briga

Borrowed from Portuguese briga.

briga

1. to fight

briga

1. fight

• Karipúna Creole French: bhiga

• IPA^(key): /ˈbri.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -iɡa
• Hyphenation: brì‧ga

From Germanic (Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”)) or Celtic, from Proto-Celtic *brīgos; compare Welsh bri (“power”), Old Irish bríg (“force, power, value”). Not to be confused with Proto-Balto-Slavic *bergtei, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ-, cognate with Proto-Germanic *berganą, Sicilian sbriga.

briga f (plural brighe)

1. trouble, bother

   prendersi la briga ― to take the trouble

• → Galician: briga
• → Portuguese: briga
• → Serbo-Croatian: briga
• → Slovene: briga

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

briga

1. inflection of brigare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• briga in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• briga in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• briga in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• brìga in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• briga in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• brìga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• garbi

• brigá (Barlavento)

From Portuguese brigar.

briga (Sotavento)

1. fight
2. argue

   Synonym: (Sotavento) diskuti

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN
• Veiga, Manuel (2012) Dicionário Caboverdiano-Português, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro

• Hyphenation: bri‧ga

Deverbal from brigar.^[1] Alternatively, borrowed from Italian briga (“trouble”).^[2]

briga f (plural brigas)

1. fight (physical confrontation)

   Synonyms: luta, rixa, peleja, pugilato, desavença

• brigar
• brigada
• brigadeiro
• brigão
• briguento

• → Guianese Creole: briga
  • Karipúna Creole French: bhiga

briga

1. inflection of brigar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Italian briga.

• IPA^(key): /brîɡa/
• Hyphenation: bri‧ga

brȉga f (Cyrillic spelling бри̏га)

1. worry, concern
2. trouble, bother
3. care; nurture

• brižan
• brižljiv

Borrowed from Italian briga.

• IPA^(key): /bríːɡa/

brȋga f

1. care

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	bríga
gen. sing.	bríge
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	bríga	brígi	bríge
genitive (rodȋlnik)	bríge	bríg	bríg
dative (dajȃlnik)	brígi	brígama	brígam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	brígo	brígi	bríge
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	brígi	brígah	brígah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	brígo	brígama	brígami

• “briga”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024