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See also: Appendix:Variations of "bro"

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Brokkat.

Symbol

bro

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Brokkat.

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

More information PIE word ...

Clipping of brother. Compare Danish bror, Norwegian Bokmål bror, Swedish bror.

Pronunciation

Noun

bro (plural bros)

  1. (slang) Brother (a male sibling).
    My mom took my lil' bro to soccer practice now and she wanted me to pick him up.
  2. (slang) Brother (a comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals).
    Bro, you good? You've been lookin' kinda out of it lately.
    • 2022 April 5, “A$AP Rocky: Will Smith 'emasculated' Chris Rock but 'it's more than just a GI Jane joke'”, in Cele|bitchy‎, archived from the original on 8 February 2025:
      Let’s not kid ourselves – there are plenty of men saying that Will has been emasculated by Jada, because hurr durr why would he hit a bro over a woman.
    • 2025 October 7, Jason Zinoman, “What Clowns! (That’s a Compliment)”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 7 October 2025:
      Her breakout was the 2017 production “Nate” (available as a Netflix special) in which she played a toxic, handsy bro who drove a motorcycle onstage, guzzling beers, groping audience members and creating chaos.
  4. (slang) Brother, my man, good sir; a friendly term of address for typically men.
    Near-synonym: man
    don't tase me, bro
    Hey bro, sorry to bother you but I think I accidentally backed up into your car — can I make it up to you?
    Bro said he finna go off today!
  5. (slang) A frat boy or someone who espouses the fraternity bro culture.
  7. (slang, derogatory, usually in compounds) Someone, usually male, who aggressively evangelizes a person, concept or technology.
    • 2021 May 25, Edward-Isaac Dovere, Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump, Penguin, →ISBN, page 152:
      Pfeiffer's partners at Pod Save America — the audio outpost of the resistance that had made a collection of Obama Bros niche superstars, had invested as producers in a documentary about the Senate run.
    • 2022 September 14, Brian Culp, Electric Cars For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 11:
      One of these cars has 707 horsepower, performs amazingly well on a drag strip, and is popular among performance car bros. The other car is about to easily win a drag race.
    • 2024 May 23, ego_bot, There's Something Weird Going On: Ten Stories of Existentialist Science Fiction, ego_bot, →ISBN:
      He'd seen that false equivalency coming from AI bros time and time again, but hearing it from an AI itself was especially irritating.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Arabic: بْرُو (brō), بْرُوه (brō, brōh) (slang)
  • → Italian: bro (slang)
  • → Russian: бро (bro) (slang)
  • → Spanish: bro (slang)
  • → Ukrainian: бро (bro) (slang)
  • → Vietnamese: bro (slang)

Translations

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Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *broɣ, from Proto-Celtic *mrogis.

Pronunciation

Noun

bro f (plural broioù)

  1. country (nation state); homeland
    A bep liv marc'h mat; a bep bro tud vat. ― Good horses whatever their colour; good people whatever their country. (Breton proverb)
    • 1897, “Bro Gozh ma Zadoù [Old Land of My Fathers]”, François Jaffrennou (lyrics), James James (music), Anthem of Brittany:
      O! Breizh, ma bro, me 'gar ma bro.
      Tra ma vo mor 'vel mur 'n he zro,
      Ra vezo digabestr ma bro!
      Brittany, my country, I love my country,
      So long as the sea, like a wall surrounding thee,
      My country shall be free!
    • 1975 July 5, Añjela Duval, “Fri Korloko”, in Al Liamm‎, Le Vieux-Marché:
      Ret eo, emezi, ma vo anavezet hor bro evel ur gwir vro gant ar gwir da zerc’hel he renk e-touez ar broioù all.
      It is necessary, she said, that our country be recognized as a true country with the right to maintain its rank among other countries.
    • 2010, “Karantez-vro [Love for a Country]”, in Añjela Duval (lyrics), Bretonne‎, performed by Veronique Autret:
      Ret' voe didab 'tre div garantez :
      Karantrez-vro, karantez den.
      D'am bro am eus gouestlet va buhez
      Ha lezet da vont 'n hini 'garen.
      Forced to choose between two affections:
      Love for a country, love for a man.
      I've given my life to my nation
      And let go of the one I loved.

Inflection

More information unmutated, soft ...

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Breton.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English bro.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbɾo]

Noun

bro m (plural bros)

  1. (slang) bro (a male comrade or friend)
  2. (slang) bro (used to address a male)

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *broɣ, from Proto-Celtic *mrogis. Cognate with Breton bro

Noun

bro f (plural broyow)

  1. country, land

Mutation

More information unmutated, soft ...

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish bro, from Old East Norse brō, from Proto-Germanic *brūwō (“bridge; brow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruh- (“beam, bridge”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /broː/, [b̥ʁoːˀ]

Noun

bro c (singular definite broen, plural indefinite broer)

  1. bridge

Inflection

More information common gender, singular ...

Descendants

  • Norwegian Bokmål: bro

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Gallo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bro m (plural bros)

  1. thorn

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English bro. First attested in 2019.

Noun

bro m (invariable)

  1. (slang) bro (a male comrade or friend)
    Synonym: fra

Kalasha

Etymology

From Sanskrit बृहत् (bṛhat, “lofty, high, tall”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰonts. Cognate with Persian بلند (boland), English borough.

Noun

bro

  1. mountain top, peak
  2. succession of peaks which make up a ridge

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

bro m (plural bros)

  1. (Jersey) pitcher

Norwegian Bokmål

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Danish bro, from Old Danish bro, from Old East Norse brō, from Proto-Germanic *brōwō (“bridge; brow”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruH- (“beam; bridge”), which may be the same root as *h₃bʰrúHs (“(eye)brow”), whence brun. Close cognate with Swedish bro. Compare also Norwegian bru (“bridge”) and Icelandic brú (“bridge”), from Proto-Germanic *brū-.

Noun

bro f or m (definite singular broa or broen, indefinite plural broer, definite plural broene)

  1. bridge

Derived terms

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bro.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

bro m (plural bros)

  1. (colloquial) bro (a male comrade or friend)
  2. (colloquial) bro (used to address a male)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bro.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɾo/ [ˈbɾo]
  • Rhymes: -o
  • Syllabification: bro

Noun

bro m (plural bros)

  1. (slang) bro (a male comrade or friend)
  2. (slang) bro (used to address a male)
    • 2025 November 4, Fabián Evaristo, “Avanza orden en puntos 420 de la CDMX; aún se vende cannabis”, in El Universal‎:
      “ […] Si hubiera más gente o estuviera más lleno, ahí sí diríamos ‘sabes qué bro, pues ya te tienes que retirar’, sabes”.
      " […] If there were more people or it were more full, then we would say "you know what, bro, you have to go away now,' y'know."

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English blow.

Pronunciation

Verb

bro

  1. To blow, to produce air currents.
  2. To breathe.
    • 1936, Melville J. Herskovits, Frances S. Herskovits, Suriname folk-lore‎, New York: Columbia University Press, page 424:
      Bɔfru dɛ krei̯, Dia dɛ krei̯, Tamanwa 'ɛ krei̯. Nō mō ala den meti 'ɛ gowe wą' wą'. Nō mō Hagu drapɛ, 'ɛ bari, ‘Bia, bia, bia, / Mi yɛre suma dɛdɛ, / Ma karaki dɛ bro.’
      [Bofru e krei, Dia e krei, Tamanwa e krei. Nomo ala den meti e gwe wanwan. Nomo Agu drape e bari, 'Bia, bia, bia / Mi yere suma dede / Ma karaki e bro.']
      Buffalo was crying, Deer was crying, Anteater was crying. No sooner did all the animals go away one by one, than Hog called out, ‘Bia, bia, bia, / I hear a person died, / But his backside breathes.’

Noun

bro

  1. breath

Swedish

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Etymology

From Old East Norse brō, from Proto-Germanic *brōwō (“bridge; brow”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruH- (“beam; bridge”), which may be the same root as *h₃bʰrúHs (“(eye)brow”), whence bryn. Compare Norwegian Bokmål bro, Icelandic brú (“bridge”).

Pronunciation

Noun

bro c

  2. a bridge (construction that spans a divide)
    Staden mellan broarna
    The town between the bridges [Stockholm old town]
    Släpp inte en jävel över bron, håll ut en stund till!
    Don't let a single bastard cross the bridge, hold out a little longer!
  3. a road bank (road reinforced with stone or timber, in particular across wetlands)
  4. a quay
    Synonyms: brygga, skeppsbro
  6. (northern Sweden) a set of steps leading up to the front door of a house (sometimes with a porch or a deck, and sometimes with just a single step, as in just a deck or the like), a stoop
    Synonym: (when a porch) farstubro
    Ställ den ute på bron
    Put it out on the porch / deck / stoop
    Jag får min motion när jag går mellan bron och garageuppfarten
    I get my exercise walking between the porch and the garage driveway

Declension

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Vietnamese

Etymology

From English bro.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɓɹo˧˧], [ʔɓəː˨˩ zo˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɓɹow˧˧], [ʔɓəː˦˩ ʐow˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɓɹow˧˧], [ʔɓəː˨˩ ɹow˧˧]
  • Phonetic spelling: brô, bờ rô

Pronoun

bro

  1. (slang, Vietnam) bro (used to address a person (presumably) around the same age, usually male)
    các bro
    you bros
    bro ấy
    he (that bro)
    • 2021 September 6, Koi Koi, “Bất ngờ bài 'nhạc Thái' lọt top trending cao nhưng hoá ra của ca sĩ Việt, nghe vui xả stress được khen ngợi hết lời! ["Thai" song unexpectedly shoots into the top trending list but turns out to be by Vietnamese singer; listen to relieve your stress; speechlessly recommend!]”, in Kênh 14‎, Hanoi: VCCorp, retrieved 7 March 2023:
      Mùa dịch này làm mấy bài vui vẻ này hợp lý quá bro ơi.
      This pandemic season makes these joyful songs so appropriate, bro.
    • 2022 August 5, Ngọc Nguyễn, “Lương Minh Trang và Vinh Râu thăng hạng visual, xưng hô thân thiết”, in Thể thao & Văn hóa‎, Hanoi: Vietnam News Agency, archived from the original on 8 March 2023:
      Trước đấy, khi được hỏi về mối quan hệ với "vợ cũ" Lương Minh Trang, Vinh Râu không ngần ngại thừa nhận: "Chúng tôi làm tri kỷ và thường xưng hô bằng bro".
      Earlier, when asked about his relationship with his "ex" Lương Minh Trang, Vinh Râu admits, without hesitation: "We are confidants and often address each other as bro".
    • 2022 December 21, Quang Vũ, “Tóc Tiên, JustaTee hẹn fan 'cháy' cùng lễ hội Noel siêu hoành tráng tại Hà Nội [Tóc Tiên, JustaTee promises fans they'll be "on fire" at a super large-scale Christmas festival in Hanoi]”, in Thể thao & Văn hóa‎, Hanoi: Vietnam News Agency, retrieved 7 March 2023:
      Giờ thì mau mau chuẩn bị lên đồ và set kèo với hội bạn để "quẩy" tung Hà Nội cùng Tóc Tiên, JustaTee, Huy DX và BNUTs thôi nào các bro ơi!
      Now hurry up and prepare to set a bet with your friends to "hang out" in Hanoi with Tóc Tiên, JustaTee, Huy DX and BNUTs, bro!

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Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh bro, from Proto-Brythonic *broɣ, from Proto-Celtic *mrogis. Cognate with Old Irish mruig.

Pronunciation

Noun

bro f (plural bröydd or brofydd)

  1. region, country, land, neighbourhood, native haunt
  2. border, limit, boundary, march
  3. vale, lowland, champaign

Mutation

More information radical, soft ...

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “bro”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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