"brau" meaning in Welsh

See brau in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /braɨ̯/ [North-Wales, colloquial, standard], /brai̯/ [South-Wales, colloquial, standard], /brɔi̯/ [South-Wales, colloquial]
Etymology: From Proto-Celtic *brus-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrus- (“to break apart, to shred”). Cognate with Cornish brew, Old Irish bruid. See also: briw (“wound, injury”). Etymology templates: {{inh|cy|cel-pro|*brus-}} Proto-Celtic *brus-, {{inh|cy|ine-pro|*bʰrus-|t=to break apart, to shred}} Proto-Indo-European *bʰrus- (“to break apart, to shred”), {{cog|kw|brew}} Cornish brew, {{cog|sga|bruid}} Old Irish bruid Head templates: {{cy-adj|ach|pl=breuon|stem=breu}} brau (feminine singular brau, plural breuon, equative breued, comparative breuach, superlative breuaf) Inflection templates: {{cy-mut}} Forms: brau [feminine, singular], breuon [plural], breued [equative], breuach [comparative], breuaf [superlative], no-table-tags [table-tags], brau [error-unrecognized-form], frau [soft], mrau [error-unrecognized-form]
  1. brittle, fragile, frail, weak Synonyms: bregus, breuedig, breulyd, breuol, briwllyd, hydor, hyfriw
    Sense id: en-brau-cy-adj-lPLdWHdZ Categories (other): Welsh entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Welsh entries with incorrect language header: 44 7 6 3 3 27 11
  2. (figurative) morally weak, rotten Tags: figuratively Synonyms: braen, braenllyd
    Sense id: en-brau-cy-adj-81u1IzO8
  3. perishable (of goods) Synonyms: darfodus
    Sense id: en-brau-cy-adj-nAChXzlY
  4. tender (of food)
    Sense id: en-brau-cy-adj-qwOBO2K-
  5. loose (of soil) Synonyms: brac, breulyd, breuol, ysgafn
    Sense id: en-brau-cy-adj-jiBZBq2f
  6. (baking) crumbly, short Synonyms: briwsionllyd
    Sense id: en-brau-cy-adj-nON7QY8c Categories (other): Baking Topics: baking, cooking, food, lifestyle
  7. forthright, candid, harsh, blunt, brutally honest Synonyms: diflewyn-ar-dafod, parod, cyflym, buan, llym
    Sense id: en-brau-cy-adj-Du8m1YfY
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: breuder, breuawd, breurwydd (english: brittleness, frailness), breuedig (english: brittle), breulifaid (english: whetted, sharpened on a stone), breulyd, breuol (english: fragile, loose), breuo (english: to become brittle), crwst brau (english: shortcrust pastry), ffiolredyn brau (english: brittle bladder-fern), teisen frau (english: shortbread)
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      "ipa": "/brai̯/",
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  "word": "brau"
}

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