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You can make 7 words from brit according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of brit

brit rbit birt ibrt ribt irbt brti rbti btri tbri rtbi trbi bitr ibtr btir tbir itbr tibr ritb irtb rtib trib itrb tirb

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Definitions and meaning of brit

brit

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪt

Etymology 1

From Middle English brytten, brutten, from Old English brittian, bryttian (“to divide, dispense, distribute, rule over, possess, enjoy the use of”), from Proto-Germanic *brutjaną (“to break, divide”), from Proto-Germanic *breutaną (“to destroy, crush, break”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewd- (“to break”). Cognate with Icelandic brytja (“to chop up, break in pieces, slaughter”), Swedish bryta (“to break, fracture, cut off”), Danish bryde (“to break”), and outside the Germanic family with Albanian brydh (“I make crumbly, friable, soft”). Related to Old English brytta (“dispenser, giver, author, governor, prince”), Old English brēotan (“to break in pieces, hew down, demolish, destroy, kill”).

Alternative forms

• britt
• brite (dialectal)

Verb

brit (third-person singular simple present brits, present participle britting, simple past and past participle britted)

1. (transitive) To break in pieces; divide.
2. (transitive) To bruise; indent.
3. (intransitive) To fall out or shatter (as overripe hops or grain).
4. (intransitive, dialectal) To fade away; alter.

Derived terms

• britten
• brittle

Etymology 2

Probably from Middle English bret or birt, applied to a different kind of fish. See bret.

Alternative forms

• britt

Noun

brit (plural brit)

1. One of the young of herrings, sprats, etc.
2. One of the tiny crustaceans, of the genus Calanus, that are part of the diet of right whales.

Etymology 3

Short for brit milah.

Alternative forms

• bris

Noun

brit (plural brits)

1. brit milah

Anagrams

• BIRT, Birt, Trib, birt, trib

Albanian

Etymology

Gheg word. From Proto-Albanian *breita, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH- (“to pierce, cut with something sharp”). Cognate to Lithuanian bárti (“to scold, chide”), Old Irish briathar (“argument”), Old Church Slavonic брати (brati, “fight”), Welsh brwydr (“fight, struggle”).

Noun

brit f

1. scream, yell

Derived terms

• bërtas
• britmë

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• britt (archaic, nonstandard)

Etymology

From German Brite, from Latin Brītō̆nēs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbrit]
• Rhymes: -it

Adjective

brit (not comparable)

1. British

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Noun

brit (plural britek)

1. Briton, Brit

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References

Further reading

• brit in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• brit in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)