• IPA^(key): /bʁuːˀn/, [b̥ʁuˀn], [b̥ʁo̝ˀn], [pʁuˀn], [pʁo̝ˀn]

From Old Norse brúnn.

brun (neuter brunt, plural and definite singular attributive brune)

1. brown (color/colour)
2. (nominalized) brown (color/colour)

• brune
• brunlig

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

brun

1. imperative of brune

• “brun” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle French, from Old French brun (“polished, shiny, brown”).

• IPA^(key): /bʁœ̃/
• (Paris, Northern France) IPA^(key): /bʁɛ̃/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /bʁœ̃˞/

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• Rhymes: -œ̃
• Homophone: brin (some speakers)

brun (feminine brune, masculine plural bruns, feminine plural brunes)

1. brown (color/colour)

• In France (except for Alsace, Lorraine and parts of Franche-Comté), this is usually for hair, using marron for other uses.

• → Breton: brun
• Louisiana Creole: brun
• → Romanian: brun

brun m (plural bruns, feminine brune)

1. brown (color/colour)
2. brown-haired person

• châtain
• marron

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

From Old Galician-Portuguese brũu (14th century), from Old French brun (“polished, shiny, brown”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɾuŋ]

brun (feminine bruna, masculine plural bruns, feminine plural brunas)

1. (archaic, of hair) brown
   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 133:

     Rey Calrros auia os cabelos brũus et a façe uermella, et avia o corpo moy bẽ feicto et de boo estado, et a catadura braua

     King Charles had brown hair and a reddish face, and his body was very well formed and in good shape, and his aspect was fierce

• bruneta
• bruño

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “bruno”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “bruu”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “bru_u”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “bru” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “brun”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

See the verb bruna (“to speed, rush”).

brun n (genitive singular bruns, no plural)

1. rush (the act of moving at high speed)
2. (skiing) alpine skiing

• “brun” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

brun

1. brown (color/colour)

Inherited from French brun (“brown”).

• IPA^(key): /bɾœ̃/
• Rhymes: -œ̃

brun

1. brown (color/colour)

   Synonym: maron

• IPA^(key): /bɾuːn/

brun

1. alternative spelling of bruun

• breun (Guernsey, Cotentin)

From Old French brun (“polished, shiny, brown”).

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brun m

1. (Jersey) brown (color/colour)

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

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From Old Norse brúnn.

brun (masculine and feminine brun, neuter brunt, definite singular and plural brune, comparative brunere, indefinite superlative brunest, definite superlative bruneste)

1. brown (color/colour)

• “brun” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

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• bron (dialectal)

From Old Norse brúnn.

brun (neuter brunt, definite singular and plural brune, comparative brunare, indefinite superlative brunast, definite superlative brunaste)

1. brown (color/colour)

• “brun” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse brúnn.

brun

1. brown

• Danish: brun

From Proto-West Germanic *brūn.

• IPA^(key): /bruːn/

brūn

1. brown (color/colour)

• Middle English: broun, broyn, brown, brun, bruyn
  • English: brown, broon (Northumbria)
    • Bislama: braon
    • Tok Pisin: braun
    • → Welsh: brown
    • → Tongan: palauni
  • Geordie: broon
  • Scots: broon, broun

From Late Latin brunus (attested in Isidore of Seville), from Frankish *brūn (“brown, dark, shiny”), from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz (“brown”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾyn/

brun m (oblique and nominative feminine singular brune)

1. brown (color/colour)

• Middle French: brun
  • French: brun
    • → Breton: brun
    • Louisiana Creole: brun
    • → Romanian: brun
• Norman: breun, brun (Jersey)
• → Galician: brun (archaic)

brun oblique singular, m (oblique plural bruns, nominative singular bruns, nominative plural brun)

1. brown-haired person

From Middle Low German brûn, from Old Saxon brūn, from Proto-West Germanic *brūn.

brun

1. brown (color/colour)

Borrowed from French brun.

• IPA^(key): /brun/

brun m or n (feminine singular brună, masculine plural bruni, feminine/neuter plural brune)

1. brown (color/colour)
2. brown- or dark-haired

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

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From Old Swedish brūn, from Old Norse brúnn. The political sense is originally a reference to the brown uniforms worn by members of the Sturmabteilung, a paramilitary organization in Nazi Germany.

• IPA^(key): /¹brʉːn/, [¹brʉ̟ːn̪]

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brun (comparative brunare, superlative brunast)

1. brown (color/colour)

   Fyra nyanser av brunt

   Four Shades of Brown [a movie]

2. (politics, usually derogatory, relational) of fascism or right-wing nationalism

   ett brunt parti ― a fascist party (literally, “a brown party”)

   • 2010, Lars Ulwencreutz, Redaktör'n har ordet‎^[1], Ulwencreutz Media, →ISBN, page 186:

     Bondeförbundet (Centerpartiet) var en gång ett mycket "brunt parti", bruna sympatier fanns även hos gamla Högerpartiet (Moderaterna). Kristen Demokratisk Samling (Kristdemokraterna) grundades till och med av gamla nationalsocialister.

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   • 2011, Mattias Gardell, Islamofobi [Islamophobia]‎^[2], Leopard förlag, →ISBN, page 254:

     De bruna valframgångarna är en indikator på hur det politiska spektrumet i sig har vridits mot en kulturisering av politiken där politiker utger sig för att slå vakt om västerländska, Europeiska^[sic] och nationella värden mot det föreställda hotet från islam och muslimer[...]

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   • 2021 December 2, P-A Hultman, “Hur bruna är Sverigedemokraterna?”, in Strömstads Tidning‎^[3]:

     Detta visar att nazismen och SD har samma tankar och idéer. Det finns således bevis för att ”brunt parti” stämmer väl överens med kända fakta om SD.

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   • 2023 January 27, “C måste göra upp med sitt bruna förflutna”, in Eskilstuna-Kuriren‎^[4]:

     Under första halvan av 1900-talet hade Bondeförbundet, 1957 namnändrat till Centerpartiet (C), en mycket brun politik. Kanske var den brunare än den hos (S), men om detta vet vi inte då många dokument fortfarande är hemligstämplade?

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• → Elfdalian: brun
• → Estonian: pruun

• brunt (noun)

• “brun”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “brun”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• brun in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• Karlsson, Ola (20 October 2021), “Vad betyder brun och blåbrun i politikens värld?”, in isof.se (in Swedish), Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore, retrieved 27 June 2023
• Politisk färg on the Swedish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^sv