brunch
English
Etymology
Blend of breakfast + lunch. Attested from 1895 in British English and from 1930 in the United States.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɹʌnt͡ʃ/, /bɹʌnʃ/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌntʃ
Noun
brunch (countable and uncountable, plural brunches)
- A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, and often consisting of typical foods from both of those meals.
- I normally have brunch at the café next to work.
- Let's do brunch sometime at the salad bar!
- Feeling a bit peckish, Sandra made herself some brunch with the leftovers in her fridge.
- April 15 1993, Adam I. Lapidus; Rich Moore, director, “The Front”, in The Simpsons, season 4, episode 19, spoken by Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta):
- I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch.
Derived terms
- brunch word
Descendants
- → Danish: brunch
- → Finnish: brunssi
- → French: brunch
- → German: Brunch
- → Georgian: ბრანჩი (branči)
- → Icelandic: bröns
- → Italian: brunch
- → Japanese: ブランチ (buranchi)
- → Korean: 브런치 (beureonchi)
- → Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: brunsj
- Norwegian Nynorsk: brunsj
- → Polish: brunch
- → Portuguese: brunch
- → Romanian: brunch
- → Russian: бранч (branč)
- → Spanish: brunch
- → Swedish: brunch
Translations
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See also
- dunch
- linner
- lupper
- brinner
- brupper
- dinfast
Verb
brunch (third-person singular simple present brunches, present participle brunching, simple past and past participle brunched)
- To eat brunch.
Further reading
brunch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Danish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English brunch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /brɔnsj/, [ˈb̥ɹʌnɕ], [ˈb̥ʁʌnɕ]
Noun
brunch c (singular definite brunchen, plural indefinite bruncher)
- brunch
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /brɔnˀsj/, [ˈb̥ɹʌnˀɕ], [ˈb̥ʁʌnˀɕ]
Verb
brunch
- imperative of brunche
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbrʏnʃ/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: brunch
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English brunch.
Noun
brunch m (plural brunchen)
- A brunch.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
brunch
- first-person singular present indicative of brunchen
- imperative of brunchen
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from English brunch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbruns/, [ˈbruns̠]
- IPA(key): /ˈbrɑntʃ/, [ˈbrɑn̪t̪ʃ]
Noun
brunch
- (rare) brunch
Declension
| Inflection of brunch (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | brunch | brunchit | |
| genitive | brunchin | brunchien | |
| partitive | brunchia | bruncheja | |
| illative | brunchiin | bruncheihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | brunch | brunchit | |
| accusative | nom. | brunch | brunchit |
| gen. | brunchin | ||
| genitive | brunchin | brunchien | |
| partitive | brunchia | bruncheja | |
| inessive | brunchissa | bruncheissa | |
| elative | brunchista | bruncheista | |
| illative | brunchiin | bruncheihin | |
| adessive | brunchilla | bruncheilla | |
| ablative | brunchilta | bruncheilta | |
| allative | brunchille | bruncheille | |
| essive | brunchina | bruncheina | |
| translative | brunchiksi | bruncheiksi | |
| instructive | — | brunchein | |
| abessive | brunchitta | bruncheitta | |
| comitative | — | bruncheineen | |
| Possessive forms of brunch (type risti) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | brunchini | brunchimme |
| 2nd person | brunchisi | brunchinne |
| 3rd person | brunchinsa | |
Synonyms
- brunssi
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English brunch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bʁœnʃ/, (Quebec) /bʁɔnʃ/
Audio (file)
Noun
brunch m (plural brunches)
- brunch
Related terms
- bruncher
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English brunch.
Noun
brunch m (invariable)
- brunch
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English brunch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /brant͡ʂ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ant͡ʂ
- Syllabification: brunch
Noun
brunch m inan
- brunch
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | brunch | brunche |
| genitive | brunchu | brunchów |
| dative | brunchowi | brunchom |
| accusative | brunch | brunche |
| instrumental | brunchem | brunchami |
| locative | brunchu | brunchach |
| vocative | brunchu | brunche |
Further reading
- brunch in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- brunch in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English brunch.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɾɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɾɐ̃.t͡ʃe/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈbɾɐ̃.t͡ʃ(ɨ)/
Noun
brunch m (plural brunches)
- brunch (meal eaten later than breakfast and earlier than lunch)
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English brunch.
Noun
brunch n (plural brunch-uri)
- brunch
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) brunch | brunchul | (niște) brunch-uri | brunch-urile |
| genitive/dative | (unui) brunch | brunchului | (unor) brunch-uri | brunch-urilor |
| vocative | brunchule | brunch-urilor | ||
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English brunch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɾant͡ʃ/ [ˈbɾãnʲt͡ʃ]
- Rhymes: -antʃ
Noun
brunch m (plural brunchs)
- brunch
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
- “brunch”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Etymology
From English brunch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /brɵnɧ/
- Rhymes: -ɵnɧ
Noun
brunch c
- brunch
Declension
| Declension of brunch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | brunch | brunchen | bruncher | bruncherna |
| Genitive | brunchs | brunchens | brunchers | brunchernas |
Synonyms
- frunch