bruar

• broar, bruiar, bruxar

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese bruyar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), perhaps from a Vulgar Latin *brugāre if cognate to French bruire (“to roar”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /bɾuˈaɾ/

bruar (first-person singular present brúo, first-person singular preterite bruei, past participle bruado)

1. (intransitive) Of a bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound, specially when on heat or angry; to bellow

   Synonyms: bruír, burdiar, reburdiar

2. (intransitive) to roar (to emit a deep and long sound such as the voice of a large animal)

   Synonyms: bradar, bramar, zoar

3. to grunt (also figuratively)
   • 1810, José Fernández y Neira, Proezas de Galicia, page 9:

     ti ves cómo brúa un xabalín cando se ve acosado dos càs? pois así dice que che bruaba, e pateaba ese Sul

     Do you know how a wild boar grunts when hounded by the dogs? so they say that this Sul [a French Napoleonic general] grunted and floundered

4. (of the wind) to howl; to hum

   Synonym: zoar

5. to blow a horn

   Synonym: ornear

• brúa
• bruazo
• bruión
• brúo

• bruír

• “bruyar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “bruy” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “bruar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “bruyar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “bruar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “bruar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.