bravo

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  A hired soldier; an assassin; a desperado.
 * 2) A shout of "bravo!"
 * 1) A shout of "bravo!"
 * 1) A shout of "bravo!"
 * 1) A shout of "bravo!"

Synonyms

 * see Thesaurus:mercenary

Interjection

 * 1) Used to express acclaim, especially to a performer.

Usage notes
Sometimes the (non-anglicized) Italian feminine form is used for a woman or girl, and the Italian plural forms  are used for female referents only, and  are used for male only or two or more male and female referents.

Translations

 * Arabic: بْرَافُو, بِرَافُو
 * Egyptian Arabic: براڤو, عفارم
 * Armenian: ,
 * Assamese: বাঃ, চাবাচ
 * Bengali:
 * Danish: bravo
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: πύππαξ
 * Hindi:
 * Italian:, , ben fatto
 * Japanese: ,
 * Latin: mactē
 * Latvian: bravo
 * Malay:
 * Marathi: शाबास, शाब्बास
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: בראַוואָ


 * Central Kurdish: ,

Verb

 * 1) To cheer or applaud, especially by saying bravo!

Etymology
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Interjection

 * 1) bravo

Etymology
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Interjection

 * !, hear, hear!, well said!, well done!

Noun

 * 1)  applause, cheers
 * 2) swordsman

Etymology 1
, from, which was frequently found in Galician medieval Latin documentation with the meaning of "uncultivated, fallow". Alternatively from or, from a fusion of  and.

Adjective

 * 1) uncultivated, harsh, rough
 * 2) * 1334, M. Lucas Alvarez & P. P. Lucas Domínguez (eds. ), San Pedro de Ramirás. Un monasterio femenino en la Edad Media. Santiago: Caixa Galicia, page 487:
 * "gl"

- et nos dedes delle en cada ano terça do pan e do viño, e de lino e de liguma do feytuo, e do monte bravo que aromperdes


 * 1) wild, spontaneous
 * 2) wild, untamed
 * 3) harsh, fierce
 * 4) * 1364, Clara Rodríguez Núñez (ed.), "Santa María de Belvís, un convento mendicante femenino en la Baja Edad Media (1305-1400)", Estudios Mindonienses, 5, page 441:
 * "gl"
 * 1) * 1364, Clara Rodríguez Núñez (ed.), "Santa María de Belvís, un convento mendicante femenino en la Baja Edad Media (1305-1400)", Estudios Mindonienses, 5, page 441:
 * "gl"

- son ende quatro boys, dous bravos et dous massos


 * 1) strong  or hot spicy
 * 2) bold, valiant
 * 1) bold, valiant
 * 1) bold, valiant

Etymology 2
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Interjection
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Etymology
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Interjection

 * , well done!, good show!

Etymology
. Probably from, from a fusion of and. Less likely from, from (compare 🇨🇬 (modern ) 'fine', Breton  'to strut'). Or perhaps borrowed from a descendant of. Or possibly from a root *bravus, from. Borrowed into French and English as brave.

Pierre Carpentier, in an 18th-century edition of du Cange's 17th-century dictionary of medieval and modern Latin, argued originated in a misreading of Italian and Spanish bravo. However, George Nicholson argues the opposite in a 1950 Festschrift article, namely bravo being a misreading of Latin branus, which would have the origin du Cange had originally argued for, from (see ). Compare, possibly a misreading of.

Adjective

 * 1)  good, well-behaved
 * 2) good, skilful, capable, clever, fine
 * 3) good, obedient
 * 4)  brave, bold
 * 5)  wild, untamed
 * 6)  harsh

Noun

 * 1) henchman

Interjection

 * 1) well done!, good show!

Etymology 1
, possibly from or, from a fusion of  and.

Adjective

 * 1) angry; furious, annoyed
 * 2) brave; valiant, courageous
 * 3) coarse; uneducated, uncivilized
 * 4) prone to irritation, easily angered, bad-tempered, choleric
 * 5) rigorous, authoritarian
 * 6) difficult, unmanageable
 * 7) undomesticated
 * 8) spontaneous, weed
 * 9) uncultivated
 * 10) stormy
 * 11)  a term akin to English dope, hard; meaning cool or good, usually with an aggressive connotation
 * 1) difficult, unmanageable
 * 2) undomesticated
 * 3) spontaneous, weed
 * 4) uncultivated
 * 5) stormy
 * 6)  a term akin to English dope, hard; meaning cool or good, usually with an aggressive connotation
 * 1) uncultivated
 * 2) stormy
 * 3)  a term akin to English dope, hard; meaning cool or good, usually with an aggressive connotation
 * 1)  a term akin to English dope, hard; meaning cool or good, usually with an aggressive connotation
 * 1)  a term akin to English dope, hard; meaning cool or good, usually with an aggressive connotation

Noun

 * 1)  a certain part of an oxcart
 * 2)  a neophyte to rubber tapping, a novice seringueiro

Etymology 2
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Interjection

 * 1) ! well done!

Etymology
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Etymology 1
, possibly from or, from a fusion of  and  (or from metathesis of an intermediate form ).

Adjective

 * 1) angry, furious
 * 2) bold, courageous
 * 3) skilful, capable, clever, fine
 * 4) good, excellent
 * 5) agitated
 * 6) wild
 * 1) agitated
 * 2) wild

Etymology 2
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Interjection

 * 1)  well done!, good show!

Etymology
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Etymology
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Interjection

 * 1) well done!, good show!