BH
Appearance
Translingual
[edit]Symbol
[edit]BH
English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]BH
- Initialism of Boko Haram.
- Abbreviation of Bihar, a state in India.
Noun
[edit]BH (plural BHs)
- Initialism of heavy battleship.
- Initialism of bank holiday.
- (knitting) Initialism of buttonhole.
- 1998, Kristin Nicholas, Knitting the New Classics, page 86:
- Work 7 BH's on left side for man's sweater, on right side for woman's sweater.
- (astronomy) Initialism of black hole.
Related terms
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[edit]Danish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]BH c (definite singular BH'en, indefinite plural BH'er, definite plural BH'erne)
- a bra (abbreviation of brystholder)
Derived terms
[edit]German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Initialism of Büstenhalter or Busenhalter.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /beˈhaː/
- IPA(key): /ˈbeːha/ (southwestern Germany, Switzerland, and sporadically elsewhere)
Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]BH m (strong, genitive BHs or BH, plural BHs or BH)
- bra (women’s undergarment)
Usage notes
[edit]- BH is the normal word for “bra” in German, whereas the full forms Büstenhalter (Germany) and Busenhalter (Austria and Switzerland) is now formal and quite unusual in common speech.
Declension
[edit]Declension of BH [masculine, strong]
Further reading
[edit]- “BH” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “BH (Bezirkshauptmannschaft)” in Duden online
- “BH (Büstenhalter)” in Duden online
- “BH”, in Atlas zur deutschen Alltagssprache[1], 2020
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]BH m (definite singular BH-en, indefinite plural BH-er, definite plural BH-ene)
- a bra (abbreviation of brystholder and bysteholder)
Synonyms
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[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Noun
[edit]BH m (definite singular BH-en, indefinite plural BH-ar, definite plural BH-ane)
- a bra (abbreviation of brysthaldar and bystehaldar)
Synonyms
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]BH
- Initialism of Belo Horizonte.
- Synonym: Beagá
Romanian
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]BH
- Abbreviation of Bihor, a county in Romania.
Swedish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]BH c
- bra; abbreviation of brösthållare, abbreviation of bysthållare.
See also
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[edit]Categories:
- Translingual lemmas
- Translingual symbols
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- mul:Bahrain
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English words without vowels
- English initialisms
- English abbreviations
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Knitting
- English terms with quotations
- en:Astronomy
- en:Black holes
- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- Danish common-gender nouns
- da:Clothing
- da:Underwear
- German initialisms
- German 2-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio pronunciation
- German lemmas
- German nouns
- German masculine nouns
- German abbreviations
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese proper nouns
- Portuguese initialisms
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian proper nouns
- Romanian abbreviations
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish abbreviations