brough

布拉夫（姓氏）

发音

/bɹʌf/
其它 /bɹʊf/

词形变化

broughs 复数 broughs

别名

bruff

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A halo or luminous disk or ring seen around the sun or moon, and in folklore considered to portend a rainstorm.

相关短语

Brough with St Giles Brough and Shatton

词源

A metathetic form of burgh (“mound, settlement”) employed in a special sense; thus a doublet of it, borough, Brough, burr (“halo, brough”), burrow, and Bury. For the semantic development, compare German Hof (“brough, halo, nimb”).

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