Bruch

Meaning

  1. (masculine, strong) break, breaking, breach, fracture, rupture
  2. (masculine, strong) fraction
  3. (masculine, strong) fracture (of a bone)
  4. (masculine, strong) hernia
  5. (figuratively, masculine, strong) hernia
  6. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, masculine, slang, strong) ellipsis of Einbruch (“break-in”)

Frequency

C1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/bʁʊx/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German bruch, from Old High German bruh, from Proto-West Germanic *bruki. Cognate with English breach.

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