brake

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• brāk
  Play
• /bɹeɪk/
  Play
• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• rhymes with -eɪk
  Play
• homophone: break
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: B R EY1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

Origin uncertain; possibly from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German brake (“nose ring, curb, flax brake”), which according to Watkins is related to sense 4 and from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”).

Apparently a shortened form of bracken. (Compare chick, chicken.)

From Old English *bracu, attested in a plural compound form fearnbraca (“thickets of fern”), probably from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”) and influenced by sense 2 (“fern”). Compare Middle Low German brake (“stump, branch”).

Late Middle English, from Middle Low German brake, Dutch braak, Old Dutch braeke; possibly related to sense 1.

Uncertain.

Inflected forms.

249 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afar: faréen — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Albanian: frenë — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Amharic: ፍሬን (fəren) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Arabic: فَرَمَلَة (faramala) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Arabic: مِكْبَح (mikbaḥ) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Arabic: فَرامل (farāmil) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Iraqi Arabic: بْرَيك (brēk) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Armenian: արգելակ (argelak) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Azerbaijani: əyləc — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Basque: galga — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Belarusian: то́рмаз (tórmaz) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Belarusian: гальмо́ (halʹmó) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Belarusian: гальма́ч (halʹmáč) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Bengali: ব্রেক (brek) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Bulgarian: спира́чка (spiráčka) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Burmese: ဘရိတ် (bha.rit) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Catalan: fre — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Cherokee: ᎦᏅᏠᏍᏗ (ganvtlosdi) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Chinese Cantonese: 逼力 — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Chinese: 跤擋 /跤挡 (zh-min-nan) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Chinese Mandarin: 剎車 /刹车 (shāchē) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Chinese Mandarin: 制動器 /制动器 (zhìdòngqì) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Czech: brzda — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Danish: bremse — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Dutch: rem — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Dutch: remmen — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Dutch: remmer — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Esperanto: bremsilo — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Esperanto: bremso — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Estonian: pidur — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Faroese: bremsa — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Finnish: jarru — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• French: frein — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Friulian: slaif — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Friulian: fren — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Friulian: sierae — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Galician: freo — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Galician: trabán — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Georgian: მუხრუჭი (muxruč̣i) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• German: Bremse — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Greek: φρένο (fréno) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Greek: τροχοπέδη (trochopédi) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Greek: πέδη (pédi) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Hebrew: בְּלָמִים (b'lamím) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Hindi: ब्रेक (brek) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Hungarian: fék — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Icelandic: bremsa — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Ido: freno — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Indonesian: rem — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Italian: freno — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Japanese: ブレーキ (burēki) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Japanese: 制動機 (seidōki) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Kazakh: тормез (tormez) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Khmer: ហ្វ្រ័ង (frang) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Khmer: ហ្វ្រាំង (frang) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Korean: 브레이크 (beureikeu) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Korean: 제동기 (jedonggi) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Kyrgyz: тормоз (tormoz) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Lao: ຫ້າມລໍ້ (hām lǭ) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Latin: sufflāmen — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Latvian: bremze — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Lithuanian: stabdys — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Macedonian: кочница (kočnica) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Malay: brek — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Māori: pereki — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Mauritian Creole: frin — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Mongolian: тоормос (toormos) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Norman: chabot — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Norwegian Bokmål: brems — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Occitan: fren — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Oromo: fireenii — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Dari: بْریک (brēk) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Dari: تُرْمُز (turmuz) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Iranian Persian: تُرْمُز (tormoz) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Plautdietsch: Brams — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Plautdietsch: Bräk — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Polish: hamulec — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Portuguese: freio — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Portuguese: travão — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Romanian: frână — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Romansh: frain — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Romansh: frein — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Romansh: fragn — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Russian: то́рмоз (tórmoz) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Serbo-Croatian: ко̏чница — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Serbo-Croatian: kȍčnica — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Slovak: brzda — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Slovene: zavora — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Spanish: freno — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Spanish: arretranca — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Spanish: breque — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Swahili: breki — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Swedish: broms — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Tagalog: preno — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Tajik: тормоз (tormoz) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Thai: เบรก (brèek) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Turkish: fren — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Turkish: eğleç — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Turkmen: tormoz — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Ukrainian: гальмо́ (halʹmó) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Urdu: بْریک (brek) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Uyghur: تورمۇز (tormuz) — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Uzbek: tormoz — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Vietnamese: phanh — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Vietnamese: thắng — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Welsh: brêc — device used to slow or stop a vehicle
• Bulgarian: спира́чка (spiráčka) — something that slows or stops an action
• Catalan: fre — something that slows or stops an action
• Danish: bremse — something that slows or stops an action
• Dutch: rem — something that slows or stops an action
• Dutch: remming — something that slows or stops an action
• Esperanto: bremso — something that slows or stops an action
• Esperanto: brido — something that slows or stops an action
• Finnish: jarru — something that slows or stops an action
• Finnish: hidaste — something that slows or stops an action
• Galician: freo — something that slows or stops an action
• German: Bremse — something that slows or stops an action
• Greek: φρένο (fréno) — something that slows or stops an action
• Hungarian: fék — something that slows or stops an action
• Indonesian: rem — something that slows or stops an action
• Portuguese: freio — something that slows or stops an action
• Romanian: frână — something that slows or stops an action
• Russian: то́рмоз (tórmoz) — something that slows or stops an action
• Serbo-Croatian: ко̏чница — something that slows or stops an action
• Serbo-Croatian: kȍčnica — something that slows or stops an action
• Finnish: kahva — nautical: handle of pump
• Finnish: vipu — nautical: handle of pump
• Finnish: tanko — nautical: handle of pump
• French: bringuebale — nautical: handle of pump
• German: Geckstock — nautical: handle of pump
• German: Geck — nautical: handle of pump
• German: Pumpengeck — nautical: handle of pump
• German: Pumpenschwengel — nautical: handle of pump
• Italian: manovella della tromba — nautical: handle of pump
• Portuguese: embalete — nautical: handle of pump
• Russian: рука́в (rukáv) — nautical: handle of pump
• Spanish: guimbalete — nautical: handle of pump
• Swedish: handtag — nautical: handle of pump
• Arabic: جَنَاحِيَّة (janāḥiyya) — Pteris
• Dutch: lintvaren — Pteris
• Finnish: sanikka — Pteris
• Māori: turawera — Pteris
• Māori: titipo — Pteris
• Swedish: ormbunke — Pteris
• Welsh: adainredyn — Pteris
• Swedish: bräske — thicket
• Turkish: bük — thicket
• Ottoman Turkish: بوك (bük) — thicket
• Welsh: dryslwyn — thicket
• Bulgarian: мъначка (mǎnačka) — tool for crushing and beating flax or hemp
• Dutch: braak — tool for crushing and beating flax or hemp
• Finnish: loukku — tool for crushing and beating flax or hemp
• Finnish: lihta — tool for crushing and beating flax or hemp
• French: broie — tool for crushing and beating flax or hemp
• French: brisoir — tool for crushing and beating flax or hemp
• German: Flachsbreche — tool for crushing and beating flax or hemp
• Italian: gramola — tool for crushing and beating flax or hemp
• Spanish: agramadera — tool for crushing and beating flax or hemp
• Swedish: bråka — tool for crushing and beating flax or hemp
• Welsh: caseg — tool for crushing and beating flax or hemp
• Finnish: taivutin — type of machine for bending sheet metal
• Finnish: levyntaivutin — type of machine for bending sheet metal
• Finnish: kulmauskone — type of machine for bending sheet metal
• Finnish: kanttikone — type of machine for bending sheet metal
• French: plieuse — type of machine for bending sheet metal
• French: cintreuse — type of machine for bending sheet metal
• German: Abkantbank — type of machine for bending sheet metal
• German: Schwenkbiegemaschine — type of machine for bending sheet metal
• Amharic: ፍሬን ያዘ (fəren yazä) — to operate brakes
• Arabic: فَرْمَلَ (farmala) — to operate brakes
• Arabic: َكَبَح (akabaḥ) — to operate brakes
• Armenian: արգելակել (argelakel) — to operate brakes
• Bulgarian: спирам (spiram) — to operate brakes
• Catalan: frenar — to operate brakes
• Chinese Cantonese: 剎車 /刹车 (saat3 ce1) — to operate brakes
• Chinese Mandarin: 剎車 /刹车 (shāchē) — to operate brakes
• Chinese Mandarin: 制動 /制动 (zhìdòng) — to operate brakes
• Chinese Mandarin: 煞車 /煞车 (shāchē) — to operate brakes
• Czech: brzdit — to operate brakes
• Dutch: remmen — to operate brakes
• Dutch: op de rem staan/trappen — to operate brakes
• Finnish: jarruttaa — to operate brakes
• French: freiner — to operate brakes
• Georgian: ამუხრუჭებს (amuxruč̣ebs) — to operate brakes
• German: bremsen — to operate brakes
• Greek: φρενάρω (frenáro) — to operate brakes
• Hebrew: בלם (balám) — to operate brakes
• Hungarian: fékez — to operate brakes
• Italian: frenare — to operate brakes
• Japanese: ブレーキをかける (burēki o kakeru) — to operate brakes
• Latin: sufflāminō — to operate brakes
• Latvian: bremzēt — to operate brakes
• Mauritian Creole: frene — to operate brakes
• Norman: êtreindre lé chabot — to operate brakes
• Occitan: frenar — to operate brakes
• Polish: hamować — to operate brakes
• Polish: zahamować — to operate brakes
• Portuguese: freiar — to operate brakes
• Portuguese: travar — to operate brakes
• Romanian: frâna — to operate brakes
• Russian: тормози́ть (tormozítʹ) — to operate brakes
• Russian: затормози́ть (zatormozítʹ) — to operate brakes
• Serbo-Croatian: kočiti — to operate brakes
• Serbo-Croatian: zakočiti — to operate brakes
• Slovak: brzdiť — to operate brakes
• Spanish: frenar — to operate brakes
• Spanish: enfrenar — to operate brakes
• Spanish: brequear — to operate brakes
• Swahili: piga breki — to operate brakes
• Swedish: bromsa — to operate brakes
• Tagalog: pumreno — to operate brakes
• Tagalog: prumeno — to operate brakes
• Tibetan: འཁོར་ལོ་བཀག ('khor lo bkag) — to operate brakes
• Turkish: fren yapmak — to operate brakes
• Ukrainian: гальмува́ти (halʹmuváty) — to operate brakes
• Ukrainian: загальмува́ти (zahalʹmuváty) — to operate brakes
• Vietnamese: thắng — to operate brakes
• Vietnamese: hãm — to operate brakes
• Vietnamese: phanh — to operate brakes
• Catalan: frenar — to be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking
• Dutch: remmen — to be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking
• Dutch: afremmen — to be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking
• Finnish: jarruttaa — to be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking
• Finnish: hidastua — to be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking
• German: bremsen — to be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking
• Greek: φρέναρα (frénara) — to be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking
• Hungarian: fékez — to be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking
• Portuguese: freiar — to be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking
• Russian: тормози́ть (tormozítʹ) — to be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking
• Russian: затормози́ть (zatormozítʹ) — to be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking
• Spanish: frenar — to be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking
• Swedish: bromsa — to be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking
• Arabic: دَقَّ (daqqa) — to bruise and crush
• Danish: brage — to bruise and crush
• Dutch: braken — to bruise and crush
• Finnish: murskata — to bruise and crush
• Finnish: loukuttaa — to bruise and crush
• Finnish: lihdata — to bruise and crush
• Finnish: vaivata (to knead) — to bruise and crush
• French: macquer — to bruise and crush
• German: brechen — to bruise and crush
• German: brecheln — to bruise and crush
• German: bracken — to bruise and crush
• Ingrian: loukuttaa — to bruise and crush
• Norwegian Bokmål: bråke — to bruise and crush
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bråke — to bruise and crush
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bråka — to bruise and crush
• Swedish: bråka — to bruise and crush
• Finnish: äestää — to pulverize with a harrow