braaf
Dutch (Brabantic)
/braːf/
adj
Definitions
- well-behaved, obedient
- (dated) honorable, virtuous
Etymology
Borrowed from French brave derived from Italian bravo.
Origin
Italian (Fiorentino)
bravo
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bravo English
- *bravus Latin
- brav German
- bravamente Italian
- bravare Italian
- bravata Italian
- braveria Italian
- bravissimo Italian
- bravo Italian
- bravura Italian
- brave French
- bravement French
- braver French
- bravo French
- браво Russian
- bra Norwegian Bokmål
- brawo Polish
- bra Norwegian Nynorsk
- brav Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- μπράβο Greek (modern)
- brave Middle French
- bravu Maltese
- brav Low German
- brav Haitian, Haitian Creole