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English

Picture dictionary: head

skullCategory:English links with redundant target parameters#BRAIN

eyebrowCategory:English links with redundant target parameters#BRAIN

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eyeCategory:English links with redundant target parameters#BRAIN

lipCategory:English links with redundant target parameters#BRAIN

noseCategory:English links with redundant target parameters#BRAIN

mouthCategory:English links with redundant target parameters#BRAIN

chinCategory:English links with redundant target parameters#BRAIN

jawCategory:English links with redundant target parameters#BRAIN

earCategory:English links with redundant target parameters#BRAIN

throatCategory:English links with redundant target parameters#BRAIN

templeCategory:English links with redundant target parameters#BRAIN

foreheadCategory:English links with redundant target parameters#BRAIN

neckCategory:English links with redundant target parameters#BRAIN

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A human brain.

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *mregʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *mregʰnom

Proto-Germanic *bragną

Proto-West Germanic *bragn

Old English bræġn

Middle English brayn

English brain

Inherited from Middle English brayn, from Old English bræġn, from Proto-West Germanic *bragn, from Proto-Germanic *bragną, from Proto-Indo-European *mregʰnom, from *mregʰ- + *-mn̥.

Cognate with Scots braine, brane (“brain”), North Frisian brayen, brein, Brain (“brain”), Saterland Frisian Brainge, Bräienge (“brain”), West Frisian brein (“brain”), Dutch brein (“brain”), Low German Brägen, Bregen (“brain”) (whence German Bregen (“animal brain”)), Ancient Greek βρεχμός (brekhmós, “front part of the skull, top of the head”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹeɪ̯n/Category:English 1-syllable words#BRAINCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#BRAIN
- Audio (UK): (file)
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(General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹæ̝ɪ̯n/Category:English 1-syllable words#BRAIN Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#BRAIN
(Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈbɾen/Category:English 1-syllable words#BRAIN Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#BRAIN
(Wales, without the pane–pain merger) IPA^(key): /ˈbɾein/Category:English 1-syllable words#BRAIN Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#BRAIN
Rhymes: -eɪn Category:Rhymes:English/eɪn#BRAIN Category:Rhymes:English/eɪn/1 syllable#BRAIN
Homophone: brane (pane–pain merger)Category:English terms with homophones#BRAIN

Noun

brain (countable and uncountable, plural brains)Category:English lemmas#BRAIN Category:English nouns#BRAIN Category:English uncountable nouns#BRAIN Category:English countable nouns#BRAIN Category:English countable nouns#BRAIN Category:English entries with incorrect language header#BRAIN Category:Pages with entries#BRAIN Category:Pages with 5 entries#BRAIN

The control center of the central nervous system of an animal located in the skull which is responsible for perception, cognition, attention, memory, emotion, and action.
Synonyms: encephalon, harns; see also Thesaurus:brain
- 1587, Philip of Mornay [i.e., Philippe de Mornay], “That there is but Onely One God”, in Philip Sidney, Arthur Golding, transl., A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion, […], London: […] [John Charlewood and] George Robinson for Thomas Cadman, […], →OCLC, page 18:
  The Ueynes are ſpred foorth throughout the whole bodie, howbeit from one welhead, that is to ſay from the Liuer: ſo be the Sinews, howbeit from the Brayne; So likewiſe are the Heartſtrings, howbeit from the Heart.
  Category:English terms with quotations#BRAIN
- 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 49:
  The brain of a calf, sheep, and pig, young and served fresh, is reputedly erotic in its effects.
  Category:English terms with quotations#BRAIN
- 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly‎, volume 189, number 6, page 34:
  Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
  Category:English terms with quotations#BRAIN
1. A part of the brain, especially associated with particular mental functions, abilities, etc.
  - 1892, Benjamin Ward Richardson, The Asclepiad, London, page 357:
    The left brain, or that which supplies and animates the right side of the body, is the most active brain, as a general rule.
    Category:English terms with quotations#BRAIN
  - 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 113:
    What is expressed in the lotus, the plumed serpent, or the staff of Osiris is the yogi's knowledge of the three brains of man. The first brain is the reptilian brain of the spinal cord, the brain of instinctive reflexes, the brain of the subconscious.
    Category:English terms with quotations#BRAIN
2. (obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#BRAIN) skull; head
  - 1690, “Preface to the Reader”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies, London: Randal Taylor, page ii:
    caused the young Princess, the King's only Daughter, to be taken and thrust into a large velvet Sack, and her Brains to be knockt out with great Bars
    Category:English terms with quotations#BRAIN
(informal Category:English informal terms#BRAIN) Mind.
I have too much on my brain today.Category:English terms with usage examples#BRAIN
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XIV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 22:
  And I should tell him all my pain, / ⁠And how my life had droop’d of late, / ⁠And he should sorrow o’er my state / And marvel what possess’d my brain; […]
  Category:English terms with quotations#BRAIN
(in the plural) Intellect.
- 2008 Quaker Action (magazine) Rights trampled in rush to deport immigrant workers, Fall 2008, Vol. 89, No. 3, p. 8:
  "We provided a lot of brains and a lot of heart to the response when it was needed," says Sandra Sanchez, director of AFSC's Immigrants' Voice Program in Des Moines.
She has a lot of brains.Category:English terms with usage examples#BRAIN
(informal Category:English informal terms#BRAIN) An intelligent person.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:genius

She was a total brain.Category:English terms with usage examples#BRAIN
- 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Nexus:
  Peebee: The brains and I are comparing Remnant notes and filling in the blanks.
  Category:English terms with quotations#BRAIN
1. (plural onlyCategory:English pluralia tantum#BRAIN) A person who provides the intelligence required for something.
  He is the brains behind the scheme.Category:English terms with usage examples#BRAIN
2. (in the singular) An intellectual or mental capacity.
  Gerald always acts like he doesn't have a brain.Category:English terms with usage examples#BRAIN
By analogy with a human brain, the part of a machine or computer that performs calculations.
The computer's brain is capable of millions of calculations a second.Category:English terms with usage examples#BRAIN
(slang Category:English slang#BRAIN, vulgar Category:English vulgarities#BRAIN, uncountable Category:English uncountable nouns#BRAIN) Oral sex.
- 2007, “Good Life”, in Graduation, performed by Kanye West ft. T-Pain:
  Have you ever popped champagne on a plane, while gettin' some brain?
  Category:English terms with quotations#BRAIN
- 2012, Mack Maine featuring Turk and Mystikal, I'm On It:
  You said I got brain from your dame in the range / In the passing lane / But you really ain't got no proof
  Category:English terms with quotations#BRAIN
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- 2012, “Boss Ass Bitch”, performed by PTAF:
  Got your nigga going / Going insane and so do I when he give me brain
  Category:English terms with quotations#BRAIN
- 2018, “Squidrific”, performed by SahBabii:
  She giving brain / She eat the dick up like some M&Ms
  Category:English terms with quotations#BRAIN
A loose compartment of a backpack that straps on over the top opening.

Alternative forms

brayne (obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

organ

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Abkhaz: ахшыбаҩ (ab) (axŝəbajʷ)Category:Terms with Abkhaz translations#BRAIN
Afrikaans: brein (af)Category:Terms with Afrikaans translations#BRAIN, harsings (af) plCategory:Terms with Afrikaans translations#BRAIN
Agta:
Dupaningan Agta: utakCategory:Terms with Dupaningan Agta translations#BRAIN
Aklanon: utokCategory:Terms with Aklanon translations#BRAIN
Albanian: tru (sq) mCategory:Terms with Albanian translations#BRAIN
Altai:
Southern Altai: мее (alt) (mee)Category:Terms with Southern Altai translations#BRAIN
Amharic: አንጐል (am) (ʾängʷäl)Category:Terms with Amharic translations#BRAIN
Ao: tokolokCategory:Terms with Ao translations#BRAIN (Chungli)
Apache:
Western Apache: bitsighąąʼ (apw)Category:Terms with Western Apache translations#BRAIN
Arabic: دِمَاغ (ar) m (dimāḡ)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#BRAIN, مخ (ar) m (muḵḵ)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#BRAIN
Egyptian Arabic: مخ (arz) m (muḵḵ)Category:Terms with Egyptian Arabic translations#BRAIN, نفوخ (arz) m (nafūḵ)Category:Terms with Egyptian Arabic translations#BRAIN

Hijazi Arabic: دِماغ m (dimāḡ)Category:Terms with Hijazi Arabic translations#BRAIN, مُخ m (muḵḵ)Category:Terms with Hijazi Arabic translations#BRAIN

Moroccan Arabic: مخ (ary) m (muḵḵ)Category:Terms with Moroccan Arabic translations#BRAIN, دماغ (ary) m (dmāḡ)Category:Terms with Moroccan Arabic translations#BRAIN

North Levantine Arabic: دماغ (apc) m (dmāḡ)Category:Terms with North Levantine Arabic translations#BRAIN, مخ (apc) m (miḵḵ)Category:Terms with North Levantine Arabic translations#BRAIN

South Levantine Arabic: مخ (ajp) m (muḵḵ)Category:Terms with South Levantine Arabic translations#BRAIN, دماغ (ajp) m (dmāḡ)Category:Terms with South Levantine Arabic translations#BRAIN
Aragonese: celebro (an)Category:Terms with Aragonese translations#BRAIN
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܡܘܚܐ (syc) m (mūḥā)Category:Terms with Classical Syriac translations#BRAIN
Armenian: ուղեղ (hy) (uġeġ)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#BRAIN
Aromanian: crier (roa-rup) mCategory:Terms with Aromanian translations#BRAIN, mãduã (roa-rup) fCategory:Terms with Aromanian translations#BRAIN, midulj (roa-rup) nCategory:Terms with Aromanian translations#BRAIN
Arrernte:
Eastern Arrernte: akurrknge (aer)Category:Terms with Eastern Arrernte translations#BRAIN
Assamese: মগজু (as) (mogozu)Category:Terms with Assamese translations#BRAIN
Asturian: cerebru (ast) mCategory:Terms with Asturian translations#BRAIN
Azerbaijani: beyin (az)Category:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#BRAIN
Bajau:
West Coast Bajau: utok (bdr)Category:Terms with West Coast Bajau translations#BRAIN
Bashkir: мейе (ba) (meye)Category:Terms with Bashkir translations#BRAIN
Basque: garun (eu)Category:Terms with Basque translations#BRAIN
Belarusian: мозг (be) m (mozh)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#BRAIN, мо́заг (be) m (mózah)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#BRAIN (Taraškievica)
Bengali: মস্তিষ্ক (bn) (mostiśko)Category:Terms with Bengali translations#BRAIN, মগজ (bn) (mogoj)Category:Terms with Bengali translations#BRAIN, দেমাগ (bn) (demag)Category:Terms with Bengali translations#BRAIN
Bhojpuri: दिमाग (bh) (dimāg)Category:Terms with Bhojpuri translations#BRAIN
Bidayuh:
Bau Bidayuh: otok (sne)Category:Terms with Bau Bidayuh translations#BRAIN, otok (sne)Category:Terms with Bau Bidayuh translations#BRAIN
Bikol:
Central Bikol: hutok (bcl)Category:Terms with Central Bikol translations#BRAIN
Binukid: utekCategory:Terms with Binukid translations#BRAIN
Breton: empenn (br) mCategory:Terms with Breton translations#BRAIN
Buginese: uta (bug)Category:Terms with Buginese translations#BRAIN
Bulgarian: мо́зък (bg) m (mózǎk)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#BRAIN
Burmese: ဦးနှောက် (my) (u:hnauk)Category:Terms with Burmese translations#BRAIN
Buryat: тархи (bxr) (tarxi)Category:Terms with Buryat translations#BRAIN
Carpathian Rusyn: мо́зоґ (rue) m (mózog)Category:Terms with Carpathian Rusyn translations#BRAIN
Catalan: cervell (ca) mCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#BRAIN
Cebuano: utok (ceb)Category:Terms with Cebuano translations#BRAIN
Chechen: хье (ce) (ḥʳe)Category:Terms with Chechen translations#BRAIN, хьекъал (ce) (ḥʳeqʼal)Category:Terms with Chechen translations#BRAIN
Cherokee: ᎤᏅᏥᏓ (chr) (unvtsida)Category:Terms with Cherokee translations#BRAIN
Chinese:
Cantonese: 腦 / 脑 (yue) (nou⁵)Category:Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations#BRAIN Category:Terms with Cantonese translations#BRAIN, 腦部 / 脑部 (yue) (nou⁵ bou⁶)Category:Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations#BRAIN Category:Terms with Cantonese translations#BRAIN

Dungan: нозы (nozɨ)Category:Terms with Dungan translations#BRAIN

Eastern Min: 頭腦 / 头脑 (cdo) (tàu-nō̤)Category:Terms with Eastern Min translations#BRAIN

Hakka: 頭腦 / 头脑 (hak) (thèu-nó)Category:Terms with Hakka translations#BRAIN

Hokkien: 腦 / 脑 (zh-min-nan) (náu)Category:Terms with Hokkien translations#BRAIN, 腦部 / 脑部 (zh-min-nan) (náu-pō͘)Category:Terms with Hokkien translations#BRAIN

Mandarin: 頭腦 / 头脑 (zh) (tóunǎo)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#BRAIN Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#BRAIN, 腦 / 脑 (zh) (nǎo)Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#BRAIN, 腦部 / 脑部 (zh) (nǎobù)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#BRAIN Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#BRAIN, 腦子 / 脑子 (zh) (nǎozi)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#BRAIN Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#BRAIN

Northern Min: 頭腦 / 头脑 (tê-nǎu)Category:Terms with Northern Min translations#BRAIN

Wu: 腦 / 脑 (wuu)Category:Terms with Wu translations#BRAIN, 腦子 / 脑子 (wuu)Category:Terms with Wu translations#BRAIN
Chuvash: миме (cv) (mime)Category:Terms with Chuvash translations#BRAIN
Circassian:
West Circassian: куцӏы (kʷucʼə)Category:Terms with West Circassian translations#BRAIN
Coptic: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Coptic#BRAIN
Cornish: ympynnyon (kw)Category:Terms with Cornish translations#BRAIN
Crimean Tatar: miy (crh)Category:Terms with Crimean Tatar translations#BRAIN, dimağ (crh)Category:Terms with Crimean Tatar translations#BRAIN
Czech: mozek (cs) mCategory:Terms with Czech translations#BRAIN
Dakota: nasúna (dak)Category:Terms with Dakota translations#BRAIN
Dalmatian: carviale mCategory:Terms with Dalmatian translations#BRAIN
Danish: hjerne (da) cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#BRAIN
Dargwa: мехӏе (dar) (meḥe)Category:Terms with Dargwa translations#BRAIN
Dhivehi: ސިކުނޑި (dv) (sikuⁿḍi)Category:Terms with Dhivehi translations#BRAIN
Dutch: hersenen (nl) plCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#BRAIN, hersens (nl) plCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#BRAIN, brein (nl) nCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#BRAIN
Egyptian:

(ꜣjs n ḏnnt m)Category:Terms with Egyptian translations,

(ꜥmm m)Category:Terms with Egyptian translations
Elfdalian: ienne (ovd) mCategory:Terms with Elfdalian translations#BRAIN
Erzya: пряудем (myv) (pŕauďem)Category:Terms with Erzya translations#BRAIN, удем (myv) (uďem)Category:Terms with Erzya translations#BRAIN
Esperanto: cerbo (eo)Category:Terms with Esperanto translations#BRAIN, encefalo (eo)Category:Terms with Esperanto translations#BRAIN
Estonian: aju (et)Category:Terms with Estonian translations#BRAIN
Even: иргэ (irgə)Category:Terms with Even translations#BRAIN
Evenki: иргэ (irgə)Category:Terms with Evenki translations#BRAIN
Faroese: heili (fo) mCategory:Terms with Faroese translations#BRAIN
Finnish: aivot (fi) plCategory:Terms with Finnish translations#BRAIN
French: cerveau (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#BRAIN, (pejorative or when used as food) cervelle (fr) fCategory:Terms with French translations#BRAIN, encéphale (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#BRAIN
Frisian:
North Frisian: Brain (frr)Category:Terms with North Frisian translations#BRAIN (Sylt)

West Frisian: brein (fy)Category:Terms with West Frisian translations#BRAIN, harsens (fy)Category:Terms with West Frisian translations#BRAIN
Friulian: cerviel (fur) mCategory:Terms with Friulian translations#BRAIN, čurviel (fur) mCategory:Terms with Friulian translations#BRAIN
Galician: cerebro (gl) mCategory:Terms with Galician translations#BRAIN
Georgian: ტვინი (ka) (ṭvini)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#BRAIN
German: Gehirn (de) nCategory:Terms with German translations#BRAIN, Hirn (de) nCategory:Terms with German translations#BRAIN
Old High German: hirni (goh) nCategory:Terms with Old High German translations#BRAIN
Greek: εγκέφαλος (el) m (egkéfalos)Category:Terms with Greek translations#BRAIN, (when used as food) μυαλά (el) n pl (myalá)Category:Terms with Greek translations#BRAIN
Ancient Greek: ἐγκέφαλος (grc) m (enképhalos)Category:Terms with Ancient Greek translations#BRAIN
Greenlandic: qarasaq (kl)Category:Terms with Greenlandic translations#BRAIN
Gujarati: મગજ (gu) (magaj)Category:Terms with Gujarati translations#BRAIN
Guugu Yimidhirr: garuCategory:Terms with Guugu Yimidhirr translations#BRAIN
Haitian Creole: sèvo (ht)Category:Terms with Haitian Creole translations#BRAIN, sèvèl (ht)Category:Terms with Haitian Creole translations#BRAIN
Hawaiian: lolo (haw)Category:Terms with Hawaiian translations#BRAIN
Hebrew: מוח \ מֹחַ (he) m (móakh)Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#BRAIN
Higaonon: otokCategory:Terms with Higaonon translations#BRAIN
Hiligaynon: utok (hil)Category:Terms with Hiligaynon translations#BRAIN
Hindi: भेजा (hi) m (bhejā)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#BRAIN, मस्तिष्क (hi) m (mastiṣk)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#BRAIN, दिमाग़ (hi) m (dimāġ)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#BRAIN, मग़्ज़ (hi) m (maġz)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#BRAIN, मग्ज (hi) m (magj)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#BRAIN
Hungarian: agy (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#BRAIN
Icelandic: heili (is) mCategory:Terms with Icelandic translations#BRAIN
Ido: cerebro (io)Category:Terms with Ido translations#BRAIN
Ilocano: utek (ilo)Category:Terms with Ilocano translations#BRAIN
Indonesian: otak (id)Category:Terms with Indonesian translations#BRAIN, benak (id)Category:Terms with Indonesian translations#BRAIN
Ingrian: aivo (izh)Category:Terms with Ingrian translations#BRAIN
Ingush: хьоа (inh) (ḥʳoa)Category:Terms with Ingush translations#BRAIN
Interlingua: cerebro (ia)Category:Terms with Interlingua translations#BRAIN
Irish: inchinn (ga) fCategory:Terms with Irish translations#BRAIN
Italian: cervello (it) mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#BRAIN, (pejorative or when used as food) cervella (it) f plCategory:Terms with Italian translations#BRAIN
Ivatan: otekCategory:Terms with Ivatan translations#BRAIN
Japanese: 脳 (ja) (のう, nō)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#BRAIN, 脳髄 (ja) (のうずい, nōzui)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#BRAIN, 頭脳 (ja) (ずのう, zunō)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#BRAIN, 脳 (ja) (なずき, nazuki)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#BRAIN
Javanese: utek (jv)Category:Terms with Javanese translations#BRAIN
Jeju: 머릿골 (jje) (meoritgol)Category:Terms with Jeju translations#BRAIN, 골머리 (jje) (golmeori)Category:Terms with Jeju translations#BRAIN
Kabuverdianu:
ALUPEC: cerébr'

Badiu: sirébru

São Vicente: cerebro
Kaitag: маъ (maʾ)Category:Terms with Kaitag translations#BRAIN
Kala Lagaw Ya: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Kala Lagaw Ya#BRAIN
Kalmyk: экн (xal) (ekn)Category:Terms with Kalmyk translations#BRAIN
Kannada: ಮೆದುಳು (kn) (meduḷu)Category:Terms with Kannada translations#BRAIN, ಮಸ್ತಿಷ್ಕ (kn) (mastiṣka)Category:Terms with Kannada translations#BRAIN, ಮಿದುಳು (kn) (miduḷu)Category:Terms with Kannada translations#BRAIN
Kapampangan: utak (pam)Category:Terms with Kapampangan translations#BRAIN
Karelian: aivot (krl)Category:Terms with Karelian translations#BRAIN
Kashmiri: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Kashmiri#BRAIN
Kashubian: mùsk (csb) mCategory:Terms with Kashubian translations#BRAIN
Kaurna: mukamukaCategory:Terms with Kaurna translations#BRAIN, ngarrumukaCategory:Terms with Kaurna translations#BRAIN
Kazakh: ми (kk) (mi)Category:Terms with Kazakh translations#BRAIN
Khmer: ខួរក្បាល (km) (khuə kbaal)Category:Terms with Khmer translations#BRAIN
Kikuyu: tombo (ki)Category:Terms with Kikuyu translations#BRAIN
Kiput: utekCategory:Terms with Kiput translations#BRAIN
Komi:
Komi-Permyak: вем (koi) (vem)Category:Terms with Komi-Permyak translations#BRAIN

Komi-Zyrian: вем (kv) (vem)Category:Terms with Komi-Zyrian translations#BRAIN
Korean: 뇌(腦) (ko) (noe)Category:Terms with Korean translations#BRAIN, 뇌수(腦髓) (ko) (noesu)Category:Terms with Korean translations#BRAIN, 두뇌(頭腦) (ko) (dunoe)Category:Terms with Korean translations#BRAIN, 골 (ko) (gol)Category:Terms with Korean translations#BRAIN, 머릿골 (ko) (meoritgol)Category:Terms with Korean translations#BRAIN
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: مێشک (ckb) (mêşk)Category:Terms with Central Kurdish translations#BRAIN

Northern Kurdish: demax (ku) mCategory:Terms with Northern Kurdish translations#BRAIN, mejî (ku) mCategory:Terms with Northern Kurdish translations#BRAIN
Kyrgyz: мээ (ky) (mee)Category:Terms with Kyrgyz translations#BRAIN
Lak: ня (lbe) (naˤ)Category:Terms with Lak translations#BRAIN
Lao: ສະໝອງ (lo) (sa mǭng)Category:Terms with Lao translations#BRAIN
Latgalian: smedzinis (ltg) plCategory:Terms with Latgalian translations#BRAIN
Latin: cerebrum (la) nCategory:Terms with Latin translations#BRAIN
Latvian: smadzenes (lv) plCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#BRAIN
Lenakel: nenourəkCategory:Terms with Lenakel translations#BRAIN
Lezgi: мефтӏ (lez) (mefṭ)Category:Terms with Lezgi translations#BRAIN
Lithuanian: smegenys (lt) f plCategory:Terms with Lithuanian translations#BRAIN
Lombard: cervell (lmo)Category:Terms with Lombard translations#BRAIN
Low German: Brägen (nds) mCategory:Terms with Low German translations#BRAIN
Lü: ᦀᦸᧅᧈᦶᦀᧅᧈ (˙ʼoak¹˙ʼaek¹)Category:Terms with Lü translations#BRAIN
Luxembourgish: Gehir (lb)Category:Terms with Luxembourgish translations#BRAIN
Macedonian: мозок (mk) m (mozok)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#BRAIN
Makasar: uta (mak)Category:Terms with Makasar translations#BRAIN
Malagasy: atidoha (mg)Category:Terms with Malagasy translations#BRAIN
Malay: otak (ms)Category:Terms with Malay translations#BRAIN, benak (ms)Category:Terms with Malay translations#BRAIN
Pattani Malay: اوْتاوْء (mfa)Category:Terms with Pattani Malay translations#BRAIN
Malayalam: തലച്ചോറ് (ml) (talaccōṟ‌)Category:Terms with Malayalam translations#BRAIN, മൂള (ml) (mūḷa)Category:Terms with Malayalam translations#BRAIN, മസ്തിഷ്കം (ml) (mastiṣkaṁ)Category:Terms with Malayalam translations#BRAIN
Maltese: moħħ (mt) mCategory:Terms with Maltese translations#BRAIN
Manchu: ᡶᡝᡥᡳ (mnc) (fehi)Category:Terms with Manchu translations#BRAIN
Mansaka: otokCategory:Terms with Mansaka translations#BRAIN
Māori: roro (mi)Category:Terms with Māori translations#BRAIN
Maranao: otekCategory:Terms with Maranao translations#BRAIN
Marathi: मेंदू (mr) m (mendū)Category:Terms with Marathi translations#BRAIN
Mari:
Eastern Mari: вем (mhr) (vem)Category:Terms with Eastern Mari translations#BRAIN, вуйдорык (mhr) (vujdoryk)Category:Terms with Eastern Mari translations#BRAIN
Moksha: уй (mdf) (uj)Category:Terms with Moksha translations#BRAIN
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: тархи (mn) (tarxi)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#BRAIN

Mongolian script: ᠲᠠᠷᠢᠬᠢ (mn) (tariki)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#BRAIN
Naga:
Khiamniungan Naga: khǖîeCategory:Terms with Khiamniungan Naga translations#BRAIN
Nahuatl: cuātextli (nah)Category:Terms with Nahuatl translations#BRAIN
Nanai: игэ (gld) (ige)Category:Terms with Nanai translations#BRAIN
Navajo: atsiighąąʼ (nv)Category:Terms with Navajo translations#BRAIN
Nenets:
Tundra Nenets: немэй (nyemey°)Category:Terms with Tundra Nenets translations#BRAIN, нгэвэй (ngewey°)Category:Terms with Tundra Nenets translations#BRAIN
Nepali: मस्तिष्क (ne) (mastiṣka)Category:Terms with Nepali translations#BRAIN
Nivkh: ӈаўр̌к (ŋawřk)Category:Terms with Nivkh translations#BRAIN
Norman: chèrvé (nrm) mCategory:Terms with Norman translations#BRAIN
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hjerne (no) mCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#BRAIN

Nynorsk: hjerne (nn) mCategory:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations#BRAIN, heile (nn) mCategory:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations#BRAIN
Occitan: cervèl (oc) mCategory:Terms with Occitan translations#BRAIN
Odia: ମସ୍ତିଷ୍କ (or) (mastiṣka)Category:Terms with Odia translations#BRAIN
Ojibwe: (my brain) niinindib (oj)Category:Terms with Ojibwe translations#BRAIN
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: мозгъ (cu) m (mozgŭ)Category:Terms with Old Church Slavonic translations#BRAIN

Glagolitic: ⰿⱁⰸⰳⱏ (cu) m (mozgŭ)Category:Terms with Old Church Slavonic translations#BRAIN
Old East Slavic: мозгъ m (mozgŭ)Category:Terms with Old East Slavic translations#BRAIN
Old English: bræġn (ang) nCategory:Terms with Old English translations#BRAIN
Old Saxon: hirni (osx) nCategory:Terms with Old Saxon translations#BRAIN
Oromo: sammuu (om)Category:Terms with Oromo translations#BRAIN
Ossetian: магъз (os) (maǧz)Category:Terms with Ossetian translations#BRAIN
Pali: matthaluṅga (pi)Category:Terms with Pali translations#BRAIN
Pannonian Rusyn: мозоґ (rsk) m (mozog)Category:Terms with Pannonian Rusyn translations#BRAIN
Pashto: ماغزه (ps) (māğza)Category:Terms with Pashto translations#BRAIN
Persian:
Dari: مَغْز (fa) (maġz)Category:Terms with Dari translations#BRAIN Category:Terms with Persian translations#BRAIN, دِمَاغ (fa) (dimāġ)Category:Terms with Dari translations#BRAIN Category:Terms with Persian translations#BRAIN

Iranian Persian: مَغْز (fa) (maġz)Category:Terms with Iranian Persian translations#BRAIN Category:Terms with Persian translations#BRAIN, دِماغ (fa) (demâġ)Category:Terms with Iranian Persian translations#BRAIN Category:Terms with Persian translations#BRAIN (archaic)
Piedmontese: sërvel (pms) mCategory:Terms with Piedmontese translations#BRAIN
Pitjantjatjara: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Pitjantjatjara#BRAIN
Polish: mózg (pl) mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#BRAIN
Portuguese: cérebro (pt) mCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#BRAIN
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਦਿਮਾਗ਼ (pa) m (dimāġ)Category:Terms with Punjabi translations#BRAIN

Shahmukhi: دِماغ (pa) m (dimāġ)Category:Terms with Punjabi translations#BRAIN
Quechua: ñutgo (qu)Category:Terms with Quechua translations#BRAIN, togşu (qu)Category:Terms with Quechua translations#BRAIN
Rapa Nui: roroCategory:Terms with Rapa Nui translations#BRAIN
Romanian: creier (ro) mCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#BRAIN
Romansh: tscharvè (rm) mCategory:Terms with Romansh translations#BRAIN
Russian: головно́й мозг (ru) m (golovnój mozg)Category:Terms with Russian translations#BRAIN, мозг (ru) m (mozg)Category:Terms with Russian translations#BRAIN, мозги́ (ru) m pl (mozgí)Category:Terms with Russian translations#BRAIN
Sanskrit: मस्तिष्क (sa) n (mastiṣka)Category:Terms with Sanskrit translations#BRAIN, तेजस (sa) n (tejasa)Category:Terms with Sanskrit translations#BRAIN
Santali: ᱦᱟᱛᱟᱲ (sat) (hataṛ)Category:Terms with Santali translations#BRAIN, ᱵᱷᱮᱡᱟ (sat) (bheja)Category:Terms with Santali translations#BRAIN
Sardinian: cerbedhu (sc) mCategory:Terms with Sardinian translations#BRAIN, cerbeddu (sc)Category:Terms with Sardinian translations#BRAIN, cherveddu (sc)Category:Terms with Sardinian translations#BRAIN, carbedhu (sc)Category:Terms with Sardinian translations#BRAIN, carbeddu (sc)Category:Terms with Sardinian translations#BRAIN, cialbedhu (sc)Category:Terms with Sardinian translations#BRAIN, carvedhu (sc)Category:Terms with Sardinian translations#BRAIN, carveddu (sc)Category:Terms with Sardinian translations#BRAIN, carvedha (sc)Category:Terms with Sardinian translations#BRAIN, celbedhu (sc)Category:Terms with Sardinian translations#BRAIN, ciobedhus (sc)Category:Terms with Sardinian translations#BRAIN, ciorbedhu (sc)Category:Terms with Sardinian translations#BRAIN, gerbedhu (sc)Category:Terms with Sardinian translations#BRAIN, tzalbedhu (sc)Category:Terms with Sardinian translations#BRAIN
Scots: harn (sco)Category:Terms with Scots translations#BRAIN
Scottish Gaelic: eanchainn (gd) fCategory:Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations#BRAIN
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: мо̏зак (sh) mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#BRAIN

Latin: mȍzak (sh) mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#BRAIN
Shan: ဢွၵ်းဢေႃ (shn) (ʼáuk ʼǎu)Category:Terms with Shan translations#BRAIN
Sicilian: ciriveddu (scn) mCategory:Terms with Sicilian translations#BRAIN
Silesian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Silesian#BRAIN
Sindhi: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Sindhi#BRAIN
Sinhalese: මොළයේ (si) (moḷayē)Category:Terms with Sinhalese translations#BRAIN
Slovak: mozog (sk) mCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#BRAIN
Old Slovak: mozgy m plCategory:Terms with Old Slovak translations#BRAIN
Slovene: možgani (sl) m plCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#BRAIN
Somali: maskax (so)Category:Terms with Somali translations#BRAIN
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: mórzgi (dsb) plCategory:Terms with Lower Sorbian translations#BRAIN

Upper Sorbian: mozy (hsb) plCategory:Terms with Upper Sorbian translations#BRAIN
Sotho: boko (st)Category:Terms with Sotho translations#BRAIN
Spanish: cerebro (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#BRAIN, cerebral (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#BRAIN (attributive)
Sudovian: stirgena fCategory:Terms with Sudovian translations#BRAIN, mazgena fCategory:Terms with Sudovian translations#BRAIN
Swahili: ubongo (sw) class uCategory:Terms with Swahili translations#BRAIN
Swedish: hjärna (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#BRAIN
Tagalog: (literally) utak (tl) nCategory:Terms with Tagalog translations#BRAIN
Tajik: мағз (tg) (maġz)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#BRAIN
Tamil: மூளை (ta) (mūḷai)Category:Terms with Tamil translations#BRAIN
Tarifit: aǧi (rif) mCategory:Terms with Tarifit translations#BRAIN, amerɣiɣ (rif) mCategory:Terms with Tarifit translations#BRAIN
Tatar: ми (tt) (mi)Category:Terms with Tatar translations#BRAIN
Tausug: utuk (tsg)Category:Terms with Tausug translations#BRAIN
Tày: oóc áyCategory:Terms with Tày translations#BRAIN, oóc écCategory:Terms with Tày translations#BRAIN
Telugu: మెదడు (te) (medaḍu)Category:Terms with Telugu translations#BRAIN
Tetum: kakutak (tet)Category:Terms with Tetum translations#BRAIN
Thai: มันสมอง (th) (man-sà-mɔ̌ɔng)Category:Terms with Thai translations#BRAIN, สมอง (th) (sà-mɔ̌ɔng)Category:Terms with Thai translations#BRAIN
Northern Thai: ᩋᩬᨠᩋᩴᩬ (nod)Category:Terms with Northern Thai translations#BRAIN

Southern Thai: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Southern Thai#BRAIN
Tibetan: ཀླད་པ (bo) (klad pa)Category:Terms with Tibetan translations#BRAIN
Tigrinya: ሓንጎል (ti) (ḥangol)Category:Terms with Tigrinya translations#BRAIN
Tokelauan: māfaufauCategory:Terms with Tokelauan translations#BRAIN
Turkish: beyin (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#BRAIN
Ottoman Turkish: بینی (ota) (beyni)Category:Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations#BRAIN, دماغ (ota) (demağ)Category:Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations#BRAIN, مغز (ota) (mağz)Category:Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations#BRAIN, مخ (ota) (muh)Category:Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations#BRAIN
Turkmen: beýin (tk)Category:Terms with Turkmen translations#BRAIN
Tuvan: мээ (tyv) (mee)Category:Terms with Tuvan translations#BRAIN
Ukrainian: мо́зок (uk) m (mózok)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#BRAIN
Unami: tëmpCategory:Terms with Unami translations#BRAIN
Urdu: دِماغ (ur) m (dimāġ)Category:Terms with Urdu translations#BRAIN, مَغْز (ur) m (maġz)Category:Terms with Urdu translations#BRAIN, بھیجا (ur) m (bhejā)Category:Terms with Urdu translations#BRAIN
Uyghur: مېڭە (ug) (më'nge)Category:Terms with Uyghur translations#BRAIN
Uzbek: miya (uz)Category:Terms with Uzbek translations#BRAIN
Venetan: çervèl (vec) mCategory:Terms with Venetan translations#BRAIN, serveło (vec) mCategory:Terms with Venetan translations#BRAIN, zerveło (vec) mCategory:Terms with Venetan translations#BRAIN, servèl (vec) mCategory:Terms with Venetan translations#BRAIN, zhervèl (vec)Category:Terms with Venetan translations#BRAIN, sarveło (vec) mCategory:Terms with Venetan translations#BRAIN, çarvèl (vec) mCategory:Terms with Venetan translations#BRAIN, zharvèl (vec) mCategory:Terms with Venetan translations#BRAIN, cèlebro (vec) mCategory:Terms with Venetan translations#BRAIN
Vietnamese: óc (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#BRAIN, não (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#BRAIN
Volapük: brein (vo)Category:Terms with Volapük translations#BRAIN
Votic: ajud (vot) plCategory:Terms with Votic translations#BRAIN
Walloon: cervea (wa) mCategory:Terms with Walloon translations#BRAIN
Waray-Waray: utok (war)Category:Terms with Waray-Waray translations#BRAIN
Warlpiri: ngukunypa (wbp)Category:Terms with Warlpiri translations#BRAIN
Welsh: ymennydd (cy)Category:Terms with Welsh translations#BRAIN
Wiradjuri: kábukaCategory:Terms with Wiradjuri translations#BRAIN
Wolof: yóor (wo)Category:Terms with Wolof translations#BRAIN
Yakut: мэйии (sah) (meyii)Category:Terms with Yakut translations#BRAIN
Yami: etek (tao)Category:Terms with Yami translations#BRAIN
Yiddish: מוח (yi) m (moyekh)Category:Yiddish terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#BRAIN Category:Terms with Yiddish translations#BRAIN, געהירן (yi) (gehirn)Category:Terms with Yiddish translations#BRAIN
Yoruba: ọ̀bụ́tụ̀n (yo)Category:Terms with Yoruba translations#BRAIN, ọpọlọ (yo)Category:Terms with Yoruba translations#BRAIN
Zazaki: megz (diq)Category:Terms with Zazaki translations#BRAIN, mezg (diq)Category:Terms with Zazaki translations#BRAIN
Zhuang: uk (za)Category:Terms with Zhuang translations#BRAIN, ngog (za)Category:Terms with Zhuang translations#BRAIN (dialectal), ukek (za)Category:Terms with Zhuang translations#BRAIN (dialectal)

intelligent person

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Armenian: մոզգ (hy) (mozg)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#BRAIN, խելքի տոպրակ (hy) (xelkʻi toprak)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#BRAIN, խելք (hy) (xelkʻ)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#BRAIN
Bengali: জ্ঞানী (bn) (gêni)Category:Terms with Bengali translations#BRAIN, বিদ্যান (bn) (biddan)Category:Terms with Bengali translations#BRAIN
Bulgarian: мо́зък (bg) m (mózǎk)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#BRAIN
Chinese:
Mandarin: 聰明人 / 聪明人 (zh) (cōngmíngrén)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#BRAIN Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#BRAIN
Dutch: brein (nl) nCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#BRAIN, breinbaas (nl) mCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#BRAIN
Estonian: aju (et)Category:Terms with Estonian translations#BRAIN (slang)
Finnish: älykkö (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#BRAIN
French: cerveau (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#BRAIN, tête (fr) fCategory:Terms with French translations#BRAIN
German: Superhirn (de) nCategory:Terms with German translations#BRAIN, Intelligenzbestie (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#BRAIN
Greek: μυαλό (el) n (myaló)Category:Terms with Greek translations#BRAIN, διάνοια (el) f (diánoia)Category:Terms with Greek translations#BRAIN, ιδιοφυΐα (el) f (idiofyḯa)Category:Terms with Greek translations#BRAIN
Hindi: बुद्धिमान (hi) m (buddhimān)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#BRAIN
Japanese: 頭のいい人 (atama no ii hito)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#BRAIN, 秀才 (ja) (しゅうさい, shūsai)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#BRAIN, 智者 (ja) (ちしゃ, chisha)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#BRAIN
Malayalam: ബുദ്ധിമാന് (ml) (buddhimāṉ)Category:Pages using discouraged character sequences#BRAIN Category:Terms with Malayalam translations#BRAIN
Māori: mōhio (mi)Category:Terms with Māori translations#BRAIN
Portuguese: crânio (pt) mCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#BRAIN (slang), cabeça (pt)Category:Terms with Portuguese translations#BRAIN
Romanian: erudit (ro) mCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#BRAIN
Swahili: bongo (sw)Category:Terms with Swahili translations#BRAIN
Tagalog: (literally) matalino (tl)Category:Terms with Tagalog translations#BRAIN
Turkish: öke (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#BRAIN, bilge (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#BRAIN

person providing intelligence

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Armenian: գլուխ (hy) (glux)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#BRAIN
Bengali: শাস্ত্রজ্ঞ (bn) (śastrojno)Category:Terms with Bengali translations#BRAIN
Bulgarian: мо́зък (bg) m (mózǎk)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#BRAIN
Catalan: cervell (ca) mCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#BRAIN
Chinese:
Mandarin: 智者 (zh) (jìzhě)Category:Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#BRAIN Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#BRAIN
Czech: mozek (cs) mCategory:Terms with Czech translations#BRAIN
Dutch: brein (nl) nCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#BRAIN
Finnish: aivot (fi) plCategory:Terms with Finnish translations#BRAIN
French: cerveau (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#BRAIN
German: Kopf (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#BRAIN
Greek: εγκέφαλος (el) m (egkéfalos)Category:Terms with Greek translations#BRAIN, μυαλό (el) n (myaló)Category:Terms with Greek translations#BRAIN
Japanese: 識者 (ja) (しきしゃ, shikisha)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#BRAIN, 知識人 (ja) (ちしきじん, chishiki jin)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#BRAIN, 知的指導者 (ja) (ちてきしどうしゃ, chitekishidōsha)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#BRAIN
Malayalam: തലച്ചോറ് (ml) (talaccōṟ‌)Category:Terms with Malayalam translations#BRAIN, ബുദ്ധികേന്ദ്രം (ml) (buddhikēndraṁ)Category:Terms with Malayalam translations#BRAIN
Naga:
Khiamniungan Naga: khǖîeCategory:Terms with Khiamniungan Naga translations#BRAIN
Polish: mózg (pl) mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#BRAIN
Portuguese: cabeça (pt) m or fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#BRAIN
Russian: мозг (ru) m (mozg)Category:Terms with Russian translations#BRAIN, голова́ (ru) f (golová)Category:Terms with Russian translations#BRAIN
Swahili: bongo (sw)Category:Terms with Swahili translations#BRAIN
Swedish: hjärna (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#BRAIN
Turkish: çaşıt (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#BRAIN
Ukrainian: мо́зок (uk) m (mózok)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#BRAIN

brains: intellect

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Armenian: խելք (hy) (xelkʻ)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#BRAIN
Asturian: cerebru (ast) mCategory:Terms with Asturian translations#BRAIN
Belarusian: ро́зум (be) m (rózum)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#BRAIN, рассу́дак (be) m (rassúdak)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#BRAIN, глузд (be) m (hluzd)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#BRAIN
Bengali: বুদ্ধি (bn) (buddhi)Category:Terms with Bengali translations#BRAIN, মেধা (bn) (medha)Category:Terms with Bengali translations#BRAIN
Bulgarian: ум (bg) m (um)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#BRAIN, разсъ́дък (bg) pl (razsǎ́dǎk)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#BRAIN
Chinese:
Cantonese: 腦 / 脑 (yue) (nou⁵)Category:Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations#BRAIN Category:Terms with Cantonese translations#BRAIN

Mandarin: 智力 (zh) (jìlì)Category:Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#BRAIN Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#BRAIN
Dutch: verstand (nl) mCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#BRAIN, intellect (nl) nCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#BRAIN
Esperanto: cerbo (eo)Category:Terms with Esperanto translations#BRAIN, intelekto (eo)Category:Terms with Esperanto translations#BRAIN, menso (eo)Category:Terms with Esperanto translations#BRAIN
Estonian: aru (et)Category:Terms with Estonian translations#BRAIN, mõistus (et)Category:Terms with Estonian translations#BRAIN, taip (et)Category:Terms with Estonian translations#BRAIN
Finnish: äly (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#BRAIN, älykkyys (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#BRAIN, järki (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#BRAIN, aivot (fi) plCategory:Terms with Finnish translations#BRAIN
German: Verstand (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#BRAIN, Köpfchen (de) nCategory:Terms with German translations#BRAIN, Grips (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#BRAIN, Hirn (de) nCategory:Terms with German translations#BRAIN
Greek: μυαλό (el) n (myaló)Category:Terms with Greek translations#BRAIN, νοημοσύνη (el) f (noïmosýni)Category:Terms with Greek translations#BRAIN, νους (el) m (nous)Category:Terms with Greek translations#BRAIN
Hebrew: שֵׂכֶל (he) m (sekhel)Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#BRAIN
Hindi: बुद्धि (hi) f (buddhi)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#BRAIN
Japanese: 頭脳 (ja) (ずのう, zunō)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#BRAIN, 知能 (ja) (ちのう, chinou)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#BRAIN, 知力 (ja) (ちりょく, chiryoku)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#BRAIN
Latvian: prāts (lv) mCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#BRAIN, smadzenes (lv) plCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#BRAIN
Lithuanian: protas (lt) mCategory:Terms with Lithuanian translations#BRAIN
Malayalam: ബുദ്ധി (ml) (buddhi)Category:Terms with Malayalam translations#BRAIN
Māori: ihomatua (mi)Category:Terms with Māori translations#BRAIN
Polish: głowa (pl) fCategory:Terms with Polish translations#BRAIN, rozum (pl) mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#BRAIN, intelekt (pl) mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#BRAIN
Portuguese: intelecto (pt)Category:Terms with Portuguese translations#BRAIN
Romanian: intelect (ro) nCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#BRAIN
Russian: мозг (ru) m (mozg)Category:Terms with Russian translations#BRAIN (usually plural мозги́ (ru) (mozgí)Category:Terms with Russian translations#BRAIN), башка́ (ru) f (bašká)Category:Terms with Russian translations#BRAIN, голова́ (ru) f (golová)Category:Terms with Russian translations#BRAIN, рассу́док (ru) m (rassúdok)Category:Terms with Russian translations#BRAIN, ум (ru) m (um)Category:Terms with Russian translations#BRAIN
Scottish Gaelic: eanchainn (gd) fCategory:Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations#BRAIN
Slovene: možgani (sl) m plCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#BRAIN
Spanish: seso (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#BRAIN, sesudez (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#BRAIN
Swahili: bongo (sw)Category:Terms with Swahili translations#BRAIN
Swedish: förstånd (sv) nCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#BRAIN
Tagalog: (literally) talino (tl)Category:Terms with Tagalog translations#BRAIN
Turkish: us (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#BRAIN, anlak (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#BRAIN
Ukrainian: ро́зум (uk) m (rózum)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#BRAIN, розсу́док (uk) m (rozsúdok)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#BRAIN, глузд (uk) m (hluzd)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#BRAIN
Vietnamese: trí óc (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#BRAIN

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Breton: ^{(please verify)} empenn (br) mCategory:Terms with Breton translations#BRAIN Category:Requests for review of Breton translations#BRAIN
Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} smegenysCategory:Terms with Lithuanian translations#BRAIN Category:Requests for review of Lithuanian translations#BRAIN
Woiwurrung: ^{(please verify)} durn-durnCategory:Terms with Woiwurrung translations#BRAIN Category:Requests for review of Woiwurrung translations#BRAIN

Verb

brain (third-person singular simple present brains, present participle braining, simple past and past participle brained)Category:English lemmas#BRAIN Category:English verbs#BRAIN Category:English entries with incorrect language header#BRAIN Category:Pages with entries#BRAIN Category:Pages with 5 entries#BRAIN

(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#BRAIN) To dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull.
(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#BRAIN) To strike (someone) on the head.
- 2014, K.J. Charles, Think of England, page 166:
  Lambdon would require medical attention for a fractured skull. It seemed that Fen had passed his wife a couple of telling pictures, whereupon the drab Mrs. Lambdon had brained her husband with a table lamp.
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(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#BRAIN, figurative) To destroy; to put an end to.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 12:
  There thou maiſt braine him,
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- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 82, column 2:
  It was the ſwift celeritie of his death / […] That brain'd my purpoſe:
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- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 21, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
  He was going on with some wild reminiscences about his tomahawk-pipe, which, it seemed, had in its two uses both brained his foes and soothed his soul, when we were directly attracted to the sleeping rigger.
  Category:English terms with quotations#BRAIN
(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#BRAIN, obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#BRAIN) To conceive in the mind; to understand.
- 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:
  'Tis still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen / Tongue, and brain not.
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(intransitive Category:English intransitive verbs#BRAIN, nonstandard Category:English nonstandard terms#BRAIN, humorous Category:English humorous terms#BRAIN) To think effectively.
My brain isn't braining right now.Category:English terms with usage examples#BRAIN

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:brain.

Translations

to strike on the head

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Finnish: iskeä päähänCategory:Terms with Finnish translations#BRAIN, kolkataCategory:Terms with Finnish translations#BRAIN (into unconsciousness)
Japanese: 頭を殴りつける (あたまをなぐりつける, atama wo naguritsukeru)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#BRAIN
Swahili: bongo (sw)Category:Terms with Swahili translations#BRAIN, bongo (sw)Category:Terms with Swahili translations#BRAIN

to kill a person by smashing the skull

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Bengali: মাথায় আঘাত করে হত্যা (mathaẏ aghat kore hotta)Category:Terms with Bengali translations#BRAIN
Finnish: lyödä aivot pihalleCategory:Terms with Finnish translations#BRAIN, murskata kalloCategory:Terms with Finnish translations#BRAIN
Japanese: 脳を打ち砕く (のうをうちくだく, nō o uchikudaku)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#BRAIN
Swahili: bongo (sw)Category:Terms with Swahili translations#BRAIN

Anagrams

Barin, Brian, Rabin, abrin, bairn, brian

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Irish

Noun

brain mCategory:Irish non-lemma forms#BRAIN Category:Irish noun forms#BRAIN Category:Irish entries with incorrect language header#BRAIN Category:Pages with entries#BRAIN Category:Pages with 5 entries#BRAIN

inflection of bran:
1. vocative/genitive singular
2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation

Mutated forms of *brain*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
brain	bhrain	mbrain

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Middle English

Noun

brainCategory:Middle English alternative forms#BRAIN Category:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#BRAIN Category:Pages with entries#BRAIN Category:Pages with 5 entries#BRAIN

alternative form of brayn

Old Irish

Mutation

Mutation of *brain*
radical	lenition	nasalization
brain	brain pronounced with /β-/	mbrain

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Welsh

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /brai̯n/Category:Welsh terms with IPA pronunciation#BRAIN
Rhymes: -ai̯n Category:Rhymes:Welsh/ai̯n#BRAIN Category:Rhymes:Welsh/ai̯n/1 syllable#BRAIN
Homophone: braen (“rotten”)Category:Welsh terms with homophones#BRAIN (South Wales)

Etymology 1

Noun

brain m plCategory:Welsh non-lemma forms#BRAIN Category:Welsh noun forms#BRAIN Category:Welsh entries with incorrect language header#BRAIN Category:Pages with entries#BRAIN Category:Pages with 5 entries#BRAIN

plural of brân (“crow”)

Etymology 2

Noun

brain m or f (plural breiniau or breinau or breinioedd or breinion)Category:Welsh lemmas#BRAIN Category:Welsh nouns#BRAIN Category:Welsh countable nouns#BRAIN Category:Welsh entries with incorrect language header#BRAIN Category:Welsh masculine nouns#BRAIN Category:Welsh feminine nouns#BRAIN Category:Welsh nouns with multiple genders#BRAIN Category:Pages with entries#BRAIN Category:Pages with 5 entries#BRAIN Category:Welsh nouns with red links in their headword lines#BRAIN Category:Welsh nouns with red links in their headword lines#BRAIN Category:Welsh nouns with red links in their headword lines#BRAIN

alternative form of braint (“honour”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of *brain*
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
brain	frain	mrain	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “brain”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Wikimore

brain

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