brac

Compare Latin bracchium (“arm”), French bras.

• IPA^(key): /bˠɾˠak/

brac m (genitive singular braic, nominative plural bracanna)

1. (literary) arm
2. (anatomy) brachium
3. bracket

• bracfhungas (“bracket fungus”)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bьrati. Cognate with Polish brać.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrat͡s/
• Syllabification: brac

brac impf

1. (transitive) to take (to grab with the hands)

• Stefan Ramułt (1893), “brac”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego, page 11
• Jan Trepczyk (1994), “brać 2”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski, volume 1-2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “brać”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi, volume 1, page 117
• “brac”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Borrowed from Russian брак (brak), from Polish brak, ultimately from Middle Low German brak (“flaw, defect; breaking”); Compare modern German Bruch and English break.

brac n (plural bracuri)

1. defective goods, leftovers, waste

   Synonyms: rest, rămășiță

   • (Can we date this quote?), M. Eminescu, Scrisoarea I:

     Pe când luna strălucește peste-a tomurilor bracuri
     Într-o clipă-l poartă gândul îndărăt cu mii de veacuri
     La-nceput pe când ființă nu era nici neființă
     Pe când totul era lipsă de viață și voință […]

     The moon looks in and sheds its beams a pile of ancient books upon
     He sets his mind to roving back across a thousand ages gone
     Into the time are things began, when being and not being still
     Did not exist to plague man’s mind, and there was neither life nor will […]

• brac in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
• https://www.gabrielditu.com/eminescu/satire_1.asp (for the translation of the quote)