brique

Meaning

1. brick (hardened block used for building)
2. carton box (food packaging)
3. (informal) doorstop (thick, massive book, large book)
4. (slang) ten thousand French francs (one million old francs, ~1524 euros)

Concepts

brick

ingot

briquette

cake

pig

bricks

mud block

mud brick

mold

brick-shaped

piece

brick factory

fragment

clinker

building block

module

shattered

block

briquet

block of metal

metal bar

tile

gable top carton

rock

paving material

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bʁik/

Etymology

Of Germanic origin, from Middle Low German bricke and Middle Dutch brike, related to breken (“to break”).