Dictionary

braille en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈbɹeɪ̯l/
• /ˈbɹeɪ.əl/
• [ˈbɹʷeɪ̯l]
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈbɹaɪ̯/
• [ˈbɹʷaɪ̯]

Etymology

Borrowed from French braille, named after French educator Louis Braille (1809–1852). The /eɪl/ seems to reflect a spelling pronunciation; French has /aj/ instead.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of, relating to or written in braille.

Forms

braille en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈbɹeɪ̯l/
• /ˈbɹeɪ.əl/
• [ˈbɹʷeɪ̯l]
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈbɹaɪ̯/
• [ˈbɹʷaɪ̯]

Etymology

Borrowed from French braille, named after French educator Louis Braille (1809–1852). The /eɪl/ seems to reflect a spelling pronunciation; French has /aj/ instead.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A system of writing in which letters and some combinations of letters are represented by raised dots arranged in three or four rows of two dots each and are read by the blind and partially sighted using the fingertips.
   • Another difficulty which causes literature in braille to remain scarce is the cumbersomeness of the process of producing braille books. 1963, S. C. Ashcroft, Freda Henderson, Programmed Instruction in Braille, Stanwix House, →ISBN, page 6:

Forms

Deriveds

braille block · nonbraille · braillist · Bharati braille · braillewriter · brailler

Translations (37)

pt braile (system of writing using raised dots) · nl braille (system of writing using raised dots) · es braille (system of writing using raised dots) · no blindeskrift (system of writing using raised dots) · mi tuhi matapō (system of writing using raised dots) · cmn 盲文 (system of writing using raised dots) · pt braille (system of writing using raised dots) · ka ბრაილი (system of writing using raised dots) · eo Brajlo (system of writing using raised dots) · sv punktskrift (system of writing using raised dots) · ja 点字 (system of writing using raised dots) · da punktskrift (system of writing using raised dots) · ga braille (system of writing using raised dots) · ja ブライユ点字 (system of writing using raised dots) · sv Brailleskrift (system of writing using raised dots) · vi chữ nổi (system of writing using raised dots) · it braille (system of writing using raised dots) · is blindraletur (system of writing using raised dots) · fr Braille (system of writing using raised dots) · ko 점자 (system of writing using raised dots) · cmn 點字 /点字 (system of writing using raised dots) · cmn 盲字 (system of writing using raised dots) · ga scríbhneoireacht bhraille (system of writing using raised dots) · ru систе́ма Бра́йля (system of writing using raised dots) · fr braille (system of writing using raised dots) · ru брайль (system of writing using raised dots) · ka ბრაილის შრიფტი (system of writing using raised dots) · de Blindenschrift (system of writing using raised dots) · el κώδικας Μπράιγ (system of writing using raised dots) · he כתב בריל (system of writing using raised dots) · chr ᏗᏂᎨᏫ ᎤᏃᏪᎶᏙᏗ (system of writing using raised dots) · te బ్రెయిలీ (system of writing using raised dots) · ru а́збука Бра́йля (system of writing using raised dots) · vo bleinanatonatem (system of writing using raised dots) · ca braille (system of writing using raised dots) · fi pistekirjoitus (system of writing using raised dots) · de Brailleschrift (system of writing using raised dots)

wikipedia: Braille Authority of North America

braille en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈbɹeɪ̯l/
• /ˈbɹeɪ.əl/
• [ˈbɹʷeɪ̯l]
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈbɹaɪ̯/
• [ˈbɹʷaɪ̯]

Etymology

Borrowed from French braille, named after French educator Louis Braille (1809–1852). The /eɪl/ seems to reflect a spelling pronunciation; French has /aj/ instead.

Meanings

1. To write in, or convert into, the braille writing system.
   • I played back my recorded notes and brailled them.
   • the sponsorship statement on respondent's brailled volumes [...] He admittedly had no knowledge of just how respondent's book [...] came to be brailled 1967, Carlton Fredericks, Federal Trade Commission Decisions, volume 71, page 237:
2. (broadly, informal) to identify something by touch.

Forms

Translations (2)

fi kirjoittaa pistekirjoituksella (to write in braille) · fi tunnistaa tunnustelemalla (to identify by touch)