Noun: brouhaha
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | brouhaha |
| Plural m | brouhahas |
Sample Sentences
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Un brouhaha, une tempête d’exclamations accueillit ces paroles. (A brouhaha, a gale of exclamations welcomed those words.) [1865, Jules Verne, chapter 2, in De la Terre à la Lune [From the Earth to the Moon], J. Hetzel et Compagnie, published 1868:]
Nouns inflected like brouhaha
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Disputed. Possibly by assimilation from Hebrew בָּרוּךְ הַבָּא (barúkh habá, “blessed (be) who comes”), a collocation occurring in Psalm 118:26 and an interjection meaning “welcome” in Modern Hebrew. An alternative theory holds that the origin is onomatopoeic.
2. In regards to the semantic evolution to “noisy meeting”, compare ramdam, sabbat.
Verbs referencing "brouhaha"
English Nouns
brouhaha, Dutch Nouns
poeha, German Nouns
Bohei.
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