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brazier en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈbɹeɪ.zjə(ɹ)/ (UK)
  • brāʹ-zhər
  • /ˈbɹeɪ.ʒə(ɹ)/ (UK)
  • /ˈbɹeɪʒəɹ/
  • /ˈbɹeɪ.ʒɚ/ (US)

Etymology

From Middle English brasiere, from brasen (“to cover with brass”), from Old English brasian, bræsian (“to cover with brass”). By surface analysis, bras(s) + -ier.

Meanings

  1. A worker in brass; a brassworker.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
brasier alternative lexicographic
braziers Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

brassworker

brazier en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈbɹeɪ.zjə(ɹ)/ (UK)
  • brāʹ-zhər
  • /ˈbɹeɪ.ʒə(ɹ)/ (UK)
  • /ˈbɹeɪʒəɹ/
  • /ˈbɹeɪ.ʒɚ/ (US)

Etymology

From French brasier (“pan of hot coals”), from Middle French braisier, from Old French brasier, from brese (“embers, hot coals”), of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *brasō. See braise.

Meanings

  1. An upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal for a source of light or heat.
    • One of them came forward, and, producing a lamp, lit it from his brazier (for the Amahagger when on a journey nearly always carried with them a little lighted brazier, from which to provide fire). 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
    • At almost any time, while the boats weigh anchor, a small party can be seen in the stern, clustering about a charcoal brazier- a woman busy dishing out bowls of soup and macaroni, and men in palm-leaf hats, their bronzed bodies stripped to the waist, hurriedly scooping up steaming threads with the aid of long wooden chop-sticks. March 1920, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, “FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL”, in National Geographic Magazine, pages 264–5:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
brasier alternative lexicographic
braziers Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

brazierlike

Relateds

fire basket · cresset

Translations (71)

bg манга́л (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · mk мангал (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · sh ма̀нгал (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · el πύραυνος (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · el φουφού (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · sh màngal (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · nl kolenbekken (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · ca braser (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · ar مِنْقَل (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · ka მაყალი (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · uk жаро́вня (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · ast braseru (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · hi अँगीठी (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · ary مجمر (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · cs opékací rošt (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · cmn 火盆 (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · es brasero (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · fr brasier (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · acw مِنْقَل (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · ko 화로 (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · pl koksiak (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · ar مَنْقَل (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · ota مانغال (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · nl stoof (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · hy մանղալ (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · fa منقل (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · la vatillum (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · it braciere (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · nl vuurbekken (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · fi hiilipannu (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · ja 火鉢 (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · be манга́л (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · fr braséro (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · arz مجمرة (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · de Feuerschale (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · tr korluk (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · hi अंगीठी (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · ru жаро́вня (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · ar مَجْمَرَة (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · enm chaufour (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · ru манга́л (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · afb دوا (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · nl vuurkorf (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · de Kohlenbecken (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · eo braĝujo (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · el μαγκάλι (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · cs koš na oheň (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · tg манқал (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · nl komfoor (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · wa tocoe (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · uz manqal (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · la foculus (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · tr mangal (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · arz شورية (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · ps منقل (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · pl koksownik (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · be жаро́ўня (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · ro mangal (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · uk манга́л (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · egy a:x-Q7 (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · fr mangal (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · az manqal (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · kmr agirdank (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · ky мангал (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · kk мангал (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · ur اَنْگِیٹھی (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · cs gril (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · pt braseiro (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · gl braseiro (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · mr शेगडी (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal) · hy մաղալ (an upright standing or hanging metal bowl used for holding burning coal)