bris
/bɹɪs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.24 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Ritual male circumcision; the ceremony in which this is performed.
Example Sentences
- "The night before the bris, he invited nine of his little buddies to come and say kerias shema around the baby's bassinet. Mommy and Daddy, who flew in for the bris, were so touched, they kept dabbing their eyes and coughing."
- "Although indigenous visual documentation of the bris was, until the advent of video, limited and often oblique, the ceremony is a longstanding fixture of Christian art."
- "However, if the baby is born on a Wednesday night, then the bris would occur on the following Thursday morning because Jewish days begin at sundown, and the bris is tradionally performed during the day. (Note that the Talmud (see Chapter 3) states if the baby's health is in question, then the bris must be postponed.)"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ברית, בְּרִית
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /bɹɪs/
- British English: /bɹɪs/