brood

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• Received-Pronunciation: /bɹuːd/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /bɹʉwd/
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• General-American: /bɹud/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /bɹʉːd/
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• Scotland: /bɾʉd/
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• Wales: /bɾɪʊd/
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• Northern-Ireland: /bɻʉd/
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• rhymes with -uːd
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• homophone: brewed (except Scotland, Wales)
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• CMU ARPABET: B R UW1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English brood, brod, from Old English brōd (“brood; foetus; breeding, hatching”), from Proto-Germanic *brōduz (“heat, breeding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhreh1- (“breath, mist, vapour, steam”).

153 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Galician: de cría — kept or reared for breeding
• Russian: племенно́й (plemennój) — kept or reared for breeding
• Russian: племенна́я (plemennája) — kept or reared for breeding
• Russian: племенно́е (plemennóje) — kept or reared for breeding
• Russian: племенны́е (plemennýje) — kept or reared for breeding
• Bulgarian: котило (kotilo) — the young of certain animals
• Czech: snůška — the young of certain animals
• Danish: kuld — the young of certain animals
• Dutch: gebroed — the young of certain animals
• Dutch: legsel — the young of certain animals
• Dutch: nageslacht — the young of certain animals
• Dutch: nest — the young of certain animals
• Finnish: pesue — the young of certain animals
• Finnish: poikue — the young of certain animals
• French: couvée — the young of certain animals
• Galician: niñada — the young of certain animals
• Galician: rolada — the young of certain animals
• Greek: κλωσσόπουλο (klossópoulo) — the young of certain animals
• Hungarian: fészekalja — the young of certain animals
• Irish: ál — the young of certain animals
• Irish: éillín — the young of certain animals
• Italian: nidiata — the young of certain animals
• Italian: prole — the young of certain animals
• Latvian: vaisla — the young of certain animals
• Macedonian: пи́ле (píle) — the young of certain animals
• Māori: punipuni — the young of certain animals
• Portuguese: ninhada — the young of certain animals
• Romanian: puiet — the young of certain animals
• Russian: вы́водок (vývodok) — the young of certain animals
• Spanish: cría — the young of certain animals
• Swedish: kull — the young of certain animals
• Ukrainian: ви́водок (vývodok) — the young of certain animals
• Bulgarian: люпило (ljupilo) — the young of any egg-laying creature
• Czech: snůška — the young of any egg-laying creature
• Dutch: broedsel — the young of any egg-laying creature
• Finnish: pesue — the young of any egg-laying creature
• Finnish: poikue — the young of any egg-laying creature
• French: couvée — the young of any egg-laying creature
• Galician: niñada — the young of any egg-laying creature
• Hebrew: תְּטוּלָה (tetulá) — the young of any egg-laying creature
• Irish: ál — the young of any egg-laying creature
• Irish: éillín — the young of any egg-laying creature
• Italian: nidiata — the young of any egg-laying creature
• Italian: schiusa — the young of any egg-laying creature
• Māori: kāwaiwai — the young of any egg-laying creature
• Portuguese: ninhada — the young of any egg-laying creature
• Russian: вы́водок (vývodok) — the young of any egg-laying creature
• Spanish: nidada — the young of any egg-laying creature
• Ukrainian: ви́водок (vývodok) — the young of any egg-laying creature
• Albanian: bark — the children in one family
• Czech: děti — the children in one family
• Dutch: nageslacht — the children in one family
• Dutch: maagschap — the children in one family
• Dutch: sibbe — the children in one family
• Finnish: katras — the children in one family
• Finnish: pesue — the children in one family
• French: marmaille — the children in one family
• Galician: fruxe — the children in one family
• Irish: ál — the children in one family
• Italian: prole — the children in one family
• Macedonian: по́томство (pótomstvo) — the children in one family
• Portuguese: prole — the children in one family
• Russian: пото́мство (potómstvo) — the children in one family
• Spanish: prole — the children in one family
• Swedish: barnaskara — the children in one family
• Armenian: թուխս նստել (tʻuxs nstel) — to keep an egg warm
• Old Armenian: թխեմ (tʻxem) — to keep an egg warm
• Bulgarian: мътя (mǎtja) — to keep an egg warm
• Catalan: covar — to keep an egg warm
• Czech: vysedět — to keep an egg warm
• Czech: sedět na vejcích — to keep an egg warm
• Danish: ruge — to keep an egg warm
• Dutch: broeden — to keep an egg warm
• Dutch: uitbroeden — to keep an egg warm
• Esperanto: kovi — to keep an egg warm
• Finnish: hautoa — to keep an egg warm
• French: couver — to keep an egg warm
• Friulian: clucî — to keep an egg warm
• Galician: chocar — to keep an egg warm
• German: brüten — to keep an egg warm
• Greek: κλωσσώ (klossó) — to keep an egg warm
• Ancient Greek: πέσσω (péssō) — to keep an egg warm
• Hebrew: דָּגַר (dagár) — to keep an egg warm
• Hungarian: kotlik — to keep an egg warm
• Hungarian: költ — to keep an egg warm
• Ido: kovar — to keep an egg warm
• Irish: gor — to keep an egg warm
• Italian: covare — to keep an egg warm
• Macedonian: квачи (kvači) — to keep an egg warm
• Māori: awhi — to keep an egg warm
• Māori: tāpapa — to keep an egg warm
• Norwegian: ruge — to keep an egg warm
• Portuguese: chocar — to keep an egg warm
• Romanian: cloci — to keep an egg warm
• Russian: выси́живать (vysíživatʹ) — to keep an egg warm
• Scottish Gaelic: guir — to keep an egg warm
• Slovak: sedieť — to keep an egg warm
• Slovak: vysedieť — to keep an egg warm
• Spanish: empollar — to keep an egg warm
• Spanish: incubar — to keep an egg warm
• Sundanese: sileungleum — to keep an egg warm
• Swedish: ruva — to keep an egg warm
• Ukrainian: виси́джувати (vysýdžuvaty) — to keep an egg warm
• Ukrainian: ви́сидіти (výsydity) — to keep an egg warm
• Venetan: coar — to keep an egg warm
• Vietnamese: ấp — to keep an egg warm
• Walloon: cover — to keep an egg warm
• Welsh: gori — to keep an egg warm
• Bulgarian: защитавам (zaštitavam) — to protect
• Dutch: behoeden — to protect
• Esperanto: kovi — to protect
• Finnish: vartioida — to protect
• French: couver — to protect
• French: protéger — to protect
• Galician: acubillar — to protect
• Greenlandic: niviorpoq — to protect
• Italian: allevare — to protect
• Italian: tirare su — to protect
• Scottish Gaelic: guir — to protect
• Spanish: proteger — to protect
• Swedish: ruva — to protect
• Bulgarian: размислям се (razmisljam se) — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Catalan: encaparrar-se — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Czech: dumat — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Czech: přemítat — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Dutch: broeden — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Dutch: piekeren — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Finnish: hautoa — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• French: se morfondre — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• French: broyer du noir — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Friulian: clucî — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Galician: rumiar — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Galician: cismar — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Galician: incinir — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• German: brüten — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• German: grübeln — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Greek: αναλογίζομαι (analogízomai) — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Hungarian: kotlik — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Hungarian: rágódik — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Italian: covare — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Italian: rimuginare — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Italian: arrovellarsi — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Māori: whakapaeko — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Māori: whakapuke — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Māori: whakapupuke — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Māori: whēnakonako — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Māori: whēnako — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Portuguese: ruminar — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Portuguese: cismar — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Romanian: cloci — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Russian: размышля́ть (razmyšljátʹ) — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Swedish: ruva — to dwell upon moodily and at length
• Welsh: pendroni — to dwell upon moodily and at length