bris

Borrowed from Yiddish ברית‎ (bris), from Hebrew בְּרִית‎ (bərîṯ, “covenant”).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /bɹɪs/
• Rhymes: -ɪs

bris (plural brises or brisses or britot)

1. (Judaism) Ritual male circumcision.
   • 1993, Miriam Rose, Miriam Zakon, The Baker Family Circus, Baker's Dozen (Omnibus), Volume 4, page 129,

     The night before the bris, he invited nine of his little buddies to come and say kerias shema around the baby's bassinet. Mommy and Daddy, who flew in for the bris, were so touched, they kept dabbing their eyes and coughing.

   • 2009, Jeffrey Shandler, Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America, page 155,

     Although indigenous visual documentation of the bris was, until the advent of video, limited and often oblique, the ceremony is a longstanding fixture of Christian art.

   • 2013, Ted Falcon, David Blatner, Judaism For Dummies, 2nd Edition, page 109,

     However, if the baby is born on a Wednesday night, then the bris would occur on the following Thursday morning because Jewish days begin at sundown, and the bris is tradionally performed during the day. (Note that the Talmud (see Chapter 3) states if the baby's health is in question, then the bris must be postponed.)

• (circumcision): bris milah, brit milah

• bris periah

• RBIs, RIBs, SBIR, ribs

• IPA^(key): [prɪːs]
• Rhymes: -ɪːs

bris n (genitive singular briss, nominative plural bris)

1. (anatomy) pancreas

• (pancreas): ^def. briskirtill

From Old Irish brisid, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to burst, break”). Cognate with English burst and German bersten.

• IPA^(key): /bʲɾʲɪʃ/

bris (present analytic briseann, future analytic brisfidh, verbal noun briseadh, past participle briste)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to break, fracture
2. sack, fire, dismiss
3. (banking) cash, (of money, bills) change
4. (of dam) burst
5. (of government) overthrow

• athbhris (“break again”, verb)

bris f (genitive singular brise, nominative plural briseanna)

1. loss

   Ní maith liom do bhris.

   I’m sorry for your loss.

• "bris" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “bris(s)id” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “brisim” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.

• IPA^(key): [bʲrʲɪs̪]

brìs

1. third-person singular future of bristi
2. third-person plural future of bristi

From Middle Low German brise.

bris m (definite singular brisen, indefinite plural briser, definite plural brisene)

1. (weather) a breeze

• “bris” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Middle Low German brise.

bris m (definite singular brisen, indefinite plural brisar, definite plural brisane)

1. (weather) a breeze

• “bris” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• briss

• IPA^(key): /bʲrʲisʲ/

bris

1. second-person singular imperative of brisid

·bris

1. inflection of brisid:
   1. third-person singular preterite conjunct
   2. first-person singular present subjunctive conjunct

From Old Irish brisid, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰres- (“to burst, break”). Cognate with English burst and German bersten.

bris (past bhris, future brisidh, verbal noun briseadh, past participle briste)

1. break, smash
2. breach

• 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
• “bris(s)id” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

• IPA^(key): /brîːs/

brȋs m (Cyrillic spelling бри̑с)

1. (medicine) swab, smear

• IPA^(key): /briːs/

bris c

1. breeze

Plural form could also be brisar

From English bridge.

bris

1. bridge
2. wharf