bris

See also: -bris and Bris

English

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bris

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bris (plural brises or brisses or britot)

1. (Judaism) Ritual male circumcision.
   • 1993, Miriam Rose, Miriam Zakon, “The Baker Family Circus”, in Baker's Dozen, volume 4, Omnibus, 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.)

Synonyms

• (circumcision): bris milah, brit milah

Derived terms

• bris periah

Translations

ritual male circumcision

Hebrew: בְּרִית (he) f (bərîṯ) Italian: brit milà m Ladino: Hebrew alphabet: ברית m (brit) Latin alphabet: brit m Yiddish: ברית m (bris)

Anagrams

• IRBs, RBIs, RIBs, SBIR, ribs

French

Etymology

From the verb briser (“to break”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁi/

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Noun

bris m (invariable)

1. shattering
2. (law) breach

Related terms

• briser

Further reading

• “bris”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Icelandic

Icelandic Wikipedia has an article on:

bris

Wikipedia ^is

Etymology

Related to brjósk (“gristle, cartilage”), where the original sense was "sweetbread."

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [prɪːs]
• Rhymes: -ɪːs

Noun

bris n (genitive singular briss, nominative plural bris)

1. (anatomy) pancreas

   Synonym: briskirtill

Declension

Declension of bris (neuter)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bris	brisið	bris	brisin
accusative	bris	brisið	bris	brisin
dative	brisi	brisinu	brisum	brisunum
genitive	briss	brissins	brisa	brisanna

References

• Pierson, S. (2011). The Brisket Book: A Love Story with Recipes. United States: Andrews McMeel Publishing.