bring

English Online Dictionary. What means bring‎? What does bring mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Etymology 1

From Middle English bryngen, from Old English bringan, from Proto-West Germanic *bringan, from Proto-Germanic *bringaną (“to bring”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenk-, possibly based on *bʰer-.

Compare Scots bring, West Frisian bringe, Low German brengen, Dutch brengen, Afrikaans bring, German bringen; also Welsh hebrwng (“to bring, lead”), Tocharian B pränk- (“to take away; restrain oneself, hold back”), Latvian brankti (“lying close”), Lithuanian branktas (“whiffletree”).

Verb

bring (third-person singular simple present brings, present participle bringing, simple past brought, past participle brought or (rare, dialectal) broughten)

1. (transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or contribute.
3. (transitive) To occasion or bring about.

4. (transitive) To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
5. To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
6. To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.

7. (baseball) To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.

Conjugation

• Past brang and past participle brung and broughten forms are sometimes used in some dialects, especially in informal speech.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeia.

Interjection

bring

1. The sound of a telephone ringing.

   Alternative forms: brring, brrring

   Synonyms: ringaling, tingaling

   Hypernym: ringtone

   Near-synonyms: ring-a-ding, ding-a-ling

See also

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• breng (archaic)

Etymology

From Dutch bringen, a dialectal variant of standard brengen (“to bring”). Both forms were originally distinct, though related, verbs, but were early on conflated.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brəŋ/

Verb

bring (present bring, present participle bringende, past participle gebring)

1. (transitive) to bring; to deliver
2. (transitive) to take; to lead (to another place)

Derived terms

• uitbring
• wegbring

Danish

Verb

bring

1. imperative of bringe

Garo

Etymology

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Noun

bring

1. jungle, forest

German

Pronunciation

Verb

bring

1. imperative singular of bringen

Middle English

Verb

bring

1. Alternative form of bryngen

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• bränge (Mooring)

Etymology

From Old Frisian bringa, from Proto-West Germanic *bringan. Cognates include West Frisian bringe.

Pronunciation

• (Sylt) IPA^(key): [b̥rɪŋ]

Verb

bring (Föhr-Amrum, Sylt, Heligoland)

1. to bring

Conjugation

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

bring

1. imperative of bringe

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English bryngen, from Old English bringan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brɪŋ/

Verb

bring (third-person singular simple present brings, present participle bringin, simple past brocht, past participle brocht)

1. To bring.