Bravo

See also: bravo, bravó, and bravò

Translingual

Bravo [1]
Bravo [2]
Bravo [3]

Alternative forms

• bravo, BRAVO

Etymology

Borrowed from English bravo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbravo]

Noun

Bravo

2. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the letter B.
3. (nautical) Signal flag for the letter B.
4. (time zone) UTC+02:00

ICAO/NATO radiotelephonic clear codesedit

• Alfa
• Bravo
• Charlie
• decimal
• Delta
• Echo
• eight
• five (“fife”)
• four (“fower”)
• Foxtrot
• Golf
• Hotel
• hundred
• India
• Juliett
• Kilo
• Lima
• Mike
• nine (“niner”)
• November
• one
• Oscar
• Papa
• Quebec
• Romeo
• seven
• Sierra
• six
• Tango
• thousand
• three (“tree”)
• two
• Uniform
• Victor
• Whiskey
• Xray
• Yankee
• zero
• Zulu

Translations

the letter "B" in a national spelling alphabet

• Bulgarian: Браво (Bravo)
• Czech: Božena (cs)
• English: Baker
• Estonian: Berta
• Finnish: Bertta (fi)
• French: Berthe (fr)
• German: Berta (de)
• Italian: Bologna (it), Bari (it)
• Romanian: bravo (ro)
• Russian: Бори́с (ru) (Borís)
• Spanish: Barcelona (es)
• Swedish: Bertil (sv)
• Turkish: Bolu (tr)

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Bravo.

Proper noun

Bravo (plural Bravos)

1. A surname from Spanish.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bravo is the 828^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 41,700 individuals. Bravo is most common among Hispanic/Latino (90.60%) individuals.

Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish Bravo. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos, then as Brabo, since respelled to common form.

Proper noun

Bravo

1. a surname from Spanish, mostly found in Cebu

Pangasinan

Etymology

From Spanish Bravo. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos, then as Brabo, since respelled to common form.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Bra‧vo
• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾabo/, [ˈbɾa.bo]

Proper noun

Bravo

1. a surname from Spanish, equivalent to Spanish Bravo, common in Pangasinan

Spanish

Etymology

See bravo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɾabo/ [ˈbɾa.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -abo
• Syllabification: Bra‧vo

Proper noun

Bravo m or f by sense

1. a surname

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Bravo. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos, then as Brabo, since respelled to common form.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbɾavo/ [ˈbɾaː.vo]
  • IPA^(key): (with nativization) /ˈbɾabo/ [ˈbɾaː.bo]
• Rhymes: -avo, (with nativization) -abo
• Syllabification: Bra‧vo

Proper noun

Bravo (Baybayin spelling ᜊ᜔ᜇᜊᜓ)

1. a surname from Spanish, equivalent to Spanish Bravo, mostly concentrated in Metro Manila and Nueva Ecija

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Bravo is the 369^th most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 21,937 individuals.