brama

See also: Brama, bramá, bramà, and Bráma

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈbɾa.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈbɾa.ma]

Verb

brama

1. inflection of bramar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁa.ma/
• Homophones: bramas, bramât

Verb

brama

1. third-person singular past historic of bramer

Anagrams

• ambra

Galician

Verb

brama

1. inflection of bramar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbra.ma/
• Rhymes: -ama
• Hyphenation: brà‧ma

Etymology 1

Deverbal from bramare (“to long, yearn for”) +‎ -a.

Noun

brama f (plural brame)

1. longing, yearning

   Synonyms: cupidigia, fame, sete, voglia

   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 49–51; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Ed una lupa, che di tutte brame ¶ sembiava carca ne la sua magrezza, ¶ e molte genti fé già viver grame,

     And a she-wolf, that with all hungerings seemed to be laden in her meagreness, ⁠and many folk has caused to live forlorn!

Derived terms

• bramoso

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

brama

1. inflection of bramare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• Ambra, ambra, barma

Javanese

Romanization

brama

1. Romanization of ꦧꦿꦩ