brandy

Shortened form of brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn (“burnt wine”). Compare German Brantewein, Branntwein.

• enPR: brănʹdē, IPA^(key): /ˈbɹændi/

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• Rhymes: -ændi

brandy (countable and uncountable, plural brandies)

1. (uncountable) An alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice.
2. (countable) Any variety of brandy.
3. (countable) A glass of brandy.

• eau de vie, aqua vitae

brandy (third-person singular simple present brandies, present participle brandying, simple past and past participle brandied)

1. (transitive) To preserve, flavour, or mix with brandy.

• cognac

Unadapted borrowing from English brandy.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbrɛndɪ]
• Hyphenation: bran‧dy

brandy n or f (indeclinable)

1. brandy (alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice)

• “brandy”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “brandy”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “brandy” in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012–2024, slovnikcestiny.cz
• “brandy”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

From English brandy, shortened from brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn. Doublet of brændevin.

brandy

1. brandy

From English brandy, short for brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrændi/, [ˈbrændi]
• Rhymes: -ændi
• Homophone: brändi
• Hyphenation^(key): bran‧dy

brandy

1. brandy (distilled spirit made of grapes)

   Synonym: rypäleviina

• hedelmäviina

• “brandy”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

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brandy m (plural brandys)

1. brandy

• eau-de-vie

• cognac

• “brandy”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English brandy.

brandy m

1. brandy

Unadapted borrowing from English brandy.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɛn.dɘ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛndɘ
• Syllabification: bran‧dy

brandy f (indeclinable)

1. brandy (alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice)

• brandy in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• brandy in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• brandy in PWN's encyclopedia

Unadapted borrowing from English brandy.

• Homophone: brande (Brazil)

brandy m (plural brandies)

1. Alternative form of brande

Unadapted borrowing from English brandy.

brandy n (plural brandy-uri)

1. brandy

Unadapted borrowing from English brandy.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbrendi]

brandy n or f (indeclinable)

1. brandy

   Synonym: koňak

• “brandy”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

Unadapted borrowing from English brandy.

brandy m (plural brandys or brandies)

1. brandy

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “brandy”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

brandy c

1. brandy

   Synonym: konjak

• brandy in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• brandy in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)