian: Bround

West Frisian: brân

Old Saxon: brand

Middle Low German: brant

German Low German: Brand

Old Dutch: *brant
Middle Dutch: brant
Dutch: brand
Afrikaans: brand
Limburgish: brandj

Old High German: brant

Middle High German: brant

German: Brand

Luxembourgish: Brand

→ Vulgar Latin: *brandus (see there for further descendants)


brand

branduri (plural)
brand (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
brandul (accusative definite nominative singular)
branduri (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
brandurile (accusative definite nominative plural)
brand (indefinite singular)
brandului (definite singular)
branduri (indefinite singular)
brandurilor (definite plural)
brandule (singular vocative)
brandurilor (vocative)


brand

en skogsbrand

en anlagd brand
an arson
(literally, “a [deliberately] set uncontrolled fire”)

a larger, uncontrolled fire (due to an accident, arson, or the like), a conflagration

brand (indefinite nominative singular)
brands (genitive indefinite singular)
branden (definite nominative singular)
brandens (definite genitive singular)
bränder (indefinite nominative plural)
bränders (genitive indefinite plural)
bränderna (definite nominative plural)
brändernas (definite genitive plural)

From Old Swedish brander, from Old Norse brandr, from Proto-Germanic *brandaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenu-. A derivative of brinna.