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Clipping of brassiere, borrowed from French brassière, from Old French braciere (originally a lining inside armor to protect the arm, but later a garment), from Old French brace (“arm”), from Latin bracchia, plural of Latin bracchium (“forearm”), from Ancient Greek βραχίων (brakhíōn, “forearm”), from Proto-Hellenic *brəkhús (“short”) (because the forearm is shorter than the upper arm), inherited from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵhus.

From bracket, referring to the notation introduced in 1939 by Paul Dirac.

Representing a different pronunciation of bro (“brother”).

184 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: bra — brassiere
• Afrikaans: buustelyfie — brassiere
• Albanian: gjimbajtëse — brassiere
• Albanian: sutienë — brassiere
• Western Apache: ibeʼbenastʼiʼí — brassiere
• Arabic: حَمَّالَة صَدْر (ḥammālat ṣadr) — brassiere
• Arabic: مِشَدّ صَدْر (mišadd ṣadr) — brassiere
• Arabic: ستيان (sutyān) — brassiere
• Arabic: سُتيانة (sutyāna) — brassiere
• Arabic: ستيانة (sityāne) — brassiere
• Armenian: կրծկալ (krckal) — brassiere
• Armenian: լիֆչիկ (lifčʻik) — brassiere
• Asturian: apertador — brassiere
• Asturian: sostén — brassiere
• Azerbaijani: döşlük — brassiere
• Azerbaijani: lifçik — brassiere
• Azerbaijani: büstqalter — brassiere
• Azerbaijani: məmədan — brassiere
• Azerbaijani: döşqabı — brassiere
• Bashkir: күкрәксә (kükrəksə) — brassiere
• Basque: bularretako — brassiere
• Belarusian: бюстга́льтар (bjusthálʹtar) — brassiere
• Belarusian: ста́нік (stánik) — brassiere
• Belarusian: лі́фчык (lífčyk) — brassiere
• Bengali: বক্ষবন্ধনী (bokkhobondhoni) — brassiere
• Bengali: কাচুলি (kaculi) — brassiere
• Bengali: ব্রা (bra) — brassiere
• Bulgarian: сутие́н (sutién) — brassiere
• Burmese: ဘရာစီယာ (bha.raciya) — brassiere
• Catalan: sostenidors — brassiere
• Cebuano: bra — brassiere
• Chinese: 奶帕仔 (ling-phè-á / ni-phè-á) — brassiere
• Chinese Mandarin: 奶罩 (nǎizhào) — brassiere
• Chinese Mandarin: 胸罩 (xiōngzhào) — brassiere
• Chinese Mandarin: 乳罩 (rǔzhào) — brassiere
• Ngazidja Comorian: katshiri — brassiere
• Czech: podprsenka — brassiere
• Danish: brystholder — brassiere
• Danish: bh — brassiere
• Danish: (underwired bra) bøjle-bh — brassiere
• Dutch: bustehouder — brassiere
• Dutch: beha — brassiere
• Esperanto: mamzono — brassiere
• Esperanto: mamingo — brassiere
• Estonian: rinnahoidja — brassiere
• Faroese: brósthaldari — brassiere
• Finnish: rintaliivit — brassiere
• French: soutien-gorge — brassiere
• French: soutif — brassiere
• French: brassière — brassiere
• West-Frisian: boarststipe — brassiere
• West-Frisian: beha — brassiere
• Georgian: ლიფი (lipi) — brassiere
• Georgian: აზღუდი (azɣudi) — brassiere
• Georgian: ბიუსტჰალტერი (biusṭhalṭeri) — brassiere
• German: Büstenhalter — brassiere
• German: BH — brassiere
• German: Busenhalter — brassiere
• Greek: στηθόδεσμος (stithódesmos) — brassiere
• Ancient Greek: στρόφιον (stróphion) — brassiere
• Hebrew: חֲזִיָה \ חזייה (khaziyá) — brassiere
• Hindi: ब्रेजिअर (brejiar) — brassiere
• Hindi: ब्रेजियर (brejiyar) — brassiere
• Hindi: ब्रा (brā) — brassiere
• Hindi: अँगिया (aṅgiyā) — brassiere
• Hungarian: melltartó — brassiere
• Hungarian: mt — brassiere
• Icelandic: brjóstahaldari — brassiere
• Indonesian: kutang — brassiere
• Indonesian: beha — brassiere
• Irish: cíochbheart — brassiere
• Italian: reggiseno — brassiere
• Italian: reggipetto — brassiere
• Japanese: ブラジャー (burajā) — brassiere
• Japanese: ブラ (bura) — brassiere
• Japanese: 乳押さえ (chichiosae) — brassiere
• Kazakh: емшекқап (emşekqap) — brassiere
• Khmer: អាវទ្រនាប់ (ʼaaw trɔɔnŏəp) — brassiere
• Khmer: អាវស៊ូជាង (ʼaaw suuciəng) — brassiere
• Korean: 브래지어 (beuraejieo) — brassiere
• Korean: 브라 (beura) — brassiere
• Kyrgyz: лифчик (lifcik) — brassiere
• Kyrgyz: бюстгальтер (byustgalter) — brassiere
• Lao: ເສື້ອຊ້ອນ (sư̄a sǭn) — brassiere
• Lao: ອ້ຽງ (ʼīang) — brassiere
• Latin: strophium — brassiere
• Latin: cestus — brassiere
• Latvian: krūšturis — brassiere
• Lithuanian: liemenėlė — brassiere
• Luxembourgish: Soutien — brassiere
• Macedonian: гра́дник (grádnik) — brassiere
• Macedonian: пр́слук (pŕsluk) — brassiere
• Malay: bra — brassiere
• Malay: coli — brassiere
• Maltese: riċipettu — brassiere
• Manx: coodagh keeagh — brassiere
• Māori: pari — brassiere
• Māori: kopeū — brassiere
• Mongolian: хөхний даруулга (xöxnii daruulga) — brassiere
• Mongolian: лифчик (lifčik) — brassiere
• Mongolian: хөхөвч (xöxövč) — brassiere
• Mongolian: ᠬᠥᠬᠦᠨ ᠦ ᠳᠠᠷᠤᠭᠤᠯᠭ᠎ᠠ (kökün-ü daruɣulɣ-a) — brassiere
• Mongolian: ᠯᠢᠹᠼᠢᠺ (lifcik) — brassiere
• Mongolian: ᠬᠥᠬᠦᠪᠴᠢ (kökübči) — brassiere
• Navajo: abeʼ bikʼéstiʼí — brassiere
• Norman: brâssiéthe — brassiere
• Norwegian Bokmål: brystholder — brassiere
• Norwegian Bokmål: bysteholder — brassiere
• Norwegian Bokmål: behå — brassiere
• Norwegian Bokmål: BH — brassiere
• Norwegian Bokmål: bh — brassiere
• Norwegian Nynorsk: brysthaldar — brassiere
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bystehaldar — brassiere
• Norwegian Nynorsk: behå — brassiere
• Norwegian Nynorsk: BH — brassiere
• Iranian Persian: پِسْتانبَنْد (pestân-band) — brassiere
• Iranian Persian: سوتْیَن (sutyan) — brassiere
• Iranian Persian: کُرْسِت (korset) — brassiere
• Plautdietsch: Brosthaulta — brassiere
• Polish: biustonosz — brassiere
• Polish: stanik — brassiere
• Portuguese: sutiã — brassiere
• Romanian: sutien — brassiere
• Russian: бюстга́льтер (bjustgálʹter) — brassiere
• Russian: ли́фчик (lífčik) — brassiere
• Rwanda-Rundi: isutiye — brassiere
• Scottish Gaelic: uchd-aodach — brassiere
• Serbo-Croatian: гру̑дња̄к — brassiere
• Serbo-Croatian: grȗdnjāk — brassiere
• Silesian: lojbik — brassiere
• Sinhalese: තනපට (tanapaṭa) — brassiere
• Slovak: podprsenka — brassiere
• Slovene: nedrček — brassiere
• Slovene: modrček — brassiere
• Lower Sorbian: nadrac — brassiere
• Upper Sorbian: nadrowc — brassiere
• Spanish: ajustador — brassiere
• Spanish: brasier — brassiere
• Spanish: corpiño — brassiere
• Spanish: sostén — brassiere
• Spanish: soutien — brassiere
• Spanish: sujetador — brassiere
• Swahili: sidiria — brassiere
• Swahili: kanchiri — brassiere
• Swedish: behå — brassiere
• Swedish: bh — brassiere
• Swedish: bysthållare — brassiere
• Swedish: brösthållare — brassiere
• Tagalog: bra — brassiere
• Tajik: лифчик (lifčik) — brassiere
• Tamil: மார்புக்கச்சை (mārpukkaccai) — brassiere
• Tatar: күкрәкчә (kükräkçä) — brassiere
• Telugu: బ్రా (brā) — brassiere
• Thai: ยกทรง (yók-song) — brassiere
• Tibetan: ནུ་ཤུབ། (nu shub) — brassiere
• Tok Pisin: banis bilong susu — brassiere
• Turkish: sütyen — brassiere
• Turkish: sutyen — brassiere
• Turkmen: göwüslik — brassiere
• Turkmen: lifçik — brassiere
• Ukrainian: бюстга́льтер (bjusthálʹter) — brassiere
• Ukrainian: лі́фчик (lífčyk) — brassiere
• Urdu: بْرا (brā) — brassiere
• Urdu: بْریجِئَر (brejiar) — brassiere
• Uyghur: لىپتىك (liptik) — brassiere
• Uzbek: siynaband — brassiere
• Uzbek: ko'krakpech — brassiere
• Uzbek: lifchik — brassiere
• Uzbek: byustgalter — brassiere
• Vietnamese: xu-chiêng — brassiere
• Vietnamese: xu chiêng — brassiere
• Vietnamese: nịt vú — brassiere
• Volapük: dögipolian — brassiere
• Volapük: dögistütian — brassiere
• Welsh: bra — brassiere
• Welsh: bras — brassiere
• Yiddish: סטאַניק (stanik) — brassiere
• Zazaki: sıtyen — brassiere
• Bulgarian: бра (bra) — Translations
• Chinese Mandarin: 左矢 (zuǒshǐ) — Translations
• Finnish: bra — Translations
• German: Bra — Translations
• Italian: bra — Translations
• Polish: bra — Translations